Crash Creatures

Coon and Friends Facebook Banners

Watched the "Coon and Friends" episodes of South Park again and I decided to make a series of facebook banners out of the illustrations they use during the episodes with Cthulhu. (Btw Cthulhu is detected by spellcheck...how awesome is that)

Watch South Park at southparkstudios.com

aaaand here they are.

Zee Captain is MOST Trendy

I just wanted to do up a quick blog post about a web comic I have been following for quite awhile and have always been rather impressed by. Romantically Apocalyptic! It's like if Ford Prefect had written a web comic for the guide rather than just bland field research...I would love to see any other projects the minds behind this series would care to tackle, be it film or video games or an entire book...

Rather than just tell my friends on facebook about it I decided to make up a bunch of facebook timeline banners themed from actual art from the webcomics and pass them around to my friends and use one myself. You can find them at the bottom of this post.

Now go! Check out the comic, Zee Captain commands you!

http://rom.ac

Game artisans (Aftermath) Challenge

I didn't want to bother posting anything till I was closer to being finished but I just spent over 2 days on a single drawing and I've never done that before...here it is, still not 100% happy with it but oh well, must move onto sculpting it.

Dead island android wallpaper

I haven't had a cell phone in over 2 years, I finally broke down and got one when I saw this android phone with a really nice plan. (not going into details on here but it was great for me). I had just picked up 2 copies of Dead Island for a friend and I to play off steam so I decided to commemorate my new phone with a dead island wallpaper. I rotoscoped a zombie from a screenshot and snagged an environment and the logo off the website.

The zombie android I found on a site that didn't provide details as to the original artist so I'll just provide the link here. (will have to suffice for credit to the original artist)
zombie droid: http://androidandme.com/2011/09/news/editors-choice-win-a-tab-10-1-prize-pack/attachment/zombie-android/

The exact phone is Samsung Intercept for Virgin Mobile so if you have that phone this wallpaper will fit fine, unsure about other phone screen resolutions. Feel free to snag this, I'm sure with mild tweaking it should work fine on other android phones.

Also I'm crashprefect on steam if you'd like to play some dead island! and now I'm off to slice up some zombies...

My first game courtesy of StencylWorks (demo)

I'm trying to teach myself game programming in "Stencylworks" over at stencyl.com

I worked on some tutorials for a couples days here and there off and on and today I sat down and hacked together a bunch of assets from their marketplace to make this simple platformer with only two screens and no enemies or anything...but the walking and screen changing and jumping works as well as sound trigger so...I'm proud of myself for getting THIS far. once I get the game figured out and coded I'll get to work replacing all the placeholder art...also the entire thing took less than 20 minutes to throw together during a break from my school work and "work" work. You can play my demo below, assuming I haven't deleted it from my drive.

Newgrounds Game jam 6

Decided to enter a game development competition on newgrounds this weekend that involved a random theme and random team members with various experience in FLASH with the entire game required to be developed in a single weekend.

The theme was hallucinations and I had a decent team, the coder was VERY young and unfortunately didn't have much experience and wasn't even available to help the first few days so we didn't finish in time/at all. (All that coupled with my not having used flash since 2006)

Had a good time actually working on a game though and will perhaps finish this soon, it was a good attempt and I made a few friends, also might start getting more involved in animation again. Good stuff!

On another side note we got to use something called PIPELINE, an amazing collaboration tool that I highly suggest to anyone.

Here is a link to pipeline: http://pipeline.cc.gatech.edu/demo/

Was worth a try!

Gameartisans mini Comp 1 of 6 paths

I finished my first competition entry over at gameartisans.org. Quillum the Chicken Thief (Spy)

voting page is here: http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/minis/view_entries_mini3d_35.html

Quite a few amazing submissions on that page, I have my work cut out for me to catch up with them all!

Oddworld Inhabitants

Oddworld munch's oddysee came out 10 years ago...

I've always had a love of characters, organic creations in games, personalities. This is why I became a character artist, love love love it. Oddworld Inhabitants was one of those companies that assured me I wouldn't have to remake the same tony hawk model or football player over and over again, that sometimes...something unique happens.

I'm really happy to see that Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath is coming to the playstation network, even though I don't personally have a PS3.

Most mornings I jump into photoshop or maya or zbrush and do a quick practice model/sketch/painting, no more than an hour usually less.

This morning when I saw Oddworld Inhabitants post about Munch I decided to do a quick sculpt, very busy with school at the moment so I had to step away from it momentarily...but here is the work in progress shot. Hopefully I can get him all sculpted up and textured/retopologized correctly.

Again, if you are not a fan of these games I hope you at least appreciate the life and personality the company breathed into them.

Maybe I'll get to work on an amazing title like Oddworld some day but for now...back to work!

Zombie Art

I recently did a photo manipulation of myself as a zombie...

So a good friend of mine put me in his show as a cameo this month. (Link to the teaser episode at the end of this post)

Pictured here is my cameo:

Anyone else getting into cool zombie art??

now go watch my friends halloween episode with ME in it!

Level 20-Something

Decided to start doing my own versions of known video game characters/enemies/monsters etc.

here is a creeper from minecraft, I may or may not finish it with texturing etc...

BlueAnt variation

So I was told the Antman was too "creepy" or "mean" so I worked on a happier more kid friendly version.

Turnaround video on my youtube channel:

My first real Game Character

Ok so this wasn't for a game technically, it's for secondlife which doesn't even support normal maps so the included normal map in this blog post was just to show I can make them and because it makes me look cool I guess...

So this is AntMan! My first mesh avatar in secondlife and first game character period...

Video link to my youtube page at the bottom :)

AntmanInSecondlife

Comicon Challenge 2011

So I'm entering my first official competition over at GameArtisans.org

The theme for this year is to take a comic book character and change their gender or put them into another universe or genre or a combination of both gender change and universe change.

I chose Medieval Joker.

Todays daily sculpt was to mark the day of my first competition. [8.13.11]

banner image shamelessly stolen from the gameartisans website and is I assume owned by them. Was a cool image...

Personal Sculpting Challenge

So I decided I need to sculpt "SOMETHING" once a day. I'll post them to this page as I complete them, hopefully I can get to them every day but if I get behind I'll keep track and try to catch up as I can. Perhaps I can keep this up for 30 days at least.

note: I'm doing all of these in a free program called Sculptris over at http://www.pixologic.com/sculptris/

We'll see how this goes!

ClockWork Rhino