{"id":73,"date":"2015-01-22T15:46:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T15:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danmcgeoch.com\/wp\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2015-02-07T17:50:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T17:50:51","slug":"warhammer-40k-warthog-games-2003","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/?page_id=73","title":{"rendered":"Warhammer 40K"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #b36760;\"><em>Warthog Games | 2003<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Working with a really talented small dev team on a pitch for the &#8216;Warhammer 40K&#8217; IP owned\u00a0by Games Workshop. We had a short amount of time to piece together a vertical-slice playable demo along with a bunch of art and animation in a bid to try and secure the IP for exclusive development of number of game titles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rog Bacon and Andy Whalley produced the character models which I then animated for various tests and show-piece renders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Unfortunately the work never went beyond the pitch, as is often the case..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below are some sample key-framed animations that I produced as part of the pitch. All animation for this pitch was created using Maya.<\/p>\n<h2><em>The Howling Banshee..<\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dual sword wielding Howling Banshee. She&#8217;s fast and agile..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The focus here was to create a sequence\u00a0of light, nimble, balletic\u00a0motion with strong, dynamic, almost still poses \u00a0punctuating the action which would act as an anticipatory mechanism for the player prior to an attack action; A case where the mechanics actually lent themselves to the art style.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><video src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/BansheeAttack.m4v\" poster=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/BansheeAttack_thumb3.jpg\" loop=\"loop\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"720\" height=\"370\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em>The Obliterator and Dreadnought..<\/em><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Obliterator and the heavy gun platform Dreadnought. the big hitters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These were the heavy guys and so required some real weight to their motion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I love Rogers take on the bio-mech styled Obliterator with the arm weaponry fused into the flesh which is still\u00a0oozing blood; could almost be straight out of Doom \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><video src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/Oblitndread-1.m4v\" poster=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/OblitNDread.jpg\" loop=\"loop\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><em>The Hive Tyrant<\/em><\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><video src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/HiveTyrant.m4v\" poster=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/HiveTyrant_thumb2.jpg\" loop=\"loop\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\"><\/video><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><em>The Hormagaunt<\/em><\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><video src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/Hormagaunt.m4v\" poster=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/Hormagaunt.jpg\" loop=\"loop\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\"><\/video><\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><em>The Ravenor<\/em><\/h2>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><video src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/Ravenor.m4v\" poster=\"wp-content\/uploads\/Warhammer\/Ravenor_thumb3.jpg\" loop=\"loop\" controls=\"controls\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\"><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warthog Games | 2003 &nbsp; Working with a really talented small dev team on a pitch for the &#8216;Warhammer 40K&#8217; IP owned\u00a0by Games Workshop. We had a short amount of time to piece together a vertical-slice playable demo along with a bunch of art and animation in a bid to try and secure the IP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/BadSmallCat.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}