Day ... what is it now, 5?

Whoops, forgetting to post things here! This one is actually two days old.



Hmm... think I'm less fond of this one than the others. It's a Peugeot 207, and I have no idea how they drive, but I want that car just because it's so gosh darn cute.

I'm working on some character designs for a Flash animation I want to do. Gotta remember to speedpaint -and- design!

I think snails are awesome.

You know what's hard to paint? ROCKS.

I should possibly work on rocks tomorrow. With the way I handled working on plants, don't be surprised if I end up posting a picture of a quarry.

Day 3

This was another two-dayer. That's me in a cafe in London, having my first English breakfast.

I know it's very unfinished, but man, my own face is freaking me out! In the actual photo I'm making this very intense stare and it's giving me the willies. I wouldn't be having this problem if I wasn't looking at the camera.

It's my "don't interrupt me for a photo when I'm eating" face.

Edit: Whoa, this looks completely different on a better monitor. For one, that bus is totally eye searing.

This thing again

OH I BET YOU THOUGHT I FORGOT. You thought so, didn't you? Oooooh, you can stuff it!



Actually I was working on this one for two nights. (I've never really used Painter before, and I was fighting it the whole way.) This is from a photo I took in Monet's Garden over in Giverny, since I was feeling guilty about painting other people's photos yesterday.

Remember how I complained about being horrible at plants? Well I'm still horrible! When I did the Kodkod, I said to myself "I'm gonna just paint a freaking tree tomorrow." And then I decided to paint Monet's Garden, which isn't so much a freaking tree as a wall of freaking trees.

It's a beautiful location though. http://giverny.org/gardens/

So here's a thing.

It occurred to me that I don't paint enough. I'm trying this thing someone suggested to me, which is finding a photo on Google Image Search, and then painting from it (also from life). I'm seeing how long I can stick to this, but I want to try to do this for the rest of April at the VERY least.

Tonight's result (click for full size, though it's small anyway):



The Kodkod is the smallest cat in the Americas, apparently. It's very cute. It had a (VERY CUTE) segment on Planet Earth where it ate moths. Watch and groan at David Attenborough's puns!



I think tomorrow's subject will be a tree... I'm not great at painting masses of leaves!

Texturing maggots

Oh, textures. I did these over my summer internship at Legendary Studios, along with smaller artistic responsibilities. Sadly I don't personally own 3dsMax, so I can't show what these look like -on- the objects, so these two are a bucket of primer and some antifreeze.

Global Game Jam

Oh man, we finished the GGJ this Sunday, and it was awesome. Well, it was tiring, but it was awesome.

This is our game, it is also awesome: http://globalgamejam.org/games/feather-tether

Please note that it's meant to be a two player game, but if you really wanna control both birds, you can. It's just super hard. Open it in Flash Player if you can, not a browser, because it'll look strange if you do. It'll run fine, just look strange.

I think we forgot to include the controls in the documentation because we wrote it in like the last MINUTE before the deadline, so the blue jay (I made that blue jay!) controls with WASD and the cardinal with the arrow keys.

Our actual idea was to have the tether break if any of those obstacles (the apples, the biplane, etc.) hit it, and when it broke it would cause a game over, so that the two players are competing for points but they're also collaborating to keep the game going. The code didn't work out in time though, saaad. The obstacles will take off points though, so avoid them anyway!