My Current Project - Mass Effect: Infestation

This is my current project! Obviously, it's a fanfilm based on Mass Effect. I've called it "Infestation", but which side is infesting the galaxy! Ah, food for thought!

It is a simple story. It doesn't touch on Shepard's tale at all. In fact, no humans! This all starts with one quarian, but we have a bunch more characters in it. We have a turian frigate, a multi-species space station and a wing of the Flotilla. I've spent approximately 4 years on it in total. But it's nearly done!

I did all of the modelling myself. None of it is ripped from the games. I also did all the animating myself. most of the music is from the soundtracks, though two other tracks are from other very talented people. The track during the space battle is from Justin Catalano. I asked him for permission about 3 years ago and he said yes. Though he's fallen off the radar and hasn't replied for a while. Later on, there's a piece of background music in a bar. That is named "Daft Fish" and is done by my two talented friends Alex Wilkins and Tom Jolley.

Other than that, the major part is the voice acting. I do a chunk of them myself (mainly because I had a really clear idea of how particular lines were meant to go. Plus, I was always on hand for retakes!). But the others are voiced by my friends.

I'll describe a few of the more technical things for anyone interested. I'll add more later. For now, check out this krogan. A few shots of the head in a few different stages:

	The raw mesh
	The mesh with a subsurface modifier on it
	High resolution mesh
	Low res mesh with a normal map of the high res, along with other textures applied

That shows one of the more complex character models and how it was developed a bit.

Now, for other things! First up, a wallpaper:

And now here's the trailer for it, released on N7 day 2013.



And remember - if you have any ideas for things you'd like me to add, let me know on Ben(at)daltana(dot)com!