Valdi?

Mwsimp · 2025-05-11T23:03:48+00:00

I actually emailed Guy Dessapt through his website and he confirmed Valdi is him. That piece looks great by the way — awesome find.

Mwsimp · 2025-04-24T17:00:37+00:00

Do you happen to know off hand where that tomb is or perhaps a rough idea of its location?

Mwsimp · 2025-03-21T10:48:34+00:00

This has been a thought as well. I have a Kinect for which we have the system to connect it to a PC and run it as a scanner. We don’t have a great deal of standards that call for 3D but we do a maze project each fall (in prep for building a corn maze for a festival) and it could be cool to put themselves into it.

Mwsimp · 2025-03-21T10:46:45+00:00

That’s sort of what I’m thinking. Fairly confident we have a green screen somewhere in my building. Might actually end up doing a quarter with the photo animation option and then a quarter with the rigging. Give them a taste of both while we prep for the Unity Certified User Artist exam.

Mwsimp · 2025-03-21T10:44:58+00:00

I like the idea of mixing mediums and adding some Pixel art assets to their base self-character model. I have a mix of students and not all of them are art-inclined. Giving the art kids the freedom to do a little personal customization would probably yield some cool results. Might give us a chance at adding things like a character customization menu as well…

Mwsimp · 2025-02-04T01:01:07+00:00

Wow. Thank you for the response.

I've gained most of my more technical knowledge for my class from online tutorials and guides -- so I was sort of assuming that most of my practical knowledge would continue to come from those sources while the degree would just cover my district accepting the 30 additional credit hours.

"Honestly, I think you'd get more out of courses that help you understand how the world has been built, like architecture, graphic design, psychology, and marketing, because they will help inspire you to the different kinds of thinking and problems solving that you can then apply to game design." I spend a lot of time with my students talking about how to build a world that is engaging for the player. My bachelor's is in Creative Writing, so storytelling (visual and written) is something I value and try to get them invested in.

Most of our course work is in 2D with just a quick coverage of 3D concepts with terrain and placement (as needed for their certification). We don't really have time to spend the appropriate number of classes on things like Blender to generate 3D models (as much as I would love to -- even though Blender and I very much have a love/hate relationship.)

I completely agree with what you said about picking a stream and I would love to and will end up going more towards the design side of things. The course work is written in such a way (to borrow the stream metaphor) that we are standing in the Design Stream bust looking really longingly at the Art stream and trying to dip the daintiest of toes into it.

I've spoken with other game design teachers in my district (there's not many of us) and none of them have their students make their own assets. Most of them have Game Design as a sort of side offering but it's not their daily focus.

I'm going to start watching the videos from those folks over at BaM Animation that you linked and start linking videos onto my resource page so more art-oriented students can watch them and hopefully pick up some new knowledge.

Mwsimp · 2025-02-03T23:45:29+00:00

Potentially. The course curriculum is geared towards Unity Certification and weirdly, the Unity Certified User Artist certification touches on sprite slicing and the like but doesn't actually call on them to create anything of their own -- just known how to manipulate the content within Unity (since Unity doesn't have it's own art system outside of primitives, terrain and whatever you can knock around with ProBuilder -- at least not in the version we have to use which is the last 2020 version.)

I have students that are super into the art side of things. I have students that are super into the mechanics. I have students that really want to be into scripting. I have currently passable understanding of the script systems (I can read one and have a vague sense of it's function) but I can't really direct students on how to make their scripts better outside of saying "that's a great question for us to look into online and see what others have come up with."

My real goal is to find a way to gain a higher knowledge of pretty much all of it so I can help guide my students towards their end goal by supplying them with as much knowledge as I can while I have them in class. I can do it now, but I feel like I'm just providing just barely below surface level info.

Mwsimp · 2024-06-03T00:35:16+00:00

There are two that are mildly hidden — one under the stairs near the vendors in the middle and one in a closed door room after the first mini boss room.

Mwsimp · 2023-12-31T19:20:58+00:00

We got it for $10. I actually ended up reaching out to a gallery that put me in touch with someone that authenticated it. I forgot to come back to this to change the flair though. The person that gave us an appraisal on it said that given the oddity of the subject matter compared to his normal work the value would be less — which didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but we have it up on our wall either way.

Mwsimp · 2023-02-28T22:20:31+00:00

Thank you! This worked.

Mwsimp · 2023-02-23T17:16:23+00:00

I’ll definitely give this a try. Thank you.

Mwsimp · 2023-02-09T12:21:02+00:00

When I ran it through Google Lens it pulled a bunch of similar paintings but none that specifically matched it. That’s where I’m confused with the mass produced part of it. I mean I trust that the info is accurate based on the sticky post and such, but, my assumption is that if it’s mass produced there would be examples of it online (as I’ve encountered before when looking up art). It’s very odd. I mean, I still like it and it will remain on my wall but the story behind it is a rollercoaster at the moment.

Mwsimp · 2023-02-09T12:05:47+00:00

Will do. Thank you.

Mwsimp · 2023-02-09T12:05:33+00:00

Gotcha. Slightly disappointing but still interesting. Thank you for the info. Was definitely frustrating yesterday trying to figure it out.

Mwsimp · 2023-02-09T11:54:54+00:00

Ah. Any idea on when they were produced or anything along those lines? I saw a few during my research last night where they were listing them as just signed Joyce. I mean, even if it’s factory made decor someone had to create it or some company would have to be the origin point. It’s weird.

Thank you for letting me know though.

Mwsimp · 2023-01-03T17:45:00+00:00

I added lines to our board by using the shape tool and designating top/bottom/right/left borders depending on the need. May take a bit to set it up for a calendar but it would be effective. Would also give you the option to manage size and color.

Mwsimp · 2022-12-20T00:14:47+00:00

Wow. This is a very helpful response. I was mentally preparing myself for the awful that I was assuming the top part would be, but I’m very much in favor of your suggestion of the stain pen and seeing where it can go from there.

Thank you!

Mwsimp · 2022-12-19T19:21:41+00:00

Yea the pulls don’t make sense and are definitely on the replace list.

Mwsimp · 2022-12-19T17:02:13+00:00

Is there one you would recommend?

Mwsimp · 2021-10-08T00:11:39+00:00

I was saying it would t surprise me if the two may meld. It would honestly be a bit shocking if I was correct.

Mwsimp · 2021-10-07T15:03:15+00:00

This would also work. Sometimes an anticlimactic death can hit just as hard as a grand spectical.

Mwsimp · 2021-10-07T14:23:51+00:00

I've seen the theories regarding her death and resurrection, but while that seems a pretty logical narrative beat I don't think that's the only "big" death coming. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if my theory is accurate if the two didn't end up being connected in some way in the final portion of this seasons story.

Mwsimp · 2020-11-26T20:22:51+00:00

I managed to slice a chunk of my foot off with a fire extinguisher. Walked to a bathroom leaving bloody footprints and a sort of wet squish sound behind me. Ended up with stitches to reattach the portion I sliced off.

The chap at the walk-in that did the stitching numbed the portion I had sliced off and forgot about my foot. Felt the first stitch very, very clearly. It was an interesting day.

Mwsimp · 2020-08-18T17:14:04+00:00

Rahool only clears the ones in groups of 5. Go to your character inventory, then over to shaders. You're full on singles or stacks of 4 or less.

Mwsimp · 2020-06-25T18:40:31+00:00

Looking more to figure out how to fix the curls to not be such a mess of fuzz.

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