Mmm.... AAAH!! Mmmm... AAAH!!

Created this head turn today! I focused on making the animation work smoothly, so I haven't given much thought to acting choices or why he is turning his head.
Originally it's only one head turn (from right to left), but as that was way too short I played the clip a few times back and forth... enjoy!

The most awesome place in Budapest

Heroes' Square (featuring the majestic Millenium Memorial)

This was my first sighting of the more impressive stuff you can find in Budapest. Up until then my experience had consisted of dirty hotels, packed buses and half-demolished buildings, so it was really nice to see this. Since then I've seen a lot of stuff as well, but this will have a certain place in my memories of Budapest.

Click for a sense of scale!

Morning Yoga at the Memento Park

We visited the Memento Park in Buda yesterday! It was pretty impressive, but really really cold and lots of wet dirt. My boots acquired a beautiful new color of dirt after walking around to see all of the statues.

I'm sorry if these following photos offend anyone, we just saw our chance to have a bit of fun... I hope you see the humor in them as well. :)

Morning Yoga

Recap Week 01

 We started off the first week by getting introduced to the group of people that we are going to work with for the next 6 months. The group consisted mostly of students from around Europe, but also a few people with professional experience.

Our task of the week was to start working on the creation of the universe. We will later on use this universe to develop a game and a movie. This would be tough to do with any kind of group, especially when you don't know each other.

On tuesday we went through an epic 12 hour long discussion about the different ideas we had and how to expand on them. Since we come from different backgrounds we also discussed a lot about the similarities and differences between games and movies. We didn't really come to any conclusion about anything that day, more than the fact that it is very frustrating to try and get along with a group of people you have only known for a day.

On wednesday we got to meet a panel of various awesome people. Among them a project manager from Sony and the creator of the Star Wars lego (and a lot of other lego products as well). We got a lot of advice regarding how to get started and what to focus on. It was definitely good to have the huge discussion the day before, we knew what questions we needed to ask. I think we also took the panel's advice to heart in a way that we wouldn't have done if everything had happened smoothly.

The later half of the week we spent working on one-day projects to get used to the workflow and working with each other. The concept group (consisting mainly of the game and animation director) had meetings to come up with a universe. The whole group got briefed at regular intervals on their progress. Even if a smaller group comes up with the initial ideas, the input from the rest of the team is considered very important.

A Paparazzi photo of the concept group in progress.

Next week will be all about fleshing out the universe and deciding more about the direction we want to go.

This is how we party

As true geeks!

Vakvarjú Restaurant

This is from our very first day in Budapest. We had spent the first half of the day in the studio listening to lectures and getting to know each other. For lunch we entered the first restaurant we could find, which just happened to have a balcony with people in it! (also note the bird stuck in the fence)

The restaurant is Vakvarjú, I can really recommend it for the awesome food and somewhat... interesting interior design. Do you remember this post? Same restaurant. Here's some more!

Hungarian ABBA

Yesterday we went to a restaurant across the street and got entertained by these guys. We were very impressed with their talent and knowledge of swedish songs! Also Victor got the biggest schnitzel I have ever seen in my life... (in a literal sense...)