RobotBASH

Irish Games Technology Company Havok Wins Best Middleware Award

RobotBash — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:46:49 +0000

This is the fourth time that Havok has won the award for its physics technology. Being recognised as having the best middleware in the Gamer Developer Magazines’ Front Line Awards is certainly a prestigious honour for the company, who are understandably very happy that their work has been recognised again. This will be the 14th year that the awards have taken place, with the aim of highlighting and praising the best tools in the games industry. The areas that are recognised include audio, game engines, art and network and programming tools.

The winners are decided by the peers of the nominees, which makes coming out on top an even greater privilege. Games are a big part of many people’s lives, whether they are fans of Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception, La Noire, or Partypoker. The talented people who make games like this possible definitely deserve to have their efforts recognised, as this effort is sometimes not easy. The managing director of Havok, David Coughlan, has talked about how honoured he feels to have the company win the Game Developer Front Line Award yet again. He has praised the talented engineers that work at the company to create and polish their products and thanked everyone for their support, including some of the best teams in the games industry.

Havok has been growing since it was started in 1999 in Ireland. They now have offices in San Francisco, Montreal and Tokyo, which just shows how well they have been doing for themselves and how much success they have seen. The games which it has contributed to include Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, La Noire and Unchartered 3: Drake’s Deception. They typically create technology for animations, AI and physics engines and have featured in hundreds of other games as well.

New Animation

RobotBash — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:15:31 +0000

Here’s a couple of scenes I animated to show animation companies that I know my stuff. I mixed the sound track myself with ‘fruity loops’ sound collection, edited in SoundFordge and Vegas. Animation done with Flash. I did upload a YouTube version of this but the compression took away from the line quality so decided to directly embed the .swf version. Sorry, no controllers for this, might add it later though…

Flash animation sample Peter McCormack

Flash Symbols of Character

RobotBash — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:30:56 +0000

To continue on with the showreel animation I mentioned in the previous post, here’s the symbol breakdown of the character I designed. The animation is to be limited so I kept the symbols to the minimum. Check this out and if you’re hiring get in touch at peterjmccormack@gmail.com.

Character Sheet

RobotBash — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:53:53 +0000

I’m working on an animation showreel at the moment and wanted create a few new pieces to mix in with commercial work. There’s not much call for animation in the region I’m in so don’t have much recenty commercial work. Old work includes a couple of flash animated series I worked on for RTE, a short for Darklight some years ago, and pieces I did for a medical instructional/educational video. I’m looking for work in Dublin ideally, as a on-site animator (contract or perminint).

Below, a sketched style sheet for a little self-representation character that I’ll animate for the showreel.

Digital Paintings…

RobotBash — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:06:11 +0000

Two very different themes in the pictures below. The top one is influenced by an artist known as Mr.–Jack, whom I very much admire. I wanted to get a grasp of his technique, and to do this I used a very similar subject to one of his images and tried to recreate certain elements. I have attempted to use this style in acrylic landscape painting too, and will post something on that in the near future.

The next image was more a trial run for a children’s book I’m writing and illustrating. I wanted to get a feel for how I’m going to illustrate the book, and was toying with using digital painting. Still have not decided, will make some attempts in acrylic on board or canvas and experiment with styles more. This picture turned out to be a bit serious, and I added the title ‘Expectant’ after the sketch was finished. The book I’m working will be funny (well that’s the plan). Guess it was late when I did this image, and my energy was a bit low-key, after another day of souless link building, and SEO…sigh.

More GOE Base Concepts

RobotBash — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:02:54 +0000

Hi, been very busy the past few days and haven’t posted in a while, so I’m uploading some work from my sketchbook done for Gates of Eternity. Basically humanoid, these first-pass concept sketches were required for one of the races in the game.

Flash Animation – Auld Ones

RobotBash — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:25:04 +0000

Auld Ones 1 and 2 was broadcast on RTE Network 2, with both series run several times.

Here’s some samples of Auld Ones:

Auld Ones Clips

Auld Ones Series 2

Auld Ones – Tommy’s Liver

Aul Ones series 2: Ready, Steady, Coddle!

Character Designs

RobotBash — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:01:13 +0000

Character designs I did some time back for a short flash animated cartoon called Seanachaí, Stroyteller Of Ireland. This played at Darklight and one other film festival in Dublin (can’t recall the name of it!) and got lots of laughs.

Character head design that was to be used in a future episode that never got made…

GOE Wrovok Character Design 2

RobotBash — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:26:40 +0000

Concept of Wrovok male in profile.

GOE Wrovok Character Design

RobotBash — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:32:57 +0000

Some concept character design for indie game I’m work on called Gates Of Eternity for Earthwave Studios. All work copyright of Earthwave Studios.