More Mesmerizing Meebo Mischief
December 19th, 2009
I recently discovered a synergy between Meebo tools. Apparently the Meebo flask is designed to work in tandem with the Meebo live chat widget. Where crazy Meebo conversations might cause frustration, the flask is there to calm the nerves. I'm kidding of course. People have been increasingly friendly, but enough time has passed that I've gathered another crazy ...
Three new landscapes
December 18th, 2009
Here are some examples of new landscapes I'm working on. They're based on photo references, but have a touch of artistic license. We're still not sure if we'll have water in Overgrowth, but I couldn't resist using our new detail textures to see how it might look. I generated the heightmaps using a new piece ...
Autumn Camouflage
December 4th, 2009
This rabbit is about to give the raiders a taste of their own medicine. Here is a new concept painting I did while thinking about seasonal variation in Overgrowth. This rabbit is in full combat gear. The shoulder and head patches break up his sillhouette so he can blend in with the Autumn leaves. Rabbits rarely fight if they can ...
Preorder Overgrowth With Cash
November 28th, 2009
A lot of people have asked us if there is a way to preorder Overgrowth using cash. PayPal, Google Checkout, and Amazon all require a credit card or bank account, so from time to time, people will send us cash in the mail -- sometimes even including coins in the envelope. This is not the best situation since cash is easily ...
Cat Lord Concept
November 20th, 2009
Here is a concept I did this week trying out some new painting techniques-- although the painting is fairly loose, I am happy with the results. I can't wait to try more stuff in this style. Many cats are self-styled rulers who command over hired "muscle" and slaves. Their kin make up their dukes, who command forces made up ...
Volumetric heat diffusion skinning
November 19th, 2009
After seeing our rigging tutorial, a number of you asked me how we calculate our vertex weights. However, many of you reading the blog are probably asking yourselves a more basic question: What are vertex weights? When we first load the rabbit, it's a static model: just a collection of triangles with an image wrapped around it. Next, we ...
Please beta test our new blog system
November 19th, 2009
For a long time, we've been preaching about how awesome the cloud is and championing Google App Engine and Amazon Cloudfront. However, one thing that has bothered me for a while is that our blog, one of the most visited parts of wolfire.com, is still served from a traditional web server running WordPress. Thankfully, this will change soon ...