Last Thursday I went to do a presentation at Peterborough Regional College. They'd contacted me before Christmas and asked if I could come over and do a presentation in the new year. I said yes, and by January that presentation had turned into 3 workshops (yes I know). This really didn't affect things much as I'd have to travel anyway.

I decided to do something based round silhouette , like a workshop that Mitch did last year. And it actually went really well. The students found it interesting and it was a lot of fun talking to people about what they want to go on and do. We couldn't get the 3d software on the computers, so we couldn't do any 3d, but I did load up cryengine on a laptop and showed people how to place objects and run around.

So yeah, if nothing else I feel my presentation skills have improved. At first I was really nervous, but I soon got a lot better.

Since then I've been working on the Speedo project. Its only got until this Thursday to be finished. With this and that other project it's a bit of a rush at the minute. But I'll get some nice renders once it's done to post up here.

Another update on how things are going. I would be nice to post about movies or games, but I've been so busy this week that I don't know what to say. Fun things will have to wait.

The Speedo project has finally started. This is a paid project for the retail development people downstairs in the flecture building. They want us to build 2 stores by the end of January. We only got the reference 2 days ago, so it's a bit of a rush. There is 6 of us in total, so I think we can do it. I'll post up some more pictures once there is more to show.

The other project that I mention has started too. I'm making some foliage, which shall be great practice for my FMP. I've been blocking that out as well, and re learning the basics of cryengine. More details can be found out over at my other blog.

I've realised that my painting has slowly been slipping. I'd like some more nice paintings to put on my portfolio site, so I'll try and make some time for it. I started one today, this is only half an hour in but then I had to go back to my other things. I'll have to finish it next week, as I don't have access to Photoshop over the weekend.

New Year

First post of the new year! I just moved back after spending the holidays back at home. As well as eating tons of chocolate and generally being lazy, I did get some things done.

Firstly, I made this low poly house. The scene is under 500 tris. This was just a bit of fun, and I wanted to have a go at low poly modelling. I was also fun to do some more hand painted textures.

I also finished off that mass effect character competition. I'm pretty happy with it, it's under 10,000 tris, and it was good sculpting practice..

Back with actual uni work, I added some details to the horse and carriage. It's now got the reigns modelled on its face, and I gave it some more detail. The textures are also more scratched up.

The office thing didn't get off the ground. I modelled it, but it needs unwrapping and texturing. This week I might finish it, but there may not be time because of this next thing.

I found this project on linked in. They want to build a small game and get funding through kickstarter. If they make money, the people who worked on it get paid for it. If it doesn't, we're still making the demo for kickstarter, so I'll have something to put on my cv/portfolio. So I thought I'd go for it. I won't post much about it on here, but we're meant to be having the first meeting soon.

So I'm pretty hyped for this new year, I think some good things will come out of this semester.