Dominance War IV Finals Posted / Judging

I had the honor of being a primary (and final) judge in Dominance War IV. It was a difficult yet fun task that included cutting over 600 entries down to 75 with a couple of other artists. Then after that i put my top 15 in order and wrote some comments about the entries. Since i have been in past Domwars i took this on with a certain level of seriousness, constantly weighing out why one was better than another. I cut all 75 thumbnails into pieces using Image Ready and then ordered them by dragging them around in Dreamweaver, and using the built in Contrast/Brightness tools to darking ones i didn't go for to help focus things down to the final 15.

Check out the final entries and judging ---here---

Achron and Time Travel

Recently i had the pleasure of watching the creators of Achron speak about Time Travel in games (and other mediums). They are local here in NC and come straight out of NCSU. Achron is an RTS game that uses a Time Travel mechanic in a multiplayer setting. Players have a limited resource to spend on going back in time to alter it (sending units and change events) which then propogates those changes as waves moving ~2x's real-time to the present. I reccomend watching the video on it :).
Sadly there are no 1982 Deloreon units..... or barn buildings, at this time. :)

Achron Game

GDC 2009 Complete

This years GDC was one i was waiting for for ages. There was so much going on that it was very hard figure out what to do with my time. I met artists i had wanted to meet for ages, epic fans, and saw my friend win 2 IGF awards for Cortex Command. This year i sculpted at the Dominance War Booth along with other artists i admire which was good fun. Pictures can be seen here: DW Booth Pics

Highlights included:
Dominance War Booth
Polycount.com Dinner
IGF Awards
Art Direction - Horror in Deadspace
Art of Brutal Legend
Alcohol

GDC 2009!

It is here! GDC 2009 is just around the corner. I look forward to a fun and educational week. I will be doing a quick zbrush sculpting demo on the Expo floor at the Dominance War Booth. Other great artists will be doing demos throughout the GDC as well. The DW booth is sponsored by Pixologic and Wacom and will feature people demoing Zbrush with a Cintiq. There will also be a Dominance War gallery, so i hear. Also a cool Polycount/GA.org get-together hopefully sometime during the week.

M. Bison Places 2nd!

M.Bison landed in a close 2nd place in the mini competition with 829 vs the 1st place winner with 863 votes.

I voted the win for the guy who got it - his presentation is great and you get a sense that he is challenging you, the viewer. I'm always a fan of that sense of immersion. There were some great entries and the total reaching just over 100! Link is below for the entries.

-The Verdict-

M.Bison Bust

I "completed" and submitted an M.Bison bust for the Street Fighter Bust Mini Competition at Game Artisans. I felt inspired to go as a far as i did (with the time i had) but hope to get time to perhaps complete him in full detail in the future.

Bison is a cool character, dispite having bad memories of losing to him :). I really liked the original take on Bison from Shadaloo, being an older heavy-set asiatic man rather than the later young watered-down Henry Rollins (no offense) Bison. I went with a sort-of Chinese Pagoda/Pavillion theme for his garb/plated armor. I listened to much Fear Factory while modeling.

The character was created flying by the seat of my pants for the most part. Images can be found below.

-M.Bison Images-

Guile on Digg.com

Guile has hit Digg.com's Gaming section with links to the Game Artisans Gallery.

http://digg.com/images/gaming

Kotaku post!

Guile plus the mini sculpting SF competition hit Kotaku Today. It came to my attention by way of an email from somebody sent at the office who didn't know i had done it :). It would be cool to have a link to the story and all that. But i'm not complaining! link below.

http://kotaku.com---->StreetFighter

Capcom'd

Guile has been posted over at Capcom Unity along with the GA.org SF mini comp.

http://www.capcom-unity.com/

Guile Posted

Guile has been posted!
LINK HERE

I would still like to do more renders in poses and scenes etc... I don't see getting around to that any time soon though. Also creating a 15k tri 4096 game version of him would be cool too.

I look forward to checking out SF4 when it is released.

I am currently working on a quicky M.Bison bust for a mini competition surrounding the release.