Sam's Blog

Kaulah is screening at the Melbourne International Animation Festival! I only found out last week (as a result of a bad email server) so it was a very nice surprise to find out that not only was my film was being screened but it had made it to the Australian Panorama!

I have been attending the festival for the past 4 days and it is hard not being inspired by such films at Madam Tutli Putli.

For the past 2 weeks I have been working as a Flash Designer/Developer at Transmission Games, never thought that Flash could be used in such ways. I can’t say much but it is very interesting how their system works and lots of energy at this company. Looking forward to see how the project goes.

I haven’t been posting much on the blog lately because there has been so much going on at school, it’s has been unbelievable, not really a moment to spare since I started the web portrait assignment.

I am the engine team leader for the collaborative project which has meant working from the start of the project so that we could tell the concept people what can and can not be done and then make prototypes of various elements in the game while the production team created all the assests and we have to carry on right through to the end. I am pretty impressed with my team they have been really great sacrificing their own time for the good the team.

In the midst of all this I had to find time to think about my minor project and the practice pitch which was today. Overall it went well but that could have been because everyone was so tried by the end of the session. The actual pitch will be on the 21st of May hopefully I will have to find some time in the middle of finishing the collaborative exercise to work on getting material together for the pitch.

Wow, talk about hectic! The last week has been a whirlwind but my web portrait is finally done. And it is good to see what everyone else has done too, but cann’t linger too long in this course it is start into a crash course in game design and the unreal games engine.

Here are are some character sketches I did for the weekly Animation Club theme, this week it was oil. No prizes for guessing where this is going… will post some animation in the next couple of days.