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Some game graphics preview

I have been very busy doing graphics for my XBOX 360 game. Here’s an image I have done a while ago. It was originally a concept sketch that I turned into a 3d render later on which became the base of my main character in the game.   I actually found a nice way to use this image in …

Icecarving a dragon

 For the Annual Dutch Ice Carving Championship (NK Icecarving 2010 Arnhem) my wife and I carved a little dragon out of ice. We didn’t spend much time taking pictures (so busy stacking ice and sawing)  so at the moment this is all I could gather. The first picture is work in progress, we still had some …

Work in progress 1….

Just a small teaser screenshot of what I’m upto:   It’s a platformgame for the XBOX Live Indie Games channel! I’ve got the character moving, shooting, running, rayblasting(!) etc. so that part is covered. There is also a couple of enemy monsters up and running about. Collission detection still needs some work and ofcourse a lot of …

Sculpting sand and ice

Sculpting is a nice hobby, but it gets really cool if you get the chance to make man-high sculptures. Sand and Ice are perfect materials for doing large projects. Here are some examples of sculptures I did or cooperated in. Also check out this website: www.carvediem.nl as Carve Diem is the team that I am …

Games

Over the years, I have made a whole bunch of games, mostly just for hobby and fun. Many more were never finished and some were actually published by a real publisher! Here are some examples in chronological order: Wildfire : Commodore 64 side scrolling shooter. 3 levels plus sub-level games – my very first game!   …

Games page added

Since I am back on track with Game Development lately, I decided to include the Games page from my previous website. It’s just a quick overview but still kind of shows you what I was up to all that time. Check it here! Currently I have been exploring XNA and I am planning to make …

One giraffe?….One million giraffes!

There are some really cool projects on the big internet out there. One of them features a doodle by me, it is the one million giraffes project: one million giraffes I love giraffes, mine looks a bit angry but that’s just to compensate for all the cute giraffes on that website. I especially like how people …

Videos

Hey guys & Girls,   Here are some (links to) some videos that I have done.   I did this short invitation video for a company I once worked for:   [mediaplayer:../movies/tmc.flv]   Also, I put some videos on Youtube (up until now, this one got an astonishing amount of over 19.000 views! I have …

Free Downloads

Everybody loves tigerrabbits, so why not download a colouring picture to spend those winter nights: Tiggerrabbit colouring picture