Still on my pixel art trip, I created this out of fridge magnets the other day. Coincidentally, one of the guys at work forwarded this page by SNK Playmore illustrating their methods for pixel art creation, (which they refer to as “Dot Art”.) While I’ve always been a fan of Capcom’s games, I do appreciate [...]

A kid and a giant bird dog… sheer genius.

Here’s the product of a rainy Sunday afternoon – a twist on the original purchase here. I took bad when we first moved from pixels to the anti-aliased imagery of photoshop because of the loss of control, so it’s nice to see pixel art becoming a decorative retro-style all of its own.

Well done to Tony and the rest of the Dragon Age Cinematics team in Edmonton on the latest trailer for Dragon Age  – they’re really able to get a lot on screen at once! Warning: This isn’t for kids… On another note, if you’d like to see this or any other YouTube video in a [...]

On a recent road trip down to NYC for the long weekend, MJ and I were customarily delayed a little extra at the border control due to my non-Canadian status. The conversation with the patrol officer went a little like this: Officer: What is your status in Canada? Me: I’m on a work permit. Officer: [...]

A week on Wednesday two of Edmonton’s finest, Dusty and Corey, will be flying into town to give an updated version of their GDC talk on our production process, part of which uses one of the cutscenes we did here in Montreal last year to help illustrate the various stages of iteration in our levels’ [...]