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ninja The slaver ants is a project I'm working on to help market my university's artificial life program. This is ending up being the second of three that will be completed. I thought the termite would be the second but that project was canceled and I was moved onto this one, which is working out to be for the best. The idea behind this one is to demonstrate the use of the slaver ant algorithm to drive enemy behavior in a video game. I'm working with two modelers: Erika Peinado and Heather Grice; and two animators: Cody Woodard and Trent Kollodge; and Abe Stopani as the compositor. My role is sort of a generalist on this one since we're re-using the ant rig, so I'm doing most of the texturing and lighting, some modeling, some rigging adaptations and working as sort of a visual director. This is a much larger scale project than anything I've worked on in the past and we should be getting some pretty cool looking stuff by the end of it.

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Heather Grice - Modeling: all environments Erika Peinado - Modeling: embryo canister, hover tank and turret
Cody Woodard - Animated scenes: 3b, 4, 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d and 11 Abe Stopani - All post production work: editing, compositing, special effects and sound
Trent Kollodge - Animated scenes: 3a, 5, 6, 10a, 10b, 10c, 10d, 10e and 10f

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