Game Development Community Sessions @ rAge

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Game Development Community Sessions - rAge 2011

Come and meet the local Game Development community at rAge 2011, We have people who teach, eat, live and breathe game development in South Africa. We have a couple of talks, a lot of community vibes and a big meet up on Saturday.

Want to know how to get into making games as a career? Want to know who is making what? Find out what you are missing! Find out who the IGDA is and their role in your community and what they offer you.Get the information you need on the Monthly meet ups we have at Microsoft in Johannesburg..

We have developers from Cape Town coming, what is your excuse!?

map / location information at www.rageexpo.co.za

ANIMATION MAJOR 2: Class structure for 13 - 20 September

From 13 - 20 September 2011, all second year animation majors are to submit a capture of their animation at the end of class for crit, as well as lighting and rendering test stills. Animation crits will no longer take place during class time. Students will instead receive a feedback video before the Friday of that week, in which either Stephan or Chris will go through their animation and crit their work. Students will then have a detailed feedback on file to refer back to in order to make changes and fix their work.

Classes will then serve as a "Q&A session" to assist students with technical issues, and will be from 09:30 - 11:30.

SUBMISSION CRITERIA:

Captures are to be submitted 720x576 (widescreen captures must then be letterboxed, ie black bars on top and bottom) and contain Field Guides and FRAME NUMBERS (Very NB) in QuickTime format (.mov) and compressed to UNDER 50MB. Stills to be submitted as JPGs or PNG.

Game Community Meet

Don't forget Monday 15th August 2011,
Microsoft Offices Bryanston,

Game developer IGDA community meetup, We have a packed session this month with 3 game presentations as well as the VP of stategy for Unity3D and General Manager of Union (Brett Seyler) will be speaking about Union and what it means.

Find a map and times here :
http://www.sagamedev.com/events/event/community-night-2011-07-12/

3D Printing Workshop

1 June @ 14:00

The Open Window - LAB (E2)

Autodesk 2012 Launch

Johannesburg: 24th May 2011 at The Arena, William Nicol Drive, Fourways (14:00 - 20:00... but we don't have to stay that late).

Please register here.

Tech Art Presentation

Judd Simantov is giving a presentation on the 14th June at the Microsoft offices on William Nicol on art pipelines and some of the work he's done. He was the Lead Technical Artist at Naughty Dog, and currently works for Naughty Dog and Blizzard Entertainment.

http://juddsim.blogspot.com/

The game dev community meet happens on the second Tuesday of every month at the Microsoft offices at 18:30. Topics range from programming, to art, to game design, and folks often show off indie games that they've been working on.

Squeaky Clean

aka "Kreepy Krauly" project for extra credit.

Students interested in working on the project should please attend the Loerie 2011 Exhibition. Register here!
More details soon...