Website Update (finally)

Whoa, it has been forever in internet years since I updated this blog.  Just updated my website finally and its still work in progress as I bring the old content back online. Let me know what you think of the redesign. Check it out

trino in review on community games

Trino Pre-release Trailer from trinoteam on Vimeo.

well not technically out, but its up for review! if you've got a creators club account, take it for a whirl :P  Here's a trailer

persist

another shot of trino doing something awesome, what it is i haven't a clue

animal throwing

A little game i worked on a few weeks ago with some friends that won 2nd place in a game jam:

play it here http://wildpockets.com/node/346

or  under the game arcade section of this site:  http://www-2.crispygamer.com/byog/

book model icon

got bored today and made a book stack in 3D to make a 128x128 png24 icon.  if you download it let me know what you think :P

chapter 2 title screen

another title screen for trino. maya high quality screenshot + after effects + lightroom (with marginal help from photoshop) I needed this screen to do 2 things: be totally awesome and remind players of something new. We'll see if it does both :P

fun with lights

I was messing around in maya trying to come up with a new chapter title and playing with the hypershade way too much.  Four lights hitting 3 different spheres with transparency and specularity.  go realtime hardware rendering!   I should mention this is the latest iteration of Trino evolution form 2. There's now upwards of 17 different Trino forms.

chapter 1 screen

an intro screen for chapter 1 - using maya's high quality setting with some help from lightroom and photoshop.

game over - again

After finishing up the third boss, I realized that the 'game over' loosing screen still had the first boss. Here's the new game over screen. Like before, i tried to hide just enough of the boss's detail yet still making it look evil. Not sure about the text but, meh, its 5:37am, need to look at it with clearer head later.

New Menu System mockup

Trino needs a scalable level select system. After team discussion we decided to build a whole new menu system.  This is an extreme mockup using loads of bloom+vinette, blur, and the old backgrounds from the postcard and original trino hexagon background.  Its slightly related to the previous idea i had back in january of trino in the UI itself.  The last evolution shape you played as will be shown in the main menu system.

another boss concept

boss concept [possible chapter 3]

millipede boss [chapter 2]

heavy boss [chapter 1]

Here's another concept for the third boss, its a big departure from the previous two bosses ( heavy and millipede)

third boss concepts

Trying to build a jelly fish boss. Its prooving to be a little tedious to build for some reason. Characters are viewed from top view in-game.

yet another enemy

Been a busy week, so not that many updates.  Here's a new enemy, guess what it does

heart shapped UV

I was re-unwrapping trino after deciding to rebake some lighting and color. somehow i ended up with a heart shapped uv map  :P

new forms

not sure what these are for just yet, but i decided to model them. always liked trilobites and since trino is inspired by skates and manta rays, it makes sense to blend the 2.

morphing

[a work in progress]

I'm trying to figure out a proper in-between mesh for trino.  Its possible that we might cut back to 4 evolution forms instead of the 7.  Originally I had modeled 12 different forms but nothing comes close to being a good blend of 2 from left and 4 from left.

[1] Trino before capture (no white robotic shackle) [2] Trino after capture with shackle [3] a rough mesh [4] current 5th evolution form [5] current 7th evolution form

more models

haven't updated in a while. been a little sick, but here's another model set

random models

Can't say what they're for :P

updated screen mockup

forgot to update my mockup from a few posts ago with the new cover art

more enemy iterations

more enemy concepts, not going to say what they do :P