Saturday, November 14, 2009
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Sims2 Pets direction
I was the art lead on the Sims2 Pets project and in charge of designing the create-a-pet system as well as defining the look and feel of the pets. The challenge was to make good looking pets that were as realistic as possible and yet still fit in well with the existing Sims style. We swapped geometry for several different body types and then used latices and morph targets to morph the dogs and cats, there were also choices for colors and patterns...these were all hooked up to sliders in the UI... have a look at it in action!
Animation keys
some key poses for animations...we would send these as well as reference videos to the outsource teams to help direct the avatar animations. some animations were universal, some were avatar specific...the avatar specific anims were used to define an avatars unique personality...I've also uploaded an example of video reference for a dance animation
Goth Family
this is a family concept, we separated the Avatars into several different families..goth, cute animal, normal, hip hop etc. then we would design the avatars for those families...some of these we felt were redundant and were not used.
Art Direction
turns and cut points...cut points show where model parts will be swapable, all vets must line up exactly on all swapable parts in order to avoid seams. You can see examples of Avatar clohing swaps
Art Direction
These are some examples of the art direction process used on Google's Lively project... we would write up a family and character bio and do a concept art piece that showed the characters personality, we would then do full turns for the modelers to use on image planes...this would help them keep all avatars on model not to mention give them texture reference.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Booyah Society on iPhone
This is a video for a social iPhone app that we were contracted to do design, consulting, concept and content for...hope you like the looks!
Monday, October 19, 2009
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