Here's one of my current projects (the only active one, that is). It's a remake of at least the head of a grizzly bear. As most of you know, I made a dancing grizzly back in my senior year of high school, and for a novice, it was fine. However, I've always wanted to do better!
So here is what I have so far on this endeavor. Much better than the original, though there's plenty of work still to do to it. I'm still working on getting the edges fuzzier, so the hair effect is really driven home.
For my classmates, this bust is at around 2700 polys, though the one I sent to ZBrush was less than 700.
Here it is! I've been working on this animation for a couple of weeks to enter into a competition Westwood is holding. A few will know the audio clip as the Rosebud Frozen Peas commercial on The Critic. I'm hoping a bit of humor will make my entry more memorable than other. Since the animation had to be 30 seconds, I added some silence to the audio to lengthen it and give me a chance to animate reactions, etc.
The character is the same I've used in other animations, but since I know how some Westwood students are, I included credit for the rig so no one starts whining about stolen work. Yes, THAT is how it is at Westwood. That and stolen flash drives.
There's still plenty of work I can do on this. Some movements could use some extra polish, and other actions need to be exaggerated a bit. I still think it's a worthy candidate for the competition!
Here's the car model I've been working on for a good while now. It's still unfinished, as I'm not satisfied with the texture work. But it's what I have at the moment, and I haven't posted anything on this blog for awhile. Enjoy!
Hey everyone. Welcome to the newly design Workshop! I was tired of my videos and flash content being shrunk to fit that tiny column, so I found a better, wider design. hope you like it!
So, not much happening with artwork, huh?
Well, I haven't been completely idle, and I have a couple of VERY simple flash games to present. I made these in an effort to improve my understanding of Actionscript 3, which is the programming language for flash content. These taught me a great deal about event handling, classes, and game architecture.
The first is the classic Tic Tac Toe. Sorry, but there's no AI to play against just yet. I will probably try and tackle that at some later date.
This game took 185 lines of code to create. For a game, I'm sure that's very few, but I found it interesting that something as simple as Tic Tac Toe would take so much coding.
The next is a minesweeper clone. This taught me a LOT about how to make lots of the same thing and keep them all organized. You have to hold the SHIFT key down to place a flag. You win if you flag every mine or if you uncover all the other tiles.
...Now that I write that, I realize I didn't do anything to keep you from flagging every box and winning....oh well.
This game too 353 lines of code to create, which includes the code for the external "box" class. In other words, I programmed a single grid square separately from the rest of the code, and had the "main" code make a bunch of copies of that grid, then tell them what to do and when.
All the explanations are for anyone who cares :P
Enjoy! Let me know if you find a glitch in either of them. Also, you can reset the games by clicking on the Win/Lose messages.
