Another VTuber project from earlier this year, this was a personal project where my goal was to learn applying realistic face tracking to a non human character.
This was a commissioned project of a Twilight Princess inspired 3D VTubing avatar. My first time creating a VTuber, so I learnt a lot and enjoyed bringing the character to life!
Recently completed VTuber commission of a cute little Jerboa Knight! Was a pleasure to work on such a fun character and I learnt a couple of new things about stylized shaders and rendering along the way.
Any of you old time Amiga owners would know what demos were all about. You could say they were the precursor to modding, where a group of talented programmers, artists and musicians worked together on various kinds of "demos" which often showed off ground breaking hardware-pushing routines accompanied with great presentation. Except there were no commercial engines to work with back then, and the tools were much more primitive :)
In fact, many crusty game developers around the world had their…
The Herald Sun has an article on the recent announcement on the way games are to be rated Australia-wide, making them more inline with films...
"Attorney-General Rob Hulls said yesterday all states, territories and the Commonwealth had, for the first time, agreed to a uniform classification system for films and computer games.
Under the changes, computer games will now be rated G, PG, M, MA 15+ or RC (refused classification).
"Computer games will adopt the system used by films to make it easier…
Gamesindustry.biz reports on the successful launch of the Nintendo DS handheld system in Australia...
"The new Nintendo DS handheld has had the most successful hardware launch ever in the Australian market, where it launched last Thursday ahead of its planned European roll-out on Friday, March 11th.
"The retail and consumer feedback from Thursday's Nintendo DS launch has been astounding," according to Nintendo Australia's sales and marketing director Rose Lappin. "We are eagerly awaiting the…
I know these awards aren't to be taken too seriously, as they're pretty much done by some guy to "fill this space somehow", but Blue Tongue has appeared in a journalist's computer and video games version of the Razzie awards for The Polar Express...
Worst director: Blue Tongue development studio, for The Polar Express (Xbox, GC, PC).
How do you take an award-winning children's book that can be read in five minutes and expand it into a 100-minute, big-budget CGI movie? Padding, filler and enough…
Thanks to 0xBaaDf00d for posting this in the forum...
Hey Guys,
Been a while since I have popped my head in here. And this little invite came across my desk, So I thought i should pass it on to all of you.
Ok, Here's the deal:
Qantm is holding an industry talk on motion capture, where Brett Ineson, (He used to work in the Games industry aparently, as per the flyer, (my research says he is at shiny, and helped dev Enter the Matrix), and also worked for Weta on LOTR) Is coming to Brisbane to do a…
Home Entertainment Suppliers Pty Ltd (HES) announced today the development of "Rugby League 2" for PlayStation?2 and PC. The game follows on from the highly successful 2003 release ?Rugby League?, which debuted in Australasian charts at number one.
Building on the powerful game engine that was embraced by both gamers and people passionate about Rugby League, the game developer Sidhe Interactive has spent over 12 months creating a brand new sequel, packed with all new functionality and refined…
Infinte Interactive just recently announced their involvement in new strategy title Seven Kingdoms: Conquest as a co-operative effort with Enlight (who are the series creator).
"SF: Infinite is responsible for the game design, programming, AI, level design, story, and music--all of the things we had a lot of experience with in our previous Warlords Battlecry series. Enlight, on the other hand, has been focusing on providing the massive amount of artwork and 3D models required by this monster…
Today marks the nation-wide launch of the eagerly awaited handheld Nintendo DS! With a retail price of $199.95, it includes embedded messaging and communication tool Pictochat. For a limited time at launch, Metroid Prime? Hunters : First Hunt demo will also be included.
XBoxworld.com.au has received a press release from Sony Computer Entertainment Australia revealing that they are the new publisher for AFL Live 2006. The state of the series was up in the air when previous publisher, Acclaim, closed their doors...
"Sydney, 23 February 2005 - Sony Computer Entertainment Australia (SCE Aust.) today announced the signing of a publishing deal with Australian game development studio IR Gurus Interactive for the marketing, sales and distribution of the latest…
