The programming society thing

Well not only did i attend, Im also a rep for the game art students, yay.
So where do I begin, well i think il start with their overly large and powerful computors, wtf how much memory does a bit of code take up?
I mean while were up here trying to figure out which computors a) actually run unreal and b) will it actually build your work, while theyre over there complaining that the log in time for there monster machines is five minutes (boo hoo).
Also why is it necessary for them to have space invader carpets and pac man walls surely that could buy something more productive.
And do they really need that 3d projector????

They also didnt seem to understand what we do (play games and draw was their understanding) so we spent a while explaining a number of times explaining that we do more than that.

Apart from these obvious flaws the night wasnt that bad, and im sure if we keep going every thursday we'l learn something about working with programmers and how things work.

FMP

So i have chosen to create a house from the books. It is at an important part of the book and although it doesnt feature too heavily, the description is enough for me to create it.
I will not however be creating all of the house only the parts mentioned in the third book in this particulaer scene these areas include:
The attic
The stairs from the attic
The landing
The stairs to downstairs
And the living room

I will also be creating a character I think at this point it will probrably be the main female character Elena as it is her the book follows at this point.

christmas holidays

On to christmas. Over christmas i will complete the following tasks:
Finish my undamaged vehicle project-sketches, interior, renders
Finish my damaged vehicle project-sketches, interior, renders (for blitz open day standard)
finish outso project, character
send blitz renders of damaged car.
finish sketches for rooftop projects

Put everything onto a disk

Well first of all id like to thank chris and mike for opening the rooms two days after i should have gone home for christmas for me as these two days made a whole lot of difference in my rooftops project.
I have spent the past two weeks fretting over this project as yet again i was having unreal problems (the lighting wasnt building) and until monday this week i had woried that it would never be finished, ansd after weeks of helping me mark just happened to utter the phrase "have you moved computors" at which point i discovered that it was not my fault but the computor i had been on.
This has taught me a valuable lesson dont trust the computors at uni, and before you start deleting things move.

Panorama WTF

I have just sat and watched panorama 'addicted to games' and im sorry but im furious between parents being interviewed claiming they are afraid for their children's health and the patronising presenter there was little to redeem this clearly biased programme.
One teenager interviewed claimed that he had lost his university place because of games and another said that world of war craft was terrible and he wouldn't inflict it on anyone else (he said this while playing). And far from looking at the possibility that maybe it was their own fault that they were 'addicted' to these games panorama went to Blizzard games with the air of someone who was expecting an apology for these “poor young men”.

I would also like to point out that they lost their university places because they haven't heard of something called prioritising. I mean personally I would like nothing to be playing games right now but I cant because I have work to do and because my parents instilled me with backbone so the next time these parents are crying that their kids wont put their 360s away maybe they should take a look at themselves instead of laying the blame at everyone else's door.

rooftop project

Well this project has been one of the glitchiest projects ive had in a while. To complete it has been a constant battle against unreal. However after it all its been worth it.

Due to the fact that unreal doesnt work on my home computor ive had the opportunity to time manage due to the teaching styles of the third year.

Because we are now pretty much left to our own devices and we were given two projects to work on at the same time i could do unreal work at uni and either do the assets and tweeking of textures at home, and when the rooftop got boring and i needed a break i could then move onto the vehicle project which was helpful.

These are some in game shots of my rooftop project:

Its only 4 weeks into the third year and already im suffering from emotional distress. This was mainly caused be my own lack of beleif in myself. However thanks to my chat with chris and heather i am now back on track. This leaves me to re concentrate on the rooftops project, which considering how mundane the project is (with all the gray) im actually enjoying the challenge of creating a full level indipendantly as the only other level experience we have was in the group project and that was part of a team.

Im also enjoying all the new stuff im learning, mainly in unreal, and seeing a level ive created taking shape.