Dog training -graphicist style

Spidey knows how I feel

Hey! Has everyone had a nice summer so far? Sure looks like it  from all those sunny, paradise-like images my Facebook is flooded with. But: I do not envy you people -I have been busy on working something very cool, which I am really close now of showing. Aseembly summer 2015 is approaching, and our dachshund game is nearly complete. 90% of animations are done, 50% of sound effects, only few items require extra coding still. A gorgeous UI by a friend of mine only waits to be implemented. Soon our little imaginary pet is fully trained and good to go. It has been cool to see how people around us got excited about our idea and wanted to team with us: We have besides me handling the 3D and the programmer doing the code, a dedicated UI-artist and a sound designer and even a voice actor and a composer who did a special track for a part of the game, for which anything readymade just didn’t get the job done. I have been mostly lately busy with animation, tons of it. At first, my cursing probably could be heard all across the neighborhood, because there were so many things new to me and it was frustrating to pick up nearly all the possible animation tools to get that final feeling of special “finery” short videogame animations has to have…….But like ripping off a bandaid, it only hurted for a while. I guess it is not so bad when you get used to it, and know most of the tricks in the book….don’t really find myself cursing all that loud anymore, and could consider it would alright to do a run cycle here and a jump there in my future job, and would not lose sleep over it.

But, I still wish not to show off any footage, although I could. Why? Because I want you to come to Assembly and see for yourself! 3D artist should not lift her own tail, but I dare to say; this game of ours became a sparkly little thing. If you can’t check it out at Assembly, it will be soon after available on Google play store, and windows store is a possibility too. Ios is bit of a mystery, because I have understood  from the programmer that the tools to make an Ios-build cannot be accessed for free. Maybe it’s not even about the money, but the feeling that we are not as welcome.

Anyway, keep taking those vacation pics, I keep animating and smelling bad- and I would not change it for anything! =)