Alejandro Rodriguez

Hello Peeps. I decided it would be more organized to have a new page with the clips from the Sims Medieval, until I get around to implementing a new gallery type system for the website. So clik on this link, or the picture, and hope ya likes

This is a little rendering of an interaction I did for the Sims Medieval base game. I added some camera work, just to have fun, and a bit of storytelling to the shot. Hope ya likes.

Hey guys,

I’ve been playing a lot of Fighting games lately, and I’ve always been fascinated at the way Capcom, and Other Companies Capture Really good 2D performances that seem to “work” even thought hey have 8 to 12 frames to make a movement.

I wanted to try this out so I did a little animation based on Chun Li’s Kikosho Ultra, just for kicks nothing fancy. I’ll see about uploading an animatic with the little doodle before the animation when I get the chance. For now, here you go, and let me know if you have any comments.

I really dig shorts like these. Some people I know scoff at these little pieces, but I find them very beautiful, not just in the execution (yes, yes, sometimes is not Dreamworks or Pixar-like animation, lets move on people…), but also in the fact that a small group of people can accomplish something so awesome by dedicating themselves and applying themselves to their craft.

Maybe I romantice it a bit much, I’m sure some of them wanted to kill each other at one point or another, but the result is still great to me. Food for thought, and eyes says I!    Happy watching.

As many people at work know, I absolutely love Street Fighter 4.  I think it revived a genre here in the states that was very dear to me growing up, and now I can’t get enough of it .

Anyways,  while browsing for stuff on how to mod my fight-stick’s art I found this on Shoryuken.com.  I mean, this guy Art is awesome! I got so excited from watching this. The engineering of the pieces, and how they are put together is so amazing to me  I just thought I’d share, and throw some promotion to the guy.  Check him out at http://tek-innovations.com/

Hey everyone,

Sadly I can’t give details as to what I’ve been up to at work, but I do invite you to check out all the media related to the Sims Medieval that is on IGN, gamespot, etc.

On the side I’ve been playing around with MentalRay, and a bit of Phyton, just to give the Tech Skills a little update. Moom was my first victim o

n Mental Ray, here is a sample of the Physical Sun and Sky System.

Hope you likies,

-Alejandro

Hey everyone,

The project I’ve been working on for the past 6 months was announced a little while ago.  So far all i can say is that I really beleive the Sims Fans are going to love this game. I know the Sims isn’t for everyone, and I’m not implying you are going to drop Halo Reach in order to go play the Sims, but I do know that a lot of people love these games, and there is a reason for it. People here care a lot about what they do, and its really going to show on this project. I love the art direction, and I’m sure the fans are going to be very pleased by what they’ll see.

http://www.thesimsmedieval.com/

Big shout out to all my peeps on the Animation Team, the Environment Art Team, and the Concept Team. Don’t feel left out Matt, you are just across the catwalk that’s all ;-P  GO Street Fighter breaks!!!!

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=68752

Modeling along with rigging are two of my other favorite things to do along with animation. I play around with zbrush all the time. I haven’t gotten too good with it yet, but nonetheless its super exciting to see all these new features!  Zbrush has always had problems with hard surface stuff, and it has been super dependent on Maya to provide base meshes. While I don’t think this will completely replace it in the pipeline it sure makes it easier to bring in less refined models and just work quicker with them so you can get to the OCD stage of Zbrush quicker. Really exciting stuff.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=090818