I’ve just uploaded an attempt at extracting pitch from human voice to GitHub. It’s a Processing sketch that uses the following classes: PitchProject.pde – main sketch file. AudioSource.pde – gets audio from wav files or microphone. ToneGenerator.pde – creates an output tone with a triangle wave. PitchDetectorAutocorrelation.pde – an audio… R2D2 Pitch Detection projectRead more
Author: LuisAnton
Redesigning a character
Video game characters should always be something memorable. Or at least, peculiar in some way. They may have personality (Nathan Drake), a unique aspect (Sonic, Samus in her suit), superb dialog lines (Daxter), strange clothes (Voldo AARGH) or weapons (Cloud)… Some designs were even forced by technical constraints (Mario’s hat,… Redesigning a characterRead more
Rain, Sand, Stars – Time lapse modeling
Once we have the concept art, the 3D model is sculpted. We use ZBrush to get a first approximation to the character’s volume, and then it’s polished in 3DStudio. Bones are created from a deformed biped (indeed, there’s creepy moment at 3:02 where you see the guy inside the Yak),… Rain, Sand, Stars – Time lapse modelingRead more
Rain, Sand, Stars: time-lapse painting
We hope you like this concept art painting time-lapse video (I still have doubts whether that’s the correct order for all those words…). It’s a Yak! Yaks are bull-like creatures that will grace peacefully until you move nearby. If they are annoyed you will be chased until you outrun them. Some… Rain, Sand, Stars: time-lapse paintingRead more
Walking on the surface of a planetoid with Quaternions
In Rain, Sand, Stars, all objects inhabit little planetoids a la Mario Galaxy (or much before that, a la The Little Prince). Therefore, at each time step, all dynamic objects must be rotated so they stand upright on the planet surface. In a game like Mario Galaxy, their transform.up should… Walking on the surface of a planetoid with QuaternionsRead more
Rain, Sand, Stars
Note: If you are looking for the iOS game, check this post! 😀 We recently conducted a Master Class in Animayo, an International Festival of Animated Film, Visual Effects and Videogames, where me met true giants like Ryan J. Woodward and Carlos Saldanha. Our Master Class, Independent Video Game Creation. An… Rain, Sand, StarsRead more
Remodeling the blog
We are currently trying different themes and layouts, so please forgive us if things look stupid for a while. We should be programming games…
Tumblr for sketches, concept art and early screenshots
We have just opened a Tumblr account where we will show sketches, concept art, brainstorming doodles (usually drawn after some beers) and early screenshots from our current projects. Feel free to drop by!
Free timelapse screencasts in MacOS. Part II: video from snapshots
iMovie is not enough when you want to create a movie from hundreds of snapshots. I’m not able to import them without transitions, so I switched back to what I knew, the Army Knife of video tools: FFMPEG. Installing it on your Mac is easy with MacPorts, which is similar… Free timelapse screencasts in MacOS. Part II: video from snapshotsRead more
Free timelapse screencasts in MacOS. Part I: snapshots
Medusa is giving a talk entitled ‘Independent Video Game Creation. Exploring the technical and creative process‘ in the incoming Animayo festival. We will build a game from zero to beta in three hours while discussing with the audience what makes a game fun. We need to prepare some timelapse videos for… Free timelapse screencasts in MacOS. Part I: snapshotsRead more
New web, new projects
It’s April Fools, but this is not a prank! We’ve been working hard these past months, relearning HTML, CSS and discovering jQuery in order to get a new and shiny web site! We wanted it to show who we are and what we do, because we are now offering Art… New web, new projectsRead more
Chinese spam
This must be the strangest email we have received until today… 原本已經好瘦嘅你想唔想將更瘦一面比你另外一半睇? 想唔想以更加健康嘅身軀比你另一半睇?? 如果你想，好簡單架詐~~~ 請即登 Which Google Translate converts into… this: Which is already so thin you want Do not want more generous than you lean the other half side of the Air? Do not want to be more generous… Chinese spamRead more