Bloggingness

The Trash hunt.

2009-10-25T15:25:00.004Z

Whilst on a texture hunt for the Trash Project.
Ive always liked old building but seen these lovely baby's be empty and/or run down made me want to buy every last one and save them.

Scary.

2009-10-25T15:01:00.005Z

Every game has its problems some more disturbing than others.

There i was playings Sims.
hey
No TV.
No Internet.
Needed to disconnect.
Torturing Sims seemed like a good idea.
Highly disturbing animation fail.
Though ud like to know, not that ppl read the blogs anymore :P

Treasure chest update.

2009-10-18T16:02:00.004+01:00

I am determined to finish texturing it this week no more leaving things half done. No more starting 5 things at once. Ill finish it with will power alone if I must.

And yes I used painter. Also used a base wood photo to paint over so I don’t have to worry about all the random colours in the wood bits not blending. I don’t think its cheating that much. Painting wood is not my strong point :P

Obsession

2009-10-18T15:27:00.030+01:00

Whenever it comes to off topic drawing I always without hesitation do a portrait. I’m completely obsessed.

There are many good painters and shoopers (comp users) in the world but if I don’t see a lovely portrait I cant say I have much interest. Just because someone can paint well doesn’t mean I have to like it right. Credit were its due there very good, but 3ex likes these guys much much more. Everyone has that elite list of artists that are all the inspiration.

And this is my list of golden artists.

N.Fawkes. (Charcoal)

Dan Milligan (Corel painter)

Bao's life drawing. (is also really skilled at shooping)

Shawn Barber (oil paints)

pior oberson.

And this guy who i will find his name out one day :P

There are a few more but this posty would be to long :P

:P

2009-08-16T11:38:00.021+01:00

Woo summer photos. Alla's almost all of my photos i cant post though. for them having peeps in. cant plaster them all over the net now can i. have to say i really did miss living in me village. 4 local people. don't get me wrong the place is poo fest. but for walks in the sun and enjoying the countryside its amazing. never though it would be possible but when living in Leice i missed trees, grass, birds and most importantly SPACE. safe to say I'm enjoying my summer. :P

Shittypoo, and Marshmallows.

2009-08-11T20:16:00.006+01:00

Ahhh my poor neglected blog. I'm sorry Mr blog for not loving you but for the past while I've been a huge moody mess, and i cant have u full with negative things.

Thankfully i can safely say the coast is clear to talk to me again with out me trying to kill you with a chainsaw or turn into a big soppy mess. Yea so i have a few issues with the whole depression but meh nothing new there. just had a baddd few months. some of u deserved the nasty, but alla's most dint and to them bex says sorry.

Howeverrr now its time to fix my problem which is 1 and a half stone. yes that right I'm an extra 1 and a half stone Fatterrrrr. which clearly is everyone Else's fault but mine :P
So I'm currently on a no junk all healthy diet and am on a really weird downer. detox yayyy.

anyhooo I'm gona get my self back into the swing of things, with the help of my no nonsense painter brush. and the blog will be revived. not just with art but words 2. *shock horror*

crazizeeeeee.

2009-06-02T00:10:00.003+01:00

Just lately i seem to stumble on the oddist of things. beter make notes. (or just keep links to them all on my blog :P )

www.daikichiamano.com (be aware of the fish)

Interview Project

2009-06-01T23:44:00.008+01:00

20.000 miles.
70 days.
new interview every 3 days.
interviewproject.davidlynch.com

only seen the first one and im already hooked.
downside is, its so dam american.

2009-05-17T19:10:00.000+01:00

Voxel from Ubik on Vimeo.

Whos next.

2009-02-21T19:32:00.005Z

after attempting to paint phill in real paint i wonder if i could shoop somthing that looked like him. rather than doing random photo ref ones. but ooo i am happy. nice and orrange. i am kinda miffed that thers not really much texture 2 it. but hopefully ill get better. (i hope u have good monitors, the colour is higly dependant)

fun and erm.. games.

2009-01-13T23:28:00.004Z

so we have a few days off to do what we feel like. so why. why dose that make me paint a mammoth. was funn though could have dont alot more to it texture wize. also yes i am aware of the ear looking like its on the cheek, and i dont know why its purple. but lets keep things fun shall we.

Blobs.

2008-12-31T13:16:00.003Z

ok ok so i might MIGHT just like painting landscapes. (without buldings in lol) all u do it paint blobs lol.

yay i did work.

2008-12-31T10:56:00.008Z

Not very happy with my peeps work. not alot of life in them. but getting there i guess.

bored uninspired and moaning.

2008-12-07T15:19:00.003Z

trying to get in the swing of things but. mehhhh.

wip

2008-12-05T13:27:00.004Z

dose it look like me. cos i really have no clue.

Smiley happy

2008-11-06T12:21:00.003Z

Lets paint happy smiley faces to cheer are selfs up.

Best Find ever

2008-11-03T13:32:00.005Z

was looking at monowheels for the heather mod. and and this is pure gold.
i love monowheels (someone buy me one lol)

ok back to painting.

2008-11-02T22:33:00.004Z

Need to do more full body paints. this took way to long. but was hella fun.

1 point doodles.

2008-10-11T23:02:00.004+01:00

Ooo i did some work.

2008-10-11T22:49:00.013+01:00

bradgate park thumbs.

LAME

2008-10-03T17:00:00.006+01:00

Rusty at perspective. dam it. SCREAMS.

XD

2008-08-20T17:05:00.003+01:00

Yet more messing in painter. and lookie, i did a guy for once.

OMGGGG. I Love Painter.

2008-08-19T18:20:00.006+01:00

Isn't is shit when u discover that photoshop is not as godlike as u think. just l8ly i realized it had a real lack in freedom. and what annoyed me most is that its so hard to get any texture at all. At best u can use lots of custom brushes and hope for the best. but its lame. Was talking to Mr phillippp and decided we should learn painter and see what its like.

ANDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD OH MY GOD I LOVE IT. So much freedom. u can be so loose and free. never using photoshop again. PAINTER ALL THE WAY.

here are my first 2 painter lovely-ness-ness-es. not the most amazing of things. butt Mann it was fun. Woooooooooooooooooooo.First ever painter. above. yea yea i know the anatomy is bad. i got carried away.Photo ref used of tying Tiffany. not posting the photo or u will see how unlike her the face is. bad face is bad.(uncroped)

Yet again its a mini comp.

2008-08-18T17:17:00.004+01:00

Some doodles for the new gameArtisans minicomp pirate portrait. not to happy at the mo. needs to be more of a pirate.

Lady Concept

2008-08-11T10:34:00.003+01:00

So i was thinking maybe i draw skinny women to much, and that i should start doing some guys for a change. butt then i was thinking it summer. so im gona play some more until its out the system. here is a little concept i did last night. bit disappointed in it really, but i think I'll do a full body one l8er to work out how her pants work lol.

The Future Soon

2008-08-06T19:25:00.004+01:00

Found some uber song Lyrics by Jonathan Coulton. shame the song itself sucks. but the lyrics made me smile. reminds. me of you geeks XD. lol.

Last week I left a note on Laura’s desk
It said I love you signed anonymous friend
Turns out she’s smarter than I thought she was
She knows I wrote it, now the whole class does too
And I’m alone during couple skate
When she skates by with some guy on her arm
But I know that I’ll forget the look of pity in her face
When I’m living in my solar dome on a platform in space

Cause it’s gonna be the future soon
And I won’t always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It’s gonna be the future soon
I’ve never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it’s already here

I ’ll probably be some kind of scientist
Building inventions in my space lab in space
I’ll end world hunger I’ll make dolphins speak
Work through the daytime, spend my nights and weekends
Perfecting my warrior robot race
Building them one laser gun at a time
I will do my best to teach them
About life and what it’s worth
I just hope that I can keep them from destroying the Earth

Cause it’s gonna be the future soon
And I won’t always be this wayW
hen the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It’s gonna be the future soon
I’ve never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it’s already

Here on Earth they’ll wonder
As I piece by piece replace myself
And the steel and circuits will make me whole
But I’ll still feel so alone
Until Laura calls me homeI
’ll see her standing by the monorail
She’ll look the same except for bionic eyes
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
I ’ll say I’m sorry, she’ll say it’s not your fault
Or is it?And she’ll eye me suspiciously
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
She will scream and try to run
But there’s nowhere she can hide
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride

I did an art

2008-08-04T22:43:00.004+01:00

What started out as a doodle ended up being faffed with lots. any crit welcome. im overly obsessed with that red hair, cant stop drawing it. XD but i did really enjoy painting it, also thax for the help Phill stink :P

Bad mood = soppy lame girly s-paint

2008-08-02T17:40:00.003+01:00

Title says it all really.

Drawing Dreams.

2008-07-24T21:59:00.003+01:00

Just lately ive been having some really wacked dreams. A lot worse/ better than normal, so much so it takes me half the day to register them. So thought id have a bash at trying to get my head around drawing them. Because it really does seem a shame to just do nothing to remember the idea. The paints are of a fairy type thing. Yea so I dream about fairies sometimes no mocking (or else). so yea the pics really don’t do it any justice in my eyes, but I’m so gona do some more to remember. I could be a good girl an do a poopi dream journal. But that’s geeki lol.

W.T.F - Im is Broken. 0_o

2008-07-17T00:05:00.001+01:00

By Mark Ryden. crazi artist.

summer paint-dump 2

2008-07-13T23:29:00.004+01:00

colour pratice. around 1 hour 30.
Photo ref. (real colours are boring)

speed paint. 1 hour.

Summer.ness.ness

2008-07-02T21:34:00.006+01:00

Here are some random summer paints. though id post a couple cos i really dont know what else to do with them.

may post some max stuff. if i can sort out the file jungle. XD

yea i know theres a lot of brown. never realized that b4. must be the colour of the month.

OH MY

2008-04-18T20:43:00.006+01:00

lalalalala so i redid the canal photoshop today, cos i knew the old one was B.A.D but i never realized how bad till i opened it to compare the 2 when i'd finished.

Was an OMGGGGGGGGGGGG moment indeed.

Took some guts to post the original. what was i thinking.

I really hope u don't need me to point out the redo, lol. BUT yay i've learnt things. Thax to the teach's and ma buddy's. XD

Why O Why

2008-04-12T00:06:00.005+01:00

Now I was nice and happy with my first little tree.
TaaDaa...

But decided to attempt a tree with leaves the other day to see how it would turn out. Andddddddddd i’ve amazed myself, not only does it look twice as good as the first its also less than half the Tris and took less than half the time to make. grrr

OH what’s that little birdi, only 556 tris. So now the car limit of what 10,000 poly’s or something amazingly stupid. Seems.......well.........amazingly stupid.

But now ive pissed myself of with the high one looking worse. gahhhhhh.

Blogs suck more than the spice girls.

2008-04-11T23:41:00.002+01:00

I finally came to the realization that I may have to start doing some blog tasks. WHICH SUCKS. I’ve been trying to motivate myself, but meh. Been having too much fun, shame on me XD. So what there’s 2 weeks left of the course “kinda” and I have *counts* 14 blog tasks to do.

*insert crying here*

Looks like a second dose of hardcore blogging for the Bex. Woooooooo funnn o_O

With enough tea and sugar I can do anything XD. Positive thinking for once.

Especially for Del.

2008-04-07T21:28:00.005+01:00

Especially for Del. Sniff moan at me for not posting blogs.
Turns out my blog is actually looked at XD. Whoop Whoop.

Sooo here are some renders of my finished Scooby van. and hell no im not posting lotti so don’t ask.

I hate Hate HATE Trees

2008-02-18T19:57:00.002Z

Trees not only are they the most boring of all things to model. They give me one hell of a head ache just trying to see what the hell is going on.

My small Revelation

2008-02-08T00:12:00.000Z

So mid way through my photo taking saga. I was messing with the settings and discovered that lighting is everything.

Even though both of my photos are dark and seedy, the bottom one is far more effective. I think it’s the clear light and dark areas and lack of detail that give it the edge. The mystery of what’s in the shadows or what’s out the door? Where as in the first everything is presented clearly, no imagination needed. In this case Less is definatly More.

Woo Crack Den.

2008-02-03T22:13:00.000Z

OH MY GOD…. And ….OH MY GOD.

On my wonderful visit to the steam museum type place looking for lovely mechanical textures. (See I do work XD ) We (me, Phil and Mike) found an utterly amazing crack den/abandoned factory. ANNNDDD totally went in.

AMAZINGGGGG.....

I told you it was a crack den.

The risks I go to for go for good ref photos.

Meh

2008-02-02T18:08:00.000Z

I've lost my groove since the hols and cant work, there are too many distracting things in the world.

sooo il just post some unfinished goodies so it looks like i'm not blog neglecting again XD.

My little Dodge *cof* ford transit*cof* with (less than) half finnished scooby doo paint job. ME LIKES and i deff will finnish it ... but but i'm currently baffled with making leaves using the hair and fur tool in max, for the new tree project.

My little test =
I'm gettin close. ILL NOT LET THIS POOP DEFEAT ME.

Fat lady.

2008-01-17T16:47:00.000Z

Hehehe my street char. why dose it make me laugh so much?
But guys word of advice, never ever search fat lady in google for ref pics.

HOUSE MOD.

2008-01-17T16:31:00.000Z

YAY i am really proud of my little house. BUT it still not fin. ill work on it so more when i have time. bump map and more detailed render me thinks.
bellow = my first atempt. what was i thinking. (hangs head in shame) >>>>
The real deal>>>>

MUST SEE.

2008-01-17T15:41:00.000Z

OOOOk so presentations over i though id start looking at the mech project. BUT BUT BUT LOOK WHAT I FOUND.....

La Petite Géante. and The Sultan's Elephant.( bellow).

yea so i was thinking along the lines of puppets for my character.

Mech being a form of control bla bla blaa. make life easier bla bla blaaaa.

Am i thinking to deep? MAYBE I'm thinking to deep. still puppet type thing = COOL.!.!.!

Week 8 ... Story time.

2007-12-28T14:20:00.000Z

Week 8, Task eight … Bec’s blog catch up saga continues. (day 2)

Is everyone settled? … then I shall begin .
Storytelling in games. There main purpose to help aid escapism from the “real world” because lets face it, the world has gone to pot. It could be salvaged but everyone is to busy burying there heads in work, personal matters and stressing about money to think about the bigger issues.

So this is were the game comes in an excuses to have a moment buy yourself to relieve the stress of life killing a few zombies or problem solving. Don’t get me wrong I know the majority of people who play games are teens. But in 2days world school is all about surviving one long day at a time, without ending up in some kind of domestic and is far more stressful than people realize.

Storylines are important in the fact that they determine what challenges and obstacles u will come to in the game, however when I get addicted to a game the storyline becomes unimportant and I just want to see what’s around the corner. Like in Zelda “storyline….what storyline?” but the puzzles are great and when I’m in the mood, oddly easy.

I think storylines help u get into a game at the beginning but after that there’s little relevance because everyone knows that the end is gona be a huge letdown.

The games that are more “social” such as second life and w.o.w have no real storylines at all and become some what boring after a wile unless u join a little guild and have a little clan get together. just like being in Starbucks with the buds only this way u never have to met the annoying shits or make any effort what so ever. XD “bad bad games”

Much rather have quoted bits of Alice in Wonderland or Peter Pan. But alas its course work, so no such luck.

Its a hit.

2007-12-27T22:42:00.000Z

LADIES and GENTS

I have an announcement.

I have made an appearance on Google.

Me on Google, top result, AMAZING.

But then I realized what for …”Play zool Nintendo 90’s”

How lame is that, if anything makes me feel more geeki than ever before. I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact, and I was doing so well, but now I feel more like hanging myself. U know when its on Google your doomed for life.

Oh and if u leave out the “90’s” I’m 4th result. XD

(thinks positive for once) any-hoo WHOOP WHOOP … MY BLOGS ON GOOGLE.

Week 7 ... Peeps up top.

2007-12-27T22:02:00.000Z

Week 7, Task seven-ness-ness… and the blogging saga continues (I’m whooping its ass)

Art Directors.
“I think video games are at such infancy in terms of art style, actually developing it. We're dealing with 4000 years, really, of art and conceptual design.
For it really not to be utilized, and for the industry to basically dwell in a certain type of genre which has been around the 1980s up to present time, it's pretty much all they're embracing.
It's the same way, you have Star Wars and the original Stanley Kubrick movie 2001. And people embrace that genre of outer space, so to speak. And it's continued to this very day. Hopefully people will wake up someday.” Moby Francke, art director on Team Fortress 2.

As far as art direction goes I totally agree with this dude above ^ think I even touched upon it in the week 6 blog. These art directors may have lots of responsibility but they don’t seem to do anything original with it. These guys are just way to business minded and want to see a large return. Did any of them ever think that maybe people are craving something visually new. A new image if correct will surly appeal to a larger market.

The art directors job it a big one. There the ones that decide the final aesthetics of the game, works with the project manager to make sure budget and schedule are ok, delivers constructive feedback, supervises reviews, mentors the less experienced artists on the team and lots lots more.

True these guys need to have a history in art and be a talented artist themselves in order to give criticism and advise to the people doing the work. But them themselves really have no particularly creative input in the game, they just do the typical “that’s good …that’s crap… .ok carry on.” because there to busy to give any more creative input than incoherent grunts and moans.

NOTE TO MIKE : these topics are not very picture friendly. 0_o

Week 6 ... Game Design falls asleep

2007-12-27T18:19:00.000Z

Week 6, Task Sixxx … what was that? u want me to tell u about Game design? Well ok.

*makes more tea* now I shall begin
What I’ve learnt so far, game designers work in close nit groups, each member is aloud, no mater what there specialty to give there opinion towards the topic in hand, to help improve the game/game play. Gone are the times of programmers designing the entire game play. In next gen games its far more about the realism of the environments/characters and animations, not just the story or the method in which u can kill things. Granted these aspects are just as important, to hold the players attention and original story lines are becoming rare.

Most games are just variations of the same. Designers are scared to think to outside the box to much because they are trying to appeal to a wide audience, so they stick with a game style that sells. Now days there are less technical restrictions on the games they can create, they can make much more visual stunningness-ness than they could have even dreamed of back in the nes days. So why they don’t just out right make some mental game staring ninja pirate pig I don’t know.

“Game Design = is the process of designing the content and rules of a game. The term is also used to describe both the game design embodied in an actual game as well as documentation that describes such a design.”

One of the many purposes of game design is to determine the constraints. such as target audience and technical aspects. these depend on the style of game they wish to create.

Ben Mathis

2007-12-27T16:43:00.001Z

I love Ben Mathis. (no not in that way. tut tut) The guy is a talented little bean. I shall steal him and mine him of all his knowledge. I would just like to say its great that someone like that would spend time helping us younglings with are work. His advise was priceless, and I’m feeling rather inspired. Not only by him but the environment created especially with the second and third years working along side us and being able to see them work. I still have lots to learn, and now I feel confident that if I put in more time I can achieve better standards. It dose not seem impossible anymore.

Week 5...Journalism Malarkey

2007-12-27T16:06:00.000Z

Week whatever (I’ve lost count) Task five-ness-ness… loosing hope

Game journalism *sips tea* where to start.

Firstly after reading all that reference material its amazing how much longer it takes u to read something that really does not inspire u. suppose that could really be said for anything, like how it used to take twice as long to get to school than It did to get home. Or twice as long to draw a still life than a cool axe murder. Its just the way things go.

However with this new game journalism malarkey, I find that it makes the read much more entertaining not only are they telling u about the game, they tell u about the random thoughts they had, what they ate while playing. There personality really comes through, a great example of pure nuttiness is the worshiped Zero Punctuation (not saying I worship him, its just that half the class starts drooling when u mention his name.)

I personally have never really paid any attention to reviews. Granted I’ve looked at them to find out what the story is about and such. But really all I want to do is play the game not waste even more of my time reading about it to.

When I think of new age journalism. What comes to my mind is the amazing Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a book by Hunter S Thompson. I original got the book because it had wacky illustrations. But when I actually read it I loved it. All this guy does it write about his experiences. On his way to and during his actual review job. (not that this review is in the book) he just goes off on one huge druggy raving. Amazingly more entertain than the actual main stream review he was supposed to have done.

So yea I’m all for the waked out review, its just finding them.

Speed Paints.

2007-12-27T13:35:00.000Z

So after reading the next blog task. It was like yawn …. Am a bothered…..

Yes, yes I am bothered (kinda)….BUT FIRST… ill post my speed paints. XD. Never realized id done so many. Posted in the order I did them newest first.

Word = eye = 50 min. very rough shape, was really just messing with the brushes.

Word = Cow = 45 min. worked from refrence.

Word = Cataclysm = 30 min. Totaly fell out with this one, needs so much more detail.

Word = Easter island = 45 min. worked from refrence.

Word = Hills = 45 min. The only thing i like is the colours. comp and perspective is so off. must have been asleep when i did this.

Word = Weasle = 30 min. I dont like weasles.
Word = wizard = 30 min.

Word = Impact = 45 min. scribbles.

BUT First.

2007-12-27T12:58:00.000Z

Ok ok so I finally started to feel guilty for not doing my blog.
Guess I just flatlined.

What with it soon to be new years, my new years revolution will be to actually do the weekly blog tasks (on time). I know I know I’m being highly ambitious, but first … I NEED to catch up. How hard can it be? I only have to do *counts* six blog entry’s o_0 and I will really really REALLY try not to be boring.

BUT FIRST……
Before I actually do some work for once. I’m going to brag about how happy I am and tell u all about my newwwww little puppy Hugo. XD

Note : I had nothing to do with the poor things name. blame my mom. “lets let the kids name the dog………NOT”

However the little guy is amazingly cute and currently sleeping in my lap, keeping me company. This does make it amazingly hard to type and my legs are somewhat dead….but I don’t mind one bit. Hue does seem to get away with a lot though, me jealous of a dog…never. So any-hoo I took a little photo to show him off (sorry mike) XD. Its of him sleeping, cos its near on impossible to get a photo when he is running around like a maniac. (which is all the bloody time)

Week 4 ... Nintendo Gives Birth and Beyond

2007-11-14T22:32:00.000Z

Week 4, Task Four-ness-ness ... Yet more game history.

Picking up where I left off. Which was the late 90’s on the verge of the new millennium. The arrival of 128-bit, in the form of SEGA Dreamcast…the ugly thing. Then the big daddies of yesterday started to arrive (in order, earliest first) SONY PlayStation 2, NINTENDO game cube, and in 2001 the MICROSOFT Xbox, lovely daring’s that they are.

The PlayStation 2 toped the market selling 120 mil, cant see why personally, as non of the games really appeal to me, defiantly aimed at boys. Xbox was second with 24 mil. The only reason they sold less is because the PS2 was released just before and therefore most in the market had just purchased a console leaving little for the Xbox to work with. As far as I’m concerned the Xbox is far far better than the PS2.With these fella’s much better games came. Such as EVIL DEAD the game, JSRF, HALO and Splinter Cell.

These platforms were huge successes so what to the companies do? Why make more of course. But this time bigger and better so they can sell them all over again, to the same people. Also to make matters worse they stop making games for the original platforms. But hey that means I can get awesome Xbox games for only £5.oo.

So yea in dances the PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2005.

Also they try to sell the same products to you for a third time with there portable version‘s, in the form of PSP (PlayStation Portable) and NINTENDO DS.

THEN <<<<2006>>>> NINTENDO GIVES BIRTH TO THE WII.
The Wii is aimed at the whole family, focusing on new gameplay methods and new forms of interaction, rather than amazing over the top graphics. The Wii is the best console so far.

Food For Thought.
Having looked at the previous game crash of 1983, I cant help but feel it will happen again. What with 3 major companies competing, each with more than one platform on the go (apart form the 360). The sales of video games are once again struggling under spilt market conditions. Most gamers will not own both a PS3 and 360, let alone a Wii as well. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony may all be surviving sharing the market, but it will make life hard for third party game publishers to chose what platform to create games for. Future platforms will have more money spent on them and yet will receive lower returns, with each generation. Id say the companies will have to combine efforts to survive.

Uninspired

2007-11-10T14:26:00.000Z

This organic character brief must be the best I have ever had, its the most open by far. So why… … WHY !! am I so uninspired. All I can come up with is a guy with a fish head hat and a lady with wasp tattoo’s. could have gone to town making some obscure monster. But but even with Google’s help, I’m still well and truly stuck.…HELP.!!!.

Thinking about it why do I even bother trying to create good art, and be on a course that specialises in visual stunning-ness-ness when people are entertained just as much by the amazing http://www.ratemypoo.com/

I think I could pass this course if all I do is a poop in the middle of the room and leave it there for the 3 years. Oh wait sorry that’s how to pass a “FINE ART” course. (me slag of the course I’m on … NEVER)

Week 3 ... My Middle Bit

2007-11-10T12:14:00.000Z

Week 3, Task three-ness-ness… and it goes on ....My Middle bit.

This is going to be hard. Hmmmmmmm, well ok so after the Amiga. We got are first computer, whoop whoop. But again I never really got a turn in the beginning, and I only ever really used it for homework. Until I got myself some “good” games. I went through a longgggg faze of sim type games like Theme park, Theme park world, Startopia, Theme hospital (yea there all bullfrog games, I loved them) OOO OOO and not forgetting Dungeon Keeper, god of Bullfrog games.

A yes I did play on Sims and had all the add on’s, that was a great game but only with the cheats, building HUGE houses was defiantly entertaining. However the whole making them go to the loo and cooking dinner was boringgg. Even with all the boring bits it was inevitable that I was going to get Sims 2. So I could build bigger better houses with basements and loft conversions, the works. I also managed one hell of a family tree, brothers had kids with the same lady who was also sleeping with there dad. social services took the kids, Pftt if they cant be bothered to feed them then neither can I.

Oh yea did I mention the Guybrush Threepwood and Indiana Jones obsession? Well that’s still there. Games like that are amazing oo oo especially GRIM FANDANGO. But most importantly ….I WANT A MONKEY ISLAND 5, on Wii. Also cant w8 for Lego Indiana. I know I know miss spent youth bla bla bla… After a stressful day at school there was nothing better than a good dose of insult sword fighting or puzzle solving.

New revelation Davy Jones is a LeChuck rip off. There I was looking for a little LeChuck for my Blog and I come across this = ( who ever though this up, was thinking way to much ) o_O

AND now to pay homage to JET SET RADIO and JET SET RADIO FUTURE / JSRF. The random ass graphics on these games are groovi and I have to say it had a big influence on my artiness-ness. PLUS the music is amazing I have the whole lot on my mp3 still.

Then came the time when all I did was play on my bros online games. There was guild wars, managed to get a level 14 Necromancer (necro‘s rock) considering the max level was 20, lvl 14 was amazing. I loose interest in these games quickly, can u blame me?. And then there’s wow (World of Warcraft) now this I had 2 characters both pitifully low levels. One EVIL undead freak for harassing ppl, one good little gnome for socializing. Yea cant say I actually played that game, just bopped around. My chars had the best names Moth and Aphid, I am proud of myself for not having overly long stupid names like everyone else on there. Sad thing is there are still “friends” from the game on my msn list who STILL harass me and call me moth. Its getting a little weird to say the least. But I could not imagine my online world without them, there part of the package. Any-hoo that game got boring as all games do. eventualy.

Yea I know this blog entry is a bunch of random statements and the like. But hey the man said “we’sa no do essays” so I think I’m covered.

Gahh Water Cooler

2007-11-09T12:46:00.000Z

Taa-Daa
Ok so this is my last water cooler attempt. This little baby is 5th generation, possibly 6th. Yes that right folks why you were all off making lovely Pagodas, I’ve made 6 bloody water coolers, and I still can’t remember how to do the texturing malarkey. But hey now I can UV map with my eyes closed.

OK but this thing is hard to make look good when the ref photos to make the skin from are taken at stupid ass angles and are really naff quality. Plus the templates you make the model from are based on someone else’s model and not the actual water cooler. There for the finished results look like someone’s gone at it with a chain saw and stuck it back together with chewing gum.

I'm not just making excuses.

Week 3 ... The 80's and 90's

2007-11-04T21:43:00.000Z

Week 3, Task Three-ness-ness … work work work … This ones a long one.

Ok so back to the history of games, I left you in the late 70’s now this is were we start getting interesting (hopefully). The first home consoles have arrived in the form of the impressive 8-bit, with the groovy cartridge based games. The most popular of these consoles was the Atari 2600 which was released in 1977. The Atari played games such as space invaders, pac-man and the like. Competition was strong for the Atari but the little guy stood strong almost dominating the market.

So everything was booming in the game industry until the Atari hit 5 in 1983, the public was loosing interest and looking for the next big thing. The market became over clogged with “new” consoles and games. Overproduction and lack of interest resulted in the north America video game crash. When I say clogged I’m not joking … Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Bally Astrocade, ColecoVision, Coleco Gemini, Emerson Arcadia 2001, Fairchild Channel F System II, Magnavox Odyssey2, Mattel Intellivision, Tandyvision, VTech CreatiVision, and Vectrex. I could list more but I’ve made my point.
QUESTION?-Who Named these things?

Also about this time was the start of the home pc which was generally a keyboard that hooked up to the TV, this added to the problem. As these babies had better graphics, better sound, more memory and generally opened up the market for more sophisticated games.
One more thing ….. The break out of the home computer resulted in a highly competitive price war.

Soooooooo it really was inevitable that the industry went out the window, and the whole video game thing was declared as a fad.

BUT THEY WERE WRONG …

Home computers were a big success in Europe with the Commodore 64 and the saying “Why buy your child a video game and distract them from school when you can buy them a home computer that will prepare them for college?” Yea right ! As Europe had already moved on from video games they were relatively unaffected by the crash.

Dam I’m dribbling on a bit, but this is actually quite interesting. I surprise myself. I don’t blame you if u stop reading.

OK ok sooo, Then came the rise of NINTENDO with its NES/Famicom (family computer) and later on in 1989 the game boy, whoop whoop. But SEGA came along with its Sonic the hedgehog which began the Super Mario and Sonic Hedgehog's rivalry. Sonic has always been my fav. 16-bit came and went in the form of the Super Nintendo and Sega Mega Drive in 1990. With it came Zelda, Metroid, Final fantasy and Street fighter.

Hehehe ! Now I had a little precious Super Nintendo, I got one after they were cool, out of pity really. I treasured its Retro-ness-ness and it was very loved. Only recently did the happy fella leave my side. I came home one day and someone has put him on eBay, just to see how much he was worth. I will always miss him, my little SNES, I hope he went to a good home.

So summing up the early 90’s.
32-bit came then 64-bit, Sony Playstation entered the room in 1994, Sega and NINTENDO !! were still going strong, game boy colour arrived, the PC had evolved and the internet had started its world domination. Oh and not forgetting 3D games.

Ok just read that back and it’s one huge ass list. Pftt it was inevitable.

Week 2...My Beginning

2007-11-03T15:58:00.000Z

As a wee lass I never ever got a look in on the computer, what with a older and younger brother. I was the one who was told “you don’t want to play that, just go paint or play with Barbie” thinking about it that must be why I like art so much because Barbie sucked and Shelly went off on an “adventure” in the garden and sadly never came back. So glitter and paint it was.

However I remember are first computer type thing vividly, The Amiga 500. The Amiga was release in 1987, and it cost around $500 dollars, we got the Amiga around 1995/6 because around that time it would have been affordable to mortals (by my calculations, that would make me 7ish).

Anyway this thing was brilliant, even if I was only watching others play, and being deemed as an annoying pest. On the off chance I did get to play, without a doubt I would play ZOOL 2, amazing upbeat music, funky characters, bright colours and Chupa Chup lollypops throughout, what more could a young girl want in a game. Pure ZOOL worship. And yes of course I was the girl char.

There were some other “GREAT” games like, Secret of Monkey island (I’m a huge Monkey island fan, DO NOT MOCK) From the box advert you thing the game is an amazing work of art with its “swashbuckling graphics“ but then u play it lol, hey if it says swashbuckling graphics in the add its got to be a good game. Guybrush Threepwood is my hero, followed close by Indiana Jones (ill not go into that, I bet your already freaked).

Other good games were, lemmings, the settlers and loom (I could not play loom, but it looked pretty). But the best is still ZOOL. GO ZOOL GO.

A must go place if u had/have an Amiga ... http://www.lemonamiga.com/ ... brings back the memories. Xd

Week 2.... The Beginning

2007-11-03T13:49:00.000Z

Week two, task two. A bit late, but better than never.

When ever you think of early video games everyone instantly thinks of Pong, Pac-man and the like. But apparently the video game was born in the early 1950’s.

Early programs were simple, such as checkers and tic-tac-toe. However these programs were not classed as true electronic games as they were representations/copies of the average board game. So even though these were make before, the first “true” electronic game is Tennis for Two by William Higinbotham created in 1958, 6 years after checkers. The purpose of this game was to entertain visitors to the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Its extremely primitive, like pong only a lot worse. As u can see =

So this dude Higinbotham was a American Physicist, created Tennis For Two on a oscilloscope. Oscilloscopes are normally use for testing electronic signals, displaying voltages in a graph. So what on earth compelled him to use this as a base? I’m thinking since it was the 1950’s there was nothing else that fit his requirements (just guessing, I could be wrong) I’ll see if I can find anything further. Unfortunately for him he never attempted to market or patent his device and it never really had much impact on the word, so the potential of the electronic game remained unrecognized by the public.

It was not until the 1970’s more that 10 years later that video games were commercialized, this was very hit and miss the industry struggled and even collapsed in 83. But they managed to build the basis for what is now a booming industry. console hardware alone is predicted to make 3.89 billion this year and 5.77 billion in 2010. (I hate statistics, so this is most likely wrong XD)

Games from the 70’s are amazingly primitive with simple targets, but amazingly addictive.

(Wikipedia rocks, best place for information EVER)

GameCity

2007-11-02T16:56:00.000Z

Gamecity. Hmm were to start. I even said before I went the only thing worthwhile to come from game city would be the possibility of a photo with a storm trooper. Well here it is, proof that I actually did go to a game convention for the first time. And to be honest it was not the most impressive game convention. As in most of the lectures the majority of people there were from the same course (were we the only ones dumb enough to go) having said that it did entertain me and it made a change from the norm. the presentations were surprisingly really entertaining and obscure things. Like how to tape your Wii control to a lightsaber, so you can play Lego Starwars on Wii to the “extreme“.

Oh yes im cool. lol. I was forced.

As far as KEITA TAKAHASHI and nobby nobby boy is concerned I’m still utterly bewildered by the entire thing. I lost 2 hours of my life to growing plants, odd videos and a miffi cup and bowl. BUT hell It was funny XD.

The Shame

2007-10-28T17:05:00.000Z

Ok ok soo after all the hassle of game city (I’ll fill you in on the details later) I came home dying from a cold and sneezing my brains out. I made it back on sheer hope that my new laptop was sitting on the side when I got there. My lovely new RED dell, baby doll thing.

Sure enough I finally arrived home and there it was. Centre of the room, glowing, church music playing in the background and fairies dancing around the top. cant quiet work out how much of that was in my head, but my god it was a spectacular moment. I picked up the box it was a little light considering it’s a laptop and the box was kind of small and shabby. But I was too overwhelmed to pay any attention to detail. I ripped open the box and there inside I found this=

Hmm don’t look quite right. The stuck on print out of the dell logo, was a sure give away. this was not what I ordered. I look up in pure disbelief at the 3 family members now laughing there asses off. I cant believe that my family could have been so cruel or that they had the time to make it. This particular dell “rip off” started out life as a book, some red paper and good old masking tape. The custom keyboard is a great touch, the coffee button has to be a new must for all computers…. if it worked. Once again I cant believe that these people especially my mother spent a whole day off there life’s making this trash. Just for that one moment.

Well ……I HOPE IT WAS WORHT IT.

This is probably one of those things that will never ever go away a will be brought up at any possible moment to peeve me off. I can see it now “Rebecca go get your laptop to show them” pftt I feel depressed at my future shame.

So after a hour and a half of nothing but shame and begging for them to give me my real laptop, i finally saw it. And what the first thing I do, first though to go through my head “I have got to put this on my blog” SAD. Which leads us to this very moment. I’m still ill and still peeved so what do I do? I write about it, typical English approach. But my new dell baby doll makes up for the poopiness.

DRULLES

I LOVE IT..

Photoshop Fun

2007-10-23T17:22:00.000+01:00

TAa-Daa

My very first photoshop pic. YES FIRST.
I have dabbled in the past so I know where the tools are but i‘ve never really taken it seriously. UNTILL NOW.

I have to say, I’m proud of myself (Vanity :p). OK so it took ages and she dose look a bit like an alien o_O. But I’m Happy XD. Gota love the ear.

Oh if u were wondering
Top one = Original
Bottom one = Mine.

Any tips to help make her look less Alien are more than welcome. XD

Week One....deep breath.!!!

2007-10-23T16:14:00.000+01:00

Ok task one. week one-ness-ness. (prepare to be put to sleep)

RANT WARNING !!!
So I’m supposed to be telling you how great blogs are. But I think there over engineered one way conversations. In which the writer makes themselves out to be god’s best creation. When all they are really doing is stealing other people’s u-tube vid’s. Most bloggers are self obsessed and completely different in the “real world” Sooo im now feeling a little sad that i to now have a blog and facebook. I though I was doing so well at avoiding them.

Facebook amazing peeve’s me with the amount of pure gibberish I get sent. What in all hell on toast is that gift thing about “u have been sent a penguin” WHYYYYY? Dose it end there? noooooo “u have been bitten by a zombie” or the ever so popular sex appeal bar with sex-o-meter. Silly trash should be banned from the net including myspace, hi5 or any other.

Deep Breath

Ok with that out the system. In my opinion there are 4 types of bloggers, Collectors, Online diary and Party people and me.

Collectors = Obsessed with surfing the net and are fed up of storing everything they like in there fav’s. Or they use the blog to show off/advertise there “real life” collection. I don’t mind these guys so much there just writing about what they like, Passionate Guys :p. XD amazingly good example = http://www.swanshadow.com/weblog.html

Online Diary = I guess these guys just use the blog to vent, possibly rant. A hobby of sorts. These people I find amazingly boring, taking about how many sugars they had in there tea, do we really need to know? Most common peeps to do this are the ones who have just had baby and have nothing better to do.

Party People = These guys are the ones who spam up the net. Stealing all the good blog names. Write about nothing in particular and insult there friends online. In other words kids. Haha reminds me of the time my cousin almost got kicked out of school for drawing a pic with an amazing likeness to a girl in his class (not a very flattering one) …….Anyway it ended up in Google images when u searched her name. OOPS.

ME = Blogging because I have to, work related.

Still Awake? Well I am impressed.
Coming up task two-ness-ness.

It's a Start

2007-10-17T18:24:00.000+01:00

Welcome one and all to my wonderful blog.

First things first, my name is Bec, I’ve currently just started uni on a game art course (yea a girl on a game course) it’s a long story.

So far…ME LIKES IT.

Anyhoo instead of essays I have to write about arty gameness in this, my wonderful blog. YESS no essays…WHOOP WHOOP.

However I really really REALY don’t like blogs. Mainly because I never know what to put on the dam things.