Stuff and more...

So I finaly have my graphics tablet. Getting it to work in Gimp and Inkscape required some .dll nonesence but it works like a dream now and I heart digital painting. It is so fun and fast. I dont think I will have any problem making graphics for games now... except for inspiration of cource.

Havent gotten the book yet, I will tomorrow as I have a tonne of random things to buy. 

-A filofax

-Duct-Tape

-An A4 sketch pad and refil pad

-A large white shirt

-Coloured Card

I want to play Silent Hill 5. It got shit reviews and looks crap but I think I will rent it on friday and play through it. Renting seams to be the new black. A tenner for a week and games are shorter thease days anyway. you almost always finish on rental unless it's an RPG.

No Gemini news... Should have some some day but none at the moment. I also have ANOTHER game concept I want to work on. I hate when this happens!

oh, and it's now October...

Aditional staff... aditional fun?

So Gemini was a larger project than I first anticipated. Much larger. Like I thought "2 weeks work" it thought "I will take your life away". Because of this megalomanic game idea trying to remove my nights out and strolls in the park I decided to ask for help, cue my mate...

No online colab for me. This is 2 people, working on a story, battle system and art style in the same country! The bonus is no lag and I can go to his house if he decides to disapear!

In all seriousness though, he and I got into game making together and have always wanted to colab. We have had various ideas but never gone all the way through. This time we have a foundation layed so I know we will get the job done.

in the real world....

We got a new shead today. It is made of wood and moderatly smaller than our old shead. It is also at the other side of the garden. That said it does have a lot less rot than our old one and as such I beleive it is a safer place to protect our rusty tools and neglected bicycles. 

Also the day I get my Graphics tablet draws ever near. I dont want my hopes to raise for fear of dissapointment but it could be tomorrow... on the other hand it could be monday... monday would be worse but as long as it gets here. As soon as I get it configured to the gimp I am going to start doing Gemini concept work, possibly painting sprites, and making a tile set. I can also use it in inkscape If I choose to keep the vector sprites that took SO long to make... A graphical style I would like to use is that used in the concept art for Street Fighter. That would be awesome.

untill my next blog

Wacom Bambo Fun

I Just ordered my graphics tablet. I know I just posted but I finaly ordered my tablet so I had to mention it and it didn't fit into the last post.

It cost me €164.49 and could be here as early as Friday. It is the medium size (the largest available size...) and is about A4 in drawing area. I cant wait to get it and hope I will learn how to use it well. I am a decent skecher and have practice drawing in GIMP when creating concept art. Combining the two should produce some nice results!

In theory I should be able to use it when sculpting (and possibly modeling) in Blender as well as using it to create vector art in Inkscape. I am looking forward to seeing how I can apply it.

I also just re-discovered my love of the classic megadrive title, GoldenAxe. I downloaded the Rom and had a quick play. I'm as bad as ever but I loved it. Oh, and I'm alowed download the rom as I own a copy of the game and the console I just didn't feal like going up into the attic, hunting for the two, bringing them down, setting up the console and then playing it. That said moraly I am oposed to pirating software but am for "pirating" games that are no longer available through the usual channels. There are times it is the only way to experiance classics.

Finaly Ali won the biggest loser and I was happy. Watching the show has inspired me to try to get into shape once again. I still go to the park on nice days but I am starting to do a bit of strength training aswell and will swim when I go back to college in october.

So it's been a while...

Havn't bloged in a while due to real world busyness. (Havnt any more progress on the game either. Hope it gets done!) the main reason is that I have been going out more than I should and when I'm at home I am honing my GIMP skills. (I have fallen in love with photomanipulation again)

I suppose tomorrow I will try to get some progress made on the RPG.  I may end up having to gimp the origional vision because of time constraints and general lack luster feelings towards it. I like the story (what I've done so far) and the character progression. I still have the "wall" up aswell and all my little character sheets. I may end up using a simplified battle system becuase it is the most difficult coding in the game. it would be a shame though as it is also the core gameplay.

I want to start making tutorials for youtube on blender and GIMP and how to ust the two (maby inkscape too) to create videos, images and even games.

I guess I should upload one of my latest pictures to stop this blog being a total waste of time so I'll go pick one... Here we go, this is a test of playing with colour balance and also an attempt at enhancing eyes in GIMP. they look a bit fake but are quite good I think. 

Dramatic Composite

So there is admitadly little progress on the game (I blame the flu...), but I did put together another image. I was watching a video on youtube about emo and scene kid makeovers in photoshop. I decided to load up the gimp and give it a shot. After a bit of fun I decided to take it a bit further and make some real art.

I ended up going a bit Andy Warhol on the photo. I watched factory girl last night, must be the reason. Anyway, It is a nice shot that has quite a bit of drama in it and I am proud as always. The central photo is the origional colours and the surrounding are different hues. 

Anyway, here is another self portrait:

"Drama"