Gravity Run

Ricki and I have been working on our next indie game called GravityRun for quite a while. Read a little about our progress here.

header_gravityrunheader_gravityrun

Ubergridder Beta!

We have started a small indie development outfit named BadgerPunch Games, and we’re aiming at creating simple and fun retro-inspired games. Try our first game, Ubergridder, for free!

UG_blogUG_blog

Burton pin-up drawing process

Creating illustrations and art assets is more involving than most people might think. See a quick summary of the creation process of Burton Snowboard’s Love 2011 collection.

pinups_progresspinups_progress

Village Gold Class, the only way to watch movies.

We’ve finally found a good alternative if you’re not going to the movies too often, but still want to check out new and interesting movies on the big screen; The Village Cinema Gold Class Theater at The Mall in Athens.

cinema_titlecinema_title

Swimming at Moraitis

With the insane heat we’re currently experiencing over here, we’re aiming for going to the beach every single weekend for the upcoming weeks.

swimmingswimming

Summer vacation in Norway

I returned from my 16 day summer vacation to Norway in the beginning of August. After being here in Athens for an entire year, it was great to see family and to catch up with old friends again. The past year has been dominated by massive amounts of work, and finally being able to do pretty much nothing for 16 whole days was just what I needed.

norway_2010norway_2010

LEGO Millennium Falcon

What to give to a 35 year old geek that already has everything? My girlfriend Natascha sure found the perfect gift for my birthday!

falcon featuredfalcon featured

Chinese Fantasy-Art magazine

It’s always fun to be invited for magazine features, but I have to admit that it felt very special to be asked to be interviewed for the Chinese magazine; Fantasy-Art.

magazinemagazine

Santorini

So we’re back from an interesting week at the Greek island of Santorini. This was pretty much an impulsive act on our behalf, and with a much needed mini-break, it was great to charge the batteries and relax in beautiful surroundings of picturesque Santorini.

santorinisantorini

Lemur attack!

We tend to visit Athens Zoo very often as it’s a very nice zoo that takes great care of the animals, and they keep expanding and getting new and interesting animals to visit. However, the lemurs seem to have become very used to people, and would jump onto our shoulders to catch a ride.

lemurlemur
June 14, 2011   Henning   Work  
0
Gravity Run

Gravity Run

Time to start using my blog again :-)

Ricki and I have been working on our next indie game called GravityRun for quite a while. We’ve gotten great help from voice actors, an awesome script writer for the dialogue and plot, we’ve got a great animator on hold for the cut-scenes, and no other than the amazing SID-metal band, Machinae Supremacy to compose the music for the game. Henning was hooking up with the band two days during their Athens gig on their European tour. Good things are definitely coming!

Read More »
Tags: , , , , ,
November 06, 2010   Henning   Work  
2
Ubergridder Beta!

Ubergridder Beta!

We have started a small indie development outfit named BadgerPunch Games, and we’re aiming at creating simple and fun retro-inspired games. Our mission is to deliver fun games that are easy to get into and hard to let go of.

Our first project, Ubergridder is in it’s beta state, so head over to have a test, completely for free!

Read More »
Tags: , , , , , , , ,
October 30, 2010   Henning   Everyday life  
1
Halloween craptastic movie night

Halloween craptastic movie night

So we’re having a bunch of friends over tonight, as we do every Halloween; to watch craptastic horror movies and have a good time.

The fridge is packed to the brim of beer, vodka, sangria, amaretto, and cookies, so we should we well suited for a late evening of horror and laughter.

We have a list of movies ready, and we’ll watch a few of them. On the short-list we find:

  • Fright Night (not a craptasic movie, but pure and simple awesome 80′s comedy horror fun).
  • Braindead (also not a bad movie, just packed with awesomeness).
  • Birdemic (now, THIS is a crappy movie. Looking forward to this one).
  • Poultrygeist, Night of the Chicken dead (a low budget musical with zombie chicken-humans, and lots of breasts. What can possibly be bad about this one?)
  • Killer Clowns from outer space (good old movie, lots of fun).
  • Zombie Strippers (one of my favorite stupid horror movies. Lots of fun! Wonder how they convinced Robert Englund to star in this one).
  • Evil aliens (very bad movie, I know it has a few funny moments).
  • Evil Dead (old classic).
  • Troll 2 (Awared THE BEST worst movie ever, and I totally agree!).
  • Re-Animator (Pretty awesome Lovecraft adaption).
  • The Stuff (old, very crappy movie. Could be fun but I’m a bit concerned that it might be a tad slow).
  • Shaun of the Dead (GREAT horror comedy, lots of fun!).

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

Read More »
Tags: , , ,
September 14, 2010   Henning   Everyday life  
1
Geek-books!

Geek-books!

For the past few years I’ve been working a lot. By that, I mean 8 to 10 hours at the office, and then heading home to juggle several projects and clients until 3 in the morning often leading to days consisting of 14 to 16 hours of work. I didn’t sleep much, I was constantly stressed, and I didn’t have time for any of my own projects or anything else.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m super happy for all the cool projects I’ve been offered and worked on, and sad about all the projects I had to turn down because of lack of time, but after a while of working hard you start to feel it.

For the past 2-3 weeks I haven’t work on extra projects at all and it actually feels good, which is a sign I should take seriously. It’s definitely time for a break and focus on my own projects and refill my muse. However, I will naturally be on alert for any special projects that might come my way, and still stay true to my good old clients :-)

To help me on my way, I’ve purchased 3 books about computer games, just to be able to relax and don’t sit in-front of computers, yet still learn more about what I love doing.

Replay: the History of Video Games  Replay: the History of Video Games.
I love watching documentaries about the youth of the video games history, and with several books on the market this was the one that seemed like a good buy.

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter  Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter.
This is a book I’m looking forward to read. It’s short, has big letters, and will probably be a good choice for my first read to ease into things. I’ve also been recommended this book from others.

Fun Inc.: Why Games are the 21st Century’s Most Serious Business.
Random buy, but I’ve read some interesting reviews about this book that made me curious.

Read More »
September 12, 2010   Henning   Art, Work  
3
Burton pin-up drawing process

Burton pin-up drawing process

If you’re not familiar with the creation process for making art assets, you might think that things are fairly easy and straight forward. You see a drawing for a pin-up girl and might think that this was just drawn in a short amount of time. The truth is usually quite different; even what appears to be the simplest of elements will most likely have a more complex creation process than expected. Here’s a short summary of the creation process of the Burton pin-up designs.

When starting out you usually have to present a series of rough sketches, just to give the client a good variety of poses to choose from. Some poses might be requested by the client, and some might be of your own likings and should also be included as an option, which I did in this case.

When I made the illustrations for Burton Snowboard’s 2011 Love collection, I presented a series of rough gray-scale sketches to my client to give them a few choices to pick from. Clothing, facial expressions and style is not important at this stage, only the overall pose. We also had to take under consideration that they are to be used on a narrow and limited space on the surface of the boards, leaving us with some limitations. I also tried out a few poses taking advantage of the limitations by having some of the characters lean on the sides of the board lay-out.

Read More »
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
August 28, 2010   Henning   Everyday life  
7
Village Gold Class, the only way to watch movies.

Village Gold Class, the only way to watch movies.

As I’m getting older, going to the movie theater is getting less and less attractive. People fiddling with cell phones, and talking during the movie is just ruining the entire experience. We’ve finally found a good alternative if you’re not going to the movies too often, but still want to check out new and interesting movies on the big screen; The Village Cinema Gold Class Theater at The Mall in Athens.

Ok, so we’re paying out of our arses to go there, but not having to stand in line like a bunch of sheep kinda makes it worth it.

Read More »
Tags: , , , , , , ,
August 20, 2010   Henning   Everyday life  
0
Swimming at Moraitis

Swimming at Moraitis

With the insane heat we’re currently experiencing over here, we’re aiming for going to the beach every single weekend for the upcoming weeks. There’s nothing like chillin’ on the sun bed with an ice cold beer or frappuchino mocca and listening to the waves. Tip of the year; get to the beaches early, preferably not later 9.30 in the morning and you’ll avoid rush hour on the beach with screaming kids and people shouting in cell phones.

Tascha swimming

Read More »
Tags: , , , , ,
August 20, 2010   Henning   Everyday life  
0
Summer vacation in Norway

Summer vacation in Norway

I returned from my 16 day summer vacation to Norway in the beginning of August.

After being here in Athens for an entire year, it was great to see family and to catch up with old friends again. The past year has been dominated by massive amounts of work, and finally being able to do pretty much nothing for 16 whole days was just what I needed. Athens is super hot at this time of year, and coming home to the fresh summer breeze of Norway was more than welcome. Just sitting in a park with a beer, doing nothing but looking at people was for some reason very relaxing, and the traffic cannot be compared to what the hell is going on here in Athens, hehe.

Read More »
Tags: , , , , , , ,
August 20, 2010   Henning   Everyday life  
3
New skin for my blog!

New skin for my blog!

After seeing my girlfriend’s awesome new blog, I just got too tempted to update my crappy old skin and replace it with a better one. And here it is!

Will keep fiddling about  a little bit more, and slowly get into posting more stuff now that everything is all brand new and shiny.

Read More »
July 18, 2010   Henning   Everyday life  
4
LEGO Millennium Falcon

LEGO Millennium Falcon

What to give to a 35 year old geek that already has everything? My girlfriend Natascha sure found the perfect gift for my birthday last month; the largest and most spectacular LEGO model ever to be sold on the market, the LEGO Ultimate Collector’s Millennium Falcon with 5195 pieces, and an assembly manual the size of phone-book.

The cool thing is that this model has already gone out of production so what is to be found in stores are the only ones left on the market. I smell a valuable collectors item for the future.

Hmmm… I’m wondering if I can actually fit inside of it once it’s been built. :-P

Read More »
Tags: , , , , , , , ,
« Older posts