This is what I’ve been doing for the past 7-8 months or so at work. I Designed the game and Art Directed a team that grew to about 20 people, who all contributed to building it and making it what it is today. The game was made to promote the film Quarantine, which will be in a theater near you on October 10. Here is what the film is about.

Television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman are assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles Fire Station. After a routine 911 call takes them to a small apartment building, they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams coming from one of the apartment units. They soon learn that a woman living in the building has been infected by something unknown. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, they try to escape with the news crew in tow, only to find that the CDC has quarantined the building. Phones, internet, televisions and cell phone access have been cut-off, and officials are not relaying information to those locked inside. When the quarantine is finally lifted, the only evidence of what took place is the news crew’s videotape.

(You can check out the latest trailer for the film at www.ContainTheTruth.com)

The game is intended to be very similar to the movie. We tried to mimic as much as we could the look and style of the film. Back in January we got the opportunity to visit the set and take photos and video footage for reference. We also ended up getting the blue prints that were used to build the sets. We used all that to get the detail and look of the game just right. We designed, modeled, animated, textured, lit, rendered and coded everything that you see in the game. Everything was done, from scratch, by us at Imageworks Interactive.

I’m really proud of all the hard work and dedication that everyone on the team put into the project and I think they all did an amazing job. Take a look for yourself. Play the game and pass it along to others. Let me know what you think.

Stay tuned for the launch of the site, which I also Art Directed and Designed, in early August.

So, that was my morning. Good times.

Our camera fell on the ground and broke last weekend while we were at Disneyland. After spending a few days doing a bit of research, I decided on getting the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5. I went and got it last night and have been playing around with it since then. So far I’m happy with it. It’s a nice, 9 mega pixel camera with some cool features; like image stabilization, face recognition, 10x Optical Zoom, wide ange lens, HD video, etc.. I’m looking forward to taking lots of pictures with this new camera.

Just click on the thumbnail below to view the full-sized image and then download it to your desktop.

Goodbye Fred Thompson – Unfortunately he’s dropped out of the race. I’m very upset and not sure who I want to support now. I have pretty major issues with each of the remaining candidates so I’ll probably end up just doing the “wait and see” thing.

Call of Duty 4 – I’ve been playing A LOT of COD4. It’s loads of fun. I’m very addicted.

Work – Been real busy. Getting some very cool projects. Just got rid of my P.O.S. PC and got a Mac, So that was pretty sweet!

Home – Cleaned and Organized the garage and installed some cabinets and a work bench. Thats something I’ve been wanting to do since we moved in so that was nice to get that going. I still have some organizing to do but everything is looking really good.
This weekend we drove a little ways up north from our house (about 25min.) to Frazier Park and played in the snow. It was the first time Walker had been to the snow and he loved it. We all had a really great time. You can check out some pics on his blog.

It was finally time for my Dad to upgrade to a new computer. It’s probably been almost 10 years since he got the last one. I’m happy to say that he’s gone ahead and got a brand-spanking new iMac! Yes, that’s right, he’s gone and got his very first Mac! I’m very excited for him. Now he gets to see what its like to use a Real computer and Operating System. Ha ha

Congratulations Dad!

It’s sad to see him go. They don’t make them like him anymore. He was someone that I will always look up to and try to model myself after. If I can end up being even half the man that he was, I’ll be happy.

Goodbye Grandpa. We will love and miss you forever. Rest in Peace.

Grandpa loved football and played back in his home state of Nebraska!

Here he is with his son Wayne and daughters Carol and Linda.

And here he is with Walker in his role of Great-Grandpa! He really loved Walker.