fmx/09 - Day 4

I thought yesterday could not be topped. How wrong could I be? This day was absolutely amazing. I heard so many inspiring talks and lectures today which made me confident that a small Indie developer like myself really has a chance in this industry.

Talks attended today

• The Art Behind Making a Game by Matt Aldrich, Lucasfilm Animation
• Don't Fear the Small Game by Richard Hilleman, Electronic Arts
• Developing Games with Pixar by Lyle Hall, Heavy Iron Studios
• The Making of The Little-Big Planet Graphical Style
  by Kareem Ettouney, Rex Crowle and a third guy not mentioned in the book, Sorry
• The Challenge of Creating New IP by Chris Taylor, Gas Powered Games
• Panel Discussion hosted by Joseph Olin
  President of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
• Electronic Theater SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Computer Animation Festival

fmx/09 - Day 3

Now we're talking. The fmx/09 really started off for me. There were a lot of game related topics and I tried to soak everything I could.

Today made me realize how awesome this conference really is.

Talks attended today

• Creating Realism in Games by Filippo Costanzo, Activision
• Designing Immersive Experiences by Tali Krakowsky, WET
• The Bunjies by Thomas Meyer-Hermann, Studio Film Bilder
• Stylization, Rendering Styles and Visual Identity in Games
  by Viktor Antonov, The Building Studios
• Art and Game Design by Emmanuel Guardiola, Seaside
• Ogre 3D: Open Source Graphics Engine by Steve Streeting, Ogre
• "Prince of Persia" by Jan-Erik Sjovall, Ubisoft
• Distributed Virtual Game Development by Kellie-Bea Cooper and Mark Sonderwall

fmx/09 - Day 2

Today was a rather slow day for me. I was a bit taken aback by the whole "We don't have a place to sleep" thing so I took several hours of booth-duty to be able to sort this out. Eventually I found a very nice appartment for us in Stuttgart-Essingen.

Talks attended today

• Concept, Idea, Design by Syd Mead, Syd Mead Inc.
• Production Design in Gamse vs. Films by Habib Zargarpour, EA

fmx/09 - Day 1

Today me and several of my fellow students travelled to Stuttgart to attend this year's International Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Digital Media.

Since this is our first year at this event, we are not quite sure what to expect and even if this is a rewarding experience. On paper the program looks vast and quite massive though, which meant a lot of planning has to be done in order to get the most out of this conference.

Let's see how that works out for me.

Talks attended today

• Digital Fairytales! Online World for Kids by Linus Feldt, Bajoum Interactive
• XSens talk on MVN - Their Inertial Motion Capture Suite
• Tools as Toys. Promoting Creativity with "Spore" by Dan Moskowitz, Maxi
• Creative Commons by Markus Beckedahl, Newthinking Communications

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Less Graphics, More Games

Hi everyone,

My name is Oliver Eberlei and I am happy that you found your way around to my site.

This is my very first blog post, launching what is soon to become my own resource around games, animations and game development. I am currently studying Digital Media – Animation and Game at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt and I will use this blog to document my progress with developing games and to show my work to a wider audience. The universities curriculum schedules at least one game related project per semester, which means there will be a lot of material to learn and to post about.
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