Archive for the ‘art’ Category

Insurmountable Obstacles

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Regarding Josh’s previous entry, I told him the world was ending and that was the whole of his response until we talked later that day. Always a sense of humor and I have to say it got me laughing and things didn’t look so bad!

There have been many challenges for the art team and it seems there is always much more for me to do than is humanly possible. But there are also many, many positives. Our team continues to grow with very talented people who are willing to help in anyway they can. We have a completed human model and the riggers and animators are able to get started. There are several other models that are close to completion and should be ready to go soon. The modelers are also working on many of the inanimate objects that are needed by the animators, along with objects that will really enrich our environment. It looks like we may have all required objects done well before our deadline and may be able to work on some of my “wish list” items!

Looking over the last week of our particular “theatre”, there could not be a better quote than the “Shakespeare In Love” quote! Things do have a way of working themselves out and many of the overwhelming problems from a few days ago have just fizzled out to make way for new insurmountable obstacles!

Susan

Coming Together!

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I have been spending my time managing the art team, learning the Torque 2D game engine, adding cultural information to the “help” section of the design doc, and working on character sketches, Taino word lists, and the cut scene stories we will need for our game. To say it is a full time job is putting it lightly!!

We have a great core of artists that are making great progress in making our 3D models of people and huts. I hope to have them complete soon so we can finish up on the other required game objects. We are also experimenting with the backgrounds and coming up with our plan to tackle that.

It is exciting to see this first iPhone game making such great progress. We have a great group of dedicated people working with us and I know this game is going to reflect that fact. Just let me play it already!!

Susan