3D Work Update

Before I started getting on with the Wizards 2.0 project, I was jumping back and forth between different things I wanted to get done over the summer including some 3D design, some level design, web design, a comic, etc etc.  I then got obsessed with the Wizards game for almost a week, but I am taking a break from it for a bit, so I thought I would do a quick update of other stuff I have been working on.

Firsty, some images of little 3D farm yard I started:

thats as far as I got...Then I did a little street scene where I experimented a bit with lighting

And lastly, yesturday I started working on a scene for a futuristic game/animation, and modelled a dentest chair-like bed which you can see below:

More 3D stuff

Over the holidays I have been forcing myself to do bits of this and that here and there, but have been struggling to discipline myself. I have started many things and not got anywhere with them. Anyway I've been playing Monkey Island 4 on and off for a while and I just completed it, and was inspired to create some Mediterranean pirate beach 3D stuff. So far its just a palm tree. And there probably won't be anymore but I need to keep improving my skills instead of trying to do a project I'm not REALLY all that determined to do (knowing I only have myself to answer to) which never goes anywhere.

Stuff I've been doing

I have redesigned my website, created a new banner, background, added links to other pages of mine, such as this blog, my flikr account, etc.


(http://www.guiblin.com/chris)



I have created the flickr account which I have been adding some pictures to, including 3D things created in maya and 2D stuff from Illistrator.



I have been doing a lot of sketching of random character designs and stuff, mostly quite abstract and cartoony. I have scanned a sketchbook in and created a PDF file of it. The upload for the whole PDF keeps timing out both on my server back at home and my file den account, blogger too is refusing to upload pictures any more to here, so I will try again later. (one page can be seen as the background image of my website).

I have also been doing some colouring in of images that I sketched and scanned in. (I uploaded these before i tried the sketches that wont upload)

Daily Routine by ~chrisguiblin on deviantART

Other stuff: been doing a little bit of playing around with Visual C#, learning some basic stuff. I haven't got anything really to show from that but just been learning to use different controls, create them at run time and other window related stuff.

Also got my hands on UnrealEd 3 and been doing some practicing of that in creating simple rooms and such. I have been watching videos on Game Trailers (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/136126.html) showing basic tutorials on using the engine. I have been writing notes on stuff I have learnt from the tutorials I have watched so far and this will be very usefull for this terms project.

What else....I have been working a bit on my flash game from my last term's project, 'Wizards'. I have started it from scratch and using online tutorials about tiles used in tile based platform games I have created a basic way of using arrays to map out the levels. To do this on a bigger scale I need to look into using xml files to load in the level information, but I have given this a break for now to work on learning to use UnrealEd.