Exibiton

We held an exhibition of our work for the Game Art Machinima module for the public today. We had Andrew Bennison, Managing Director of Update, a Games apps and software events company who looked at our work and gave us positive feedback. He also asked if he could leave us his card and invited us to his next event, which I took as a positive note as our work must have impressed him to a certain degree for him to have done this.

We also had Games Republic look at our work, who had a play through our walk-through and watched our film. One member asked "So how long did you have to produce this? A year?" for which I replied "8 to 10 weeks." He was then very surprised and impressed as it was clear he thought he time we took creating our work was 5 times the length it actually was.

Finally we had a class of students come to look at our work who were between 15-16 years old. They seemed very intrigued with our work with one student almost interviewing us about the process of creating the work we had, and the stages of the characters development. He said it was really good and hope to be on a course like this so he can create work like this because he "loved it." We were also talking to a teacher of the group who said our drawings and characters looked fantastic, and judging on how inquisitive and interacting the students were being that they were thoroughly enjoying themselves.

This was all very pleasant to hear as after so much work and time to be able to present our work and hear positive word son it did feel rewarding, but to also be able to help and talk to students wanting to work towards where I am and explain our work flow and what is good for them to start practicing felt really good, as I recall being in their position doing the same thing at their age, similar to what I do to professional comic artists at comic cons now.

Overall our groups section of the exhibition seemed to go really well with many positive comments from practitioners and professionals, but also our target audience as well, proving to ourselves that we achieved our goal with this module.

Photos of our groups set up section of the exibiton can be sen below.