Former Twin Peaks Actor Talks with aNm Recently, I’ve been fortunate enough to garner an interview with Michael Horse, an Indigenous artist and actor (and sometimes musician!) about his work on the Age of Empires III (“AOEII”)video game (thanks to fellow Caddo artist, Delores Purdy Cocoran, for putting me in touch with Mr. Horse!). Michael […]
Mmmm…Outsourcing Like Bacos, the 2nd day in Austin was, “even better.” While there was still no sign of the much-needed booth babes, the Expo was open and the workshops and discussions continued throughout the Austin Convention Center. At least some vendors were smart enough to hand out free beer and cocktails! Many good contacts were […]
aNm at GDC Things were off to a bang on the first day of the Austin Game Developers Conference…vendors were setting up for the next day’s Expo, so there was plenty of time to meet, greet, and attend the various workshops. While I will highlight some of the various contacts made in later blogs, here […]
Technically “Cool” A recent issue (“Digging for Details” Volume: 30 Issue: 8 (Aug 2007)) of Computer Graphics World provided insight to an ancient Mayan city, rebuilt in digital 3D form. Clement Valla, an architect who utilizes 2d and 3d graphics, worked with Allan Maca, an archaeologist from Colgate University, to recreate an ancient temple area […]
alterNative Media in Austin alterNative Media will be attending the Austin Game Developers Conference, September 5-7, 2007 in Texas. The Austin GDC is always a great time and there will be a host of really good vendors, people, students, artists, beer, and (of course) booth babes! 🙂 aNm will be on the lookout for the […]
3D Animation Short Summer classes are over at the Academy of Art and for my final animation project, I created “Chubby Ninja vs. Master Key”. This was great fun and I learned quite a bit. While there are still some refinements that can be made, I am happy overall with this 12 seconds of 3D […]
Like cell phones and emails, PowerPoint presentations are something we all use (or, at least, we’re exposed to…even in a corporate setting). However, just like cell phones and emails, not everyone follows proper etiquette when using PowerPoint.The good people at Microsoft website have provide the following Ten Commandments to remember and follow when creating and […]
Free Resources to Make Games At a recent panel discussion at the Eiteljorg Museum, fellow artist Steve Sanderson (creator of the Darkness Calls comic) and I commented on how Native American youth – especially those on reservation-type and other rural areas surrounding Indigenous lands – may not even realise their full potential, based on socio-economic […]
Moodle is Right Price Like the majority of departments across the world, there are budgetary constraints to follow. Within this limit, the challenge becomes how to best provide information, training, and courses to our audience as well as how to make the interactive vehicle (online interface) as “usable” as possible. Certainly, there are large enterprise-level […]
Attending SUMMIT In August 2006, I was fortunate enough to attend a special event by the Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies group, “Designing Case Based Learning for Virtual Worlds.” There were many presentations from various leaders in the field of simulation and virtual learning as well as much discussion over SecondLife, OLIVE™, There, […]
