Computer Animation Arts

Sebastian Schauman graduated from CG Arts in 2009. Since then, he's been working at Housemarque Games . Two years of hard work have come to fruition recently with the release of their games title, Outland . I asked Sebastian to provide the CGAA community with an insight into his experience of readying Outland for release - and being the nice guy that he is, he has this to share with us: "So Outland is finally out. My last 2 years of professional work can be summed up into a 7 hour play-through available to all for about 10 bucks a pop... It's funny really to actually see it out in the open. It's nowhere near the game we initially started out creating and if I'd had to sum up the last 2 years in a single word it would have to be "iterations". The development process turned out to be a lot of trial of error and re-design over a long period of time. It's really not a time-efficient way of doing things, but as this was such a unique game-design, w...

Some of you may have received comments from 'BaZe' on your blogs. 'BaZe' is none other than alumus Sebastian Schauman, who graduated from CGAA as part of the class of 2009.  Many of you will be familiar with the work he produced during his time with us, including My Twin and that firm favourite with all open day visitors, Flying High . Since graduating, Sebastian has been working at Housemarque Games in Finland, accomplishing that rare thing of going straight from his degree studies into a job in the CG industry.  One year on - give or take - here's Sebastian with a few words from the inside track...  "At work I'm now closing in on my one year mark of working for Housemarque. I still feel really lucky about landing the position I did as most of my classmates are still struggling to land their full-time job in the industry. It is all about contacts and I urge students to start getting in contact with possible employers as soon as possib...