Alex Barton - newyear Studios

Should have stopped when I was ahead.

2012-01-26T22:49:00.000-06:00

So, thought I would do some more versions of the monster. Still trying to hone in on all the stuff I like and weed out the bad. Well..... this must have been me painting all the bad stuff. I really hate these but thought i would post them because they don't suck that bad... just enough for me not to like them.

New Concept Art!

2012-01-26T17:08:00.000-06:00

So, I was about to do alot of siluquets and rapid concepting for the monser. Trying give my self some new ideas. I made a new Concept brush and just started dabing it all over the place. Before I knew it I was painting this.... Not what I planned but, I really like it. I got a nice new monster out of it, and i feel it is a nice cross between the other two. I still think I can push the design a little farther.

I also painted Simon.... That's the main characters name. I have been working on making a suit for him. This seems a little too bulky but, I like it, and it game me a reason to finalize the Adanis Corp. logo. (The company Simon works for. Hope everyone likes it. :)

Monster Concept 2

2012-01-26T03:42:00.000-06:00

This image is actually a paint over of one of my favorate sketches from my sketch book. I adjusted a lot from that sketch to here. But, I think this is some where closer to the final monster is going to look like. Maybe somewhere right between this one and the last one.

Got really tired of the buildings. So, Monster concept #1

2012-01-26T00:11:00.000-06:00

I have a lot of sketches that I need to post. I have been developing this monster for a while. This version looks kinda boring to me for some reason. The final one I am planning on really focusing on making it look more skeletal and less fleshy. I also don't know about the glowing tongue lure thing. just kinda threw it in there at the last sec. Anyway, I love painting monsters and characters. I have been forcing my self to get all this other stuff worked out before I reward my self with one of the monsters and the main character of the game. So, enjoy. Please comment.

Bottom of the tower Concept

2012-01-18T15:14:00.000-06:00

I scribbled out this image of the base of the tower. I have all the parts I need to get this in game but the huge tanks behind the pipes that go to the top of the tower.

So, last post of the night.

2012-01-18T01:52:00.000-06:00

Thought I would post the high poly model of this variation of the tank. I really like the way it looks. The image is a little rasterized because every time i try to do a BPR with zBrush at a resolution high enough to get an image at 1440x900 like I like, zBrush crashes. I think I should put some text on the side of the tank now that I look at it....

Platforms and Physics Objects

2012-01-18T00:34:00.000-06:00

So, for the past 2 days I have been working out the platforms that make up a large portion of the man made structures in the game based on the concept art below. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted them to look like so I jumped right in. I took a break right here at the end and decided to take the water tanks from the top of the tower and re texture them and let them stand alone as physics objects in the game. They are a lot of fun to push around. gives me something to do when I am testing for collision issues around the map. And seeing as the game has no objective in this early stage it is now an amazing sci-fi kick the can simulator. Enjoy the screen shots. :)

Yeah, it looks better :)

2012-01-14T22:55:00.000-06:00

After looking at it for a little bit longer and adjusting the spec map for the platform the stuff sits on I feel it looks a lot more like the concept and has a better look to it. I may adjust the barrels some as far a texture goes. but I am happy with it other wise. The metal of the platform looks a lot more like dirty metal and less like some strange shiny thing.

playing with color.

2012-01-14T22:18:00.000-06:00

Are they too bright? Does this look better? I dont know anymore :(

Sort of final tower platform.

2012-01-14T12:11:00.000-06:00

So, based on the concept in the previous post, I built all the stuff in that image and put it in game. I like the way it looks. Not going back to change it now. I always think stuff could look better. At the last second I kinda changed the shape of the water barrels and I don't know if I like it as much as a concept. The barrels look more rigid and skinny in the concept and more round and fat in the 3d model. Do tell which one you like better. I also Have to place a pipe going from the compressor to the water tanks.... but that will only take a second. Hope you like it. Please comment.

Concepts :)

2012-01-08T00:45:00.000-06:00

So painting in some objects that will sit on top of the tower. trying to get a better feel for how I want the final product to look. I am playing here with hue and value. thinking about going in with post processing to get the clouds to pop a little more red like the concepts below. I don't know if I like it better though. maybe its just different and I am drawn to that because I have been looking at the other for so long. Anyway, I think this is how the water tanks, generator, and air compressor will look on top of the tower.

Progress!

2012-01-06T23:38:00.000-06:00

I have been working on the programming of the game a lot for the past few days. I have managed to hammer out a 3rd person camera that will avoid clipping though walls and gives the game a really fun adventure feel. I am by no means a programmer. With little knowledge or previous experiences I have pushed my self to understand Unrealscript. By extending from existing unreal classes, I got the camera working, and have the ability to hop from my third person camera to a cinematic camera. With this ability in place I have started scripting out some cinematic scenes and have already animated a short potion of the start of the game. I have also found its alot of fun to pull out the cinematic camera in real time and have the player interact with it. The section of the game I have started working on is the top of the platform the player is dropped off at. The player is viewed through a stationary 3rd person cinematic camera and has the ability to run from one side of the platform and have the camera pan around the platform to the opposite side when they move to that side of the platform. This is activated by some triggers. I have also animated the lift so when the player jumps on the platform it will drop to the surface of the planet and the cinematic camera will follow the player on the lift and pan around the tower making a really cool epic introduction to the characters new home. when the player gets to the bottom of the tower the Player camera takes over the cenematic camera and the game falls into the basic 3rd person view. I feel like I am going to have a lot of fun with directing more shots of the planet and activating events through out the story of the game. (Not yet posted) In addition to all this have gained the exceptional talent of my good friend Adam Bennett. He has signed on to develop the music and SFX for the game. He showed me some of what he is working on and I think we are all in for a treat. Below is a concept peice. I am going to be placing some steps and platforms in the game and I was painting them in to see how they would look. Much more to come. Thanks for reading!

Back on Track!

2012-01-03T18:23:00.000-06:00

After dealing with Zbrush and getting back in the swing of things. I finished and animated the lift I also made the pipes that run up and down the tower. After that I went on to make some rubble to flesh out the word even more. After that I worked up the first image of the concept for the buildings. Last but not least I finished up the fog volumes that makeup the clouds. I also made a new particle effect that blends with them to make them look like they move across the sky instead of just undulate. I built a material for the clouds that forces them make a breathing motion. I then added another few more nodes to make each vertices move around based on their world placement. They all work together to make a really nice dynamic sky and the world come to life just a little more with every step. Below is a screenshot of the platform with lift and pipes. The fog volumes use a per pixel shader so the tower looks very rasterized around its base in the image. This all looks fine in-game. And, the screenshot not too shabby. Below that is the concept details for the buildings. They will be modeled next!

Glitchoriffic Zbrush and other fun things!

2011-12-27T23:02:00.000-06:00

So, for the past week and a half I have been battling with programs on my computer crashing. The problem seemed to stem from a zbrush and its great hatred for Photoshop. I could not figure out what was going on. At first I thought it was something to do with not having enough ram. But, task manager seemed to only ever used 4-6 at the most of my 8 gb of ram. So, scanned for viruses and malware. Still nothing. Then I uninstalled Zbrush and re installed Zbrush. Like magic everything works again. I don't know what was up but it rendered me unable to work on my project in any kind of timely manner. If nothing else it once again instilled a great need and fear to save my work every two seconds. Anyway, I am back on track and got the bare bones of the tower done today. I just need the lift, air compressor, generator, canisters and the pipes to make it complete. Then I move on to building the monster and, main character. I plan on finishing the tower and the Building in the next two days. Here's a screen shot of the tower!

Screenshot Extravaganza!

2011-12-11T22:54:00.001-06:00

These are all in game screens. Still a lot of work to do. More detail. I have however figured out how to make volumetric clouds. I don't know if its as heavy a load to do the real fog volumes vs. the particle effects I have already built. But they look amazing together. At the start of the game the player will stand on the Harvester Platform and be able to look out into an endless sea of clouds. Then get onto the platform and ride down through the clouds. I think its going to be pretty darn epic with the music I am thinking of making/ or calling in some help to make.

Harvester Tower Concept

2011-12-11T22:16:00.001-06:00

This is the Harvester tower. Its really just a simple tower with a lift. It was built so that ships could land and a generator could be set to run. The Air/Gas on the planet in the game is flammable, and will ignite if exposed to Combustion based equipment and electronic devices. The Adanis Corp. Makes these quickly and very Cheaply. They are not built to last. This one has been up for 5 years.

Sketchbook

2011-12-11T16:31:00.001-06:00

I scribbled this out in my sketchbook a while back. thought it was worth a paint and a post. I have a few more that may show up.

Lumin Harvester Concept

2011-12-11T15:57:00.001-06:00

This is Base Camp at the beginning of the game. More concepts to come!

More in game screens.

2011-11-26T13:48:00.001-06:00

So.... I finished up the L pipe so I can have pipes running up and down the canon walls. I also tweaked the depth of field in my post processing. looks a little better I think. Enjoy!

Fancy new screenshot

2011-11-23T02:01:00.001-06:00

So I finished 2 of the pipes and one of the luminescent lights for the level. I placed them and they are giving such a great atmosphere to the place.. I think. what do you guys think?

So here are some ingame screens

2011-11-22T04:24:00.001-06:00

Finished up one of the pipes and the pipestand. placed them ingame and took these :)

Pipe system Concept.

2011-11-17T01:38:00.001-06:00

The Idea of this pipe system is that it lights the way for the character to go. As the player moves farther and farther under ground the pipes will not be their, And said player will have to use glow sticks. The world of the game is set up as a no tech environment. I want to take away electronics. and see what kind of sci-fi world i can make. The reason there is no tech is due to the planet the play is on. The thick fog that makes a lot of the atmosphere of the game (no pun intended) is a highly explosive chemical that does not allow for the use of generators or electronics. everyone must rely on the luminescent light of a chemical compound shipped in from off world. The player ( a scientist) is their to study this chemical and find its origin. His mission funded by the Anchor corporation, and they very much want to find a way to synthesize the production of the gas. They have not been able to as of yet and its the players job to find the origin and if not the origin of the gas than a way to synthesize it in the lab. Adventure ensues and things are not what they seem ect, ect. Once again the pipes are there to harvest the gas of the planet. the player follows them at the beginning of the game to get to way points before it gets all sandboxarific.

Playing with udk cascade editor

2011-11-13T23:49:00.001-06:00

So, working with particle effects is a lot of fun! Here are some screens of some green dust that I have been placing in beams of sunlight and some blueish looking fog that blows across sections of the level some times. It really adds some life to the place. Its kinda hard to really get a good feel for these but they are fancy. they fade in based on alpha and then back out and they hover around and look really pretty. (Alex Giggles and runs off to play with them more like a little school girl.)

New Environmental obj set. and playing with the color.

2011-11-13T23:28:00.001-06:00

Here I am just trying to make sure I want to go with the hazy green look I have been after. I took both versions of the landscape and worked them together. Its giving me a really nice redish browns and some neat looking chromatic grays. I may just work this look in in the post processing within UDK. I really want some opinions. please comment. :)

I have decided to go with making some really large distinct static mesh objects for my level layout instead of using the terrain editor for the game. I don't think the games world is going to be very big horizontal. most navigation the player will be doing will be down into the planet with only a few expansive open areas. This an image of the starting area mesh concepts. I am going to make the rocks somewhat modular. Hope you like.

new High-Poly renders

2011-11-03T03:16:00.000-05:00

Here are some high-poly sculpts from Zbrush. I have the low-polys done and textured/materials applied as you can see in the post below. I will probably post some images of the low polys, with wire frame, maps, and poly counts later...

So.. working on the fog...

2011-11-02T15:26:00.000-05:00

This does not look quite right yet. needs some movment. maybe a shader on the ground with some lowlying fog or like waves of particle effects in the air.

new UDK screenshots

2011-11-02T05:45:00.000-05:00

So, finished this big rock thing.... looks nice for 1260 tris yeah? Put together a mock up of the concept image below. enjoy!

New Concept art for this project

2011-10-31T04:02:00.000-05:00

Worked up some more visuals for the landscape and detailed out the next two 3d models I will be making.

Plant #2 almost done!

2011-10-28T03:43:00.000-05:00

New screens of plant 2. I hated the previous version... so I re-sculpted the high-polly and added in some edge loops on the low and repainted the diffuse. I also went ahead and added a few little sprig things onto it. All i want to do now is add more of them. I feel its a little skimpy. I am happy with the material I constructed for it in UDK... what do you think?

P.S. UDK just crashed and I lost my awesome material :( what a freakin pain! I saved my level but the content browser thought it would be cool not to keep my plant in storage. so I just have a light build of my level with a stupid shadow of a plant thats not in there :( Good night.

Unfinished plant #2

2011-10-27T03:41:00.000-05:00

Just kinda showing progress. I did the concept and modeled this out yesterday. I finished the high-poly and rendered out my maps just tonight. These are screen grabs from max... don't ask me why i didn't just use the render function... I like screen grabbing okay. Enjoy.

P.S I need to add the little sprigs. I don't know if I should model the out or just make a texture for transparency.

Plant #2

2011-10-25T16:30:00.001-05:00

So, Here is the final concept version of plant#2. 3d version to follow soon

New screen shot

2011-10-25T05:11:00.000-05:00

Hey, not make too much progress... just been playing in the UDKs material editor. Got lost for like 3 hours. but I have come out of all the tweaking of settings with some nice rim lighting. here it is

Concepts, Modeling, and Mapping

2011-10-24T23:05:00.000-05:00

Sooo, I have been working on my modeling and focusing on UV layout, map creation and poly count. I have also been looking into understanding the limitations of platforms and all that stuff. Well after all my hard work and study I feel I know enough to say I am able go from concept to 3d models that meet current gen game requirements as well as make the diffuse, normal and spec maps required for in game use.. I have been doing a little playing around in UDK and here are some in game shots of a plant. I am planning on making a little environment/level full of plants, monsters, and desert awesomeness. As well as try to get a little animation going in game to tell the story.

Oh.. here are the shots and some renders from with in zbrush and max.

2011-10-11T00:10:00.000-05:00

This is the finished version of the human. Now that this guy is done I plan on starting in on a project to build some elements for a short film. new story, characters, landscape.

Plants

2011-10-11T00:06:00.000-05:00

Designing some plants :)

Back at it!

2011-09-14T05:49:00.000-05:00

After working some independent study in zbrush and 3dsmax I am able to create some really cool looking stuff. Here is a fully textured and 3d model of a kinda semi-real looking cartoon proportioned human. Enjoy!

Soo....

2011-08-06T03:55:00.000-05:00

Here is a high-poly version of the robot. I was working in some hd texture junk and i think its looking snazzy. Too bad now that when i try to bake in my textures the maps don't fit quite right on my low poly because, one it's so low pol, and two becuase the form has changed just enough that the low poly kinda sticks out on the high in places ruining the map..... I may rebuild the low-poly based on the new form and details of the high-poly so that i can get all the cool stuff in the maps, or maybe just spruce up the low poly some... I don't know. hope you enjoy. these are just some screen captures from Zbrush.

Mr. Bones for Machines and monsters

2011-08-04T19:32:00.001-05:00

I Played around with this some.... I like both kinda.

first

Just showing off my progress!

2011-07-31T21:42:00.000-05:00

I still need to finish mapping it and making the hi poly for the normal map may take a while... So, here is what i have so far. I also plan on rigging this and making a walk animation!

Revison

2011-07-30T17:24:00.001-05:00

A good friend was honest with me and said that the robot looked strange. Like a broken robot with its upper torso hanging behind its self. After he said that that's all I could see in the design... so I changed it. I think it looks a lot better now. I'm working on the 3d version now, should be done soon.

Some quick concept stuff for my next 3d model

2011-07-29T20:23:00.000-05:00

I LIVE!!!!!!!

2011-07-29T20:18:00.000-05:00

After much study I know much of the ins and outs of 3d s max! This was my text subject. I put this chair through a lot of tests and playing. Its current look is due to many mistakes lol. I will soon be posting some more impressive 3d models. This is a very basic chair made of 138 polys. This chair has a basic diffuse, ambiant occlusion, spec map and, a normal map baked from a hi-poly. (I managed to lose my hi-poly is a fatal save over the file :(. Enjoy!

Oh yeah! Machines and Monsters.

2011-03-28T01:55:00.000-05:00

Here is some work I did for www.machinesandmonsters.org a while ago I never posted to my site

BFA Preview!

2011-02-19T21:24:00.000-06:00

This is a poster/cover I have made for part one of my graphic novel. I hope to have part one all ready to go for the final project of my collage carrier.

Web Site Revamp!

2011-02-19T21:09:00.000-06:00

Check out my reworked web site. There is still room for improvement but its basically working for now!
www.newyearstudios.com

A very strange web comic...

2011-02-16T02:06:00.000-06:00

http://explosm.net/comics/2327/ will take you to the web comic Cyanide & Happiness. The comic is a stroll down the dark side of humor. There are no real recurring characters, or at least from what i can tell there aren't. Its just a great comic full of strange perverse humor. Why does this type of web comic work? I must say its riding on some pretty good little gags here and there. Its also got quite a shock factor built in. The visual style is very simple. Thick black lines and flat color make up most of the work. There are at times gruesome depictions of death and mutilation. But because of the simple look of the comic even these things look somewhat inviting. Click on the link to get a nice little bite sized chunk of perversion and cynicism. enjoy.

Machines and Monsters!

2010-12-18T12:45:00.000-06:00

Hey! I was sitting in Pho Hoa Binh (Great Chines/Vietnamese restraint) and Justin Wheeler (Amazing Artist) was there and some how our conversation came around to the Super Hero Costume Coalition (Great blog/check it out!) and how we want to get it up and going again. I started thinking about how much I love the community thats been growing there and then how much I love to make up monsters and robots. So... I thought I would throw a blog together it hopes that people would like to sketch out some cool looking monsters. I hope people like the idea. please check it out. I made a cool banner and everything. I will be posting the first prompted today some time. It will be little blurbs like "Beak faces creature with horse like feet and old man body with four arms" Anyone that knows me should think that description is funny. Hope everyone checks it out. Thanks. Click here to go there!

And... Done!

2010-11-30T12:08:00.000-06:00

This is basically done. a few alterations to the text and we are in business. But this is it! I just noticed some messy ness on some of the ships. I need to clean up edges and stuff.

NPDA! This is the Final Draw "Pun Intended"

2010-11-27T15:46:00.000-06:00

If people dont think this is cool and fun and whimsical and all around fitting for NPDA I am going to freak out and die. I have done my best! Someone say they like this. The New Idea behind it is "Inspiration comes from the journey. Not the finish line." Comments please! Its not totally finished. Slight adjustment need to be made.

Convent - Concept Art

2010-11-20T11:49:00.000-06:00

Here I am posting 4 pages from a small 21 page book of my concept development process. These images are the final versions of the charicters I have been developing for a class project. I believe I posted the first step versions below. Yay for concept art!

Booster Gold And Blue Beetle

2010-11-11T02:12:00.000-06:00

This looks like Shit! Its for The CoCoa blog... Just look away.

NPDA update!

2010-11-08T21:26:00.001-06:00

Its Official, after all the negative feed back about the bald robot head concept. I feel that the above concept has forged ahead visually and conceptually. Its clean and I had fun doing it. I Got the look by integrating some basic 3D models. Enjoy and please comment on the new concept. Yes, No? Maybe? I like it!

P.S. Text will be laid soon. I just sent these over to Alison Castle. I will post the final versions when I get them from her.

Visual Essay 2 Progress!

2010-10-28T22:59:00.001-05:00

This is based a super abridged version of a concept art production pipeline. I need to develop the world a little more and I am going to be working up Three variations for one of each of the five figures above. I have done all of this since Friday. I am trying to work fast.

What Have I been Doing you ask? And, Illustratior research!

2010-10-28T20:40:00.000-05:00

What Have I been Doing you ask? Well, working.... A lot. Between my internship classes, hunting for freelance and entering in competitions and such. I am worn out. In a few second I will post some of an unfinished project that I started last week on Friday. Its coming along at a rapid pace. Because, its not just to see how good I can do it, but how fast can I make something that resembles something that took deep thought and a lot of time. Its a Concept art project! I have also been slaving away on my BFA project but I am not quite ready to let that cat out of the bag yet.

P.S Here is a link to my Illustrator research. http://myillustratiorresearch.blogspot.com/

P.S.S I am Interviewing Thierry Doizon for my Project. I hope he finds the time to answer the questions I sent him. I know he's a busy guy but he told me he would answer the questions for me though. Sad thing is I feel like I have tons of questions and the ones I sent him are a little hit and miss on there worth. I always fear questions I ask in interviews make little to no sense.

I am trying to get a really cool job!

2010-10-11T19:58:00.001-05:00

I have been working on getting a really cool job making isometric maps for a PSP game. I hope I get it. This is a map I did to show off the skills I have. This is the first time I have ever done an isometric map so it took me a while. Most of the time spent was me trying to figure out all the tricks when working on a map like this. I feel I can still improve. Hope they like it enough to hire me.

NPDA!

2010-10-10T20:10:00.000-05:00

Here is my favorite NPDA comp so far!

Looks done to me!

The Tree Bane!

2010-09-28T02:29:00.000-05:00

Just to prove to my self I do more than school work, work, and the cocoa blog i made this instead of sleep. ;)

NightWing!

2010-09-26T00:53:00.000-05:00

This is my Night-Wing for the COCOA Blog. I don't know about this night-Wing. My original idea didn't pan out. SO... I just went with Metal Night-Wing. Its not to far out of the box. I just felt that the music based characters was a little limiting for me. I really wanted to make Night-Wing a woman but after reading up on the character I felt I should try for a male version or it would not resemble Night-Wing at all. oh well. hope you like it! The best thing about this is that I have been trying to find cool way to write my initials in the corners of my works really quickly, and I feel that this one is the one. Check out the cool little AKB symbol in the lower right hand corner! I think is looks like a little slanty roofed house on a stick. I like it!

Egyptian God Nova - COCOA

2010-09-19T03:17:00.000-05:00

This is my redesign of Nova. I am part of the Super Hero Costume Coalition. I finaly talked them into reworking nova! So here's mine. The shell like wing thing on his back is a little wonky. but for now its good enough. I will fix it later.

This is the final version of The whats missing project.

2010-09-18T00:40:00.000-05:00

I feel really good about it. I named it tugboat 21

Whats Missing? Rework - Illustration 5

2010-09-10T22:14:00.001-05:00

The Last one felt stale, and over worked. The imagery was old and looked unimaginative. Here's my rework! I feel its way cooler, and I learn new stuff every time I paint! Hooray for painting! Do Tell me what you think!

Whats Missing? Work in progress - Illustration 5

2010-09-10T01:01:00.000-05:00

I don't know. the top one looks so labored. I don't know. You tell me...
I do like my ship design. I think it looks kinda cool.

Life drawing

2010-09-07T19:54:00.001-05:00

I need to do this more often. It would really help me out with proportion. I just never find the time.

I have Reworked my site Again!

2010-09-07T00:43:00.001-05:00

I hope its easier to navigate now. I feel it was a little confuting before. Hope you guys like it. Please check it out!
www.newyearstudios.com

P.S There is also a link to my new deviant art page where you can purchase prints of some of my work!

Coming Soon! - Deviant Art Page!

2010-09-06T19:25:00.000-05:00

Some of my 3d stuff!

2010-09-06T05:15:00.000-05:00

I will become better just by doing little try's like this one! What do you think

Whats Missing? - Illustration 5

2010-09-04T09:42:00.000-05:00

So, Yeah... IN my Illustration 5 class we are making a single work that we feel is missing from our portfolio of work. I feel that Epic landscapes and environments are missing. I tend to paint up more character on a blank background. I need to got away from just that and really integrate them together. So, I have started in on a few land scape paintings. Sci-fi of course. Here is my first one. Its a little less than half way done. I will probably work up one more that leans more towards a whimsical fantasy look than sci-fi next.

A Repost of the work for my current Portfolio!

2010-09-03T09:52:00.001-05:00

Post six - Illustration 5

2010-09-01T19:23:00.001-05:00

Review your responses to the questions asked.
(A) What sort of Illustrator are you?

1.I feel I am a Concept artist! After looking over my answers and the artists I have chosen I see that what makes all the artist I love so desirable is there ability to make worlds.Thierry Doizon's Steambot site says it the best. Right on the front page "We Design Universes." And I think that's what makes the concept artists position something I want to do. I want to be a part of making a universe.

(B) What Sort of career do you want to have?

2. I want to feel free and yet still have security in my livelihood. I hope thats not too much to ask for. I want to do what I love and i feel there is a demand for it so I hope I have a successful career but I don't have to be in the spot light. I am not always about getting my name on the front page. I just want to make worlds and from what I have experienced you do have to push to get in the position I am talking about... I feel like I dont know how to answer the question. lol

(C) Does the Present body of work reflect your aspirations?

3. No Not quite.

(D) Could It do so more strongly?

4. Yes I feel I need to create a mood or a tone, more so. I need to develop my world right down to the roots and bugs that craw though them.

(E) List 10 images/themes/techniques/subjects/formats that your portfolio needs in order to become more in line with your aspirations.

5. Here Are some ideas to Fix this -

I feel I need more epic landscapes that incompus lots of imagry though out them
more building design, I need to resurch arcatecture a little more and feel out some designs that say me.
I want to develop some animals that can fill some of the landsapes and give info about them.
I want the work to just feel cohesive. my work is scaterbrained and will not stick together very well.
my charicter development could always be due for an update.
The medium I use and feel most comfortable with is digital. I feel all my work should look like paintings though. I really do have a love of paint.
various nicknaks are missing - I want to show I can not only see the big picture I want to show I care about boxes and cars and the jewlry that my people wear. I need more of that subject matter.
I really want my work to be presented in a neat way. I feel like the look of my portfolio is cold and I would like not only my work to speak but the contaner itself.
There is a great demand for 3D modeling in concept art. I need to take the time to work up my 3d modleing skills.
Last but not least. Animation. really want some animation in my porfolio. It would show advanced knowlage of 3d modleing.

Post five - Illustration 5

2010-09-01T17:37:00.000-05:00

(A) If you Had to spend the rest of your life illustrating one book what would it be?

1.No question! It would be Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
(B) Why?

2. I read that book in high school, and it was so cool! I mean the imagery in my mind was great. I love it. Funny thing is I never really sat down and tried illustrated it just for fun for some reason. I think its that every time I tried its was never good enough for me to say, "yeah! Its done!" I would love to try, and try again. I feel it would keep me occupied forever; just trying to reach the vision in my head.
(C) If you could apprentice with any two artist's in the history of the world, who would they be?

3. Why don't you ask harder questions Joel! lol I dont know who I would choose. I will probably put something down and feel stupid I was not thinking of someone else.

(D) Why?

Because they make my eyes bleed out of my head they are so good! I mean just look at there work! If they could be smashed together into one man. The thing they would become is a god. The conceptual ideas of McQuarrie and the look of Sargent! amazing!

(E) If you were banned from the art world, but could have any career you wanted that wasn't in art, what would it be?

1. A Monk.

(F) Why?

2. I would enjoy the solitude and I really feel that I would not be fulfilled in life without art. I would probably fill the void with meditation and long walks.

3. If we are not counting music as art (it is) I would try to be a musician, but hate the lifestyle and become a monk.

(F) You have one month and one thousand dollars. (All of which must be spent on art expenses)

1. I would buy a bad ass Cintiq pad with the 1000 and get to work on a new graphic Novel.

Project details - It would be a graphic novelette about a latch key kid that is told that all his dreams will come true if he finds lucky penny's. (Not a children book!) I promise. I wrote the story many years ago and I feel an image based version of it would fit it well. I would want to give it a very natural look and would probably use a lot of water color textures as overlay and hard light to get the look I would want. I would try and keep it 100 or less pages. Its dimensions would be 6 1/2 by 8 and in full color. upon completion the work would be presented in book form soft cover with gloss paper for the back and cover. a rougher new print for the inside pages.
Time allotted - To get this done in my current life style I would probably have to quit my job and never leave my house. Its not really feasible with job, full time student, internship, sleeping eating not dieing.
on the other hand if I was out of school with a full time job I could probably work on the weekend and get this done in a month if i really put my mind to it. but right now work follows me home to work and back to work again.

2. Six Months and ten thousand dollars?

Project Details - I like it that the usage stipulation has bee removed. Now that I have ten thousand and I can live on it I would spend that six months honing my 3D Modeling and animation skills. I would animate a set of shorts telling the story of a man infected with nano technology that talks to him, and guides few of his friends himself out of a self contained super city that has lost all power only to find that its his own fault the city is now in a state of chaos. ect. ect. I am not an animator so much of my time would be working on my skills. The short would probably be short lol. Little to no voice acting would be use. I would use some of the ten thousand to pay a friend of mine to write some cool techno sounding music for it. Upon completion I would submit it to some animation competitions and hope for the best!
Time Allotted - Once again in my current state it would be impossible so I would quit my job and play the bills with the ten-thousand and hope I had time to animate the short on the weekends.
On the other hand if I was out of school and had ten-thousand and 6 months I would definitely have time to get it done. It would be a great learning experience and I could maybe make a website for the short and gather a following and sell merchandise maybe try and push it as a game idea to some company.

3. One year and one hundred thousand dollars?

Project Details - With one hundred thousand dollars no strings attached I would probably quit my job and try to pull a game development company together. I would higher a few programmers and get some artists together and start in on some small applications for Android/ iPhone. I would then start in on a side scrolled hack and slash RPG title for mobile devices like iphone/Android/PSP/NDS. The company name would be newyearstudios and I would try my best! We would have brain storming meeting for the type of game and then we would make a final decision and go for it.
Time Allotted - With a year I feel like this is feasible. With only 2 semester before my BFA this would be a crap time to have a year to make a game. If I was able to have it right after graduation I would really be all for it. but the idea of getting the one hundred thousand now almost depresses me because i would have to quit school to put in the amount of work I would want to to get a company off the ground.

Part four Of Post 4 - Illustration 5 = Updated!

2010-08-31T23:51:00.000-05:00

(A)Go To a bookstore with large magazine section lice Barnes & Noble or Boarders. Find at least ten magazines that you think you could work for. Consider both the content of the magazine and the type of illustration, if any, that they use. Record the names of the art director and any assistant art director's listed, and their contact information.
Here's my list of magazines I would like to illustrate for:

1. Imagine FX

Art Director - Paul Tysall, Paul.tysall@futurenet.com

2. Highlights

Art Director - Cynthia Fabersmith, 803 Church Street, Honesdale, PA 18431. Telephone inquiries should be made to (570) 251-4526.

3.Popular Science

Art Director - Matthew Cokeley, P.O. Box 420235 Palm Coast FL 32142-0235
Contriguting artists -
Kevin hand
Nick Kaloterakis
Grahm Murdoch
Bob Sauls
Paul Wooton

4. Real Simple (Family)

Art Director - Abbey Kuster-Prokell, No address or contact info found, LinkedIn
Assistant Art Director - Janie Dannecker, Michele Walthers, Jen Corace

5. Strategy & Business

Art Director - John Klotnia, Klotnia@optodesighn.com
Assistant Art Director - Jessie Clear, clear@optodesign.com

6. Wired

Art Directors - Alice Cho, missalicecho@gmail.com
Art Director - Tim Leong, tim@timleong.com
Art Director/Special Projects - Margaret Swart

7. Scientific American

Art Director/Online - Ryan Reid
Art Director/Information Graphics - Jen Christansen
Contact - 75 Varick St. 9th Floor NY,NY 10013-1917

8. Monocle

Creative Director -Richerd Spencer Powell, rsp@monocle.com

9. National Geographic/little Kids

Art Director - Eva Absher
Assistant Art Directors -
nicole Lazerus
Julida obuz Dengel
Contanct All - Natonal Geographic society 1145 17th Street NW Washington, DC 20036-4688

10. Complex

Art Director - Jason Sfetko,Brooklyn, NY 718 406 3048, jasonsfetko@gmail.com

(B) If you were starting your own magazine and your livelihood depended on it selling well what would it be?

1. Well it would probably be a magazine about video games and the art behind them like Imagine FX. I would never get worn out listening and looking at the art of all the amazing people in that magazine. In addition I know that magazine sells well and the video game market is booming. I would add a section with some short story's or something.

(C) What sorts of writers and artists would you hire?

2. I would hire some writers from Gizmodo and Kotaku if I could. I also love Edge Magazine as far as game reviews go. Artists I would pick up the latest and greatest in concept art and for the short story section I would want one normal writer and then let readers submit the other story. 2 short story's per issue.

(D) What Subject matter would it deal with? How Would you want it to look?

3. I kinda went over what my subject matter would be above but for the look... Well I would want it to look very stream line with a lay out that looks normal for magazens I think that Comlpex Magazen is cool because its split between design and music. I would maybe want to split my magazine between concept art and science fiction short story's or something. I would want it all to be image rich maybe the concept artist could illustrate the short story one of the readers wrote. That would be really cool!

(E) List Ten Non Magazine Clients that you would like to work with. Why are these dream clients?

1. SquareEnix: Email - na.jobs@square-enix.com

2. ArenaNet: Job Application

3. Gearbox: Email: - gamejobs@gearboxsoftware.com

4. Eidos Montreal: - Job Application

5. Media Molecule: - Job Application

6. Lucas Films - Job Application

7. Sony Computer entertainment: - Job Application

8. Naughty Dog: - Job Application

9. Id: - Job Application

10. Bethesda Softworks: - Job Application

I really love all the studios above. Problem is I don't meet all the requirements for them. I want to work for some stall studios for a while to build up my chops. I don't know what small studios are out there and I don't know how much job security or money they offer. I just need to do more research into the small indie studio market. These are dream clients because they are something that I have played and love playing my self. Its just strange to think I could be the one making the games I love. Not to mention AAA titles offer job security and allow you to work with a large team. It all just sounds too much fun to be something I would get paid for.

Part Three Of Post 4 - Illustration 5

2010-08-31T23:35:00.000-05:00

What Sort Of Work do those Clients look for?

Below I have given visual reference of who inspires my work and what company they work for. I have been asked what are the employers of the artist below looking for? I feel that all of them are looking for something no one has seen before. They're all searching for concept work that alows ones mind to see more than just what the image is showing. All the artists below have the unique ability to make your mind really want to see whats around the corner. Or "Whats that character gong to do next?"

As far as a visual style all the work I have selected leans toward realism. The figures are modled out. there seems to be a lot of space in the work. I am finding however that that may be one my own goal and I am drawn to that style. From working over the summer and into the school year at an internship. I am seeing that many visual styles are desired. I am working very flat for them right now. very clean cut and flat. I feel that AAA title game company and large production sudios may want a more detailed look because when the concept is made into a hi poly 3d model or a costume is developed based on a painting they want all the detail they can get. The company I am working for is indie and is working for a specific visual style that is attainable for a small studio. I did notice below that most of my favorite artists have some conection to Square Enix = my dream job.

Part Two Of Post 4 - Illustration 5

2010-08-31T23:04:00.000-05:00

This is a Visual Guide on the Artists I previously listed the names follow in order to the images on the right:

Part One Of Post 4 - Illustration 5

2010-08-31T21:00:00.000-05:00

1. List Ten Illustrators whose work you admire, or whose career you would like to emulate.

(A) Doug Tennapel :Works and has worked for

Image Comics
Nickelodeon
Dreamworks Interactive - Now EA Los Angeles
Shiny Entertainment - Closed 2007
BlueSky Sofware - Closed 2001

(B) Tetsuya Nomura : Works and has worked for

SquareSoft/Square Enix

Universal studios
20th Century Fox
Anheuser Busch - Bud Light
Chevrolet
Panasonic
Pepsi
and probably a bazillion others

(D) Doug Williams - also known as Dougblot: Worked and has worked for:

Cave Dog Entertainment
Humongous
Beep industries
ArenaNet
And is Currently working for Undead Labs

(E) Yoshitaka Amano: Worked and has worked for:

(F) Frank Frazetta: Worked For:

United Artists
Bernard Baily's Studio
Swappers Quarterly
Playboy
Warren Publishing
Image Comics
Various recording artist for album covers

(G) Thierry Doizon: Works and has worked for:

Walt Disney Productions
Eidos Montreal
Ubisoft
Activision
Splash Damage
Digi-Guys
Namco Hometech
Argonaut
XS Games
Acclaim Studios
Dream Catcher
Red Storm
MASA Group
MindScape
Canal+ - TLC
Cryo Interactive entertainment
Design Studio Press
Steambot studios
Quarto Publishing
Fantasy Flight games
Ballistic Publishing
And Some others that have sites that don't exist anymore

(H) The Brothers Hildebrandt (Greg and Tim) Worked and have Worked For:

(I) Daniel Dociu

(K) Lorne Lanning

(L) I'm sure i can think of Some others. The above are in no specific order.

Post 3 - Illustration 5

2010-08-30T23:45:00.000-05:00

Describe your typical creative process, from getting an assignment to your finished piece.

Step one - mull it over, try and get an idea by writing or scribbling on a piece of paper until it looks like something or could be a good idea.

Step two - ether take the sketch and scan it in or skip this step and go right to digital sketches

Step three - make more digital sketches and work my pencil drawing into a real clean image or so so clean image. enough I can tell what every thing is in the work.

Step four - Do some color under the line art to get a nice color pallet together

Step Five - Depending on the look I am going for I ether use the pen/polygonal lasso tool and a crazy number of layers to get the vector look I have been using on many things as of late. Or if I want the work to look more like a painting I use the eyedropper and the brush tool in Photoshop until my eyes bleed.

Step Five - Show the final work to someone to get an idea of what needs fixing. I then go back and try and polish it up as much as possible.

The End = Print

Describe what you think your creative process should be like.

I feel my process is working for me. I don't think I would really change too much.

Research and describe a professional creator's creative process...

And SO! I Have!
I chose to research Erik Wolpaw. Erik is a writer for Valve software. He has worked on games like half-life 1/2, left for dead, team fortress ect.

Mr. Wolpaws creative process seems very scatter brained and just kinda like what i think Steven King does. "Oh Wow this car is awful, I wonder if its possessed lol, that would make a great story!" that was not a real quote but it could have been! Any way this is a real quote

"Erik Wolpaw: Yeah. I'm kind of an inveterate procrastinator, but sometimes that procrastination panic can inspire good stuff. There's a certain process of grinding through something, but then there's also those flashes of inspiration. I honestly don't know what the process is. Some connection just gets made in your brain, and you hope it keeps happening and doesn't stop. "

I like this idea of just living and if you are a deep thinker, things come to you. Once again one must grind through stuff some times, but not all the time. I would hope that if some one calls them self an artists creativity would some times just happen.

I really recommend hopping over and reading the full interview. Its not too long and really a fun read! Click Here to read it!

The Other Half Of Post 2 - Illustration 5

2010-08-29T10:21:00.000-05:00

Choose five doodles or sketches that you like as much as any of your finished work.

1/2 of Post 2 - Illustration 5

2010-08-29T09:50:00.000-05:00

Of the Artwork that you have done, what is your favorite piece? - This one ->
Why do you like it? - I like this piece because I feel I was able to create a real atmosphere for the character and that one can easily read into this work for a story. Who is the robot guy? what kind of past and powers could be be hiding and where is he going. This work makes me ask those questions. I also made this work very quickly. 30-45 minutes. That's what I am going for. speed and great depth with a dynamic layout
What piece do others like most and do you agree? - Most people like the Rhino smoking a cigar I did. I agree its also nice but I lean toward the one to the right here because I think its cooler or something. I feel like there is more depth visual in the one to the right. But, I understand that not everyone likes robots and dark alleyways. When it comes down to it I feel its about subject matter.
What piece surprised you the most? - I don't know. I am not even sure I understand this question. Surprise me? Like that they liked it or that I made it or that I liked it. I mean all my work surprises me. A week after making most of it I think its total shit. I cant believe any one likes most of it. I feel I get better and better and my newest work is always my best and my old stuff looks so unpolished.

Post 1 - Illustration 5

2010-08-28T23:59:00.000-05:00

Here is one post of many to come about my self!

1. What Media Do you Like To Use?

I tend to work in a digital format. Photoshop is so easy to use and with a Wacom tablet I can create art quick and cheep. It really allows my thoughts to flow freely. I don't feel restricted by the medium.
I Also really love just a white piece of paper and a #2 pencil.
Pens / Markers. I like these because once I make the mark its pretty well there. The permanence of that pushes me to draw with more emotion for some reason. like I am etching into stone.
Watered down acrylics are just plain fun! I don't use them that often but do enjoy them when I have time to play.
Brush/Ink is a really cool thing to use. I don't feel I have mastered it at all, and would like to try again. I have my Winsor & Newton Series 7 brush staring me down in the coffee cup I keep all my pens in. Its neglected...
Oil Clay and 3D Studio Max/3D modeling software are a real love of mine. I love sculpting in oil clay also, but I have a long way to go learning both the software and physical side of sculpture.

What Media Do you hate working in?

I don't know that I really hate any medium. If I was to say the one I think gives me the ugliest results I would say markers. Even nice Prismacolor ones have never floated my boat. I just feel Like the chemical looking colors are ugly. But I must say I still think they have there place and can help create an great atmosphere when used well

What media would you like to try, but haven’t?

I cant say I have never used oil paint but I can say I did not play with it or use it enough to even know what I could do with it. I washed over an acrylic painting I did in black and white to give color in painting 1. I feel like there is a lot of fun to be had. I feel that its a lot of work in just setting up and finding a place not to asphyxiate your self in. I am a lazy artist. I like mediums that are clean and have a quick set up.

List three non-Illustration Classes that have influenced you and / or your work positively?

I hate to say it but IPC was a very good class to have taken. I hated it and will never love it but do feel that it helped me and the way I think about my own work. The class really broke me down and only in the last 2 semesters do I feel I have come out of the slump it put me in. It was a slump of thought and thinking about all kinds of stuff. A good thing I guess? I think I looked a little to deep at my self and got stuck in there or something. I have come back out better than ever though.
Cultural Anthropology was Amazing! I loved it. The class just really helped me think outside of the American culture. Not that I haven't before but still it got me thinking.
Any Of Canfield’s classes. I don't always agree with him on everything, but I don't think its about agreeing with him. His Classes always make you question. I like that!

How Has The Work of your Peers Influenced you and/ or your work?

I feel so lucky to be in a group of artists as talented as they are! Its healthy competition. But it never feels like we are competing. It just feels like we are tying to get better, and we are all doing everything we can to help one another. When I came to MCA I didn't know what I was doing with my art. every peer in Illustration made suggestions and helped me develop so many new interests and skills I cant keep them all in order. Almost more than anything I owe my fellow illustration classmates for a good learning experience.

What sort of subject matter do you like to create work about?

I love Fantasy/Sci-fi. Stories about Aliens and magical powers. I also like situational humor. So I feel the it all works together to make some cool stuff.

7. What sort of Subject matter do you like to read about?

I tend to read ether, you guessed it, Sci-fi, or horror thriller type stuff. Steven King and all that...
Most of my reading is tech news though. The latest of science or gaming. www.Kotaku.com or www.gizmodo.com

8. What Kind of Music do you like? Why?

My God I like a lot of music! I’ll listen to about anything! I have a tendency to lean toward Billy Joel, Bayside, Styx, Stars, Death Cab, Azure Ray, Blink 182, Brand New, Cold Play, Elliot Smith, Eve Six, Third Eye Blind, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, GreenDay, The Guess Who, Incubus, The Stokes, No Doubt, Nirvana, Phantom Planet, The Beatles, Presidents of the United States of America, Weezer, The Shins, Tom Petty, ect.
Why you ask? I love Music. Some of it calms me down, some of it picks me up, some of it makes me cry. I mean its good stuff. I don’t really listen to country. If I am going to listen to country it must be old old stuff because new country it almost all crap. I mean there is always some exception but most of its crap.

9. What Non- Art related interest/hobbies/skills do you have?

Art has really consumed my life. If its not visual art its music. I love playing guitar and singing. Recording other people is a love in its self. I have abandoned it but before I came to MCA I wanted to be a recording technician. My love of sounds of all types runs deep.
I used to write a lot. I love writing a short story now and then when I have time.
I know this sounds silly but I love long walks. I try and wake up every morning and take a long walk. It helps me calm down. To add the the love of long walks I love running. I was a long distance runner in High school and I was pretty good. I had scouts looking at me and I almost went to Fayetteville for my running. But my art took up all my time and I abandoned that for music. I still love running even though I cant really do it anymore. turns out all the running I did in high school messed my knee up and now it feels like there is a small man in my leg with a hot knife stabbing me over and over when I run for 15 minutes or more. I was told by a Doc to find another form of exercise. The pounding is what causes the pain. So now I ride a bike. Its fun but its not like the rhythm I would get into when I ran. It was like a trans I could really think clearly. To bad I am broken now.

10.Whats something that you like that nobody else likes?

Nova! I just found out that no one likes Nova. JK. You like Nova too Joel. Hooray!!!
RF Online. RF Online was an MMO that no one liked and they shut the severs down. I think they are back up maybe, but I lost my character and I have other things to do. But it was a really cool it was a PVP MMO and you could play as a big robot that killed stuff!

11.If you had the run of the worlds Museums, what three works of original art would you like to own?
This question is silly! I cant pick just three. If i pick just three they would have to be my favorite works of are ever and I just don't have any.
Maybe some of Ralph Mcquarries Concept art from Star Wars?
Tetsuya Nomuras concept art from final fantasy
And The Monalisa so I could hold it, and then say I held it, and then sell it because its just okay, you know?

Illustration 5 posts!

2010-08-28T17:23:00.000-05:00

I shall soon be posting many posts for my Illustration class. get ready for some info about my self and my thoughts. It starts tonight!

WarGods Online - Words from the Intern

2010-08-26T00:31:00.000-05:00

I am Interning for Enigma Games, I am helping in the effort to make an amazing game right now. I am doing a lot of the concept art and have a lot more to do, so here is what i churned out tonight. I was proud of my base figure and now I just get to dress the figure up with all kinds of cool armor.

Skeletor!

2010-08-18T20:29:00.000-05:00

This is for the COCOA Blog. our Mission was to remake Skeletor.
I kinda got into it!

My Dare Devil Rework

2010-07-22T23:41:00.000-05:00

This is my Stealth Armor Dare Devil.
I hope you guys think he looks cool.
I have not been posting so much because all the work I am doing is for my internship.
I will be posting alot of it when I can.

Web Site Update!!!

2010-07-19T00:54:00.000-05:00

My Web site has all kinds of new features and stuff going on so if you just scroll up and click on illustration you can see my new image viewing options.
Hoorray!!!

Cat Woman

2010-07-14T15:12:00.000-05:00

I really did a hack job on the first version of this, so i made this version. I went for a more old school cat woman from the live action television show than the bat man returns version.

The Adventures of Rocket Star!

2010-07-12T23:49:00.000-05:00

Adam Bennett and my self decided to play around with the idea of a character called Rocket Star. Comedy science fiction thing. A rock star that fights intergalactic slime with the power of Rock! I think this idea was used in the 80's and made into a cartoon but we don't care.
A washed up talentless rock star fighting his way to the stardum!

I made some space guys!

2010-07-07T14:42:00.001-05:00

I thought these guys looked kinda cool? maybe?

Wonder Woman

2010-07-04T01:01:00.000-05:00

Compared to the other Wonder Women reworks I feel I have done a crap job but at least I tried

Dark Dragoon rework!!!

2010-06-29T23:27:00.001-05:00

I reworked the dark dragoon and it turned in to something that looks like halo, metroid, and final fantasy had a baby. But I am okay with that. It at least looks better

I also added a copy of it so it could be used as a computer wallpaper by request for Adam Bennett.

I, um... is this any good?

2010-06-29T18:30:00.001-05:00

I thought i would try a land scape. I really suck at landscape

Dark Dragoon

2010-06-28T17:28:00.001-05:00

I don't know if I like this... comments? yes? No?

This is not an Impala. (lqtms)

2010-06-23T17:13:00.000-05:00

warrior alien monk sounded like more fun to me. comments...

2010-06-23T15:24:00.000-05:00

I kinda like it... I can do better. Next up one the Alex Channel is the Impala!!! I have not decided its profesion just yet. Hope you like the rhino

I am going to do a series of animal as human works!

2010-06-22T23:45:00.000-05:00

So yeah, this is as far as i have gotten on my rhino. He is a detective. This didn't actually take me that long! 2 hours. I feel good about that for not being the best painter in the word I just need to finish up the wall in the foreground and Maybe add some people walking by or something and I will go on to the next animal an my list! I feel this is going to make me a heck of better at my illustrations in general. Constructive feedback and comments are always welcome!

I could finish this but I hate it so I'm not going to.

2010-06-22T21:41:00.001-05:00

I think this looks like shit and it took me way too long to do.

I did not even mean to make this...

2010-06-22T18:49:00.001-05:00

This is a lone gun man and he is killing someone. I'm working on my painting chops and this just kinda hopped out at me. comments?

This is the Female Archer

2010-05-16T22:39:00.001-05:00

I have reworked this 4 times. I feel this is the finished one. I just drew a bad drawing in the first place and should have stop trying to fix it but. oh well... I think it looks okay.

I Thought This was pretty Brutal looking.

2010-05-16T21:54:00.000-05:00

Yes? This is the Hell Wolf

I just started noticing that the color of my .jpg files gets all washed out when I upload them to blogger. It looks fine on my computer and its not an RGB, CMYK issue. I export corectly for the web. Whats going on?

Just playing around...

2010-05-16T02:31:00.001-05:00

I don't even know if I like the way this looks, but I thought it was funny and had fun making it.

This is the archer, for you Adam

2010-05-15T03:59:00.000-05:00

Two Versions, I I still cant decide what I like better... its late Go Adam level 18!!!!!

Sharper Version of The Mino-War

2010-05-14T14:49:00.000-05:00

So, yeah this is a more vectory version of the Mino-War looks more like the style in the game.