Well its been about 6 years since I last did a blog post, mainly because I was abducted by aliens. It was on the way home after several pints of slaughter house ale I saw a bright light and then 6 years had past, I woke up with a sligh headache and a complete set of artwork for a kebab based game, which you can see by clicking on the picture, or view the Kebab Van.

Also this month I’ve written an article about game interface design which is on the mighty mochiland. Which was good as the kind chaps there sent me 2 t-shirts for producing the article, which reminds me I said I’d take a shot of me in them to prove I actually wear them.

See you again in another 6 years.

Well The BBC Heroes games have been up for a while but unfortunately they are domain locked so you can’t actually see any of the art I’ve done unless you are in the UK. So here’s a few shots from the portal so you can see what it looks like:-

The first part is Mohinders New York office, you can explore around and get background information about the show, its pretty slick and you can access the games from the map on the wall, there’s also things to unlock if you pick items up and use them in some way.

The first games is the Isaac Mendez painting game, quite an original idea where you have to paint shapes to make up the various painting that he does in the show, it sounds odd but actually works really well. I also did a few animations to introduce the game where I had to recreate the whole of Isaacs loft apartment.

The next game was Claire Bennet’s game where she has to use her superpowers to get through the train wreck. Quite a challenge to get all the effects working well. Its a simple platform game where you have to get Claire from one end of the wreck to the the other, if she gets injured then she can use her super power to heal herself.

That’s all of them so far, there’s 3 more games to come featuring other characters from the show which will be going up over the next couple of months.

Another Scottish island photo this time actually from Islay, I think it was called Kintra beach where I found this, It was a stretch of sand between up Laggan bay about 8 miles long, utterly stunning. Its not that well known but Scotland has in my opinion some of the best beaches in the world on the islands, its a pity it isn’t a bit hotter !

This rather strange formation was where a river was running into the sea in a big arc (the water is brown because of all the peat soil). It was a really surreal day that day as the sky was actually that very odd colour, the other thing which was really fascinating about this river is you could actually see it erroding this mini coastline away in real time. Every so often a big chunk of sand cliff would fall off with a big splash.

Anyway the long overdue superpower thread is that I finally have my artwork on the BBC heroes portal its to go with the hit TV series Heroes (which is excellent if you haven;t been watching it) , which I produced a lot of the 3d artwork for the web games and my artwork has even been shown at the end episodes, woo hoo !

Unfortunately its locked to UK IP’s so you can’t view it unless you are in the UK.