This article series concentrates on the technical side of the development. We start it with a look at the 3D content creation tool Blender and how we use it.

Why Blender you ask? I’ve previously worked with 3ds Max and XSI and found both packages to have their strengths and weaknesses. The XSI workflow suited me well and was planning to continue with it when we started on this project. The limited project budget however made me look at other options aswell. Did take a peek at Modo which looked promising and a few other smaller packages like 3DCoat. I had heard good things about Blender from different sources and decided to have a look at it also. Read more

Settling back to normal work routine tastes good. Our asset importing/handling has gained new features and game design has taken steps forward with thoughts of communication methods between different temporal versions of Zero-Two. Very exciting stuff.

We’ve been invited to speak at Digital Storytelling seminar in Oslo, Norway next monday.  We are honored to attend alongside Weta Digital and Fido. This short trip adds again a small bump to actual production work, but it’s definitely worth it.

Encouraging feedback still continues to roll in and one email we got from Jamie Counsell from Australia last week really stopped us on our tracks, in a good way. The reason is that the feeling we got while reading it was something that we couldn’t translate into words. We want to share that feeling and Jamie was extremely kind to let us publish the email. Till next week. (press “read more” to read the email)

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