CGTalk Feature

I was featured on the front page of CGTalk today, which caused my website to crash. :) I had to remove some videos from my FTP and just uploaded my ShowREEL to youtube. When i get a chance I will update Vimeo with a HD version. Until then, check out my ShowREEL on youtube:

Vimeo Link

Youtube link - ShowReel

Borderlands ships!

Borderlands has shipped!! And its #2 on amazon!!! Link

I am just waiting approval to post my animation work from it and some of the downloadable content. So new content should be up shortly. As for that website i posted about last time... Its on the back burner.

Website going up soon

Some progress on the new website.

Borderlands Update - Screens

So Gearbox has finally released some photos of the new concept art style for Borderlands. I was very happy to find that a couple of the screen shots that they decided to use in the PC Gamer spread, had some images of my animations. The game is shaping up really well and I cant wait to play the finished product. Hope everyone enjoys the new screen shots.

About the image - I was fortunate to work on all the animations for this creature.

2008 Render Test

Here is a trial render of how i want the reel to look like. Not sure the contrast is where i want it yet, but you can see where the style is headed in this video.


Untitled from kyle king on Vimeo.

Demo reel progress: Rough

Brothers in Arms: HH 2008 Rough Reel from kyle king on Vimeo.

This is my rough animation reel for 2008. Most of the animations are me in a mo-cap suit; mo-cap then cleaned up by me, with key frame animation added on top. The finished reel will have a break-down of what was done in each shot.

This rough reel is a combination of some animations I did while working on Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway (from Jan '07 to Sept '07).
The reason for this reel, was to get a feel for where i wanted to place each animation in the time line for the Final Reel.

Thanks 2008

2007 Grad Show-Reel
Linked In Profile

As the year ends i am going to start a new tradition. In most industry's it is common to update your "Resume", so i have decided to annually update my portfolio (demo reel). I don't think it will be 100% complete before the 1st of '09, but it will be on its way. This will most likely be the last post of the year so i figured I would end it on a good note. A nice shot of my home work station and my helpers.

Borderlands

Since Brothers In Arms shipped I have been working on Borderlands. I wont be able to feature any of the work in my end of the year reel, but will publish some when possible.

(click image to view development info)

Shipped Title

So after many months of hard work I have my first shipped title under my belt, Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway shipped in September on the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC. I had a lot of fun and learned so much while working on this title.

(click image to view development info)

PC Controls: Brochures

Here are two out of about 40 brochure/flyers that i did for the same company, PC Controls. 100% custom grahics and design.

Web Design: PC Controls

www.pccontrols.net

This website was for PC Controls and is still up and running. I did over 70 pages all with 100% custom images. Most of which i had to take the photos. We decided to keep the orginal layout from their old website so that returning customers knew where everything was located.

Winter 2007 Demo reel

Winter 2007 Demo Reel from kyle king on Vimeo.

This is my unfinished demo reel from college. Everything contained in this reel was done by me; modeling, animating, textures, lighting. The only part that was not done by me are the hands of the characters, they were taken from a free online source. I would of added post processing to the reel and changed a lot more aspects of it, but ended up landing a job a gearbox right out of school. So this reel was never finished to what it could of been. ANYWAY this is my Winter 07 Graduation Reel.

Hells Highway Screen Shot

New Blog

Finally getting all of this set up so I will be posting my reel from graduation soon. And hopefully when Brothers In Arms ships i will be able to post some of my work from it.