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Magányos hős a pingvininvázió ellen: EUCROMA 2014

Gus, a 39 éves, kiégett jegesmedve felveszi a küzdelmet a globális felmelegedés és a bevándorló pingvinek ellen az Északi-sarkon. Életerejét alapvetően szesszel és a turisták elzavarásával növelhetjük. Idült alkoholizmusa és alig elnyomott agresszivitása ellenére a kezdetektől óhatatlan rokonszenvezünk Gusszal, bár végzete már a kísérő animáció kezdő képsoraiból nyilvánvalóvá válik: a történteket egy szigorúan őrzött kubai fegyházban idézi fel, cigarettát rágcsálva.

Férfiasan őszinte megjelenését Gus Farmosi Eminek, a MOME animációs hallgatójának köszönheti – akárcsak a teljes, felnőtteknek szóló számítógépes játék, a Meltdown. Emi két másik MOME-diákkal, Várnai Noémivel és Rónyai Balázzsal együtt vett részt a tavaszi félévben az EUCROMA cross media /transmedia programjában, ahol szakértő kalauzolással Európa különböző egyetemeiről érkezett hallgatók raknak össze tablet-játékokat az alapsztoritól a piacképes végeredményig. A program nem csak arra ad lehetőséget a résztvevő hallgatóknak, hogy saját szakterületükön bizonyítsanak, de arra is, hogy átlássák a játék létrejöttének teljes spektrumát és belekóstoljanak más tevékenységekbe.

more concept-art from the project Zero days.

Yo babes, thanks for sticking around despite im being prettty dead here lately. I can assure you its only because real life is prettty busy right now and im working on stuff.

ANYWAYS

Most of you know this already, but for the newbies: i was participating in an international Cross Media project in the past 5 months in Denmark, organised by the Danish Filmschool.

We had to develop a storyworld and from that, create a game and a short animation. Im proud to announce that we've succeeded! 

I was one of the "concept artists", but since there were only two of us it was a pretty flexible role.

Things i did:

character design

game design

environmental design

storyboards

concept art layouts and a (very) few colour concepts

AND NOW, HERES OUR GAME AND ANIMATION!

(real talk - the animation was suppose to a billion times better, we made a kickass, dynamic animatic and this is what we got back.... despite we had the hardest animatic we got the most unexperienced lead animator and animators....)

MeltDown is a satirical comedy with traditional danish humor about Gus, an alcoholic polar bear who suffers from depression because his home is melting. But when all the penguins move up to the north pole because the south pole’s melted he decides its time to take actions and teams up with a mentally instable treehugger girl, Daisy, to save the world. Unfortunately he sucks at it because…. well… he’s a polar bear.

Find out all about the storyworld and our characters ON OUR WEBSITE

And this is where YOU CAN WATCH OUR SHORT FILM AND DOWNLOAD OUR GAME (its game for android tablets) (there are some major problems with the animation, but we barely had time to finish it...)

For more art, check out my blog

WHOAH SO EUCROMA IS OVER

i didnt mean to abandon this blog, but the last few weeks were crazy and real life hit in hard - not that its a bad thing tho.

So lets see what i remember from the last week:

My last post was about Distortions in Refshaleøen, which means wwe spent 3 day in the middle of a techno festival and our office buliding and our caravans were literally surrounded by drunk (and drugged) house and techno fans. Since i knew what to expect it wasnt that bad. I moved to an empty dormroom for that weekend, so i didnt have to sleep in the caravan that was shaking and vibrating for 3 days. 

So from june 7 to june 11:

we worked all day and all night long because the presentation was on wednesday

thank god i got it pretty easy at the end, since i was only drawing the concepts and Jack had to render them which sucked a lot more.

it was really fun and it was great working with everyone, except our storyworld director (this is a eucroma term, she's kinda like director/lead writer) who is a really nice girl, but i dont like her as a director - she's pretty much a dictator type of director who dont really care about the people she works with. If i wanted a mindless job i would have been an animator (no offense). 

She also sacrifised the product for the presentation for the big company representetives, which i dont agree with.

 but it was just a minor problem and generally people were amazing

i didnt have things to do after 10 pm on the last day, but i stayed there anyway and was wandering around in the buliding, bothering hard working people and made dinner fro the team from random food  at 1 am with two amazing scottish guys :D

only slept 5 hours

the presentation started at 9.30, we were the first ones and we handed out mojitos at the begining so i we arrived early to make them. It was a hilarious disaster with 2 game designers who barely slept

 The presentation went well for all 3 teams

after that we had a quick meeting with the company representatives, they liked out project and what they pointed out were exactly the problems we didnt fix because we rather focused on the presentation itself so it was a very important lesson for me. and im glad i didnt have to learn it from my own mistake :D

we had a light afterparty, but we were all tired and went to bed early because some of us didnt even sleep.

June 12. - 

we had a longer and meeting with the executives where we got more detailed feedbacks and it was great

it was also the day of the Showcase, where we were streaming our animation shorts and showed our games to people in an open happening in the Danish Filmschool

I had to be there too, but since i was "only" the concept artist i was really helpful, because we only needed one person to explain people how the game works when they tryed it.

so me Martin, the leve designer drunk wine from fancy glasses all morning and had a really great time.

and the end it was just the eucroma students having fun with each others games, haha

we had to stay there for a meeting with the eucroma bosses and give them feedbacks about the project - it was also nice!

When we finally finished we went to have burgers in town, walk in Christiania and spent the rest of the night on the roof of the Eucroma building. Copenhell - a heavy metal festival - was also on that week and we could see it from there, haha it was much better than distortion :P

It was an amazing night with amazing people. A worthy ending of this hard, but super fun week.

ABOUT TIME TO POST SOME WORKS HERE PART 2

ABOUT TIME TO POST SOME WORKS HERE PART 1

So last Friday, we presented the game and other assets to some producers from A-Film and a lecturer from DTU. We got some really encouraging feedback, despite what my opinions on the game would suggest. I think I might just have had unreasonably high expectations from our first endeavor.

Week 5's time had been allocated for the polishing of the game and film, much of which was still in development. I wouldn't say what we have been doing this week could necessarily be described as "polishing" but we have certainly been attempting to salvage something playable from the project. The end result is not entirely playable without knowing exactly what is going on behind the scenes but is as close to a finished product as I think we could actually end up with. I'm far from happy with the results but I'm glad it's over. 

The reason this game didn't go to plan is exactly why we started this project in the first place. I'm not entirely sure if this was on purpose, but if you have read my earlier blogs, you will know that this task was primarily set to identify problems in the content pipeline. That is exactly what we have done - identify a lot of problems. The major problem was that content wasn't getting pushed until it was finished, rather than outputting basic iterations of products often. For example, if it takes a modeler a week to push a model, it might take a rigger a couple of days to come up with a rig that they are happy with. This process can't occur concurrently unless the rigger has the model. The animators can clean up their Mo-Cap sets during this period and the programmers can work on the basics of various functions using primitives but this does not bide well in an animation-heavy game. The Dancer/Fencer project was entirely based around animation - the programmers only received a handful of animations despite there being a lot more available and this happened far too late so we didn't have time to attempt to sync them. This resulted in a very strange looking end product.