2016 – Severalfighters

5e campaign 2: Plot, On the matter of not losing it.

8DecemberseveralfightersArrakis Campaign, Game Design & Development

BRADFORD UNIVERSITY GAMING SOCIETY MEMBERS AVERT YOUR EYES AND NAVIGATE AWAY, THIS IS MATERIAL THAT COULD TURN INTO A CAMPAIGN I RUN AT BUGS.

5e campaign 1: General Setting Notes and Options

29NovemberseveralfightersArrakis Campaign, Game Design & Development, Sibrius RisesCosmosVerse, Creativity and Imagination

BRADFORD UNIVERSITY GAMING SOCIETY MEMBERS AVERT YOUR EYES AND NAVIGATE AWAY, THIS IS MATERIAL THAT COULD TURN INTO A CAMPAIGN I RUN AT BUGS.

Assignment 2 Log – Intro to 3D Animation [Part 3]

27NovemberseveralfightersGame Design & DevelopmentAnimation, Obligatory Waste of Time, Paper 2

Final Level: After taking a break i ended up messing with the lighting of the scene as well as generating a few new textures and materials for it here is what i have now. I rather liked the effect of Glow on the light texture. As you can see i’ve applied a beige concrete texture

Assignment 2 Log – Intro to 3D Animation [Part 2]

25NovemberseveralfightersGame Design & DevelopmentAnimation, Obligatory Waste of Time, Paper 2

TEXTURES! So this is a Generic Metal texture i threw together in GIMP, with certain tinted sections for tinted bits of the rocket. Here i’ve overlayed UV shells planar projected from the front of the model onto their corresponding colour zone, there’s also the UVs of the ball i inserted into the porthole to give

Assignment 2 Log – Intro to 3D Animation [Part 1]

25NovemberseveralfightersGame Design & Development, UncategorizedAnimation, modelling, obligitory waste of time

Paper 2 involves me improving on the model that last paper’s model was one, with textures and shtuff. – Here is my modification of the original desing. i’ve added banding around the hull areas, engine bells and ullage motors. And here it is with naccele banding. For some reason WordPress makes things orange… TO BE

Game Design Musings Episode 001: 6 Rules of Horror!

20NovemberseveralfightersGame Design & DevelopmentBrainstorm, Game Design, Grover Cleveland, Horror, Martian Steam Train, Rules

So relatively recently i watched Alien for the first time and although i didn’t find it remotely scary, years of watching comedy sci-fi appears to have completely desensitised me to the xenomorph, not that i will be giving quiche a chance any time soon, it did get me thinking about how horror stories work.

Oh no, Not again!

If you’ve ever watched Alien you may have noticed that the titular Alien doesn’t actually appear in full till the very end of the movie, and even then that’s after it’s ceased being a problem for Ripley and the radioactive particle clouds that were her peers and thus doesn’t need to create tension anymore. Not showing the monster benefits the movie because the unknown scares people.

Scary!

This reminded me of Chuck Jones’ rules of RoadRunner, which if you haven’t heard of them are a set of 9 guidelines he used to write satisfying to watch road runner cartoons, so I thought I’d try and do the same for horror movies. First some definitions:

Assignment 1 Log – Intro to 3D Animation [Part 2]

22OctoberseveralfightersUncategorizedAnimation, modelling, obligitory waste of time

Last Time on Assignment 1 Log: i detailed the majority of the modelling process and ran into an issue with file saving. And now the conclusion. After going over to the university’s labs i was relieved to find that saving worked. the lighting i had set up in Arnold didn’t work so well in MentalRay:

Assignment 1 Log – Intro to 3D Animation [Part 1]

21OctoberseveralfightersUncategorizedAnimation, modelling, obligitory waste of time

Working on the 1st assignment of my Introduction to 3D Animation course and i’m required to write a blog post detailing “key stages in production”, which is usually a problem for me because i tend to neglect screenshotting things as i make them, mainly because there’s no practical reason for doing that and it eats

Maya Test Animation: Folding RoboBird

8OctoberseveralfightersUncategorized

Here’s a test animation i made with the RoboBird Model i made yesterday.

RoboBird Pterodon Renders (Maya)

7Octoberseveralfightersguff and miscellaneousMaya, Render

Here’s some more Maya Renders, this time of a design i mashed together from Laserbeak and an older design of mine that combined Clank and the Megablox Minifig Dino Thunder Petrazord. included: 1 render with a cream-ish background added in in gimp and 1 render with a background made out out geometry.

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