From The Grave

“From the Grave”“A hack and slash, 3rd Person (or zombie) videogame adventure

By: Michael Boures, Bryan Calabro, Dominic Manzione, & Thomas O'Day

A videogame for these select consoles:

Produced By:

Produced By:

Produced By:

• 2012 Zombie Apocalypse • Open World

- (roam, scavenge, hunt, survive and kill)• Befriend other humans• Or defriend other humans and eat them

alive turning them zombies. • Find a cure! If there is one…

Game Overview

• 100’s of Hours of Gameplay• Weekly Updates

– Different expansions to keep the zombies coming

– Word of the day feature with hints instead of vocabulary words

• Live feature – Work with friends, eat enemies– Destroy enemies or become enemies

Game Overview (cont.)

In-Game Supplies

• Want some food?– Animals to hunt, supermarkets to explore

• Need some medicine?– Break into a hospital, home, EMS truck

• You’re going to want weapons… – Found a pipe? Bash some skulls in– Found a hunting store? Open season!

Software used

• Autodesk Maya (on PC because it’s cheaper)• 3D computer graphics software .• Used to create interactive 3D applications,

including video games, animated film, TV series, or visual effects

• Users define a virtual workspace (scene) to implement and edit media of a particular project. Scenes can be saved in a variety of formats

• Maya exposes a node graph architecture

Node Graph Architecture

• Modular Node Components

• Graph

• 2-Dimensional Visualization

• Popular in the film and computer games industry

Software used (cont.)

• Adobe After Effects CS6

• Fire

• Pre-set animations

• <2 second animations for the coder

Benefits of using Maya & After Effects

• Fluid Effects - effective for smoke, fire, clouds and explosions

• Classic Cloth - clothing and fabrics moving realistically over an animated character.

• Fur Animal- For fur-like objects, such as grass, hair etc.

• Camera Sequencer- used to layout multiple camera shots and manage them in one animation sequence.

Maya’s been used in…

• Movies- Shrek (Dream Works), Kung Fu panda, monsters vs. Aliens (Dream Works/Paramount) Avatar

• Games- Medal of Honor, Far Cry 2, Guitar Hero series, Forza Motorsport (Microsoft), Rock Band and many more.

Examples of Maya Work

Examples of Maya Work

Examples of Maya Work

Maya Plugins

• Extensions for the 3d animation software Maya.

• There are plugins for many different areas such as modeling, animation and rendering.

• Some of them also interact with external applications (for instance renderers, game engines or other software packages).

Plugins We Used

• Render Man for Maya• Photo-realistic rendered by Pixar• It is used to render all of their in-house 3D

animated movie productions• Produces life like animations• Makes games more realistic

More Plugins We Used

• Ams-3D Automated motion systems for Maya• Character Animation• Toolset for creating, editing, storing, reusing,

scaling, bending and timing information• Creates a smooth transition with your

character when gaming

Plugin Developed ($$$)

• Blood splash plug-in – Called “red-ink”

• A splash simulation dynamic

• Takes and multiplies existing nodes to eliminate the duplication of liquid polygons

• Plan on selling it for money

What we offer…

• A new video game ready for development

• A plug-in software to sell alongside the videogame in development

• A unique niche market for hack and slash zombie games crossing all consoles