Ryan’s Blog

What a year it has been. Since I started this site a lot has happened. I started college, the mod team had a big release, and I realized how hard it is to keep a blog up to date (obviously), but I am going to make a better effort to keep this up to date with things I find online that interest me, my projects, and just what I have been up to.

Since the last time I wrote I have started college at the University of Advancing Technology. My major is 3d art and animation, and if everything works out I hope to work in the game industry one day. My first year was alright. My favorite class I took was with motion capture and animations. I learned the pipeline animators used from capturing, cleaning, and eventually attaching them to a model and putting them into a game. This was during my first semester. My second semester I took more generals and I took a class about Games and Society. We looked at both sides of the ever growing topic of games and their effects on society. I thought this class was really interesting because we heard about news stories that we have never heard and some that we have and we discussed and shared our ideas on the matters.

Other than school I have been working and working on the mod Goldeneye: Source. After over 2 years we finally released a new build for the public to play. The mod was downloaded over 1500 times in the first night. This has been an on-going project and we will not stop until we are completely done.

Another thing I have been doing is playing with my camera and taking pictures. I will try to find some to put on here to show what I have been up to.

That has really been about it. Not too exciting but that has been what ate up my time following my last post.