The beginning of the end.

Tuesday was the first official day of working on my final project. I'd already spent a week or so testing a few technical things out but now there's no drill...this is the real thing!

I'm starting off by creating the first jungle environment. Once that's finished along with the model for "Mark" himself I can quickly finalize the first 2 images.

And here's my modelling so far! (Textures are currently temp)

Vidya Gaems - Now with trees and rocks!

Too bright!

...Too dark!

Big lumps of rendering rock.

Major things on the horizon include dissertation work to do, handing in of all the production work for my ideas and getting started on making it all!

First off, a mountain.

Whipped it up in the past hour. All I need to do is make about 20 more along with a couple of trees and I can start piecing the environment together and get a start on making the final 8 images!

As for my dissertation, I'm having such a great time researching I have been pushing back the horrid thought I'll have to academically write all the things in my head. In a nutshell I'll be taking a psychological look at some of the most well known and played video games today and find out how and to what  level they condition the player and encourage more playing...I'd best go get started.

Peace out!

HDDammit

Updates have been rather slow due to the time I had to spend on getting ready for the Fridays big presentation. On last Tuesday, due to series of unfortunate events, my HDD was out of action and about 2 weeks worth of work became MIA. For that day I worked 9 hours straight to ensure all the work that had gone would be redone. With that out the way I had just enough time to practice the presentation with the peace of mind everything was up to scratch.

Here are those final images.

And there we have it! now I have till 11/11/11 which is of course the release of Skyrim, but also the date I hand in all my production work for all 3 ideas so I'll be going back and re-doing at least 1 of the 3 ideas to see what I can come up in the last wee bit left....watch this space (bear)!