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EA “Spare Parts”

Posted on June 12, 2010
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EA just announced what appears to be a very fun XBLA, PSN game!

“Electronic Arts has announced a new tiny action-adventure game called Spare Parts, to be released during Winter 2010 on Xbox Live and PSN. Your goal is to repair your spaceship to escape from an unfriendly planet. Therefore you can upgrade your robot with collected items and a friend of yours can join the game to help you in co-op mode.”

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_ea_presents_spare_parts-9432_en.html

Would a video be following very soon?

Toy Story 3 Videogame

Posted on May 11, 2010
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Nothing groundbreaking in that video but it is still nice to see glimpses of what Disney’s Avalanche studio is doing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMN4-kvmkS8

“Shower power” short film

Posted on March 30, 2010
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I just realized that I never featured my friend and (ex)coworker Dan Carrey!!!

Here is his short film. “Shower Power”

You will also find Dan’s showreel on his website
http://www.bluepencil.org.uk/DanCareyShowreel09.mov

We definitely had a bunch of top animators at Rare. Here is also Peer Lemmers showreel if you didn’t know his work:
http://www.chicop-animation.com/demoreel.htm

My current animation lead, Neil Parkinson, is also a very inspiring animator/modeler/rigger/concept artist. Don’t be surprised about the crazy amount of skills, all my coworkers are Jacks of all trades at EA which can be a bit overwhelming sometimes.

Neil is currently finishing rendering his short film so in the meantime check out his reel:
http://www.neilparkinson.com/

Well while I am at it. I think I should also feature our local concept artist Burt Ross. Ross is a crazy Scottish guy who can be pretty loud when he plays Fifa at lunch. He also happens to be really talented at what he does, namely Concept art and Storyboards.

Ross is also the creator of the Astrofunk comics. Number 2 just came out by the way!

Check out his blog:
http://rossburt.blogspot.com/

Ok, that’s it for today but I will soon create a new post feature the other crazy artists surrounding me.

Xbox gaming room

Posted on January 10, 2010
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Xbox Game Room

I am about to buy a new game console and didn’t know what to choose between the Xbox 360 and the PS3 since my Bluray movie library is increasing dramatically but this is something exciting coming on the Xbox 360!

This looks like a clever move from Microsoft. This looks like the Itune version of Arcade games and this is a great opportunity for the old Arcade developers to bring their old IPs out of the dust and fight against or conquer the illegal emulator scene. Pac Man at the click of a button on your Xbox 360 or what about “Ghost and Goblins” with portable achievements!!!!

http://kotaku.com/5443015/hands+on-with-xbox-360s-arcade+crazy-game-room

http://kotaku.com/5443104/more-hands+on-details-from-xbox-360s-game-room

I have the feeling “The King of Kong” will have a sequel in no time ;-)

What about an even more beautiful Outro!

Posted on November 9, 2009
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Beatles Rockband

Thanks Ross

“Creature box” blog

Posted on November 5, 2009
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I just found that great blog from some Insomniac concept artist. Too bad most of their sketchbooks are sold out.
I would love to model some of their characters one day.

[edit] well I just started ;-) Proportion are off, it is a very rough pass.

Fongoid

EA

Posted on October 5, 2009
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well, I just started working for the UK branch of Electronic Arts, the Bright Light studio located in beautiful Guildford. The only thing I can say is that it is a new IP and it is a really cool project. I am doing a crazy amount of commuting between Guildford and London at the moment but hopefully I will be able to settle down very quickly and find the time for my personal projects.

“The increasing role of character animation in games”

Posted on September 2, 2009
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The increasing role of character animation in games

Several month ago, with few other Animation Mentor graduates, I was asked to write some clever thoughts about the increasing role of character animation in games. My name got misspelt few times but the article is still a very good read.

You can find the article here on Animation Arena.
http://www.animationarena.com/character-animation.html

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts Game Credits

Posted on September 2, 2009
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Googling my name I realised that Microsoft had put my name among all the great people who worked on Banjo Kazooie “Nuts and Bolts” on the Microsoft website. Cool
http://www.microsoft.com/games/mgsgamecatalog/banjokazooiecredits.aspx

Banjo Kazooie is a fun little game I was about to say but it is actually a fun Massive game!!! Just like “Viva Pinata”, I think Microsoft could easily make a TV series or even a feature based on those really great characters. To me, Banjo Kazooie is probably the strongest cartoony IP on the Xbox 360 at the moment so whywnot a true plateformer in the meantime?

Rare game showreel

Posted on May 11, 2009
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I am finally done with it, well it is just time to move on so here it is! This is the work I did at Rare/Microsoft game studio for the past 18 month, working on Banjo Kazooie “Nuts and Bolts” and also the Avatars.