Interesting games spotted:

• Dear Esther – A visually stunning first person ghost story
  
• Joust – Innovative game using the Ps move controllers
  
• Fingle – It’s kinda like finger twister for your iPad. This video seams to sum it up well…Brown chicken brown cow!!
  
• The Floor is Jelly – A fun 2d platformer with a great style
  
• Fez – 2d platformer where you can rotate the view 90 on the z axis to change your view and gameplay space. IGF grand prize winner.
  

Other points of interest:

• Unity asset store – It looks like an in engine version of Turbosquid

On DC Universe Online I worked as the Outsource Manager as part of the SOE Austin studio. I built and managed the outsource department in Austin as well as a large network of vendors to supply assets for DCUO, Star Wars Galaxies and several other development teams at other SOE studios. We also managed a large scale insourcing effort between our Austin, Seattle, and San Diego offices. My team and I along with the help of many talented outsource partners supplied buildings, vehicles, character models, character animations, weapons, and even full levels to development teams across SOE.

Official page link

Media coverage:

Metacritic – (72 as of April 2011)

GamePro 5/5 (PC) – (link)

PC Gamer 88/100 – (link)

G4TV – Attack of the Show review – DC Universe Online Review with Blair Herter – 4/5 - (link)

G4TV – X-Play Review

Trailers:

DCUO trailer #1

DCUO trailer #2

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I was involved on this project as a character lead at Midway Austin. It was an open city Unreal engine 3 game that was eventually killed around 2008. All of the assets below images were created by guys on my team. I comped them into these shots below and lit them.

On the project I was responsible all of the camera work, kismet scripting and mocap direction for all of the cut scenes. I also handled daily management of the character team, planning, and some technical assistance on the character shaders.

Credit for modeling and texturing goes to David Salaiz. The character tech artist was Steev Kelly. Animation and mocap cleanup was done by Dan Rubel.

Links:

• SW Grind PSP page link
• Full D4 results link
• Our photographer for the event was Carl Meyers with GDT Photo

Competition:

1. Avid Extreme Sports Militia – 2,323
2. N.O. Heat – 1,325
3. FATE Black – 204
4. Houston Hot Shots Green – 136

Our teams schedule

(Page link)

Results:

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Back in 2004 I joined the Area 51 project about a year out from shipping where I created animations and ran tech art support on many of the in-game cinemas and key character animations.

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This was a quick fluid test done with 3ds max in 2007.

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This was a quick test of short hair dynamics done in 2005.

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This was done as part of a CGTalk dynamics challenge back in 2004.

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This experiment was created in 2006 and all started from a very random dream I had about microbes and spaceships.

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This started with two spheres that had noise rotations and I added a clamped glowing smoke texture. Then I needed to find a use for this. I thought of an old school 1960′s and 70′s era computer from a Fallout like world. Then a little work in After Effects and some sound mixing and here you go.