Tuesday, 9 June 2009

BA (Hons) Entertainment Media Design 2009 Degree Showreels



The following work are short showreels showing the work of some of this year's graduates and part-time students who will graduate next year. I will be uploading showreels to YouTube soon, and when I do I will replace the videos on this page with embedded YouTube versions.



Karen Costello
Graduate 2009
The Eye of the Way - RPG Horror Game Level
5 mins 45 secs


>coming soon<
Dave Roberts
Graduate 2009
The Poignancy of Musical Memory



Jennifer Swann
Graduate 2009
Trailblazers - FPS Game Level
1 min 22 secs



Steve Chabeaux
Part-time Student
The Equivalents - Character Design
2 mins 18 secs



Dave Jones
Part-time Student
Isle of Mann TT Project Pre-production
2 mins 18 secs



Kevin McKenzie
Part-time Student
Kaupang - Viking Beat-em-Up Level Pre-production
2 mins 04 secs



Anthony Weekes
Part-time Student
S.W.O.R.D. - Character Design
2 mins 04 secs

Grades have been posted

Hi all,

Keep an eye out for a package over the next few days as your grades and, where we had two copies, a copy of your bound dissertation have now been posted.

Jenny and Miles I need an address in order to send your parcel. Please email me ASAP.

Cheers

Saturday, 6 June 2009

VideoGame Nation

If any of you have any free time go and see the VideoGame Nation exhibition. Its is on at URBIS in Manchester. If you don't know your way around Manchester its easy to find as the URBIS building is in the centre of town (its worth the trip just to see the building).

The exhibition charts the history of video gaming, with emphasis on the British input (quite considerable). Its a hands on exhibition and if video gaming is your thing, its a guaranteed good time. Entrance is three quid, I don't play video games and I still thought it was worth it. You will also come away with loads of ideas.

After you have seen all that VideoGame Nation has to offer go one flight up and see the State of the Art exhibition, now this should blow your socks off and could really inform your work. Its billed as the latest contemporary art coming out of New York, sixteen artists and its free!

Go see.

DaveR

Friday, 5 June 2009

CAB completed - grades coming soon

Hi all,

The CAB met today and the grades and awards have been set. I will mail out the feedback sheets next week which contain the breakdown of your grades with feedback. I believe Huddersfield will post the grade transcript summary to you. So be patient you eager beavers… not long to go now.

The board were impressed by the degree and the achievements. Although I am not going to post the grades here, as they are confidential, I can say that the graduating full timers have a good range of grades. The grades range from the first FIRST CLASS award on the degree through Upper and Lower Second Class awards. Part-timers grades are also healthy looking but you'll get your praise next year when you complete the degree.

There are two people referred on a module each, one on Pre-production and one on Production. I obviously cannot say who the two are but the two people will be notified next week. You will have to complete the referral work within two weeks to a passable standard, and this referral work will be presented to a Referral CAB in July. If the work is passable you will graduate/progress in July.

To end this post on a high note the board commended the entire group for your dissertations. Everyone has passed this module with a good range of grades. Kate has really enjoyed working with you all on your theses, and you should all feel very proud that Kate, who has a PhD, praises you so much. I will return your bound copies with feedback attached when I send all the grades. You have all done yourself academically proud.

After you receive your feedback, please read it carefully (don't just look at your grade) as the academic team have spent time giving constructive feedback. If you then wish to discuss your work, grades and feedback book an appointment to see me. I would recommend that the two people who have been referred make an appointment to ensure they understand what they need to re-submit.

Good luck to the students graduating this year, its been a pleasure seeing your development. Although you've graduated you can still keep the course informed of your career as you will be able to continue posting to this blog. To the part-timers' your time is in 12 months… I'll see you in September.

Thursday, 4 June 2009

RESULTS?

Hi Dave just a quick question will we be recieveing our results tomorrow? If it is tomorrow could you email me my results to my work address as im in work all weekend.

Cheers

Ste.

Saturday, 30 May 2009

Course Assessment Board - 5 June

Hi all,

I've just had confirmation that the Course Assessment Board (CAB) will be held on Friday 5th June. At this board all full-timer grades and the part-timers' first two modules will be presented for approval.

What this means for you guys is that sometime during the following week you will be given your grades - and for the successful full-timers your awards. There are four awards available FIRST, UPPER SECOND 2:1, LOWER SECOND 2:2, and THIRD.

Also any referrals will be set at this board. If you are not successful then you will only have a two week period to work on the referral before it needs to be re-submitted. The deadline is immutable and cannot be re-arranged if you are on holiday.

I'll be in touch. Good luck everyone.

Tuesday, 12 May 2009

FUSE - HE degree show 19th May



Hi everyone,

Just to let you know that all next week will be the HE Arts Degree Show in the Forum in Brook Street.

Myself, Steve and Dave did try and garner interest from you all with little effect. So Dave Roberts will be unveiling his digital artwork at the event and everyone will be represented on a DVD showreel. I'll take work from your submitted work.

I'd urge everyone to come (there's free drink). The degree show is really the culmination of your year, and the last opportunity for you to see each other.

Show is on between 6:30 to 8:30.

Friday, 8 May 2009

Nobody said it was going to be Easy

But they didn't say it was going to be this Hard.

Congratulations everyone, for some of us the fat lady is singing and its all over for others another year to go, but we all deserve a weekend of relaxation. I hope you are all planing to exhibit, you really should its a great night. If I can help anyone with printing and mounting just let me know.

For those I don,t see at the exhibition good luck for the future and stay in touch via the blog.

DaveR

signing out

Thursday, 7 May 2009

End of year for full-timers

Hi full-timers,

With your submission tomorrow will come the end of your studies at St Helens College. There's just the assessment between you and graduation now. Results should be with you around the end of May.

Before everyone vanishes there are some module feedback forms that need completing. Please pick them up from my desk tomorrow and complete before you leave.

Cheers and good luck with your future.

DW

Monday, 4 May 2009

FINISHED VEHICLE CONCEPT

Here are my final Vehicle Concepts at bloody last i say im glad to have everything sorted now just got to get it all together now :)

Sharing a frustration

A frustrating aspect of writing is spending time developing a sentence or paragraph till it reads and sounds really well, then to find it doesn't fit into the body of work and has to be dumped.

DaveR

Sunday, 3 May 2009

Message for Tony. Need your help mate?

Alright Tony im just wondering if you could help me out in anyway. Since we are both going to be implementing our characters into the unreal engine have you got any info on the restrictions that you have to follow when putting our models into the unreal editor. Im absolutely clueless about this so any info you can provide me would be great. Its all stuff to do with poly counts texture sizes etc.

Cheers.

Ste.

Friday, 1 May 2009

Better Final Reners of the Bobber Pototype Motorbike!!!













































































Yet more images!!!














Playing about can give you some cool results!!!

A 3D model to help with skecthes etc.

To help me get a better idea how my model will look like i have quickly built this model in 3DS Max this will also help me with my sketches. It is just very rough i know :)

Enough with the promo images already!!!




























Here a few images I bunged together for the promo images of my project - enjoy:)

VEHICLE CONCEPT

Here is the first vehicle concept nearly finished it need something added to it to finish it off but i dont know yet.

Thursday, 30 April 2009

Bare Bones

At the moment I am drawing more position of my character, so I'm just showing some work in progress. A point of interest is the comments on my artwork post, it would be interesting to get more views.

Character artwork

Nice one Ste for your feed back, I may have been misleading with posting the art work when it is not completely finished I still have amour to add to the characters body, so I was showing some WIP.

Message for Dave Wood: IMPORTANT

Hi dave ive sent you a email to your bazaar.me.uk account could you look at it for me plaese?

Pictures for Tony

Here you go Tony i think this is more the type of thing that would suit your character just dont think your character looks very steampunkish at the moment and it would add to it. Just a suggestion mate.

Character artwork and blogger link


Hello everyone, Just sending a link to my blogger page for people who has not seen any of my work.


Please feel free to add constuctive comments.


Cheers


Part-time Pre-production Presentations

Wednesday 6th May

Note to full-timers

Just to remind you that the tone of your presentation is to convince not to explain us. The time to explain what you have done in the pre-production stage was during the group crits. Now is the time to pitch your production idea to the audience, show us what you will do and be positive and confident in your idea. Above all enjoy it!

20 minute presentation + questions.

Schedule

9:00 - 10:00 Set-up in C431
10:00 - Scott Tasker
10:30 - Tony Weekes
11:00 - Kevin McKenzie
11:30 - Dave Jones
12:00 - Steve Chabeaux

Please ensure you're all in the room by 9:50 including the invited audience. The core audience is restricted to assessors and BA students only.Full-timers are invited to attend. It would be good, if you can attend, to see you all. Some industry people may be in the audience. It may be worthwhile.

FINAL PIECE ON THE CHARACTER CONCEPT HONEST I MEAN IT! ;)

Well after i my last post i said i was finished i was actually in the process of finishing off a close up of the face to help me build him in MAx. So i really do mean this is the last character piece now :) Just also added the reference material to the piece purely for the research folder.

FINISHED CHARACTER AND WEAPON

Hello there peeps well you will be glad to know that my character is finished im so happy its complete only thing left to do now is the vehicle and then thats it all concept work done :)
I posted my Weapon design on the Unreal Community and ive had some really great comments and advice it got mentioned to only have one coloured light throughout so ive gone back and changed it to only one colour scheme i think it works alot better. I have to agree it does look better now :) Does anyone agree?