I seem to be writing my posts few and far between and I believe that my latest blog has been far overdue... so what have I been doing lately? For those that have been reading my sparsely spaced posts they would know I have been on a 8 week placement at Undrawn Reality to whom I can happily say now I am a 3D environment artist for. The company to be honest is in its infancy at the moment but has been very active over the last 6 months developing a very exciting title. I expect within the next 6 months we will finally be able to talk about it once it is announced. I have been very busy modelling up loads of placeholder models. When you get a job your productivity seems to shoot through the roof and all the information from others in the office seems to travel to your head by osmosis. I am definitely an infinity better artist from spending my time at Undrawn. Matt Clarke (http://clarky.carbonmade.com/) is one of the best artists that I have come to know. Being not much older than me with a ton more of 3D years under his belt (over a decade), he has really helped me to progress as a artist (So thanks if your reading this and I'm sure this will hit me in the butt for saying so!).
Working in a small indie studio definitely has some great potential. I can't imagine working in a large company would give me any responsibility with making decisions that would change the game dramatically. Small teams such as UR are great in that respect and I am really enjoying the freedom to express my opinions, ideas and even argue my points with the head honcho's of the company. All to which you get respected for rather than getting looked down upon.
I can say that I feel pretty at home among all this creativeness and also that I still hate unwrapping... but hey you can't have it all =D. I have a few things that I am working on at the moment that I will be sharing pretty soon to get me on the swing of blogging again.
I have been playing a lot of games also in my spare time (yes my life consists of pretty much games in every respect atm) one of which has impressed me no end. The is the very big World of Tanks (http://worldoftanks.eu/ , http://worldoftanks.eu/media/show/328/) that has a impressive 20 million+ players. you start off with a simple tank and work your way up some serious tech trees so some hefty metal behemoths (Google the Maus tank). The game is cleverly designed and balanced to work with player characteristics and game play style. Even a nimble light tank can run circles around a heavy tank or tank destroyer if the player is good enough. As a free MMO game its got massive potential as the developing company Wargaming.net is getting ready to release a dog fighting plane counterpart, World of Warplanes (http://worldoftanks.eu/media/show/327/.The quality in these games is certainly there so I highly recommend downloading it for a good try.
I think that's all for now but check here regularly as we start ramping up the productivity at Undrawn Reality!
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