I play Free Bird on expert.

Client Project

2010-04-30T03:26:00.000-07:00

Here's a few pictures of my client project. More pictures and a video to come soon.

Counter Strike: Source Tournament Map

2010-02-11T06:16:00.000-08:00

As part of my client project I am to create a "Counter Strike: Source" (CS:S) level, or map, for a competitive multiplayer tournament such as the iSeries. The i-Series is the largest tournament host in the UK and can accommodate 2,000 players and spectators.

Traditionally Counter Strike: Source maps are grounded in realistic atmospheres.

de_train. Set in a train depo.

de_inferno. Set in a South American town. Miseenscene includes clothes drying and flower pots outside peoples homes.

cs_assault. Set in a down town industrial area. Fire hydrant and train station for commuters.

Grounding my map in reality I will consider areas such as factory floors, industial parks and other urban areas.

Simulated Client Project

2009-12-13T21:13:00.001-08:00

The Real Cost from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

It's taken a little longer...

2009-11-18T07:04:00.000-08:00

It's taken a little longer than I thought it would to move the blog to my website. So in the mean time I will still be using this.

After having my request to change to webdesign rejected i've had a very short time to get my ideas reformed so I can make an animation in time.

I've been thinking long and hard about how to protray a message about piracy in a video game environment. Aside from somekind of machinima, which I don't believe would count as own work in this case, their really isn't any way of getting the message across without the aid of characters to relate to. I put this down to a terribly thought out idea that was, in my opinion, developed as far as "a good idea for an AV brief, all the 3D guys can just do the same but animate it" train of thought.

I've decided to bite the bullet and ignore that animation has nothing to do with 2/3 of the virtual environments pathway I did last year and just get on with it. Due to the time restrictions and my absolute hate for rigging models I've decided to create the my animation in the style of a Bupa advert.

I will use simple geometry shapes and give them character though objects such as glasses, headphones, hats, etc... these objects will also act as a way of showing where the simple shaped characters are looking. I will use simple block colours to follow the theme.

To represent the emotional content that people are getting from products I will have explosions of life coming from their products. Much like in recent Fanta adverts:

New Site :D

2009-11-08T19:42:00.000-08:00

I've moved to a new site. Come check it out:

www.radicalewok.com

Simulated Client Project - First Ideas

2009-10-22T06:21:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking about how to send my message across about media piracy. My first idea is to have a little girl skipping down a road which then tranforms into an apocalyptic landscape around her. There will be a voice over describing the danger to media industries that piracy creates.

For a visual representation of how I imagine the transformation to look please watch the video below from a game called Lucidity. About 40seconds in to the 1minute mark is where you will find the transition.

As for the asthetic look of the apocalyptic world i'm trying to create i'll be aiming for what was protrayed in the animated film by Shane Acker called 9. Here's a picture:

Moving Blog Soon

2009-10-22T06:19:00.000-07:00

I'm moving my blog to a website that i'm creating. Links will be posted here and on the reflective journal index.

Visualisation Walk-Through

2009-06-02T02:47:00.001-07:00

Here's a short fly-though of my visualisation project.

Second Year Visualisation Project from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

Visualisation

2009-05-26T21:30:00.001-07:00

As I said in a previous post I've done a truly horrific job at my time management and I've spent the last week living off ridiculous amounts of coffee and a hand full of hours sleep.

Here's an update on my Visualisation project. It's of a train station. I was inspired by Robs project. He chose to make a skate park because that's one of his passions. I thought about what one of my recent passions was and I started thinking about a computer game called Left 4 Dead. It's basically a game which takes place in a work undergoing a zombie apocalypse. There are many areas such as hospitals and Airports which lay in ruin after attacks. I decided to base my project on this theme.

Here's a screen shot of the scene untextured.

Animation Scene - Corrior

2009-05-26T00:59:00.000-07:00

Corridor - Aniamtion Year 2 from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

This is one of the scenes I've made for my animation. I was going for a cross between the hallways in the first battle of Star Wars: A New Hope and the corriors on the main spaceship from Wall-e.

Biped Animation

2009-05-23T18:14:00.000-07:00

I've modeled one of my characters with Biped Bones. Although this is a fast way of generating an animation for a simple human like character I'm not finding it flexable enough so I'm going to continue to animate with my custom bones version.

Clarc Animation - 3D Studio Max Biped Bone Test from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

My aim is to have the character Clarc walk like Dog from Half Life 2 when he's excited or moving fast:

The character Clarc is a lifing robot so he will also be able to walk on just his feet when carrying heavy loads.

Clarc Animation

2009-05-23T17:51:00.000-07:00

Here's a screen shot of Clarc with his Biped bones in:

Well i've done it again...

2009-05-23T17:40:00.000-07:00

Like everytime before I've left things with one project to the last miniute after concentraiting all my efforts on another project (aka my UT Map). I have untill wednesday to get my animation done and it's going to be alot of work. Currently I have two areas for my characters to interact with almost complete. I'm confident that I'll produce work good enough to hand in and host a video online.

I think once I hand the project in I'll still put more work into it over the summer holidays. I've spent quite a bit of time into character development and I really like what I've come up with. I think my charcaters are well established and have great personalities. I just hope that I can put this across well enough with the time I have left.

All this being said I'm really very proud of how my Unreal Tournament map has turned out and I think it's some of the best work I've ever done. I've had a few focus groups of hardcore gamers play it now and I've had great responces. Also personally I really love playing it, being a quite hardcore gamer myself I find the flow and pacing of the level works also all the areas seem to have equal usage instead of just one area which everyone fights for controll over.

Well I should get back to work on my animation. I'm quite sure my animation will be to a good standard. I'm just ashamed of myself for not giving it more time. I'm really sure that if I had another week to work on it I could make something truely amazing.

Unreal Tournament 2004 Map Complete

2009-05-21T18:29:00.001-07:00

I finally got it finished and i'm really proud of how it turned out. Here's a video of me playing it against adpet dificulty bots.

My Unreal Tournament 2004 Map from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

DM-Spectrum - Who said UT3 was just gray?

2009-05-21T16:26:00.000-07:00

A new custom map was made for Unreal Tournament 3, and it has a great twist. The rooms are pitch black and the only way you can find other players is by the trail of light they leave behind them as they move across the map.

DM-Spectrum from Matthew Bradley on Vimeo.

For more infomation I recommend you check out the artical on Kotaku.

Unreal Tournament Map

2009-05-19T01:15:00.000-07:00

I'm almost done with my map now. There is just a tiny bit of texturing to do and apart from that all I have to do is bot paths and lighting. I've placed all the static meshes I think I'll need.

Here are a few screen shots I took awhile back. Some rooms have been improved since they were taken.

Animation Trouble

2009-05-01T03:25:00.000-07:00

I've been working on my animation recently and i've run into some trouble with the arms.

This is a picture of the hand when it is straight, all the joints are perfectly round and how they are ment to be.

Once i try rotating the joints though they warp and strech.

This problem is starting to concern me as I remade the hand once already to try and fix this problem.

Level Design - A walkthrough of my map so far

2009-04-06T17:44:00.002-07:00

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I'd upload a video of my level design so far.

At the moment I'm just using working textures and lights to create. Once I'm satasfied with the layout I will be adding static meshes, atmospheric lighting and relevant textures.

Inspiration for Visualisation project

2009-03-25T16:21:00.000-07:00

Trousers Hindering My Progress!

2009-03-24T20:00:00.000-07:00

Just switched out of trousers into PJ bottoms and I've been flying through my work. I remember a conversation I had with Will about the benefit of working in new media, "we get to sit at home in our jammies, with a nice cup of tea and a duvet just coding html and css..."

I'm feeling so cocky about my progress since getting into my PJs that i've taken a break from my essay to write this. Doctors have the right idea, they just wear scrubs which a basically PJs and they're wicked sick at saving peoples lives.

We should all take notice of how productive the world is when comfortable. As a society we're evolved past trousers. Sure we needed them back in the days before decent heating in building and occasional bear attacks. I propose a remodeling of our society to exclude the need for trousers and bring the era of PJs.

Although that might be a society of Jack Wills and A&F douche bags running around in there baggy jammies, white framed bug sun glasses, iPod nanos and flip flops talking about how far back up there heads they make there quiffs as they rush to nandos to mack on the hunniez.

I guess no society will ever be perfect :(

Allocating Time

2009-03-24T19:12:00.000-07:00

Well I'm quite a way through my essay and I'm confident on being to a good standard by the time i send it into the dropbox. I'm just annoyed at myself for once again leaving my work to what feels like the last minute. Ideally thinking about it now I would have had Jools look through a draft as I'm not very confident with my writing skills, but I suppose that's just a bit more knowledge I'll have for the next reflective critique on practitioner based networking and the critical practise my development should emulate to parallel my career with that of an influence.

I'm really looking forward to this Easter holiday that's coming up. I see it as the opportunity I need to focus on my work. This may seem like an odd thing to say considering it's my "holiday break" but here's the circumstances that are shaping this break to be the most productive thing to happen to me since redbull and foosh mixers.

Because I live in the far off land, where the oggies grow on trees, also known as Cornwall, I have to find my own way home rather than most people who have there parents pick them up. This means I'm required to travel for nine hours across two trains and a coach, which limits the amount of stuff I can bring back. I'm only going to be able to take my laptop and a rucksack full of dirty clothes back with me.

My laptop it's self is just capable of running UTEd2k4 and 3DSM (although I wouldn't trust it to render my work). This means that I will be forced to spend my time being productive with these two programs rather than spending my time off dicking about on my very fast, very sexeh PC.
4gig of RAM
GeForce 280GTX
3.16ghz processor

Overall I'm looking forward to being productive. Here's a check list I hope to finish by the time I get back to Nottingham, or as I like to call it THE DISTRACTION FACTORY!

Finish 3D character's and Rigging for animation
Finish 3D sets for animation
Story board for animation
UT2k4ED tutorials on lifts, portals, weapon placement, etc... completed
UT2k4map completed
UT2k4map textures to be near completion
Visualisation project started with mock sketches
Gamer Society Tournament organised
Gamer Society Source server up and running
Gamer Society Steam community refresher
Gamer Society event for Clifton members
Mock up for new blog layout, including images ready for use.

That's quite a list, and I'm sure I'll have more to add to it once I give it a good thinking over.

What do you do with 100 sheep, alot of LED lights and too much time?

2009-03-19T10:00:00.000-07:00

Simple you do what anyone would do when they're bored. Play pong.

First UT '04 Editor Done

2009-03-15T07:15:00.000-07:00

I've been playing around in Unreal Editor for a while now but I just decied to be productive and follow a tutorial. Here's some ingame pictures:

All things considered it went quite smoothly and I enjoyed it. Alot of it seemed to be quite calculated sized boxes that you subtract into rooms, etc... I think I'm going to need to redo my level ideas on graph paper to make fitting it all together easier.

OMG DUH GRAFIX!!!!

2009-03-15T05:25:00.000-07:00

I Recently finished a game called Beyond Good and Evil which is a gritty platformer like Jak and Daxter (2&3). I enjoyed the game quite a bit and found that a sequal is being made and I found this trailer:

I know this is just a trailer and not actual game graphics, but I found it intresting how the graphics for this game have been updated.

Beyond Good & Evil (2003)

Beyond Good & Evil 2 (Trailer 2008)

Unreal Editor Hates Me and I Feel The Same

2009-03-15T04:45:00.000-07:00

Granted I'm very new to this program, but i've been having problems at every turn. When I tried to create my own map I was unable to move the cubes I made, and now I'm trying a tutorial and I'm getting a texture error. I even tried saving the texture package in a diffrent folder and retexturing, but I get the same error:

UT2004 Build UT2004_Build_[2005-11-23_16.22]

OS: Windows NT 6.0 (Build: 6001)
CPU: GenuineIntel PentiumPro-class processor @ 3167 MHz with 2047MB RAM
Video: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 (7824)

Failed to enter Autoplay.ut2?NumBots=0: Can't find file for package 'Chapter3saved_tex'

History: UGameEngine::Init <- InitEngine <- FMallocWindows::Free

I geuss I'll just keep trying to figure it out.

Project 2 Arcitechtual Visualisation II

2009-03-12T20:40:00.000-07:00

I went trolling though some old pictures of when I went to Morrocco. Some of the pictures I took when in Marakesh would could be used for inspiration.

Project 2 Arcitectual Visualisation

2009-03-12T18:39:00.000-07:00

I've decided to recreate the asthetic of a city from a computer game called Jak & Daxter 2. I like the exagerated extrusions from buildings giving it a characturesk look but with an overall futeristic slum feel.

Concept art from the game.

The arcitechure also seems to be based on medevil persian towns.

Pictures done by Bob Rafei for Jak and Daxter 2.

Visualistaion - Architecture

2009-03-05T09:39:00.000-08:00

After doing some research into Art Nouveau I stumbled across a site with bizarre buildings.

I like the fact that these buildings exist. They are shining examples of how some successful businesses still have a heart and artistic flare. It's reassuring that even in these hectic times of commercialism and corporaisation there will still be artistic uniqueness.

The link for the pictures is here.

Animation - Set Creation

2009-03-03T04:37:00.000-08:00

I've recently started building the set for my animation. I've haven't added the lighting or most of the textures yet but hopefully you'll get an idea of what it's all about.

There is alot more to come but I thought I'd show my inital ideas.

Yankee Gal

2009-03-01T08:12:00.000-08:00

I stumbled across this video and really liked the use of lighting and sound.

Yankee Gal from Yankee Team on Vimeo.

Tiny Robots... EVERYWHERE!

2009-02-15T15:58:00.000-08:00

I've been thinking about my animation project a lot recently and I've come up with the idea of two robots who are docking workers sorting out packages to be taken on spaceships. I'm thinking the two robots will be very different in size. The smaller one will look like Gir from Invader Zim, where as the taller will be more like the robot from the film Iron Giant.

I started making the smaller of the robots just to work with the bones tool again in 3DSM. So far it's been okay although I haven't tried any animation with it yet. This is a just my first attempt so it's still very basic.

The reason why I chose robots (apart from the obvious that they're kickin' rad) is because this will mean I won't have to do any voice acting which can be very time consuming. Instead I can synthesize there own language to drive the plot. This will also mean people will understand it no matter what language they speak, which I took under consideration as I've recently been watching a lot of Spanish animation.

Starting UT Map Building

2009-01-27T12:18:00.000-08:00

I found a site which is quite good for good for beginers. The link is here.

I'm just making a note of it here so I can find it on diffrent computers. Also it might hopefully help out some peers.

Unreal Tournament Map

2009-01-21T07:03:00.000-08:00

For the next two terms I will be working on my very own custom (UT) Unreal Tournament Multi-player Map (level). I was quite happy when I was told this because I feel I have a lot of knowledge of this type of FPS (First Person Shooter). The key to all great FPS maps is game pace and balance.

I'm going to stick the the conventional style of Unreal Tournament which is very fast pace. Because of this fast play style there are significant differences between levels in UT and Counter Strike: Source for example.

In this picture you can see the spawn point of one of the games more powerful weapons. The risk of getting this weapon is that it is surrounded by bio waste which does damage to you when you stand in it. This creates risk to achieve a benefit. You could get knocked into the bio waste by enemy fire on the way there and there is only one route out as well which means any enemy's will know which direction you have to go to get out. The same can be see in the picture below.

In this picture there is the most powerful armor upgrade in game, but again you must risk jumping onto a small platform which is surrounded by bio waste.

Because of the fast pace and splash damage most guns in this game have cover has to be more obvious and easy to use. Rather than having small walls in which to crouch behind (which encourages camping, thus breaking the speed of the game) cover is large and obvious. These blocks in the middle of the corridor can be easily jumped behind to break an enemy's line of sight (LoS) and therefore only leave you vunerable from splash damage.

Also the majoirty of times you will use cover is because of an enemy having an advantage over you. This can be from an enemy having more health than you or them having a weapon that is most powerful at a range but not upclose. By hiding behind boxes like these you're forcing you opponient to come closer which can take away there advantage.

Visualisation Project Complete!

2008-12-20T00:55:00.001-08:00

Here's how my visualisation project turned out.

Music: Get Your Guns by Nine Black Alps

Visualisation Board Game Project from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

Overall I'm happy of the out come. I'd of prefered to have a few more fast cuts and diffrent camera angles. But my editing/filming skills kind of drew a blank. I'm not going to post the video of my Animation project because I'm not very proud of it. I should have organised myself better so I could of spent more time on that part of the project. This is something I'm going to try harder on next term.

Attention as A Commodity?

2008-12-18T19:11:00.000-08:00

After watching a lecture from Matt Harding ("that guy who dances in those places in front of those things") he mentioned Attention as an important commodity. What with so many distractions now (TV shows, DVDs, Computer Games and the Internet), getting peoples attention can be a hard thing.

Viral Marketing is when an experience grabs a persons attention and makes them want to share that experience with others. After having success on the internet as "that guy who dances in those places in front of those things" he was approched by Stride Gum company to make another video. This second video he made was paid for by Stride so not only did Matt get paid for his video, he also got free global travel. This was a great way for him to sell the attention he was genrorating.

Now if only I could think of a way to get free global travel for doing something stupid!

Where the Hell is Matt?

2008-12-18T17:54:00.000-08:00

Matt used to work 9-5 in an office in Los Angeles as a games developer. He's worked on games such as Destroy all Humans for a company called Pandemic Studios. He is most famous for dancing like an idiot around the world.

I'd heard of this video before but haven't seen it till now. The thing I find funny is it was both his love of traveling and terrible talent at dancing that made him famous. I myself have a burning passion to travel. I've been all many countries and 4 continents and consider myself a more seasoned traveler than most. I also love to dance (some say terribly) stupidly. But what I think is crazy is that his job was a games developer, which is what I aspire to be.

Fueled by stories of my dad and a college lecture I've always seen my first priority to travel the world and I love to discover and learn new cultures.

More interesting stuff can be found here. If you found this video funny or inspiring I suggest you find his 3 part YouTube lecture which is also on his blog.

Rendering Accicent

2008-12-18T12:11:00.000-08:00

Does this happen to anyone else? You make the finishing touches to your render setup and forget to make sure you have the correct veiw frame selected? I just waseted almost 3 hours rendering the wrong veiwpoint so i had a 16second long video of my top veiw doing nothing :p

I wish I saved and uploaded that video now but I overwrited the name to redo the intended shot.

The Internet is for useless crap

2008-12-16T18:30:00.000-08:00

I thought I'd seen alot of dumb pointless stuff on the internet, then I found this when researching 3D practitioners in Cornwall.

Visual Board Game VII

2008-12-14T16:57:00.000-08:00

First clip rendered. At the moment it's taking ~45miniutes to render 4 seconds. I'm going to have to set alarms for myself so I can wake up and start the next render after one finishes.

Here's how it looks so far:

Visual Board Game Sweep1 from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

Visual Board Gamer MKVI

2008-12-14T13:16:00.000-08:00

Well I managed to sort out my textures and it's all coming together quite well. Here is a picture of it so far, I'm working on the Video now. HD Bitmap versions coming soon!

Visual Board Game MKV

2008-12-14T12:29:00.000-08:00

I think I've got everything set for this now. All that's left is lighting and some texturing. That being said i'm having a really tough time with texturing. I'm not sure what's happening but when I try to add a map to the material editor the square veiwer just covers up completly with a grey background like in my picture.

I'm not sure how to fix this and it's getting annoying.

I've also decided that my environment shapes were too close to the board and it looked crowed when I added more. So I've spaced it out.

When I sort out the lighting and textures you'll see almost all the blocks with a glairing whiteness and hopefully some bloom effect. I want to put in quite harsh lighting.

Visual Board Game MKIV

2008-12-12T12:48:00.000-08:00

An overveiw of the board so far:

It's still missing something and it feels like there are too many blank spaces. I'm going to have to rack my brain for new pieces to fill the environment.

3D Visual Board Game MKIII

2008-12-12T12:33:00.000-08:00

I've been working on some more background pieces for my Visual Board Game. I thought I'd make a rib cage looking piece.

First of all I made a flat square In the top view. I choose to make it a box and not a planar because I wanted some height to the base. Then i extrude the pillars and with edge select lengthened one side to make a slope.

I had to then move some vertex's up so the arching part wouldn't be as thick:

After this I simply selected the now smaller polygons, extruded them and then raised them to make it diagonal:

3D Animated Board Game

2008-12-09T16:30:00.000-08:00

I've jotted down quite a few ideas for my Animated Board Game. I don't want to give much away just incase I can't figure out how to animate it or someone ninja's my ideas.

Using the Helix spline I made 3 parallel Helix shapes. The outer 2 were lofted with a circle to make the visible track. The centre one was then joint via Animation Path Constraints with a sphere. This centre track was then raised vertically to give the illusion of the ball sitting on the visible tracks.

Helix Track Ball Test from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

Rendered at 24FPS and 100 frames long with high quaility mental ray and codec it took ~8miniutes to complete. I'm quite sure that wasn't as fast as my computer could do it as iTunes was running fine as it was going. When I move on to bigger stuff i'm going to allow rendering 100% CPU power.

I’m aware that this video is really short and the ball moves incredibly fast, but I’m planning to have a very fast paced animation.

3D Visual Board Game MK II

2008-12-09T16:15:00.000-08:00

I've completed the actual board area and now I'm working on the environment. At the moment I still have the standard black background which is going to be replaced later on with a light blue or green.

The floating shapes in the background are not part of the board. They're there to bring more depth and enthesize the disjointed nature of the area even though it's made of such primary shapes.

3D Visual Board Game

2008-12-09T14:43:00.000-08:00

After watching a trailer for new downloadable content (DLC) for one of my favorite games I decided on the style of which I was going to set my Visual Board Game to look like.

The game is called Mirror's Edge

I've always been a fan of that style and found it most intresting in Russian war propaganda posters:

I'm going to create a game board which has very bold flat colours and shapes but still has enough individual style to make it original and fresh. This is what I have so far to give you an idea.

Term One - Board Games Overview

2008-12-09T14:39:00.000-08:00

This term I've been set the task of making 3 different types of board game. One in real life with functioning rules, and two in 3D which can be as abstract and physics defying as I want. The two in 3D will be assessed individually on aesthetics and animation.

Work is coming along quite well on all of these projects, I just hope I don't get too wrapped up in them that I forget to do my SPP essays. Or atleast clean my kitchen.

Super Mega Lack Of Posts

2008-12-09T12:58:00.000-08:00

I'm really disapointed in myself for the lack of post's I've done so far this year. Well all that's about to change. I've recently signed up to Vimeo which is a video hosting website much like youtube apart from you can host much high quality videos.

I've been playing around in 3D Studio Max for a while and I'll be posting some high quality videos as soon as I finish rendering them.

So stay tuned for some good stuffs.

Buisness and the Death of Networking?

2008-10-23T17:55:00.000-07:00

The essential point of networking is human contact; business has killed networking by making it something for the career orientated.

To answer this question one must first determine the specific meaning of networking. From what I’ve compiled, a network is a supportive system for connection between interrelated individuals or groups. The purpose of a network is for mutual benefaction by providing support or assistance between the individuals or groups.

Business can be said to have killed networking in its truest form by having career orientated individuals and groups using networks for selfish reasons. By only harvesting and taking resources from a network you’re not mutually participating this therefore kills its true definition.

Flash Completed Where's The Marching Band?

2008-05-05T17:27:00.000-07:00

My identities flash animation is now complete and I'm over joyed. Now all I have to do is pull off some work from my blog and write it up into an essay and it's sorted. Looks like I'm going to make it down to Cornwall for Flora Day after all.

"PC Load Letter? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN?!"

2008-05-05T08:08:00.000-07:00

I decided that the most reilvant tutorials for flash are probably on the VLP. Although trying to access them is proving annoying.

http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vlpgaygs4.jpg

I don't have a clue what "Your account is on hold" means but I know it's pushing me one step closer to killing someone.

If Flash Were A Person, I'd Kick Him In The Nuts

2008-05-05T07:57:00.000-07:00

So because I'm leaving to go home on Wednesday morning I have to have my Identities project finished by Tuesday afternoon. I have completed all the 3D work needed and written the blurb for each of my 5 objects inside the box. I have even imported all the frames into flash.

This leaves me with only having to write the essay, and figure out how the hell to use flash. I've been going over some tutorials but the only ones I can find and either simple things like how to make a box move across the screen and save it. Or how to do rediculously hard animations which aren't important to my project.

I'm going to keep trying to find relivant tutorials and I'll go to the surgery tomorrow afternoon. But the way things look now I'm not hopefull that my trip home will happen.

Major Set Back

2008-05-03T10:36:00.000-07:00

As I was rendering one of the last of my objects for my identities work my computer overheated and turned its self off. When I restarted my computer and tried to load the file which all my work is contained in I got an error message saying that 3D Studio Max could not load that file. After a few restarts the file still won't open. This leads me to believe that the work is lost.

Although this is a major set back for my work I still have all my UVW maps, some print screens of my work and a few videos that I managed to render before I lost it all.

I was planning on getting into the flash process today and having the project completed for Monday. But this looks like it won't happen.

If I don't get this work completed by Tuesday then it looks like I'm going to have to cancel my trip home which I've been looking forward to for months now.

Identities Project 2

2008-05-02T11:19:00.000-07:00

I just thought I'd post my progress on my work. I'm keeping with my original idea of an ammo crate, but I decided to make my own crate in 3D instead of frapsing a crate from in game because then i can show the crate opening with my objects inside.

Here are a few of my objects that will be in my box:

Boarding pass

Guitar Hero Guitar

Films

When you click on one of the objects inside the ammo crate it will load a description of why it is in there and how it relates to my identity. Also it will load a video clip of the 3d object slowly spinning around. This video will loop so that it looks as if the object is just continually spinning.

Video clips here:

Boarding Pass
Guitar Hero

Jessica Rabit IRL WOOT!

2008-04-30T17:34:00.000-07:00

Like many other people, my frist true love was Jessica Rabit.

How it's done: http://youtube.com/watch?v=r940y3N1Yns

I was just browsing through the many pages of the internet when i stumbled across a picture of Jessica Rabit "untooned". I later found a blog called pixeloo which has some really cool photoshop work on it. I've seen other photoshop "speed painting" before, but I really liked how pixeloo uses images from existing photos and picks them apart and morphs them into the desired shapes.

Wall-E A Pixar Feature Film

2008-04-27T06:07:00.000-07:00

In the future mankind will have left Earth for greener pastures. Leaving behind one robot to clean up after them. Jonny 5... I mean Wall-E is that robot.

After 700 years of solitude Wall-E he develops a personality and finds the world around him fascinating. Then one day a spaceship lands and changes Wall-Es life forever.

He falls in love with Eve, A more high-tech robot from a diffrent planet. Eve strangely resembles a Sentry Gun from Portal... but has the ablity to fly.

Wall-E then follows Eve back to her home and discovers many facinating things on his adventure.

Although very little has been released about Wall-E the films hype seems to be mounting even though the film is 3 months away from it's world release. Because Wall-E and the other main characters, Eve and M-O, are robots they don't talk. Which means the story is driven along by the characters movements, which are very slapstick.

The first released footage of Wall-E was done during the Super Bowls' half-time commercial advertisments inwhich Woody and Buzz Lightyear, from Toy Story, talk about him as they themselfs are sat watching the Super Bowl. Advertising since then has grown slowly as the release of the film gets closer with life size cardboard cut-outs of Wall-E popping up over Cinemas worldwide.

I'm really looking forward to this film as it looks like pixar are tring new 3D developements out such as smoke and dust clouds. Also it reminds me of a more upbeat version of A short film my brother made called Sad Robot.

Wall-E IMDB

YouTube Videos:
Wall-E Super Bowl
Wall-E Teaser
Wall-E Trailer

Box Idea

2008-04-27T03:48:00.000-07:00

It's just occurred to me that I haven't posted anything on my box on my blog. Well at last the long wait is over.

The idea is when it loads you click the screen to start a small movie clip. This clip will be of you walking up to the ammo crate and opening it. Once it is open there will be five objects inside that I think relate to me and my identity.

Once you click on one of the objects two black boxes will drop down, one with a description of the object and the other of the object.

Finally Got Around To It

2008-04-27T03:40:00.000-07:00

This is the 3D model I made for my Identities project.

It's been along time...

2008-04-10T04:43:00.000-07:00

I just started to check out my blog and other MM students blogs again and i'm disapointed with myself with my lack of postings recently.

I had a great easter break, even though I was working for most of the time, and now i'm ready to really crack down and get on with my work. From talking to Will and checking his blog I can really see how far along he's come with his 3D work and I aim to follow in his footsteps and improve my 3D skills dramically aswell by using online tutorials.

A massive blow has happend to my machinima project (see here and here) when I found out that my halls have blocked mosting gaming ports. This means I can't develop the characters I want to star in my machinima, search for suitable locations to shoot and most importantly with not being able to log into a game when making machinima, I can't film any of it. So for now it looks like this project is going to be held back untill the summer holidays or even untill next term. I'm going to use this time to develop the script, make story boards and do research into my favorite machinimas. Such as how they record the voice actors and foly sounds.

Up Here for Thinking, Down There For Dancing

2008-03-11T11:07:00.000-07:00

Today I was supposed to have my presentation to display the work that I have done over the last term. I knew I had it on Tuesday but I wasn't sure of the time so at 9am I went down to Waverly to check. I found my name and it was under Thursday, being very tired at the time I thought that I was given the wrong day and I had longer to prepare my work. If I looked closer I would have seen that the page where I saw my name said "Review Week - Thursday April 8th".

I wasn't untill I got a text from my friend Will that I tripple checked and found out my mistake. Hopefully I can reschedule my presentation for sometime this term. It's just annoying that I made such a stupid mistake, espically after the presentation I was supposed to give for my first terms work.

Untill I have my review here is something to keep you entertained:

Avatar Almost Done

2008-03-08T13:02:00.000-08:00

Well it's closeing down on the last few days of term and I need to have my avatar completed and in an enviroment. I also need to have a 30 second clip of my avatar from diffrent angles.

All I have left to do is give him hands, map skins and produce a rough enviroment for it to exist in. I think that I might include all the other 3d work i've done in this enviroment too, but only have the focus on my final avatar.

Here's the (almost) finished avatar:

On final thought I've decided that these are the main influences behind this avatar:

I Love The Bevel Tool

2008-03-01T07:04:00.000-08:00

I've been doing some more work on my Avatar.

As you can see I created a body for my avatar, and I changed the head. I thought that the Predator like dreadlocks at the back looked a little ghey so they're now gone. Also after watching one of my favorite films, Return of the Jedi, I decided to take the helmet in a new direction.

I'm planning to group the shoulders and torso into one shape but leave the head with a simple link, like I had with my walker, so that I can animate with it.

My Avatar Progress

2008-02-21T19:06:00.001-08:00

Last tuesday my super buddy Will gave me a tutorial of how to make a Master Cheif helmet in 3DS Max. I was pretty happy with this as I was worried that my 3DS Max skills wern't as developed as they should be.

(The brown helmet is mine and the green on is Wills.)

I've been thinking about my avatar over the last few weeks and what he should look like:

After some thinking I decied to incorperate the helmet I made into my avatar. Obviously I wanted to change it from the helmet Will helped me made because he spent so long working on it I didn't want to just rip him off and take credit.
Avatar so far:

As you can see it's really only the jaw that i copied from the original, and I plan to do some more work on that to make it more original.

If You Love Music...

2008-02-19T20:33:00.001-08:00

http://musicthatmakesyoufeel.blogspot.com/

That's all i'm going to say. You can thank me later.

This Is What I'm All About

2008-02-19T19:18:00.000-08:00

Frequently I'm asked "Jay why is the internet so great" or "Why should I keep on living?" I simply reply to them with a link to this video

It gets less blury further in so keep with it.

I'm Sorry, Don't You Know Who I am?

2008-02-13T13:18:00.000-08:00

I was giving some thought to the avatar that I am going to create for myself. While doing this I thought about the avatar I have already created for myself on online. Possibly my biggest hobby is computer gaming, and if asked to pigeon-hole myself I would consider myself a G amer.

For the last 3 or 4 years I’ve been calling myself/avatar Radical Ewok. I’ve play numerous online games such as Counter Strike:(1.6/Condition Zero/ Source), Day of Defeat:(1.6/Source), Command and Conquer:(Tiberium Sun/ Tiuerium Wars), Battlefield: 2142, Team Fortress 2, Quake 3&4, Guitar Hero 3 and World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft was defiantly the game where I felt the strongest sense of community. With thousands of people playing on each server it's hard to stick out of the crowd, although if you socialize enough on both the game and the forums then people will recognise and remember you. I once stopped playing WoW for around 4 months, then within a week of playing it again I’d had people approach me and tell me they remember me from a guild I was in with them from over a year ago.

What I look like online:

World of Warcraft is really the only game I’ve played where appearance is customizable.

The Century of Self

2008-02-11T20:36:00.000-08:00

We were told to watch a documentry called The Century of Self and write an analysis of it. I was quite sad to see that the video was an hour long. Not because I have little patience, but because streaming videos with my student accomadation internet connection takes forever. I tried to load the 6 parts of the video during the daytime. This took almost 3 hours to do and only the first 2 of 6 parts loaded properly. As a result i've had to wait untill internet activity is at a minimum so that the videos will stream and play instantly.

Sadly due to the typical night life of a student it would be i'd be awake untill at least 3am before enough people went to sleep and stopped refreshing there facebook homepage.

From what I picked up The Centry of Self is about how propaganda/public relations was and still is used to controll the masses and there violent basic instincts.

I need sleep, this will be continued tomorow between my first lecture and tutorial.

Idea for 3D Tracking Sensors

2008-02-11T19:28:00.000-08:00

Deborah showed us a video in one of her lectures about tracking sensors.
We were asked as a task to think of new ways that this technology could be used. The video reminded me of a scene from a TV show called Firefly. In one of the episodes the doctor character uses a tool which displays a human brain as a 3D interactive holographic image.

In the video Jonny Lee uses an LCD screen to display a more detailed map ontop of a large projection of a basic map. I think if you combined this with 3D holographic x-ray it could help train surgens with complex operations. It could also be used to simulate risky operations that are about to be undertaken so the surgen can play though the senarios that may happen during the precigiour and practise and problems that might occure.

Modernism Vs. Post-Modernism

2008-02-11T16:01:00.000-08:00

Last week we had a lecture with Simon and he explained to us Modernism and Post-Modernism. Before the 18th century most things happened and existed for the glorification of religion this changed during the age of the renaissance, when people started to celebrate science instead of religion. This sudden change known as the “enlightenment” was the beginning of modernism.

Modernism is about logic, order, simplicity and the celebration of “the machine”.

It was the thought that great ideas come from individuals, or “the author” whereas post-modernism celebrates the death of the author and believes that all ideas come from creative communities and have no clear beginning, like a rhizome it has no beginning and no end.

MURMORPERGUR Seal Online

2008-02-11T08:05:00.000-08:00

I thought i'd post some pictures and talk about my progress even more in Seal Online.

There isn't alot of customization that you can do to your chacter, beyond hair and gender, but that doesn't really bother me. I was kind of bothered that which ever gender you pick and customize you still kind of look like a girl in game, that coupled with not being able to jump in the game gave me this awful flashback to a Guild Wars free trial weekend I once took. If it wasn't for SealO's music, which reminded me of the many wonderful sleepless nights I had playing Monkey Ball, I probably would have done the same to SealO as I did to Guild Wars and uninstalled it before you could say uncle buck.

So off I went into the world of Seal to vanquish my cuddely foes with my UBER X-TREME GREEN HAIRED... himaphrodite warrior. There are many skills that you can learn like fishing and sleeping. Fishing allows you to catch fish which you can eat to regenerate your health and sleeping regenerates your health also much much more slowly.

I found myself not really using the sleep skill much as almost ever creature drops an item called newbie eggs which also regenerate your health.

After leveling up abit I found that I had enough money to buy the first newbie teir for the warrior.

At first I thought i'd been conned, it looks like i've just finised a shift in an ice cream truck. Supprisingly enough though it's completly overpowered. Rabits that used to hit me for around 30-40 damage now hit me for 1 or not at all. Considering that I have just over 1000 health thats quite alot of rabits i can kill before i'm dangerously low on health.

MMO Adventure Take:2

2008-02-11T07:44:00.001-08:00

After recieving no help at all from blizzard support I decided to stop wasting time trying to fix Worlf of Warcraft (WoW) and to turn to another online game. I had already tried Secondlife and I found it painfully boring, buggy and pointless.

It turns out that quite a few people in my tutorial group and some more people in my seminar group started playing a game called Seal Online.

This is an MMORPG (you may find me calling these "Muh-Mor-Per-Gur's"), like WoW, apart from it is much more basic. Although the gameplay is much more simplifed (as i write this my character is fishing with out any input needed by me), the interaction seems to be a little higher.

In WoW you will rairly find people in the starting areas, and if you do they tend not to be very chatty or want to group with you. This is probably due to the fact that the early levels are boring and the fastest way to level past them and into more intresting areas is to do solo quests as fast as you can. I'd be intrested to see how interaction develops in SealO as you level up.

"Se"XBOX - My Thoughts on Fox News Journalism

2008-02-02T11:25:00.000-08:00

After watching this segment from Fox News, about a new computer game called Mass Effect, I felt I had to respond to how poorly the news is delivered to the public. First of all the person on the against side has no background experience in the effects that computer games or any other media types have on people. The soul reason for her being there is to plug her new book.

Secondly the supposidly neutral journalist sides on the against team almost instantly. During the intro of the segment she talks about the game "In some parts of the game it features full digital nudity" which is not the case at all as there are no graphical scenes in the game.

Cooper Lawrence, who has also not played the game, starts her argument saying that this game has damaging effects on the development of adolecent males because it protrays women as objects and because you're in controll of the character it means that they feel they would be in controll over women in real life. Geoff Keighley rebuttles by stating you can play either a male or female character in the game. Also he goes on to say that the featured "sex" scene in the game lasts for two miniutes, where as the whole game lasts somewhere around thirty hours long, meaning that that one scene is very insignificant. This doesn't stop the missinformed ignorant journalist and aparent pshycological specialist from talking about the game as if it is based on that miniture part of it.
Cooper brings up some research from a university in the United States and quotes them saying "boy that play video games can not tell the diffrence between what they're seeing in the real world and a video game if they don't have the real experience". Unless that came from the University of "I'm going to talk shit and pretend it's fact" (from which Cooper probably graduated with a first) I'd have to say that she was lying or was just terribly missinformed. There is no proof at all that shows a violent video game caused someone who played it to do something violent in real life.

Even if there was a case where one unstable person choose to do something violent due to playing a violent video game then that would be one case out of the hundreds of millions of people that have played a violent game.

At the end of the segment they go to a panel of 4 people each has no experience in the effects of video games on people, let alone experience of games at all. The journalist keeps repeating that it's games like Mass Effect that make parenting even harder than it already is. This in my opinion has no relivence as the game has been cencored "M" for maturity which means no one under the age of fifteen is legally allowed to buy or play that game.

I'd rather let my hypothetical children play a violent game with partial nudity than let them watch Fox News.

By the way this isn't just a one off from the fox news team:

Spring Break Serial Killer - A segment on a serial killer at large in Florida. The picture in picture frame are clips of people on spring break which is pretty much just people drinking alchohol and women in bikinis. It has nothing to do with the story at all.

9/11 Tribute Show: Lube Wresteling - This segment is from Fox News' Bill O'Reilly's 9/11th Tribute show. Almost half of this segment has lube wresteling full screen, not really in keeping with a tribute to thousands of people who died in that tragidy.

If you want more extreme right wing, stupidity journalism I recommend you check out this extreme left wing fanatic's youtube page http://youtube.com/user/jsjkim

LOOK OUT! COLOUR AND LIGHT!

2008-01-28T05:57:00.000-08:00

We were asked in tutorial to post a picture that we've taken ourselfs and which screams colour and light. I decided to use a picture that i'd already taken. This is a picture of one of the times I went fishing at home in Cornwall. I was concerned at first about using this picture because the only rich vibrent colour in it is blue. But I think it still works well considering that our task was "Colour and Light" and not Colours and light.

INSPRA-FUXING-RATION!

2008-01-27T20:42:00.000-08:00

I thought it would be a good idea to post some videos on my blog that have inspired me to make a machinema.

The Grind - Halloween Special

Illegal Danish - Super Snacks

Jimmy: The World of Warcraft Story

A Screeching Hault

2008-01-27T19:53:00.001-08:00

As part of the Identities modual we were asked to join an online community which had it's own virtual world. My first thought was to make a machinema film about online communites using the game World of Warcraft.

Things were going well when I managed to knock out around two pages of dialog. Things came to a sudden hault last wednesday though. Blizzard, the companie behind World of Warcraft (WoW), released a patch for the game. Something in that patch must have corrupted some files somewhere because now I can no longer log into my account and play the game.

I left multiple posts on the Tech Support Forum they have set up but nothing has worked so far. I feel I might have to abandon using WoW for my machinema and try something else.

Interactive Narative The Flash Process

2008-01-22T14:19:00.000-08:00

I'd never used any version of Flash before so I didn't expected the process of making my interactive narrative to be an easy task. I started quite well finding placing my frames in the template provided with out any major kind of problem.

I was not able to complete my project though as I had quite a lot of trouble with organising the buttons for how to start the game and proceed though it. I'm sure I'm just facing small obstacles that can be sorted out easily during a surgery session. So I aim to have it finished and online quite soon.

Here's a few snippets from what I got so far:

The First Frame

The Second Frame

Game Lost Frame

Interactive Narative

2008-01-22T14:12:00.000-08:00

My idea for an interactive narrative is a type of play along music game in which the player needs to pick the correct segment of music that needs to go next. I decided to use the song The Devil Went Down To Georgia as a music video by Primus inspired me.

I thought the song was very catchy and would appeal to a wide audience therefore more people would want to play my game. Also the song has a clear narrative throughout.

You play the role of Johnny, who is a young fiddle player who accepts a challenge set by the devil. If the devil wins then he gets your soul and you have to reset the game. But if you win then you win a fiddle made of gold.

I decided to call my game "Let's Go To Hell" because it I think that name makes it funnier than something like "You're Going To Hell" which sounds more like a statement, whereas my version makes it sound like going to hell is a good idea sort of like "Let's Go Get Ice Cream" or "Let's Go To Disney Land". In truth I stol.... borrowed this idea from a film I like called Let's Go To Prison

Tech Support

2007-12-04T06:31:00.000-08:00

I’m very pleased with the outcome of this short film. Some slight editing needed to be done to script during the shoot. Obviously this is one thing I will have to work on for the next script I write. The lighting and camera position were well thought out and all together the shoot went smoothly.

The quick cut at the end of the film is intentional to provide humour. The humour running though out is very subtle and for this reason many people may not understand or find the film funny. But for those who do they find it to be a very amusing film.

Aesthetics THIS!

2007-11-27T06:27:00.000-08:00

With a mixture of functionality and simplicity the Nintendo Wii’s aesthetics to me are beautiful. The tiny white box is a refreshing change compared to every other games consol that has been released. Undistinguished hidden panels none intrusively cover synchronisation buttons, control stick and SD card ports.

One Shot Film OVERLOAD

2007-11-22T02:42:00.001-08:00

Filming of the second One Shot Film is set for today. We will be filming in a computer room as our "set" needs to look like a telecom company. Hopefully because of the simple camera shot the shooting wont take long which is lucky considering I was only able to borrow a camera for the day meaning that the only available time to shoot is in the 90minute gap between when my seminar ends and I have to return the camera.

The only problems that I foresee are issues with the script and leaning of the lines, although this shouldn't be too bad as we can easily have a script up on the computer screen.

Also another problem will be being able to create and convincing atmosphere. Obviously we were planning to shoot much later in the day when our location would be emptier and therefore easier to control background sound and people moving into our shot.

Over all I'm looking forward todays shoot and I think it will go well. I'm also looking forward to making a film that isn't set on campus or in student accomadation. ^^

One Shot Film WTBH!?

2007-11-22T02:22:00.000-08:00

The post production for the film noir one shot film went very well. The dialog was recorded again to make it more in time with the actions in the film and also because better quality sound was needed. The speed of the dialog is in my opinion is too fast, but it had to be at that speed to fit all of the dialog in.

Enjoy

Will did a brilliant job with the filming but because we didn't have any kind of steadycam equipment it does look shaky in places. I think that we were a little too ambicious with this film with all the camera movements and lighting that was needed.

Over all I am quite pleased with the end result, no matter how many rules were broken from the breif, and I think the music really gives it an edge.

One Shot Film

2007-11-19T00:07:00.000-08:00

Last Wednesday we shot our first one shot film. The script was written by Will. Filmed in a film noir style we kept the lighting very dark. This created the mood of the film. Also it helped disguise our location from looking like a typical student accommodation to a small flat.

Although I think the filming went well and we got good experience with using proper lighting I still have some concerns, mainly due to the restraint of having to film in student accommodation and the fact the filming was hand held. Although I'm sure the end result will look good I'm not convinced that it will be enough to get the grades I'm aiming for.

As a contingency plan I have written a short script myself. Heavily influenced from a scene from "The Office" (see clip below) It will be a conversation between an annoying IT specialist and a telecom worker. There will not be any need to move the camera during filming. In doing this my group will be able to focus more on the quality of the lighting, framing, mis-en-scene and acting.

Synopsis of Ray DiZazzo’s “Corporate Media Production”

2007-11-05T17:29:00.000-08:00

I chose this book purely on the cover and the fact that I was quite impressed by how many Z’s the author had in his name. Thankfully after reading just the first page I was pleased to see that the book offered more than just a hi-larious name on the cover.

The book is easy to read and seems to cover audio visual media from preproduction to distribution of the product. DiZazzo’s writing style is also very casual and personal with many rhetorical questions and comical use of punctuation. This gives the book a more convocation like tone which helps the reader pay attention and remember what they’ve read.

Example: “No generation loss, no dirty lists, no confusion, no problem! It’s digital!”

“But how about the content of corporate media programs? Has it evolved as well? Absolutely.”

Terminology is well explained and either in quotation marks or bold which helps break down the more complex sentences.

The content has a great layout making it easy to find any topic that the book may cover. From the main roles of a director and producer to script terminology to budgeting.

This book is the AV Bible and I strongly recommend it to both novice and professional film makers.

Pixelation

2007-11-04T05:41:00.000-08:00

Here's a short pixelation video made by Will Thomas and myself. We chose to do scenes with stairs because the idea of gliding up them appealed to us as it is impossible to do in real life but very easy to mimic with pixelation. Also because the stairway looks the same on every landing it would have been possible to loop a section of shots to make it look like the stairs were infinite.

As I promised before here is my second pixelation.

Reflective Practise

2007-10-23T06:26:00.000-07:00

I'm a firm believer in learning my mistakes and have found that failure is the best way to learn. In all honesty I haven't done as much work for my course as I would have like to so far. This is mainly due to me not being able to download any software that I need. Although this problem should be resolved soon as thankfully there are nice people on my course who I'm able to pike it off.

Until I manage to sort my computer out with what I need I'm going to be using the equipment that the university has. This obviously isn't ideal for me as I find it nearly impossible to concentrate in computer rooms.

Okay, done with the excuses section and now back to the topic at hand. I think reflecting back at my time at college has made me realise that I need to be much more serious when it comes to my education. I'm determined not to re-live the mistakes I made during my college years.

What I Want Out of My Course

2007-10-23T06:04:00.000-07:00

Being the youngest of three children, and the last to go to university I feel that there is a bar that has been set for me. Considering that both my brother and sister graduated with firsts this bar is set considerably high and I hope to reach it by the end of my time at NTU.

I really want to achieve, and use these years I have at university to the fullest. At the moment I'm hoping to improve my skills with a broad range of software packages and finally go into a career in Web Design.

Web Design for me seems to have perfect blend of design and technical aspects. Also I like the idea of something I create being interactive.

As I said I really want to achieve and improve my skills on my course, but I also came to university to enjoy myself as well. I just hope that I manage to find the perfect balance between the two early on as I feel the time I had at college was wasted due to lack of self improvement to my skills and general loss of enthusiasm in my course.

I'm determined to not let this happen again now that I'm at university. Thankfully after meeting just a few of my lecturers I don't feel lack of enthusiasm will be an issue for me.

Freshers Week Lessons

2007-10-10T07:54:00.000-07:00

As you might assume lessons during the freshers week weren't too taxing, but they were still fun. It was a really good opportunity to get to know some people on my course and see more of what it had to offer. In my first lecture we made a white board animation (see below). At first i thought my group was getting ahead of itself with the introduction of so many abstract things that we needed to animate. But now I know that it was a really good thing that i was grouped with them because it just made our animation interesting. From now on I'm going to be much more open to random suggestions and ideas during group work as they can turn out to be really good.

My groups contribution is the first one to be shown.

My second lecture was about pin hole cameras. We made our own cameras out of beer cans, card and tape.

My first and second attempts at getting a picture failed. But I was lucky enough to get one on my third try:

Previous Work

2007-10-08T04:07:00.000-07:00

Here is some of my previous work that i've done at college and in my own time.

Design project for my first year in college. My assignment was to create a games cover that would fit on a dvd cover.

I also did some animation work in my own time. Here is an example:

Introduction

2007-10-06T13:39:00.000-07:00

Hi,

My name is Geoffrey Jay Jackson-Hicks, but everyone just calls me Jay. This is my NTU Multimedia Blog. Over the next few years I will be displaying projects that i'm working on. I hope for both the readers and my sake that it gets filled with intersting and origanal work.

There isn't really too much to talk about in this first post, but if you would like to get to know me better:

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=556340407

www.myspace.com/radicalewok

Or send me an old fashioned email:
radicalewok@gmail.com

Cheers