This was the best day, we had talks from Vanessa Boyce from Double Negative, Martin Walker a lecturer in 3D computer graphics and animation, Jonathan Gales from factory fifteen and Ben Hall from Criterion games. They were all brought in to talk about urban environments and creating photorealism in them. All of the talks were interesting and informative giving knowledge on what to learn, where to go , what to do. The only bad speaker i thought was Vanessa Boyce as she just kind of played us trailers about Total Recall and didn't really say much, plus i could tell she was really nervous as her voice was shaking through out the entire thing bless her. It would have been nice is she could have talked about her studio more and the things they get up to in everyday life instead of bigging up total recall 24/7.
Any way here's some pics from the day -
Jonathan Gales -Factory 15
The best talk of the day came from Jonathan, he really had his head screwed on and knew what he was talking about even though he was so young. It was nice to see and the other talkers seemed to look up to him and divert questions to him. He showed a fantastic slideshow and some work that he'd done, it was magnificent and completely down my street where i want to go. He had a great passion for architecture and had studied it before going into games, i'm very interested in this and will be looking into short courses over summer and next year as i cant spend 7 years on another degree doing it. I took from the day to just keep at things and its not all about maths with architecture You just have to look at things differently and practise your skills.
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