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ICS iTag Live Commercials

jake.carvey — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:48:54 +0000

Created several marketing videos for the iTag Live iPhone game launch and marketing campaign, available on the Apple iTunes AppStore.

ATI: Eye on the Game

jake.carvey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:44:54 +0000

Conceptual design, modeling & animation for Trade Show Intro movie.

This challenging project pressed us to leverage customised stock 3D elements to string together 3 disparate gaming genres: contemporary moder combat FPS, racing, and fantasy RPG into a single spot.

Client: ATI

Agency: Creative Asylum

Modeling: Diego Gorlato, Matt Foley, Alex Okita, Jake Carvey

Animation: Santosh Oomen, Jake Carvey

Suppliers: Daz3D, Cornucopia 3D, Content Paradise

Software used: Daz3D, Poser 6, Lightwave, Maya, Particle FX,

ATI: Devious Device

jake.carvey — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:35:09 +0000

Concept development, storyboarding and design for pre-rendered, trade show intro movie.

The team did several rounds of scripting, story boarding and design.

Director / Art Director: Jake Carvey

Concept & Character Design: Alex Okita, Santosh Oomen, Paris Carvey

Storyboard: Jake Carvey & Paris Carvey

3D Modeling & Rendering: Matt Rasmussen, Diego Gorlato, Jake Carvey

Yin Yang Yo!

jake.carvey — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:58:59 +0000

Art Direction, GUI Design, 3D Environment Design & Production. Browser based 3D Side-scroller fighting game in the tradition of street fighter.

One of the favorite projects ever! Environments again created using simple front projection extraction techniques to create scenes pulled directly from the episodes! The team fought the texture resolution at every step – cant wait to remake this one in a more robust engine someday.

Link: Yin Yang Yo: The Dangerous Comic Book Of Dread

Client: Disney Channel / Jetix

Agency: Smashing Ideas

Art Director / Lead Artist: Jake Carvey

Environment / Prop Modelers: Diego Gorlato, Jamie Edis

Character Animation: Jamie Edis

Intro To Normal Mapping (Part II)

jake.carvey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:00:56 +0000

This second article in a series offers solutions and strategies for tackling complex challenges in normal mapping.

RoboBlitz Tech Demos

jake.carvey — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:22:42 +0000

A physics-based arcade adventure. Naked Sky Entertainment produced two demos, one for Intel for the 2005 Game Developers Conference, and a second, internally-funded multi-player demo, with art direction redesigned from scratch to take advantage of next-gen technologies.

Jake served as Lead Artist on several projects for Naked Sky, and also art-directed the ground-up redesign of the E3 multi-player demo.

Intro to Normal Mapping (Part I)

jake.carvey — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:20:11 +0000

First of a pair of articles discussing state-of-the-art production techniques and pipeline development for next leading edge video games.

Issue 05 presents Jake’s article discussing the fundamentals of normal mapping, an essential technique relying on the impressive power of video cards for PCs and next-gen consoles. The technique creates the illusion of complex geometry, using highly optimised models.

UFO’s in Russia?

jake.carvey — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:15:53 +0000

Well, why not? The search for extra-terrestrials runs far deeper than American pop-culture.
Jake handled all aspects of the CGI production for this show.

The project presented major budgetary and scheduling challenges. But the unique subject matter presented a great opportunity to create some cool original designs, based in part on Russian architecture in different time periods.

Marathon: Durandal XBox Live Arcade

jake.carvey — Sat, 19 May 2007 21:20:47 +0000

Created new version of soldier character for XBox Live arcade interpretation of the classic Bungie game (Halo creators – DUH!). Freeverse kicked ass on this, and it seems to have done fairly well on the Xbox Live Arcade.

Won “Best Downloadable Game” at E3 2007

Client: Freeverse

The Great Race Of Oban

jake.carvey — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:58:17 +0000

Art Direction, GUI Design & 3D Production. Fully immersive browser based 3D flying game. Environment and vehicle designs derived directly from television show assets, utilizing some of our favroite front projection texture baking techniques.

The team had a blast executing and play testing this one, stretching the Otoy engine to its limits to create an immersive experience which is very faithful to the look of the show.

Link: The Great Race of Oban

Client: Disney Channel / Jetix

Agency: Smashing Ideas

Allegorithmic: ProFX Procedural Shaders

jake.carvey — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 03:20:41 +0000

Consulted Allegorithmic on marketing and development initiatives, instrumental in connecting Allegorithmic and Naked Sky Entertainment, resulting in first commercial usage of ProFX, and first implementation of GPU-rendered procedural shaders for XBox Live Arcade.

This was also the first 3rd party procedural texture integration for Unreal Engine 3.

Developed pipeline and initial next-gen shader examples for implementation. Based on consultation, ProFX was updated to include various essential features including SVG Vector graphics engine for complex, artist driven masking, as well as numerous GUI improvments to support next-gen workflows.

Case study (via Allegorithmic.com)

Roboblitz (2006)

Roboblitz by Naked Sky Entertainment is the first Unreal Engine 3 based game ever to be released on Xbox Live Arcade.

Thanks to ProFX, the entire game, featuring 18 levels in full 3D, fits entirely within 50MB instead of 400MB.

80% of Roboblitz’ textures are generated with ProFX

300:1 saved space compared to the use of conventional textures

Game particularly praised for the quality of its textures (see review on IGN)

Very fast 20MB/s average texture generation rate

For more information about the game, visit http://www.roboblitz.com

Client: Allegorithmic

Partners: nVIdia, Epic Software, Naked Sky Ent.

Project: RoboHordes, RoboBlitz

Disruptor Promo Campaign

jake.carvey — Thu, 15 Aug 1996 03:56:22 +0000

Teaser / trailer video. Provided 3D elements, motion graphics, and editing services for promotional campaign for Universal Interactive.

Client: Universal Interactive

Agency: Spincycle