(john at deweese dot com)
Hellos, perhaps I'll write something of interest here soon.
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What I Doing
I'm a software engineer at Maxis (an Electronic Arts studio), working on the game Spore, coming out September 2008. I work with Chris Hecker, Bernd Raabe, and Ryan Enslow on the creature animation system, detailed in the Siggraph 2008 technical paper "Real-time Motion Retargeting to Highly Varied User-Created Morphologies". I also stepped in to implement and refine the creature spine editor and creature game physics simulations, among other bits.
Until Spore is released, I invite you to download the Spore Creature Creator, and share your creations with the world! My Spore name is MaxisJD... stop by and tell me what you think of my creatures, or send me email or a comment if you have questions about creatures with broken animations, or about how our crazy animation system works!
Previous games I've worked on:
- The Godfather (EA 2006) -- take over NY as a 1950s mobster
- Cloud (USC 2006) -- fly through the sky, paint with clouds!
Cheers!
-- jd