The HiNT presentation is complete. I gave an hour long presentation Thrusday, on animation in video games. It was an overview on animation's connection with AI in games "Animation is the body language of video game AI" and the video game production pipeline. Then I covered daily work routine for game animators. It was quite a large room packed with people, mostly students from the local High school and Students at HiNT. I followed a presentation from Storm studios in Oslo. They are the largest VFX shop in Norway.
http://www.stormstudios.no/trollhunter/
Troll hunter looks so bad ass.
Friday I taught a class that focused on game development. The students here are using Unity game engine to develop their own games. These students learn Maya in High School. They are well educated and they love video games. We worked on creating Idle animations, turning locomotion animations, I gave suggestions for creating efficient workflows for their animation. It was a chalenge for me since I had a short period of time with alot of work to look at.
There is also a budding visual effects/film producion program in progress at HiNT. The student work is of high quality. I saw some of this work at the presentation for Media day. The lectures here were in Norwegian so I just followed along.
Thank you Hint and Steinkjer for your hospitality.
Saturday Steve Ford and I went looking for Viking sites throughout the region.
Tingvold, is called a stone viking ship.
The shot above is of Tingvold, a Viking burial ground that is modeled after a ship situated just outside of Steinkjer.
This is Frostating which is where the old municipalities would meet to discuss policy, set laws. It's location dates back to 900AD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostating
Here are some shots of Egge farm. This is where the Anual viking festival is held. There are some burial mounds, (barrows) and this shot is of an ancient standing stone in the church graveyard.
Further back from the farm are the barrow mounds and they overlook the bay below.
Modern day Vikings from Scandinavia come to particpate in mock viking battles here during the Viking festival in July.
http://www.steinkjer-turist.com/?tema_id=255&tema_art_id=&lng=en
We were able to visit three other sites which I will also post pics.
Thanks Steve.
http://www.stormstudios.no/trollhunter/
Troll hunter looks so bad ass.
Friday I taught a class that focused on game development. The students here are using Unity game engine to develop their own games. These students learn Maya in High School. They are well educated and they love video games. We worked on creating Idle animations, turning locomotion animations, I gave suggestions for creating efficient workflows for their animation. It was a chalenge for me since I had a short period of time with alot of work to look at.
There is also a budding visual effects/film producion program in progress at HiNT. The student work is of high quality. I saw some of this work at the presentation for Media day. The lectures here were in Norwegian so I just followed along.
Thank you Hint and Steinkjer for your hospitality.
Saturday Steve Ford and I went looking for Viking sites throughout the region.
The shot above is of Tingvold, a Viking burial ground that is modeled after a ship situated just outside of Steinkjer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frostating
Further back from the farm are the barrow mounds and they overlook the bay below.
Modern day Vikings from Scandinavia come to particpate in mock viking battles here during the Viking festival in July.
http://www.steinkjer-turist.com/?tema_id=255&tema_art_id=&lng=en
We were able to visit three other sites which I will also post pics.
Thanks Steve.
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