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.
Just a quick note to tell you that TheyerGFX have been added to our list of known local developers. They're from Brisbane, and have released a fair few playstation 1 titles. Currently, they're working on California Surfing for the Playstation 2, hopefully to be released before Christmas. Visit their site to find out more!
Ok, this is for all the Infogrames Melbourne House people, and all other developers in Melbourne :)
hi I am trying to track down a guy called Adam Ryan, who worked for Infogrames Melbourne. We want to track him down for a work reunion from several years ago. I don't know if anyone knows of his whereabouts or what companies do similar work as infogrames in Melbourne I could contact. Thanks for your help....
If you know where he is, contact me and I will forward you to Peggy. Give me a yell…
Just got word of an Australian based community website for the very popular Quake 3 conversion, Urban Terror. I've always known there was a large contigent of Aussies doing maps and models for that mod, and this site seems to be the place to be for those people to communicate and share ideas with each other. There's news, a forum, and also some interview action happening there too.
So if you're into Urban Terror, and want to see what the local community is up to, head on over to www.ausurt.net…
Some sad news for the local industry. Brisbane developers, Evolution Games have closed it's doors. Details are, however, unknown at this time. Evolution Games were awarded for Best New Start-Up at the Australian Games Developer Conference 2002, and released Rocket Power: Beach Bandits for the Gamecube in Sept 02.
AustralianIT has a great interview with Adam Lancman (president of the Game Developers Association of Australia and managing director of Infogrames). They cover the local Australian games industry, the challenges they face, advice for a game career and what is expected of applicants, amongst other things..
"When we're interviewing for new employees, the first thing we want is to identify that this a game player, then we can look at the technical qualifications.
In terms of technical…
Blue Tongue has revealed their Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis website. You get to find out all about the game there, view screenshots, concept art, and download the demo, screensavers, movies, music etc.. Head on over there now!
A few months ago, we had a thread on Sumea on the subject of video game prices, and Fairplay, which was a campaign for cheaper video games. You might remember their plan for a video game sales boycott between 1 - 8 December, 2002. Apparently, Fairplay are throwing in the towel.
With E3 coming up fast, Micro Forte today announced that it would in fact be at this year?s show. Running from May 14th ? 16th, this year?s E3 will have the company displaying at booth 436 in the South Hall. Those recalling news earlier this year will no doubt remember Micro Forte and Microsoft recently signed an agreement that had Microsoft using Micro Forte?s BigWorld technology for an upcoming Xbox title from the company. While if the title is set-to-be shown hasn?t been revealed either way…
Discreet has made available the '3ds max? 5.1 Service Pack 1 with DirectX? 9 compatibility update'. They also recommend you get the Max 5.1 compatible Nvidia drivers. Make sure you have DirextX 9 as well ;) Get Max 5.1 here.
Submitted by Droogan
Just trying to spread the word about Project Smiey, a weekly gaming parody news magazine designed to make gamers take a break and laugh it up a bit.
In spite of the nay sayers we've gotten up to issue 6. Project Smiley is available each monday at: http://www.projectsmiley.com
-Droogan
