chess

this should have been an average page for the comic but then i started drawing that chess set. it is amazing no matter how annoyingly long it took to draw and then color and then shade. it totally rocks, and i love how it came out and so it gets a special mention.

Maya Doodles

the staff is something i did the other day, and since we're doing hills with blender i decided to do a mountain with Maya.
the clip in the first picture is something different though. it's the clip from the pocket watch i got for Christmas. i might eventually get around to making the whole watch but for now i only have the clip and that isn't done yet.

I hate slow computers

I know I'm not alone when i say that i hate slow computers. just hearing that sound it makes when you click one little button and then the little spinney wheel comes up and you just know it's going to take like three minuets to do just that one little thing.
I hate it.

pawn

i've been trying to export a movie from blender but it's being stubborn so heres a screenshot of the pawn and you can imagine it bouncing across the screen.

Drifters

I've been working on my own GN on the side. so far I've been calling it Jumper, but i think i might change it to drifters, the problem with the title is that for the first chapter i want it to seem like the characters are normal and something is just slightly off. So i don't want to give anything away with the title.
the overall plot is that this woman Ivy appears on this planet that is referred to as the garden. she can jump between dementions and when she leaves Drake the other MC follows her to a new world. she teaches him to jump while trying to stay away from the Planeswalker organization.
the first chapter consists of four parts and it's basically just Ivy, Drake and rakes friend Hige running around. Drake and Hige don't know that Ivy is from a different planet and nether does the reader so things seen a bit strange around her.

interactive

three interactive experiences.
OK
#1: Aikido, we always work with a partner but i was mainly thinking of Jo work (staff work) when working with a weapon you have to be constantly aware of your distance, and yet you cant think to much or you get tense.
#2: it struck me recently just how much we interact with computers, (myself even more then others because of my Major) we "talk" to them more then other people.
#3: then that gets me thinking of books (who knows why) and how people are reading less and less except that people who are reading are reading because they want to and love the books.

expantion and scale

the assignment was to play around with scale and expand on one of the ones I'd already done. so here they are.

Back to Maya

After having to work in blender for however long it's been, i was nostalgic for Maya. each of these took about 15 minuets the chest took the longest but that was just because i wanted to add the lock, I'm thinking about going back and adding hinges. you can't see the back but at the moment it doesn't have hinges and well...

More doodles

more doodles this time with actual pen and paper. It's been a while since i've drawn in pen.

Collections

here are my Collections the top one is Faces, the next has yet to be named and the last is called The Princess and her Warriors.

Tetris

I love games like Tetris and recently i was sent a link to a first person version of Tetris
It is wild.
http://firstpersontetris.com/

Blender

Ok first Blender is absolutely terrible compared to Maya. given the choice i would chose Maya 15 times out of 10, but since the assignment is to use Blender I don't really have a choice. the lab was to make the man with the hat and all that and after losing the first version to the black hole of the school computers i am now using my own computer. the hat man is the most anoying thing i have done in about three years.

inspiration

recently I've been reading A Drifting Life by Yoshiro Tatsumi it's his memoir and it's full of facts about Japan when he was growing up. He's called the father of Japanese alternative comics, and i can kind of see it where i am in the book right now.

todays doodles

some of them didn't save as i wanted them to and others may seep complicated but none of them are done yet so that's fine. the top three are the ones i plan on working on.
at least I've got them all in one file as symbols now so it's all good.

City of reality

today i was going through my comic list and rediscovered the City of Reality http://cityofreality.com/
it's an amazing comic. they do some wonderful things with flash that i really need to figure out how to do, at least i think it's flash they use.

the idea behind the comic is basically summed up with the first page and yet the author manages to keep the reader (me) hooked with interesting characters, a fascinating world and a unique look at the way things could be.

I recommend it to everyone.

backdrop

i never uploaded the final background for the film from last term so here it is.

Rant

Ok i need to rant for a bit so go ahead and ignore me.
it's the comic, in the beginning it was really fun because i was working on a webcomic with my friend and i was chalenging myself and all that jazz. but now it's getting to be a chore. I'm two years in and I'm not getting any help anymore and Kira is turning everything around story wise. She askes for more heads up and she wants me to start getting a buffer but she's not putting in any work. Each of her scripts is maybe half a page, she'll write a handful of them pass them over to me then ignore the comic for the next month or whenever i come asking for more scripts. then she complains about how it's not like she wanted when i post the pages. I put hours into these pages. sure I'm no longer spending 6 hours on a single page but 3 hours a page is nothing to scoff at especially when it's twice a week like clockwork for the past 2 years give or take. the closet was originally a joke it was never a story idea that i wanted to follow for this long. I keep thinking that this is going to end and i'd rather it be sooner then later.

Self portrate

I actually did this a while ago, i needed a new image of me for the author page of the comic so i took a photo and turned it into this.

some stuff i did today

i need to resize them....

Ok we have pictures

Edit: we have pictures now!
so mostly i've been trying to do better about lighting recently, i did several secret Santas and they had some good lighting effects i'll try to post those later. (they are not on this computer) and then the past two pages for the comic had some good lighting all things considered. but i really shouldn't start about the comic or i'll never stop. i can save that for another post.

anyway I'll add pictures here soon.

Resolution

This year my resolution is to update this blog regularly, that is at least once a week.