Sad Hippo

What're you cryin' about? Wimpy baby hippo.

Demo Reel 2008

Josh Riley's Demo Reel (2008) from Josh Riley on Vimeo.

It's a bit old now, but I have been looking for a good place to post for free that won't completely tear the motion apart when the thing gets compressed. Thank you Vimeo!

Anyway, I want to post an updated one once I get it cut back together, and add in a couple of shots that I have polished up since I finished this reel. Also once G-Force hits DVD. And then again once hell freezes over (just kidding).

No update in a long freakin time! But here it is. Wish I could have taken it further, but, oh well.

GeeeeFORCE!

G-Force Movie Trailer

The preview for G-Force came out over the holiday break!

Age of Empires: Mythologies

The last game I worked on at Amaze was Age of Empires: Mythologies.

It was the most creatively rewarding experience I have had in games so far.

My art team was an amazing group of very professioal, very talented individuals who I would hope to be able to work with again.

My main contribution to the game was the cultural god portraits. It was a lot of work, but they were so much fun. Some of them I am very proud of, and some of them I wonder why I included on this image. (ha ha).

Thanks to everyone who I worked with on the project. Our programmers broke their backs to get an amazing engine running. Our designers built an amazing game. Our testers dug into every level and scenario. Our producers facilitated the whole thing with style and grace. And upper management let us (at times) duct tape fireworks together, and toss them into a crowded cul de sac.

And finally, thank you to Nintendo Power for being typically biased, and predictably favorable to bubble gum tween game players everywhere.

Creamer Commandos

These are the Creamer Commandos. That's right. Coffee creamers determined to cream the coffee (Tagline developed by wordsmith: Derek Osborne). The General, Lt. Coburn, Sfc. Stabbone, Medic Hall, Pfc. Wierzbowski, and Pfc. VonTalbane.

Creamer Commandos was a animated short I did with a few close friends. All in all, the project was a great learning experience, and a ton of fun to build from the initial sketches, all the way to babysitting 2 seperate render farms, and hiring/recording an all volunteer orchestra.

Negative Space Cowboy

Im trying not to make a habit out of leaving this page dormant for years at a time, but I haven't been doing a very good job.

I know people who can just blog away. They see something during the day or have something happen to them and they immediately think, 'I've got to post this on my blog'. I am not one of those people. In fact, no matter how hard I try, I can never remember to post anything that I have done. This image is case and point. I randomly decided to do an hour of painting one night, and this is what showed up. Then it sat on my desktop ambiguously named 'speedpaint01' which is typically reserved for trash images that I have no intention of saving.

whoops.