Kyle Harrisons Game Developer Blog of Madness!

Vlogosphere Sept 17th 2008 - Working form Home

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:29:28 GMT

g1 Submission - Boogerman

Sat, 19 May 2007 08:27:51 GMT

Its more fixed up now, and already submitted to Screwattack.com

WIP Video Game Vault - Boogerman

Wed, 16 May 2007 08:19:29 GMT

Assignment: N/A
Class: N/A
Credentials: to create a video game vault of a classic game
Professor: N/A
Notes: Free time project. I pick it up every now and then, adding to it when i can. I finally finished piecing it together, now its a matter of fixing things, before submitting it to Screwattack for g1 Submission Sunday.

16f Walk Cycle - Jenkinz Kat

Wed, 16 May 2007 08:16:54 GMT

Assignment: 16f Custom Bipedal Walk Cycle
Class: Introduction to Classical Animation 102
Credentials: Use a custom designed character and make them walk on 2 legs using 16 drawings
Professor: Jeff Chiba Stearns
Notes: Man, Jenkinz looks liek an anthro Solid Snake, done he?

A Storyboard Adventure

Wed, 16 May 2007 08:08:18 GMT

Reverse storyboard from "The Rescuers", this takes place directly after Ms. Bianca asks if she could have the assignment to save the little girl Penny, and Mr. Chairman there is flabbergasted by the odd request.

Click this image to view the bigger, higher resolution version.

Rescuers _ Reverse Storyboard by =dj-darkviper on deviant ART

Digital Painting Excorsize - Tilas the Forrestwalker

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:58:33 GMT

Tilas The Forrestwalker by =dj-darkviper on deviant ART

Assignment: N/A
Class: N/A
Credentials: Utilize a WACOM tablet, entirely. No other tools.
Professor: N/A
Notes: Did this in my free time, its a gift pic for a friend. She liked it :)

Switch :: Media Downloading

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:57:44 GMT

Assignment: Mini-Production
Class: Introduction to Digital Video
Credentials: To shoot and edit custom footage together
Professor: James Hamilton
Notes: My trials and tribulations with Macs just never cease to end. So this was perfect for a quick and dirty shooting timeframe, and to get a subtle message across.

Grasscutter

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:55:35 GMT

Assignment: Grasscutter
Class: Introduction to Digital Video
Credentials: To take raw already shot footage and piece together to create a "story".
Professor: James Hamilton
Notes: An epic story about a man with a heart condition, who faces a grueling everyday summer task, his condition just cant handle.

my Clerks 2 Trailer

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:52:56 GMT

Assignment: Movie Trailer
Class: Introduction to Digital Video
Credentials: To make a movie trailer
Professor: James Hamilton
Notes: A couple parts still make me cringe, but i still think, trailer wise, this turned out pretty good.

Epic Ball Bounce Animation

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:45:48 GMT

Assignment: Ball Bounce
Class: Introduction to Classical Animation 101
Credentials: To make a ball come in from out of shot, bounce twice, and settle.
Professor: Jeff Chiba Stearns
Notes: yeah the object was to make ti bounce, twice, and settle, only. I got a little carried away with it, haha

Xbox360 Slideshow Presentation

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:38:22 GMT

Assignment: Still Slide Presentations
Class: Introduction to Digital Video
Credentials: To create a compelling nd interesting slide show focused on a single interest, using nothing but still images
Professor: James Hamilton
Notes: I dont want to sound like im tooting my own horn, but i do beleive if memory serves, that this was definitely one of the more interesting ones in my class. Janel's was very good about the Kelowna Firefighters durnig the massive fire, hers was excellent too.

Down the rabbit hole i go

Mon, 14 May 2007 16:58:56 GMT

Sorry for the lack of the perverbial "content" but ive been busy working on school projects and i cant seem to remember to ever scan them in.
I did for the Rescuers reverse storyboard, and the only reason i remembered to do that was because i had to do it near the computer in the first place.
There'll probably come a time where ill just scan in a bulk of my prouder assignments and show them out, but who knows.

Not much else to say, so ill end it here, short and sweet.

Oh and by the way, thse are the flash tutorials i was talking about the other day:

part1

part2

Cheers,

Back to blogging

Fri, 04 May 2007 17:56:50 GMT

Yeah i know its been a particular while since ive last blogged anything. Well kinda sorta not really. I mean its been a few weeks, possibly a month, either way its not that bad at all, haha.

So im updating this in particular because i have hot linked my Virb blog with m,y Livejournal, so anything i update in my livejournal will apear at Virb as well, and Scribefire (previously Performancing) a firefox addon allows me to update my blog without ever actually having to go to it or anything, directly from any website. Its awesome, so this will encourage me to blog way more often (like back when i first started with Performancing)

So up on Virb is part 1 of a series of video tutorials im making, these ones in particular are "Doing Cool Thigns With Flash" and in this first part i talk about how to construct basic Sprite animations, using techniques that really can be applied anywhere, i used sprites for two reasons:
1. Because i find the majority of sprite animations could be seriously alot better than they are, and are more than likely due to inexperience or laziness
2. Because its a fully ready source of animation that i didn't have to draw out previously beforehand.

Either way its a good tutorial that doesn't cover the basics. Rather it holds your hand through the process. If your looking for video tutorials on "The Basics of This" and "The interface to that" then these wont help you, i figure "Why add to the 90,000 of them out there?". But instead of teaching like "Fundamentals" or stuff like that, i show you HOW to do THINGS that can be APPLICABLE, givnig situations and scenarios and coming out a winner.
Anyways these are fun to make and i will cotninue to make them.

Thanks Virb for proving a space that isn't littered with 8 year olds who are pretending to be 25 by swearing at me or calling me a nerd or whatever for posting a video. Not that i get offended by those comments bu rather they make me hang my head in shame at the pittiful ness of the internet community swarming the likes of Youtube and Newgrounds.
"YOU SUCK! DONT EVER ANIMATE AGAIN! I HATE YOU! YOUR UGLY!" and blah blah are crap ive seen and heard many times before. And i find it counter-productive.

Would you love a Monster Man?

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:51:23 GMT

Blogging really quickly to link you to a site that contains all the videos (and in awesome quality) to my favorite band: Lordi.

Lordi Music videos

These guys didn't win the Eurovision 2006 contest by a landslide for nothing.

Hello world

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:35:54 GMT

Well this being my first blog here, im just going to say hi, and i hope to update regularly.

I feel it to be slightly impersonal to type my life in the first post so im going to spare the details here and not do that.

On a side note: FireFox rules. I think you already know that.