It's been a while!

Man have i neglected my blog!!!

.....well here's an update friends!


3/24 - 3/28



I went to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) at San Francisco , California for a week to get a look at the gaming industry. With all star industry professionals looking to grab new people and hundreds of prospective employees looking to get hired by them, it was a little intimidating. After the first day though, it got a little more friendly; I started meeting new people, getting connected with people from around the world and general networking. It was a really cool experience and Im glad I went.

Of course I took my camera! The city was amazing! I havent been to an actual big city and its really cool. Although there are many vagrants roaming the streets, it still had a crazy "busy" feel to it that made me feel part of something bigger; it really felt like the city was alive.

I took photos of the main city, the conference, and of the plane trips. Here's a slide show of the photos I took.

Trip to GDC - San Francisco

(I have just installed Picasa recently so hopefully that works as intended >__< )










3/30 - Present

(Thats our logo for our Game Studio)

For school, I was teamed up with a group of classmates to start a 5 month project on making a video game demo. We're 2 months in , so far so good :D ! There were 5 groups formed in my class (big class) but one group got canned this month; I feel so bad for them... They have to start back in month 1 from the 5 months.

We are making a Zombie RTS game where you play as the zombie overlord and control all the zombies from a birds eye perscpective and try to wipe all the humans off the map. You play in a city and capture buildings to gain resources (people) and build units from the closests building to specified rally pint. I am the Asset Lead for Gnomicidal Games and our class studio is called Apocalypse Pony Studio. So far its been really fun and its only gonna get better - it just keeps me real busy though >_<



thats pretty much the biggest updates for now. Did a couple shoots with my friends back in miami, probably post those later; i got tired and now just wanna sleep -_-




See ya!

Grunged

Some edits I did today - enjoy.

Another day.

Hola!


Well its black friday today, and I dont really want to deal with the hordes of angry parents scavenging the local stores so I have decided to stay home for a while. I'm probably going to spend it editing photos and doing some free work for my portfolio.


Yesterday was thanksgiving and I spent it with my family. We ate around 7pm and we had a good time. Drinks were drank and jokes were told and passed around the table. I felt relaxed.

Some whine at costco.

Palm tree on the way to a store.



Candle Shot 1.



Candle shot 2.



chandalier



food

Around O-Town

Hey!

Went around the neighborhood and took some shots around town. Not a lot going on but I got a few nice shots.

This was a telephone pole. Not sure why it has so many nails and staples but I'd think it would look cool to look at it from an angle and really close up. I made the sky a bit grayer so as to keep the overall tone the same. It would of been to bright on the right side.



This one was fun to do. I took the image and mixed it with an photo of a dirty crumpled up sketchpad paper. I rolled my computer chair over it and got all sorts of dirt circles on it and crumpled it a tab to give it a worn out feel. I also gave the image a yellow/blue tinge and reduced the saturation so as to give it a more old look.




There is a church near by my house that I've been meaning to take photos of. It's really simple looking but still is really nice to look at. I basically enhanced the color to be more vivid while keeping detail in the building.

There are about 140 + more photos (many repeats) of the town, but none that I have gone back and edited with. I'm sure I'll post more later, but for now, you have these to work with ^_^


-James

First Entry!

Hey there!

Just set up this blog to put down some thoughts that I get from time to time. It will range from talking about mundane day to day tasks to broader abstract notions; from talking about how I want to get Gears of War 2 to thinking about why I even exist. I will also post a lot of my photography work and give it a little discussion as to what I did to tune it up, or where I took the image, stuff like that. And since I'm in the Gaming business, I might throw down some game concepts, design work, and stories.


In the meantime you can check out my myspace page and see some of the photography I have done.

Thanks for reading!
- James