A sketch I did on my off time for the last couple of days, the silhouette for a spring-loaded sword design I'm working on and funky little water-seller type guy.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Sketchdump
A sketch I did on my off time for the last couple of days, the silhouette for a spring-loaded sword design I'm working on and funky little water-seller type guy.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Monday, February 09, 2009
Fracture Point
A job approaches, perhaps. I've applied for a 3d modeling job working on flight sims for L-3 in Arlington. Not a game industry job, but using the same tools. If this works out I should be able to live comfortably until I can find a real industry job. The GDC in San Fran is coming at the end of March, and hopefully I'll be able to scare up some interviews there. Zenimax might also be hiring around then. We'll see!
The DH campaign last Saturday went well. 2/5s of the group had yet to create a character, so we got started a little later, but the rest weren't too bored by the time they were finished. The group got off track seconds into the game. I'd planned on winging most of the game anyway, just using my (far too detailed) notes as an outline, but they took it in an entirely different direction. Because of this I wound up throwing a lot of theme out the window. Guytoga is apparently the only planet in the 40k universe with Arbites officers bursting with local lore. A lot of the set pieces I'd hoped to bring into play were never visited, although hopefully the next session I'll be able to use them. Tony swears the 40k universe is apologetics for Nazi Germany, but that way lies madness.
The DH campaign last Saturday went well. 2/5s of the group had yet to create a character, so we got started a little later, but the rest weren't too bored by the time they were finished. The group got off track seconds into the game. I'd planned on winging most of the game anyway, just using my (far too detailed) notes as an outline, but they took it in an entirely different direction. Because of this I wound up throwing a lot of theme out the window. Guytoga is apparently the only planet in the 40k universe with Arbites officers bursting with local lore. A lot of the set pieces I'd hoped to bring into play were never visited, although hopefully the next session I'll be able to use them. Tony swears the 40k universe is apologetics for Nazi Germany, but that way lies madness.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Deadly Arctic Apocalypse 2009 - The Revenge
Guess we dodged the bullet this time. One-third an inch of ice cannot douse the flames our our hearts.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Deadly Ice Apocalypse 2009
SMU closed their campuses at 3:30 today, in hopes of sparing us the danger of being trapped by the deadly arctic maelstrom bearing down on our hapless town. As I write this the temperature sits at 31F, and there isn't anything falling from the sky. We'll see if the evening brings the "worst ice storm in over five years." Once the sun slips beyond our sight sets the night will bring malevolent storms with a deadly half-inch of soul-chilling precipitation. The lights of civilization will sputter and dim, giving way to fimbulwinter and the twilight of the gods.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Stepping in like Nothing Ever Happened
I'm going to try to get back in the habit of writing here. I've got more spare time now, why not use it for something constructive?
So here I am, a month out from graduating, and looking for a job. There are prospects all over, but the industry seems averse to giving rejection letters, so I shamble on without feedback. I've been staying busy, the Guildhall has set up a post-graduate project with Gearbox making assets for an unannounced title, so I've been having fun with that. Whether or not the game ships it will make a nice line on my resume, and it's been great experience being able to take a model through the whole creative process in a week and a half, instead of a day like the last few terms of the GH. If nothing else this time allows me to retool my portfolio from animation-centric to environmental art. As much as I would love to be an animator that well has been consistently dry, so it's time I moved on to a more prevalent job option.
I've got a campaign in the works, for the first time in a long time. I've been planning a scenario for the Warhammer 40k rpg, Dark Heresy. Hopefully things will pan out there. Three of the possible five players have rolled up characters. I've got D&D 4e stuff to fall back on if the group doesn't like it. The rules aren't revolutionary, but they seem solid and the character creation makes for interesting, quirky, and half-fleshed out characters. It builds a strong foundation for a player to launch off of. Everyone rolled an incredibly young character, which seems a little unusual for classes like Tech-Priest, where some age and experience is expected. Would the Adeptus Mechanicus really borg out a 16 year old, as one of my players rolled? I assume they were trying to imply the age expectancy of a person from the given planet. Design-wise I would have based the age table on character career as opposed to homeworld. Or thrown in a modifier for the educated classes.
So here I am, a month out from graduating, and looking for a job. There are prospects all over, but the industry seems averse to giving rejection letters, so I shamble on without feedback. I've been staying busy, the Guildhall has set up a post-graduate project with Gearbox making assets for an unannounced title, so I've been having fun with that. Whether or not the game ships it will make a nice line on my resume, and it's been great experience being able to take a model through the whole creative process in a week and a half, instead of a day like the last few terms of the GH. If nothing else this time allows me to retool my portfolio from animation-centric to environmental art. As much as I would love to be an animator that well has been consistently dry, so it's time I moved on to a more prevalent job option.
I've got a campaign in the works, for the first time in a long time. I've been planning a scenario for the Warhammer 40k rpg, Dark Heresy. Hopefully things will pan out there. Three of the possible five players have rolled up characters. I've got D&D 4e stuff to fall back on if the group doesn't like it. The rules aren't revolutionary, but they seem solid and the character creation makes for interesting, quirky, and half-fleshed out characters. It builds a strong foundation for a player to launch off of. Everyone rolled an incredibly young character, which seems a little unusual for classes like Tech-Priest, where some age and experience is expected. Would the Adeptus Mechanicus really borg out a 16 year old, as one of my players rolled? I assume they were trying to imply the age expectancy of a person from the given planet. Design-wise I would have based the age table on character career as opposed to homeworld. Or thrown in a modifier for the educated classes.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
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