rangerBlog - February 23rd, 2007

12:13 am - ADHD Game Design 3 - Characters

I didn't get this much done on this this weekend- a family member's birthday (and a trip to the waterpark) intervened.
For general reference? Trip to the waterpark on president's day weekend? Bad idea.


One thing I did do some work on was the 3d model for my villain, pictured at right. It's still looking a little dire, missing headlights, some hood elements, 'dirt' detailing and a specular map. In the end it will be a low-res van model, which is all I ever wanted. This is a bit frustrating to me because I HAVE a high-red Fed-ex type delivery truck model I did back in the day... but that's not what the story calls for. Oh well.

(Random note- opening this file to render that crappy still made me realize my hands had no idea how to navigate in Maya on my laptop. I spent 5 minutes trying to guess key-combinations before breaking out my mouse, and my muscle-memory informed me it all depended on the clickable scroll-wheel which my touchpad doesn't emulate in a clickable fashion- booh.)

Unproductive week. I COULD force myself to do proper character profiles now, but I'd rather watch Eureka 7 on Youtube and marvel at the trainwreck that in Renton's vocal casting. (Admittedly, his re-casing, JYB was apparently brought in to replace someone who wasnt' working out... I just don't think his soft-toned little-boy voice works for a character that desperately wants to be full-volume. I wish he was going full-blast and not caring about not sounding like a kid.)