BAF Game

Getting a free bag and T-shirt from Bradford Animation Festival was a good start to the event at Bradfords National Media Museum which included lectures from developers from big hitting gams like Halo:Reach, Red Dead Redemption, Disneyland Adventures and Animals the Kinect game. The event kicked off for our group when we got through the door and right inside were machines with all the old arcade games on them like pong and asteroids, which we all had goes on, then not long after the first lectures started then the most impressive part of the whole event in my opinion started up, a facial software developer (Jay) from america who uses and developed the program faceware from Image Metrics gave his talk and demonstration on how the program works, i was amazed at how much he got done and how he did it using this new software and especially how easy it looked to be. Other events on day 1 were; a lecture on the program Unity, Carlton Reeve: Play with Learning and The Animal Kingdom and the Magical Kingdom all of which were interesting and different.

Other talks at BAF were on ipad games and how they became successful, how hard the little things are in the game Disney Land and also how lucky a small company can get by having a chance to work with Disney Studios, also how employees work and behave in the workplace, all very interesting stuff but i was still mostly impressed by the facial capture and manipulation software from faceware because they have had their work featured in many of the games i have played and thus makes it more personal to me as i have had my life changed by the stories and characters in these games and when i get to meet a member of a team of people who have influenced my life in such a big way i think instantly they have an advantage in my personal opinion.

I was at the midnight launch for Call of Duty Modern Warefare 3 the day which BAF game was on, i was extremely tired on the trip day but still managed to enjoy and take in a lot of information presented at the lectures. This nay have contributed to me not feeling well enough to go to BAF day 2 as well as the massive cold i had just caught, i heard from other people who went to it that BAF day 2 was really good too and am sorry to have missed it. There were things like motion capture workshops, panorama, student films and panel discussions on day 2 of BAF which all from what i have read on the website and other peoples blogs sound good.