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Dress code for the Velocirapture

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:34:34 -0800

Hey dudes and ladies, my Agnus Deinonychus design got picked up by Ript Apparel and it is available today only, for $10. After today, it's gone!...Agnus Deinonychus design got picked up by Ript Apparel and it is available today only, for $10. After today, it's gone!]]>

The Darby

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:11:57 -0800

I linked to my site from a thread on shirt.woot and also showed it to a coworker today so I should probably maybe start trying to pay more attention to my blog and keeping it up to date. I've done...I linked to my site from a thread on shirt.woot and also showed it to a coworker today so I should probably maybe start trying to pay more attention to my blog and keeping it up to date. I've done a few new submissions to Woot in the last couple of weeks that I haven't gotten around to throwing up here yet, so shame on me. This weekend, probably. Also I've been noodling with the Unreal Editor for the last month or so. It's probably time to take the old stuff I did for Videoranch down and start putting up new stuff. Do you know what is the worst thing? The worst thing is people who use their blog to apologize for not posting on their blog.

Skills Development

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:01:30 -0800

Drawn.ca linked to this cute little booklet of things to draw when you don't have anything to draw which has reminded me that I haven't even come close to making good on my resolution to do watercolor every day this...this cute little booklet of things to draw when you don't have anything to draw which has reminded me that I haven't even come close to making good on my resolution to do watercolor every day this year, and now we're fully a third of the way into it. Shame on me. That isn't to say that I haven't been drawing, though, even though it might not technically be every day. I've also been introduced to the idea of t-shirt contests, and just about every weekend for the last two months I've been banging out one or two shirt designs a week, and as far as exercises go for skills development, it's been a real hoot. Too bad I'm not making any money. One of the tools that I've been using a lot is Flickr, which of course is the internet's largest photograph repository, which makes it ideal for searching for reference images. The search function's full utility, though, is often overlooked, as search functions so often tend to be. In flickr's case specifically, making sure to search only Creative Commons-licensed images is essential for finding images that can be saved to your hard drive. Another great tool I've been leaning on a whole bunch is Adobe's Kuler tool, which in coming up with pleasing color palettes where a limited number of spot inks is allowed has been a godsend.]]>

Aerial Ballet

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:10:26 -0800

Created as an entry for the Derby at shirt.woot. Didn't win, design will be available for licensing sometime in June.

Love Hurts

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:36:33 -0800

Created for the Derby at shirt.woot.

Agnus Deinonychus

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:14:18 -0800

Shirt design. Wear this and be ready for the Velocirapture.

Big Cat Stencils

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:32:59 -0800

A while ago I did a series of vector stencils with the intent of using them for t-shirt designs and recently I've gone back and reworked a few.

Lion in the Tall Grass

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:11:27 -0800

Created as an entry for the Derby at shirt.woot

The Night Flight

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:10:44 -0800

]]>Shirtfight. Didn't win, but lots of people seemed to like the drawing, so hooray for that. The design will be available for licensing again sometime in May of 2009, if I'm not mistaken. At that point I may enter it in another t-shirt competition or have it printed myself.

Bell Tower

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:37:11 -0800

Created originally in an effort to learn myself some modular environmental modeling techniques - the wall segments and buttress segments are all discrete geometry that can be reassembled like legos in a game editor so that assets can be re-used creatively. It's my understanding that that's the trend in environmental modeling, creating these smaller modular segments rather than sculpting huge single-use set pieces.

3d Modeling for Active Worlds

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:32:20 -0800

This is a tutorial intended to show you the steps involved in converting a polygonal 3d model into a Renderware model compatible with the Active Worlds virtual world platform....This is a tutorial intended to show you the steps involved in converting a polygonal 3d model into a Renderware model compatible with the Active Worlds virtual world platform.

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Please place the weighted storage cube on the 1500-Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy-Duty Large Hadron Colliding Superbutton

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:43:28 -0800

A new report provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind. . . The LHC Safety Assessment Group have reviewed and updated a...A new report provides the most comprehensive evidence available to confirm that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)'s switch-on, due on Wednesday next week, poses no threat to mankind. . . The LHC Safety Assessment Group have reviewed and updated a study first completed in 2003, which dispels fears of universe-gobbling black holes and of other possibly dangerous new forms of matter, and confirms that the switch-on will be completely safe. I really feel like it is correct and necessary to have some kind of party to mark Large Hadron Collider day, or at least have like a half-life marathon or something in honor of the dimensional gateway-opening resonance cascade that this thing is definitely not going to set off. Also I want to put the Large Hadron Collider and the Large Helical Device together in mayonnaise jar and shake it up to see if they fight.]]>

Tools

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:33:22 -0800

For the last several years I've done all of my ink work using brush pens that I'd found at Japanese stationary stores in San Jose or San Francisco (in the Kinokuniya mall on Geary). Prior to that I tried using...vastly preferable to a felt tipped impostor. I like to use it for quick studies and life drawing - I can make very thin delicate lines with it, and very bold heavy expressive strokes as well, depending on how I hold the pen and how I move my hand. The ink that it uses is water-soluble, so I can start with linework, go over it with a wet watercolor brush and create controlled-bleed ink wash effects with it easily. I drew the paper tiger with this pen. I also use a pen that has a similar brush nib to the FD-502, this one Mitsubishi's PFK-301N model, which I could only find one reference to with Google, and the page is entirely in Japanese. The brush is functionally identical to the Zebra FD-502, but it's three dollars cheaper and it doesn't have the little felt-tip nip on the opposite end that I never use anyway. I don't know how useful this information will be to anyone but at least now you know what I use, and if you're interested in trying them, what to look for should you happen to have a Japanese-imports stationary store near you. If you search J-List for "fude pen" you'll find some similar items. I have two of the Pentel refillable fude pens, but the only one I use is the fine line one with the light blue cap (which J-List doesn't even appear to offer), and that one only rarely. It's because these things are so hard to find online (for anything approaching reasonable prices, anyway) that I'm always so evangelical about dragging artist friends to Mai-Do whenever the opportunity presents itself.]]>

Ottrr

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:38:39 -0800

Created for a monthly competition on Gameartisans, the theme being Wii mascots. The rules were to create a cartoony character to Wii specifications.

Storybook Houses

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:00:10 -0800

I want to make houses like this. This is totally rad. A family commissions an architect to renovate the interior of their home, and gives him some vague suggestion to make it 'playful,' and hide a poem written by the...I want to make houses like this. This is totally rad. A family commissions an architect to renovate the interior of their home, and gives him some vague suggestion to make it 'playful,' and hide a poem written by the previous owner somewhere in the house 'like a message in a bottle,' and said architect then spends four years turning their house into a walk-in game of Myst, with encrypted poetry written on the radiators and tiny scale models of rooms hidden behind panels in the walls, and storybooks full of clues commissioned specifically to be written for the house. Thanks to Raph Koster for linking to this!]]>