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watmough · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 10:32 pm

Balistic's post made me realise I could mention this, I've made a career change and now work in the video game business doing concept art.
I work with David Levy (vyle to you Sijuners) here at Spacetime Studios in Austin,TX.

Thanks, Sijun!

Sumaleth · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:49 pm

I think Viag is there too? Cool to see so many of Sijun's coming together. We'll expect great things from you guys. Smile

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Max · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:54 am

Sounds great! Bah, I really can't await to join the industry,...another 3 years of studying for me tho ; /

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

That's amazing. I think if i was a little less lazy a few years back, i'd be working at some game company too now.

Now i just drone around the sijun forum all day, thinking of what could have been and wondering where the hell faustgfx is! LOLz

Ranath · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:49 am

That's awesome! What were you doing before that?

Jimmyjimjim · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 459

Congrats watmough! I'll probably have an announcement soon, too. I don't want to jinx it before I sign the paperwork.

watmough · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:00 pm

Suma, Viag's not here (would love it if he was!), pretty sure he's still at Ubisoft in Montreal.....believe me, can't wait til the game is out and we can show some of this stuff!

Max,with your talent I'm sure you'll go far!

Shizo, you, lazy?..never!

Ranath, thanks!...I've been a tattooer for 14 years.

Jimmy, thanks very much,and grats to you too!...er I mean, break a leg!

Nag · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:46 pm

Congrats watmough and welcome to the industry! =)

Naeem · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:41 pm

yeah watmough. congrats! im in the same boat as Max right now. but i think i've got around 4 more years. Perhaps 3. Can't wait!!

Jabo · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:08 pm

Four years for me as well. Congrats bro, I bet you'll fill the industry with some decent stuff!
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Max · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:34 am

watmough: Thanks buddy! Gives us some insight into your working environment from time to time : )

Annis: Dude, I am sure we'll meet sometime. CA is a must go for me, job related ; )

Francis · Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:55 pm

excellent, congratulations! I lived in Austin for 12 years, it is an awesome town.
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balistic · Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 9:22 am

Congrats man. I think you're definitely one of the best painters on here. Can't wait till you can show us some work.
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Jimmyjimjim · member Member # Joined: 12 Dec 2002 Posts: 459

I can announce it now... just signed the paperwork for a position as concept artist at Pandemic Studios. Start in two weeks!

Tzan · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:31 am

Wow, great things happening for a bunch of people.

Congrats to everyone!!

(I worked at Turbine back in 2004 as a content creator on LOTRO)

watmough · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:24 pm

nag,annis,jabo, thanks so much guys.

max,be glad to when i get a chance,

Francis, thanks!...yeah so far I'm loving Austin,still miss the beauty of coastal Maine,but Austin is great.

balistic, thanks for the kind words, whole team here is super talented, we can't wait either!

Jimmy, grats!!!!!!

Tzan, thanks!!...you worked in design?

M@. · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 7:13 pm

congrats Joe, but you know I already knew you were there :p
Congrats Jimmyjimjim!

I'll have an announcement soon too :p
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Tzan · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:31 am

watmough · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 6:41 pm

M@, cheers!......super amazing ultra-psyched for you, much,much,much respect.

Tzan, very cool, thats super-interesting, was there any sort of concepting process that you had to follow,or did you work from design docs, or maybe just as you go?

Tzan · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:45 am

There were no real design docs.

For terrain work, the world builder guys would sketch out something , show it to the lead and then do it.

For dungeons, placement of stuff on the terrian, it seemed that most people did no prior planning and just winged it.

Being an architectural designer I always sketched out what I was going to do before starting. When I did the Old Forest I had a limited area to work in so I needed to know in advance how much space I had and plan it out. I read the relavent pages from the book about their travels thru the area and I replicated them as best I could. I havent gotten a character high enough level to peek in there and see if they kept it the way I made it.

I was shocked to see a few people who basically had no formal design training just "doin' stuff". A little planning goes a long way. So there was a little of everything happening. Each person had a lot of freedom to succeed or fail. The first time another person or lead would even see the work would be on the next play day.

On the art side there was a concept artist of course. They did the characters, architecture styles.

notic · Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:58 am

cool! nice to hear that watmough..

seth1 · member Member # Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 534

Congrats to every one! Good luck all.

LadyLioness · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:45 pm

Hey Watmough, congratulations on the new job Very Happy

great traditional paintings in your blog too btw!
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