D3 - DoomSayer’s Dev Diary     

Well, I’ve been busy working on a few of my classes. I graduate at the end of this semester (all that I have left to do is complete the Senior Project). In between my classes, I’ve been trying to strengthen my Demo Reel with some better images. I just finished touching up my urban props image as part of my Demo Reel. This image is a straight 3DStudio Max 8 render with a PhotoShopped watermark of my name in the lower right corner. This version of the image is a nighttime-with-flashlight scene. I think it turned out pretty good so far. There’s a few things I could do a little better, but I’m considering this scene DONE…at least for now. Time to move on to something else…

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I moved to Pittsburgh last year, so this information is pretty vital to me:

Pittsburgh has been gearing up over the last several years in an attempt to become the next big market for game development studios.  Carnegie Mellon University started offering a Master of Entertainment Technology program which has recently spun off many school projects into independant game studios.  There are currently about 6-7 small game studios working in the Pittsburgh area (several of them doing work for Disney products, such as Pirates of the Caribbean Online and Disney’s Toontown).  The Art Institute of Pittsburgh also started offering a Bachelor of Game Art & Design program that prepares artists for the game development scene.

Now, Pittsburgh is the front-runner to become the U.S. headquarters location for a British videogame developer looking to expand its operations abroad.

Eutechnyx, the driving force behind such games as “Big Mutha Truckers” and “Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift,” is “awfully close” to settling on Pittsburgh after considering Montreal and Atlanta, said Todd Eckert, the local movie producer who has been tapped to head the company’s U.S. operations.

Mr. Eckert, best known for “Control,” the biopic about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, said the primary attraction of Pittsburgh was the talent being developed at local universities.

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