I have had an extremely busy summer. I spent six weeks working with Emagination Computer Camps as a technology councilor. I worked twelve hour days and in my free time I created a custom character for Unreal Tournament 3 and for the Evolve character competition that my school is hosting. My character, King Hondo, can be found on my 3D Art page. I have also uploaded some artwork to the 2D Art page. I also have updated my Resume page with all of my new experience. I also got my hands on a twelve by nineteen inch wacom tablet which has been very helpful.
So, it has been a long time with no update so I will fill you in on what I have been up to. I am currentley taking a full load of 12 credit hours this summer so I can graduate by next spring. One of my classes is a character developement class and I am making a character for UT3. You can check out my progress in the Game Artisan forums. I am planning on writting a tutorial / walk through of my proccess once I complete him, so keep on the lookout for that in the tutorial section. I am also leaving in June to become an instructor at Emagination Computer camps in Philidelphia, PA where I will be teaching game design and 3d art for the summer.
Alright, I have been working on environment assets for my friend Jeff Randall's UT3 Level, "Morgoth." So far I have made a low poly barrel which can be found in the Environment section on the 3D Art page. I am currentley working on more assets for the level and I will post them up as I complete them.
The past few weeks have been crazy for me. I really enjoyed my stay in San Fransisco for GDC. I made a lot of great contacts and got to hang out with some amazing people. When I get the time I will create a photos page that displays all of my adventures. My Unreal Character Development tutorial also just got published on CG Tantra. I am also started to work on a few personal projects. One project is for the Dominance War 3 and I will be focusing on a concept design because I need some finished content for my 2D Art page. My other big project is going to be creating environment pieces for a friends UT3 Map. The map is going to be a CTF and is called "Morgoth." So if you are on the Unreal Forums, check it out! I am still recovering from my trip, but I will have some cool stuff to show in the next few days.
Today I finished recording my first ever video tutorial. It covers the normal map workflow inside 3dsMax and it can be found in the Tutorials page. The dominance war starts on the 15th. I am also arriving in San Fransisco for GDC on Sunday February 17th. So feel free to email me if you are going to be in town and would like to meet up. I am very excited because I always leave GDC with a feeling of inspiration and motivation to keep doing what I love to do.
Earlier this week I bought my plane ticket to San Francisco. I am attending the Game Developers Conference for the third year in a row as a Conference Associate. I have made allot of good friends out there and I look forward to seeing them again. I updated my 3d Art page with an environment section. All I have is one model but you can be assured that more are on the way.
Happy New Years! I updated my resume page with a downloadable word document. I also updated my links page with links to some of my favorite artists and website's. I start my winter semester in four days and I am only taking general ed classes at the community college. This is a very good thing because it will give me time to work on getting together some more content for my site! Not to mention, the dominance war 3 preliminaries begin sometime in the next few days. I plan on having a submission for this years competition. I also find out tomorrow if I get accepted as a GDC CA volunteer. Wish me luck!
Well, my first semester of the year is finally over with. I am now going to be updating my website much more often. I am getting ready to start applying for internships and jobs as soon as I get enough content up here. I wanted to let everyone know that my 3d art page has been updated with my Austin Xyle character and Croaker Tank. My tutorials page has been updated with the Unreal Character Development tutorial. Feedback is always welcome, I enjoy hearing from all of you!
Hey Everyone! My fourth year of college just started and life is getting busy. I am currently re-building my web-site. Some of the links are down right now but will be up shortly. 3dtotal has also featured my Unreal Character Development Tutorial on the front page of their website. This is good news because allot of my peers have had their tutorials published on this web site as well. I'm glad to see my work is being noticed and hopefully it can help a few people along the way.
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8/05/2008
