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Tuesday 12 April 2011

Thought I’d do a big update!

Might aswell!

Semester 2 has gone so fast it’s crazy. We’ve had two six week Projects which has been an eye opener about time management! Think I did ok though

The first was to create a side scroller in Maya, creating the characters and story to go with it: Here’s some work for that. The pictures are a bit poop cos they haven’t been cropped from the Render in maya

 

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That isn’t all of it but I’m not gonna spam it all. Just a little!

And here’s the Fairy Tale brief! I did the characters for our scary (impregnated) version of Rapunzel

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Again, the best of a bad bunch!

We’ve had other projects too. An IP project where we had to make a new asset for a game: I made a new gadget for Batman: Arkham Asylum. The ‘BatAxe’…teeheehee

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A mask brief to make a texture for a character in Second Life:

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An ‘Inspiration from media’ projec to create a game from a book. I’m not going to post these ones cos they’re pretty bad. All in all, I did Bill Bryson’s book where he describes an old American town as ‘Patently Artificial’ and did it along the lines of Tranquility Lane in Fallout 3: You’re trapped; They’re creepy, You have to escape etc. It was really crap.

This last one is a group project where we got given roles, I got Environments to do, which I..Ergh, here you go. They’re for a sequel to ICO’s shadow of the collosus

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Some shitty alpha crates in Maya:

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A painting for a possible job I could have gotten if I had more time, regrettably

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Some graphic designs for a Paper company:

 

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And FINALLY personal stuff, of which I’ve had no time for whatsoever!

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As you can tell from the last one, I haven’t had much spare time! I’m pretty much done now though, and I got a new laptop which means GAMES ON STEAM. ADD ME! ladyknowles 

And one last thing which I’ll mention down here cos I don’t think anyone will notice. I have an interview at MediaTonic next week, who make games such as Monsters (Probably) stole my princess, must.eat.birds and Amateur Surgeon. I applied for their internship; sent them my CV, then my portfolio, then answered a few questions they sent to me after and they liked it enough to ask me back for an informal interview next week. Its in Tottenham so not so far from my house so it’d be great, but even if I don’t get it it still shows promise that I got an interview.

Car has broke at home which is a bummer and my lovely and talented Mama can’t find a job after gaining a first at university next year. There really is nothing! In London you have to APPLY for an application form. So that’s a bit shitty! Oh the joys of leaving uni eh?

Emma! Over and out : )