Visualisation Project Complete!

Here's how my visualisation project turned out.

Music: Get Your Guns by Nine Black Alps


Visualisation Board Game Project from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

Overall I'm happy of the out come. I'd of prefered to have a few more fast cuts and diffrent camera angles. But my editing/filming skills kind of drew a blank. I'm not going to post the video of my Animation project because I'm not very proud of it. I should have organised myself better so I could of spent more time on that part of the project. This is something I'm going to try harder on next term.

Attention as A Commodity?

After watching a lecture from Matt Harding ("that guy who dances in those places in front of those things") he mentioned Attention as an important commodity. What with so many distractions now (TV shows, DVDs, Computer Games and the Internet), getting peoples attention can be a hard thing.

Viral Marketing is when an experience grabs a persons attention and makes them want to share that experience with others. After having success on the internet as "that guy who dances in those places in front of those things" he was approched by Stride Gum company to make another video. This second video he made was paid for by Stride so not only did Matt get paid for his video, he also got free global travel. This was a great way for him to sell the attention he was genrorating.

Now if only I could think of a way to get free global travel for doing something stupid!

Where the Hell is Matt?

Matt used to work 9-5 in an office in Los Angeles as a games developer. He's worked on games such as Destroy all Humans for a company called Pandemic Studios. He is most famous for dancing like an idiot around the world.



I'd heard of this video before but haven't seen it till now. The thing I find funny is it was both his love of traveling and terrible talent at dancing that made him famous. I myself have a burning passion to travel. I've been all many countries and 4 continents and consider myself a more seasoned traveler than most. I also love to dance (some say terribly) stupidly. But what I think is crazy is that his job was a games developer, which is what I aspire to be.

Fueled by stories of my dad and a college lecture I've always seen my first priority to travel the world and I love to discover and learn new cultures.

More interesting stuff can be found here. If you found this video funny or inspiring I suggest you find his 3 part YouTube lecture which is also on his blog.

Rendering Accicent

Does this happen to anyone else? You make the finishing touches to your render setup and forget to make sure you have the correct veiw frame selected? I just waseted almost 3 hours rendering the wrong veiwpoint so i had a 16second long video of my top veiw doing nothing :p

I wish I saved and uploaded that video now but I overwrited the name to redo the intended shot.

The Internet is for useless crap

I thought I'd seen alot of dumb pointless stuff on the internet, then I found this when researching 3D practitioners in Cornwall.

Visual Board Game VII

First clip rendered. At the moment it's taking ~45miniutes to render 4 seconds. I'm going to have to set alarms for myself so I can wake up and start the next render after one finishes.

Here's how it looks so far:

Visual Board Game Sweep1 from Jay Jackson-Hicks on Vimeo.

Visual Board Gamer MKVI

Well I managed to sort out my textures and it's all coming together quite well. Here is a picture of it so far, I'm working on the Video now. HD Bitmap versions coming soon!