Dave Pottingers Lego mission is complete + NewToy launch new iPhone game “Words with Friends”
Kicking off today’s ex Ensemble Studios members updates is Dave Pottinger who has updated his blog over on the Robot Entertainment with the final installment of the Lego Robot Logo design. With a bunch of new pictures and text discussing how the board came to be mounted proudly on the wall of Robot Entertainment can be found on the website.
![BLOG4_05_Foreman_Crow[2]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/BLOG4_05_Foreman_Crow2.JPG "BLOG4_05_Foreman_Crow[2]")
Carrying the Logo
In case you were wondering from the last blog what the mini lego adventures were on each letter of the logo I can reveal from the blog that the list is as follows:
• Star Wars for the ‘r’
• Indy for the first ‘o’
• Medieval for the ‘b’ (hey, we did do Age2 after all!)
• Pirates for the second ‘o’
• Batman for the ‘t’
And here’s what they look like:
![BLOG4_08_Success[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/BLOG4_08_Success1-300x225.jpg "BLOG4_08_Success[1]")
Mission Complete!
But of course all this wouldnt of been possible with out Mr “Lead Designer” Dave Pottinger and his family!
![BLOG4_15_Safe_from_the_Bad_Guys[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/BLOG4_15_Safe_from_the_Bad_Guys1.JPG "BLOG4_15_Safe_from_the_Bad_Guys[1]")
Standing proud with the family… away from the Bad Guys!
But thats not all!
Its been a little while but it looks like NewToy one of the iPhone development companies that formed out of Ensemble has released thier new game titled “Words with Friends” the game follows in the “With friends” series with NewToy’s last game, “Chess with friends” proving to be a real hit on the Apple App Store. NewToy is lead by the Bettner Brothers of Ensemble Studios. You can download thier latest game right now from the App Store!
![wwfboard[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/wwfboard1.png "wwfboard[1]")
Be sure to read all about it on the New Toy website!
Lego Pottinger blog part 3 (of 4!)
I think I have underestimated just how much work went into creating the Lego Robot logo. We are talking lots and lots of hours and struggle! Find out just how tricky it really is in part 3 of Daves blog!
Some snaps..
![Blog3_02_Black_and_Blue_R[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Blog3_02_Black_and_Blue_R1.jpg "Blog3_02_Black_and_Blue_R[1]")
![Blog3_04_Test_Finish_on_R[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Blog3_04_Test_Finish_on_R1-300x225.jpg "Blog3_04_Test_Finish_on_R[1]")
![Blog3_06_More_Gluing[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Blog3_06_More_Gluing1.jpg "Blog3_06_More_Gluing[1]")
But the fun doesn’t stop there! Mr BigDog Dave Pottinger came up with the in-genius idea of theming each of the Robot letters – check out this Batman theme:
![Blog3_11_Batman_T[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Blog3_11_Batman_T1.jpg "Blog3_11_Batman_T[1]")
I know I published the final logo (and perhaps, maybe shouldn’t have, whoops!) but you cant zoom in and see the themes.. so for that you’ll have to tune into part 4 of Daves blog!
http://www.robotentertainment.com/Blogs/Detail/RidiculousLegoFun3
Dont forget to comment on the Robot website!
Dave Pottinger finishes playing with lego – fantastic result!
Here it is.. the completed Lego Robot Logo! It looks awesome and very similar to the original inspiration, the Google logo shown below. Bit early with this news, expect the full blog from Master-lego-mind Dave Pottinger soon!
The inspiration:
![00-Google2[2]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/00-Google22.jpg "00-Google2[2]")
Hats off to Mr Pottinger!
More Lego, more pictures and more Halo Wars map information!
Big update today from Robot Entertainment. Firstly the adventure continues in Dave Pottingers quest to install a Robot Entertainment logo made out of Lego. Its actually a very tricky thing to do.. now with the boards joined together the tricky task of getting all the lego pieces on to the board are soon to follow. Keep an eye on updates and see how its panning out over on the Robot Blogs.
Heres how its been left in this update:
![BLOG2_03_Best_Dining_Room_Table_Ever[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/BLOG2_03_Best_Dining_Room_Table_Ever1.jpg "BLOG2_03_Best_Dining_Room_Table_Ever[1]")
But thats not all… theres a few new Robot photos featuring on the site one of which shows the construction of the “Biergarten” probably where alot of Robot folk spend thier time!! :
![Biergarten-Painter[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Biergarten-Painter1-300x225.jpg "Biergarten-Painter[1]")
You can find the rest of the pictures at:
http://www.robotentertainment.com/Studio/Photos
And also! Theres a new Halo Wars map update where Halo Wars map designer Justin Rouse talks about his top tips on the 1v1 map “Release”. Here’s a brief extract and link:
“Release is the only map where you have a little bit of “Control” over the flood in Halo Wars. You quickly learn that controlling the Consoles that release the flood is key to victory but many players make the mistake of using the flood as a solitary attack strategy.”
Theres a good few links on this post for fans to check out- blogs, photos, maps. I will sign off for now and probably play a game of Halo Wars whilst you chew through these updates! – Until the next time!
Official Robot Entertainment blogs go live!
The Robots at the spacepod like office in Plano have launched their official company blogs with Dave Pottinger and David Kubalak. Dave Pottinger shares with us his dream of having the Robot Entertainment logo in Lego form much like the Google logo shown below:
It is infact a deadly serious project and Mr Pottinger has been spending his free time experimenting with Lego base boards to get them a suitable size for the Lego Robot logo – here he is, in action!
One might wonder if Mr Pottinger spent too much of his childhood playing with Lego! It does seem like a fun project though and if Google can do it why not Robot? You can stand by for updates on this by following this website or by subscribing to the Robot Blog RSS feed.
In other non Lego news..
David Kubalak lifts the curtain on the faces behind Robot’s art team:
![Art-Team-final[1]](http://remember-ensemblestudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Art-Team-final1.jpg "Art-Team-final[1]")
Please note: The above picture may not accurately represent entire appearance!
You can click the image to enlarge and from left to right you will find:
Bryan Hehmann – Environment Artist, Nathan Stefan – Concept Artist, Gene Kohler (bottom) – Character Artist, Dion Hopkins – Visual Effects Artist, David Kubalak- Art Director, Charles Tinney (bottom) – Animator, Rob Walden – Hard Surface Modeler, Juan Martinez Technical Artist and Animator, Brad Crow (bottom) – Art Director, Paul Slusser – Environment Artist, Duane Santos – Hard Surface Modeler, Won Choi (bottom) – Concept Artist, Chris Moffitt – Character Artist, and Bart Tiongson – Concept Artist.
All of those people are Ex-Ensemblites! Its interesting to read about the individual roles each artists has. David Kubalak is the Art Director and has his own blog where you can find some of his artwork at: http://www.davidkubalak.blogspot.com/
Clearer Robot Art picture discovered!
You may remember a previous post where I mentioned Age Community were studying Robot Entertainment pictures closely for any hints on a new Age of Empires game. David Kubalak’s blog contains an image extract from a news article which shows a picture of Gene Kohler working on some textures. Check out the image below and be sure to enlarge!
Discussion on this can be found on the Age Community forums.
Further reading..
I encourage all fans to check out the Robot website to read the full blog posts from the two Robot Daves! Looking forward to seeing more posts from them soon!
Lets see how this Lego logo develops!!
