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Cosmic Calamities

This past semester thought a new course entitled “Web and Motion Graphics”. The course covered both Adobe Flash and AfterEffects, with a focus on 2D animation. Now teaching animation is nothing new for me I’ve done it before. What...

December 21, 2012

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Plant’s vs. Zombies

I love Halloween, could because I was born in October , or maybe because I just like playing dress up. Whatever the case I decided this year for Halloween I do a “Plants vs. Zombies” theme. Though I never really made it to decorating my...

November 1, 2012

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Siggraph 2010 – Day 4

Day four of Siggraph began at the exhibitor’s hall. I I got the chance to look into some motion capturing devices, there are a lot to choose from and I really need to some research as to which device does what. In efforts to get one of the...

July 29, 2010

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Siggraph 2010 – Day 3

Day 3 started early, we arrived at the convention around 8:00 am to get in line for the exhibit hall, which opened at 9:30 am. Although we were very close to the start of the line everyone went crazy when they opened up the doors. Many attendees...

July 28, 2010

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Siggraph 2010 – Day 2

Okay so day two stared with a speaking session on “Stylized Rendering in Games” this talk discussed why some game developers stray away from photo realistic style and do something out of the box. One example was the new X-box live game...

July 26, 2010

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Siggraph 2010 – Day 1

Day One of Siggraph began at noon when I headed over to the Convention center to pick up my registration badge. The convention center is huge, and despite the fact that only a few exhibits opened today the place was full of people. The main exhibit...

July 25, 2010

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AGDC Day 4

Day 4 of AGDC is career day. Today's sessions are all sponsored by the Game Career Guide magazine and focus on getting into the industry. The keynote speaker for the day was from Play Fish a company that makes Facebook games. They talked about how...

September 18, 2009

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AGDC Day 3

Day three at AGDC started with the keynote speakers, who presented on the Blizzard work flow. The session focused on the team breakdown for the WOW franchise. They broke down how each departments are broken down into different teams. Teams have a...

September 17, 2009

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AGDC 2008 – Day 3

Today was the Career Guide Seminar, which is absolutely a must for a student! If you are serious about getting into the game industry, then you need to save your pennies and attend GDC. There’s no way around it. The Career Guide seminar...

September 17, 2008

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AGDC 2008 – Day 2

Well day two at ACDC was another full one. Today I was able to attend another session on storytelling. This lecture was presented by the creative art director of Tomb Raider Underworld. He discussed issues with the character Laura. That her original...

September 16, 2008

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AGDC 2008 – Day 1

Well day one at ACDC was a full one. There are several track of lectures at AGDC one of which is writing, and since I like to write, I decided to attend a few of those. The big talk throughout all the writing lectures was the move to interactive...

September 15, 2008

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Oklahoma Electronic Game Expo 2008

The Oklahoma Electronic Game Expo 2008 was put on this past weekend by the Computer Arts and Technology Society at the Oklahoma City Community College. It was rather a small affair but it is only our first year so next year we hope to have an even...

April 28, 2008

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News from “E for All”

The E for All bilboard on top the LA Convention Center could be seen from my hotel. Excitedly I walked to the convention center yesterday, hoping to see mass demos of games and reviews. My hopes were high as I saw the line for entry stretched out...

October 19, 2007

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