Carnero

Senior Team Project II
EGD410 – Senior Team Project II – Team Jealous Giraffe
Spring 2011 – Second Semester, Senior Year.
Position on the team: Artist



Like I had mentioned before, my original team didn’t get green lit and I had joined up with Team Jealous Giraffe to work on Carnero. The team was a lot bigger than Machina’s, and demanded a lot more work as well. The project had its ups and downs, but I was still able to get portfolio work out of it.

My role on the team was to pump out as many assets as I could, then hand them off to our lead artist to texture. This involved me doing 3 animated enemy robots and several environmental art assets.

Above is a trailer that Bryan and Keith created to be presented at our senior team show.

Team Members:

Producer - Alison Seffels
Lead Designer -Bryan O'Hara
Designer - Cory Livingston
Designer - Tom Triplet
Designer - Craig Ellsworth
Lead Programmer - Steve Beaulieu
Programmer -Chris Cheng
Lead Artist - Keith Tatarczuk
Artist - Eric Nardo
Artist - Me
Sound Artist/Voice Talent - Buzz Ambroseno
Sound Artist - William David John
Sound Artist -Logan Dwight
Quality Assurance - Justin Loomis
Quality Assurance - Chris Ferguson

Senior Team Project

Senior Team Project
CCC410 – CC: Game Development – Machina
Fall 2010 – First Semester, Senior Year.
Designer: Justin Loomis
Producer: Justin Loomis
Programmer: Willem Kupper
Artist: Me

Just like the production classes, we form a team and create a game. The cool thing about this class is that it technically goes on for the whole year. The first semester centers on preproduction, the next semester centers on production. CORE was also able to implement itself into our class, which many people objected to, but it thankfully didn’t get too intrusive.

As for the game itself, we decided to use unity since our programmer was more comfortable with it. Since I was comfortable working with any engine as well, we rarely came into contact with major problems. Any problem we did come across we were able to resolve.

Our game is basically a top down shooter that would have had a unique Outer Space Victorian Steampunk aesthetic. I say would have only because I was concentrating more on churning out placeholder assets so Willem would have something to work with. I didn’t have time to really create Victorian themed assets because of the time spent on my Air Traffic Control room environment; however I did create quite a thorough art guide on what I wanted the art direction to go in.

As a team, we were able to create a working game that we were all pretty proud of. Unfortunately, our game didn’t make green light along with 9 other teams out of a total of 15. That means only 5 went forward. We were all pretty bummed out, but we’re happy with our new positions within the other teams. I’m now part of team Jealous Giraffe taking the position of artist for a UDK game.