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Japanese noodles

shank :: Nov.24.2008 :: digital, japan :: 1 Comment »

…nothing fancy happening here. Work as usual. Did not return Abels flash as i was to use it this weekend. Its getting pretty dark these days, nothing new. This was the 3rd bday party in 3 weeks. Crazy.

it was nice to see the sun

my fridge..sadly the champagne was the present i bought for the bday boy and girl…who did not open it. Lesson learn…no more champagne for no one. I buy it and i drink it.

it was Kristene’s bday


thats Kristene’s sis to the right…got a haircut from her some months ago





Erik…bday boy.

n00b

that’s one of my frames

was getting bored…and pissed at the fact that the awesome champagne was not being opened…i decided to leave and head to a Jon and Chloe’s who were having some board game going on.

per was there

so were the crazy finns…Ville and Riikka

flash…in your face

the damn dice would always end with 1 or 2

ville on the other hand was getting 6 over and over again


more hands…








everyone had a nice time…headed home at 2…

shank :: Nov.23.2008 :: digital, oslo :: No Comments »

One of the Producers at work wanted to know how a level is made…this is the mail i sent him

1. Layout
Review
2. Blockout
Review
3. Paintover
Review
4. Modelling
Review
5. Texturing
6. Vertex paint/ Blending
7. Lighting
8. Collision
9. Particles
10. Environments
Review

_shank

Rinse, Repeat.

In other random news…i reinstalled Bioshock. I bought it the day it came out. Found it too old school and did not play it much. Decided to finish it, again did not play much. The reason i want to finish is because i want to buy some new games.

Left 4 dead
Mirrors Edge
Tomb raider Underworld
Silent Hill 5

Problem being i cannot stop playing Quakewars…something about the game that is as good as Quake3 (which in my opinion is a perfect game).

In work related news. One of the BIG levels i worked on for Age of Conan will be out soon in the next patch. Its a level in the Thunder River section. These are few paintovers made over my mockup. This is one of the three levels that i have done post launch and are far better than any levels we have in AOC as of now. Will post the rest as and when they are made public.

**Click the images for hi-res images. The hi-res images are few mb in size so it could take some time to load depending on your connection speed

shank :: Nov.19.2008 :: game development :: 1 Comment »

Its more than 2 years since i moved to Oslo…time flies.

Got up in the morning only to realize that there is nothing in the fridge to prepare. Got some take away sushi. Was ok.

Yesterday was Maja’s bday. Borrowed Abel’s flash. But did not use much of it as i sux at it. Unlike Olve’s bday i did not leave at 12, but left close to 2am. Things sure have calmed down compared to two years back.

bought some Thai food earlier in the week and got this coupon

on my way to pick up Maja’s bday present…the sofa has been there for ages

it was quite a nice day

finally got a shot of this…been planning to take it for a long time

olve does not fancy the flash in his face


maja was quite happy with her gifts, she got some cool stuff

one of the better frames…

shank :: Nov.16.2008 :: digital, oslo, street :: 2 Comments »