That’s right, space bees! One of the new customers we are developing features a space bee as its buzzing, bumbling companion. The bee was sort of an afterthought and wasn’t even drawn in the character’s original concept, but after modeling the grumpy cactus person, I felt like he needed an adorable counterpart to offset his […]
In addition to running a booth at PAX East this year, we also managed to make an appearance at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) during the very same weekend! As the winners of the video game portion of Logan Theatre’s Playtest Party last November, we were given the fantastic opportunity to present our […]
Hey gang! Erin here. It’s somehow been two weeks since the beginning of PAX East and C2E2. Running two booths in the same weekend required a lot of planning and organization, not to mention stress. We’ve all done a few conventions together before, but never without the whole team present – there’s only 3 of […]
Morvin? …is that you, Morvin? Well, no… but it is a reasonable facsimile of Morvin. Introducing Morvo, the customer service science fair project! Evidently, Morvin built this thing for his Applied Robotics class in Space Kindergarten and he will be using it to make his one-man shifts at the Quickstop a little less overwhelming. This […]
As we entered into the new year, we had one thing on our mind. CAMPAIGN MODE! After doing all of that marketing and self promoting in the late fall and early winter, all we wanted to do was settle in and really start working on the game again. I would in fact say, “We are […]
There’s a lot that goes into making a video game’s main character and our project is no exception. After all, the main character is the liaison between the player and the game itself. Of course a good character must echo the game’s style and convince players that they belong in the world they see around […]
Do You Smell That Stink? Until scientists figure out a marketable way to incorporate the sense of smell in our media (good luck with that), artists must convey stinkiness visually. This is typically done by using “stink lines” (very technical term). I can think of no better example than Ren and Stimpy’s classic animated stink […]
Okay, okay, I admit it… I might not know exactly what I am doing. This is Ian talking, and I am the director/programmer on Cosmo’s. As we might have mentioned before, the whole team is made up of artists (including me), so what the hell am I doing here? Good question, I’ll let you know […]
When Ian and I founded Big Sir in 2015, the idea was that I would be spending all my time on character animation, which is all I was really trained in. Now, animation is only like a third of my role here. I’ve filled in the gaps just about everywhere – concept art, modeling, sound […]
…that is, a technical artist. This means I have a lot of different jobs, and when your game dev team is as small as ours, it also means I can never pass the buck to someone else. So many tasks fall into my lap, from concept art, modeling and texturing, to rigging, special effects, and […]