On the 30th December LvL turned 10 years! For this occasion LvL staff have prepared 10th Anniversary Map Packs with best levels for Quake III Arena DM, 1v1, CTF, TDM and CA game modes.
Here’s a list of winners from NoGhost Mapping Competition for Quake III Arena.
1st Place:
Devilish by Justin “StormShadow” Ingels
2nd Place:
Substation 11 by Tom “Phantazm11” Perryman
3rd Place:
Focal Point by Simon “Sock” O’Callaghan
Robert Briscoe is a 3D Artist from United Kingdom. In his portfolio you can find professional work from Mirror’s Edge developed by DICE and a lot of other impressive projects. Also have a look on his current projects from his Dev Blog.
Mirror’s Edge:
CounterStrike: Source – de_Forest:
Nuclear Down MOD – nd_Russia:
Visit Robert’s portfolio and his Dev Blog.
Bram “Peris” Eulaers is an Environment Artist from Stockholm. You might remember his name from Unearthly Challenge and award wining Abandoned Colony scene. Take a look at his portfolio.
Forest Environment:
Swedish Mansion:
Abandoned Colony:
Scenes from Bionic Commando
You can check more Bram’s scenes at his portfolio site. Also you can check an interview with Bram at GameArtisans.
You can reed the interview with one of the Techland’s Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Level Designers, Mateusz “Seir” Piaskiewicz at World of Level Design portal. Link to interview.
On Bringing Modern Warfare 2 To Life by Chris Remo – interview with Joel Emslie, artist at Infinity Ward. Link to article.
Free version of Epic’s Unreal Development Kit is now available from nVidia Developer Zone. The UDK pack contains all the tools that you’ll need to create own product.
More information and videos on nVidia Developer Zone – Unreal Development Kit page and official official UDK page.
If you know GTKRadiant and Quake III Arena well, you can participate to NoGhost.net Mapping Competition. You can win interesting prizes from contest sponsors: AMD, ATI and Sapphire.
Visit official competition page for more details.
Tom Parker presented his latest Unreal Engine 3 scene called Darkwatch Church.
Watch full gallery here and comment his scene on Game-Artist.net Forums.
In next few days World of Level Design YouTube Channel will be updated with another parts of Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood Mapping Tutorials. Todays episode topic is:
Mapping Tutorials – Part 2 – ChromED Interface and Navigation