Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou
@Kanaratron
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Creative Director/Lead Developer @PolyTreehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTABreakthrough 2021 • Double BAFTA nominee • Industry speaker • He/him
Dundee, UK
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How does 'A Short Hike meets Greek mythology with a splash of Ace Attorney' sound?
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The anti-aging properties of stylized art direction.
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Animation reference of the Gods.
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A much needed thread of anime data discs...
Patlabor 2 (1993)
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Fun film fact. In Escape from New York (1981) they used reflective tape on a miniature model of the city & filmed it under black light to approximate 'cutting-edge' wireframe CG, which would have blown the budget at the time.
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Anime rain appreciation thread...The Garden of Words (2013)
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Concept art for the new Moominvalley TV show is a bit tasty...😍
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You people were WAY too hard on this movie
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The indie game I'm making and three of the inspirations behind it.
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Sometimes it's ok to take liberties with 'accepted practice' 3D. In (the double BAFTA-nominated) Röki we literally sink arms and legs into the bodies of our characters.
Those fuckers aren't even connected.
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...Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002)
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Character select screen for the best game never made.
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What’s an action sequence that lives in your head rent free?
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Hey
#artvsartist
! I'm Alex. I make silly things then I make them move 👍
#indiedev
#gamedev
#animation
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One of my favourite things that some games take from screenwriting is when they accelerate and get easier in the final act/sections, rather than getting longer and more taxing (as is traditional).
Ico is a great example of this.
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I'm a little biased but it's really nice to see non-photoreal art styles shining. 🙌
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OK, you can create a licensed game with any IP you want. What would you go for (my picks below)?
- Twin Peaks
- Earthsea (the books)
- Wes Anderson Film-verse
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Hi, I'm an indie dev and we made a creepy-but-cute 3D adventure game inspired by Scandinavian folklore and the Moomins.
Hi, I'm an indie dev and we made a folk horror adventure game set in Victorian England, inspired by the likes of M.R. James, Lovecraft and films like The Wicker Man and The Blood on Satan's Claw! 💀⛏️
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The alien landscapes of Roger Dean for your Sunday eyeballs...
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Been thinking about how important 'sense of place' is to me in video games.
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I build a *lot* of stuff using simple smoothed cubes as a starting point.
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30 years on, the characters portraits from The Secret of Monkey island are still 👌
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EEEEEEEEEPPPPPP! Our new game💙
(dies)
✨ NEW GAME REVEAL ✨
Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island is a ‘friend ‘em up’ story adventure from the creators of Röki.
💙 Make friends with Greek Gods
🔎 Find hidden mementos to restore their memories
🏝️ Return the island to its former glory
⛵️ Solve the mystery & find a way home
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The secondary motion in Streets of Rage 4 should run for president.
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Note sure there's ever been a more charming depiction of clouds than Curse of Monkey Island.
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@GameDesignDan
There were some real wizards there at that time. Lazarus's jeans also get wet when he goes in water and slowly dry. Bonkers.
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...I'm a big fan of visual 'sleight-of-hand' as seen with this big ole bird I made & animated for Röki.
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I promise I won't cry. It's just a single frame from a game."
The single frame:
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This book was a big part of my first steps into animation (as I'm sure it was for countless others). RIP Richard Williams.
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Hello
#PortfolioDay
, I'm Alex and here's some squishy stuff I made/animated for
#R
öki the
#indiegame
we're working on👍
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Eeep! After almost 20 years in Cambridge and a year of lowland lockdown we're moving to higher ground.
My wife snagged the job she went for. We're moving to Scotland. 🏴
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Eyvind Earle concept art for Disney's Sleeping Beauty (1959).
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How about someone makes an AI that detects and hides AI creations from social media feeds and image searches.
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Watched The Matrix last night for the first time in ages.
Forgot just how striking the cinematography is.
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Can't believe they kept weapon durianability for the new Zelda.
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I PUT MY PHONE AWAY FOR AN HOUR AND THEN GRAB IT TO BUY A NEW PAIR OF SLIPPERS AND...🎉🎉🎉
@PolyTreehouse
Congratulations on your nomination for Best Debut Indie Game!
#TheGameAwards
Vote here:
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An early facial animation test for my upcoming indie game Mythwrecked.
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Talking to folks about my non-violent emotional narrative game.
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Few things we did at EGX this year that worked well:-
📸 QR code for Steam wishlist on stand for folks to snap
📪 Small cheap tablet with our mailing list sign-up
🎞️ Attract video loop on title screen
🔁 Inactivity reset to return to the title screen
🎮 Control printouts
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Promoting your indie game across 5 social media platforms
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I also went down a rainy rabbit hole a few years back...
Anime rain appreciation thread...The Garden of Words (2013)
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September pushing out bangers like its arse is on fire 🔥🔥🔥
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30 years on, The Secret of Mana cover art is still doing victory laps.
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At EGX I was watching a young boy play the Röki demo. He was exploring everywhere, examining all the objects, was making good noises. He completed the demo & took the headphones off. I asked him how he found it.
'Pretty generic'
I was pronounced dead at the scene.
I sat next to someone on an airplane recently and he said “what do you do” and I said “I work on video games” and he said “oh cool, like what” and I pulled out my phone and showed him Night in the Woods on iPhone and he was like “Oh I don’t think I’d like that game”
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That feeling when enough time has passed that you can look at your last game and go 'Okay that looks quite nice actually'.
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From a selfish point of view I'd quite like to play a batman game in the style of the animated series...👌
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Was not prepared for the buttery animation in Ghost Trick
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Taking the new algorithm for a spin. You're seeing this right folks? 👋
Twitter has updated their algorithm to allow users to see more posts from smaller accounts
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Our little weird game that makes folks ugly cry just passed 1,000 Steam reviews 🙌
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As someone who arts in 3D I have a huge amount of love for the crunchiness of pixel art 💙
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Thanks very much everyone 🙌
The indie game I'm making and three of the inspirations behind it.
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One year ago today we launched Röki on Nintendo Switch. 💙💙💙
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So that's *20 YEARS* making games professionally for this scruffbag.
On September 2nd 2002, fresh out of uni, I had my first day as a Junior Character Artist/Animator at Sony.
Genuinely still love it. Here's to 20 more years 🎉🎉🎉
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Well. This is a pretty nice feeling.
EEEP! It appears (checks notes)
#R
öki has
#BAFTAGames
/
@BAFTAGames
Awards nominations for:-
-BEST BRITISH GAME
-BEST DEBUT GAME
(explodes)
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Animation blending
This might possibly be the most satisfying slide i’ve ever seen in my life
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These arrived last night.
Sooo fucking weird/cool/emotional.
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We released our first indie game shortly after my 40th. It got nominated for
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@BAFTAGames
awards. Never too late 🔥
A friend told me "you shouldn't quit your job. It was a big mistake that you chose to learn and become 3d gameplay animator. You're 29 and It's too late for you!"
It's not the first time someone tells me "iT's tOo LaTe".
I feel exhausted.
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...Journey to Agartha/Children Who Chase Lost Voices (2011)
FIN.
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@tha_rami
...it combines animation, tech and audio & auto-trigger Tove's emotional performance based off text tags in her dialogue lines 👍
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I grew up on these streets.
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