Let’s see what we have here, a 21 year old talented motion graphic designer from Melbourne who made this flipping 3d animation. We say bravo! because our 3dstudiomax motion graphics career stucks a bit after some strange experimental picture output that looks like a rohrschacht-test.

It is an entirely animated 3D piece called “A Short Visual History of Videogames”.
It is a 3 minute long “visual essay” (or whatever you call these things) about the history of videogame consoles, from 1972 when Ralph Baer invented the Odyssey with Bob Tremblay, to the launch of the current generation of consoles and beyond.

I did my project about the history of videogames because; I know lots about it, and I’m not very good at the deep-meaningful/pretentious stuff that most student films/animations seem to consist of. Plus ultimately my piece was always mainly intended to be a sort of modelling showreel, with the narrative taking a back seat to pretty visuals designed to show off my technical abilities with 3D modelling and lighting etc.

My aim here was to develop my modelling/texturing/lighting/compositing skills to the point where I was able to achieve photo realistic visuals with all of the consoles.

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Game Computers in the video:
Atari 2600
Nintendo N.E.S
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive 16bit
Sega Saturn
Nindendo 64
Sony Playstation I
Sony Playstation II
XBOX
Game Cube

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