Week One At TT Fusion

Oh My Lord.

Imagine that you are working in your dream job for a couple of weeks. You want to create some beautiful models and show some competence but all that you seem to do is flounder in a hopeless stream of miss-understanding? Where are the 4096 textures?

This week has been a real eye opener. Basically I am a useless tool at the moment slowly absorbing information to hopefully upgrade to be slightly useful my Monday. The games industry is a whole world of 'less is more' that makes you push the boundries of possibilty. You are constantly trying to get one polly to look like four, or bully a stamp sized texture to cover a football pitch. There are no liberties that you lavish in whilst in college. This really is something from nothing.

You can't beat that feeling of absolute excitment though. I am working on a real game. Not something that I have made up. What I create has to satisfy the stringent eyes of hardened industry scrutiny and they don't need to be kind. You learn fast so as not to make the same mistake and it is a constant learning curve. I feel challenged at every corner and that makes me frustrated at times but ultimatly satisfied. I want to learn and be better as at the moment I am only too aware at how little I know.

Knowledge is power so at the moment I am a level 1. Everyone else is a level 200. Lets see where I can get to by next week.

Day One In The TT Fusion House

Oh My God. I don't think I can put into words how damn amazing today was. Think of a puppy in a room full of tennis balls all bouncing around each one looking really really fun. Well there you go, I could put it into words. Whats happening on that screen? Or that screen? Or that screen? Not enough eyes................ There is something immense happening everywhere all the time.

Well the day started with a litre of latte, then a quick introduction to Mr Turner our liaison. We then signed our souls away to TT basically preventing us from saying anything that can or could give away the content of this project........so there is my first day.

Well not quite. We had a small meeting with Will Turner, as he showed us where they are up to with the game and what they are working on at the moment. He then looked at the work that we have covered on the course, before we were led to the 'Mr Norris Suite' a meeting come entertainment room where we research the style and background of the game for the remainder of the day. Tomorrow we should be able to start working in 3D as they have organised computers for each of us.

I can't wait to see what an industry machine feels like.

Today was like Christmas when you were young. You wake up early feeling anticipation building up in your belly. You race to the tree that harbours the shiny boxes of complete happiness. You get that awesome present that you really really wanted and makes you feel so excited that you can only make stupid noises and your eyes look like they will pop out your head. You then drink too much free fizzy drink and get really tired, but there is still boxing day tomorrow.............................