Posted in AI, Animation, Games, Travel on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Just came back from the excellent Annecy 09 animation festival, and a short stop in Paris for the AIgamedev conference, the latter marking my first attempt at public speaking as a game developer.
I was invited to participate in a panel on how animation combines with AI to create interesting character behaviour, which has been a [...]
Posted in Travel, Work on Feb 10th, 2009 No Comments »
BOOM! It’s been an eventful winter.
I went to Sweden for the holidays and I spent six weeks in Paris (pictures) where I helped with some animation at Darkworks. Now I’m back in Lyon. We’ll see what 2009 brings…
Posted in Art, Games, Travel on Apr 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Some pictures from my recent trip to Paris: ate the food, saw the museums… the touristy thing.
Finally finished watching all the Warren Spector lectures and interviews mentioned earlier. For me the highlights were the intro with Spector himself, Harvey Smith, Marc LeBlanc, Seamus Blackley and Richard Hilleman, but really every single one made fascinating viewing. [...]
Posted in Animation, Games, Teddy, Travel on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Clearly, when I say weeks, I mean months. Between work and other things my short film has not progressed as much as I intended, but progress there is. I really need to sort out that third shot and there’s plenty to refine across the rest, but I’m getting somewhere. I re-worked the character being held [...]
Posted in Travel, Work on Apr 15th, 2007 No Comments »
I suppose it’s fitting that I should start a new blog… tomorrow is my official first day at Arkane Studios in Lyon, France. Needless to say this is somewhat of a new thing for me. The second interview was my first time visiting the city and the last time I made any effort to speak [...]