Mike Ton

Working on RnD at Nintendo, the kind of challenges I encountered were complex.  And it was very easy to get lost in the details and lose scope.  Organizing complex relationship with mindmaps worked for me.  

This map captures the GameCube graphic archetecture.  It was fixed-pipeline, but understanding that it had all the functionalitie's of a pixel shader(limited to one sample), one could produce some truly beautiful work.

Old Mindmap of LISP.  Years ago when I was struggling to learn how to code, LISP was the first language that just kind of made sense.  

Ported an old XNA 2d engine over to html 5 (http://mtonprototype.appspot.com/) .  Picked up some nice experience with Javascript and web development.

Inspired by the Animator Survival Kit videos(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd0VjbchU1M)  a few years ago: Took a shot at making modest traditional 2D animation cycles.

Spent a week checking out the Stykz (www.stykz.net) animation program.  Loved the simplicity of it and had a blast!

Wrote script to rig Juggernaut and Psylocke.  Hand Animated walk cycles.  And also wrote CGFX shaders.  Fun!