18 November, 2008 | No comments
Moving.
Had a lot to actually update but little time to do it. So now my camera is STUFFED with so called OLD news!
So, one of the things leading to such events is this little corridor exhibition we hold in groups of 3 persons at my school.
Now, most people might look at this as a slacking thing were you actually don’t bother too much about the theme and just take whatever that you’ve created over the years.
BUT! Not me! I decided to toss up a little collection for my exhibition. The theme we decided upon is "Movement". So within 2 weeks I’ve tossed up 4 different works in the means of movements.
The last thing to get done was this poster. I did it Monday evening in about 10 minutes using Adobe Illustrator. I think I love that program!
1 Fisherman’s Horizon - Mixed media and digital collage.
The First idea I got was a little different from this. I was going to place Snuffkin on top of a frame framing an empty image. Hence the movement would be him moving outside the painting itself. But last minute call I realized I had two volumes of this comic book and thought "Hey that’d be even more neat!" I’m very very pleased with this outcome. It looks really awesome in person =) Snuffkin is CGed so I will prolly toss up a better viewing version of him later on.
2 Vamo’ alla’ Flamenco - Mixed media with markers and different sorts of ink. (a3’s on black a2 cardboard)
This here is just what I call telephone scribbling. It goes on and on and on and on without me knowing wtf I am actually doing. Like all that gold paint! The image was sort of an older scribble I started to do with red ink. I rediscovered it last week in my a3 sketchpad and decided it looked like a dancing person. So I started to fool around with it and so it went on for 1-2 days. And there’s my recent found word art!
3 Select Start - Markers collage. (a5’s mounted on black a2 cardboard)
I started to think about combining my gaming with something. And you know, your facial expressions is a kind of movement in your face =p. So I toyed around with this idea of making the same guy playing different sorts of games. The whole collage thing came to me much later on. I was like "Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if I used screenshots to show what he’s actually playing instead of coloring his short red and black?" I ended up not finding much proper screenshots around that size in the game mags that I harassed so I ended up just using various images that I found fitting. Can you guess the games?
(the image looks a bit skew but It’s the best shot I got… I’ll try scan them separately later)
4 Runner at Daybreak - Digital Collage.
Actually the first image to be thought of and produced! It took me some time to get this right. The idea was him moving in betwen the frames OUTSIDE the frames. I really like black and white mono images to work with. And I cannot say how pleased I got with the jumping pic. It’s wholly digital and the raster in the bg is a Japanese a3 raster I scanned and used. I’ll try make a digital version of this to show at better quality.
And that’s that!
4 November, 2008 | No comments
Oblivious for Oblivion.
I finally managed to get my paws on the Game of the year edition of Oblivion for ps3.
While Oblivion is an old enough game for everyone to know; I am not going to go gadding about about how much I like it… or anything of the likes of that.
However. Being a girl and all you get a bit tired of staring at all the male NCPs. You know… even guys would think they all look hideous and in their 50ies.
So, back to new game I went to lannify the game. And I do believe I managed to turn Mr Dark Elf into a fine young lad!
So, It’s totally doable. It just took… time. (and someone please ’shoot’ whoever that came up with the beard values).
Here’s a little Before and After. (I used the base face because the first time I created this face I sat for a good time before finally finish the creation…only to notice he looked proper BAD skin wise. Some smart ass put a really YELLOW light at the char creation. So he had a nice big yellow light in his face, not to mention the saturation of Whatever other light there was. And then there’s the beard sliders messing up everything…)
Let’s call him Link. Because I love Link In D.Gray-Man.
19 October, 2008 | 1 comment
Little Big Lann’et
Lately I have been a bit down. Not like, you know, "WOAH world is ending!"-down, but just feeling a little under the weather.
So, when a friend of mine offered me a free copy of Little Big Planet I thought amongst the lines of "Well, it DOES look promising!"
(Once in a blue moon, things like this happened; Me actually writing about actual GAMES.)
Looking back at it, it’s rather silly. For starters I didn’t expect as much as I should have had. Which is actually very good! The game has blown me away starting with the introduction movie!
Little Big Planet is one of those feel good games. One of those CREATIVE and ORIGINAL games that everyone always say they want to make but never really do. Sure, we’ve had games alike this before, and at times I feel like I’m jumping about playing SMB or running around fetching rings in Sonic. But there’s no Sonic or Mario here. It’s just you (and your friends) . And however you want to make your little person-thingy look.
Another thing I love with this game is the music. It’s just plain awesome and adds so much to the gaming experience (thou apparently they’re delaying LBP because the theme song was made by a Muslim musician and he snuck in words from the Koran "Every soul shall have the taste of death" "All that is on earth will perish").
The only problems I’ve encountered so far has been controller issues. My toon (designed as a Mog I think, He has a shining star thing on his head wobbling as he walks) runs around like a rabid dog at points and the slides are sometimes juuust a little too out of control. Actually, it might be a down side but it makes me feel as if I’m telling him where to go and he gets there in his own manner.
The game is full of rewards in forms of stickers, materials, new outfits and other crafty stuff… and with the stuff you collect you can build your very own little world… and even hook up in it with friends online! Go quest together! You can also join in on other’s shared worlds online.
And what do we know by collecting and Lannies? This species is delighted by having everything. Many hours will be spent… and I believe they’ll be spent well.
4 October, 2008 | No comments
Updates of Updates.
A lot of stuff has been going on these last 2-3 weeks so I appology for not actually posting all the ‘exciting’ stuff on the blog.
On a better note, I have finally gotten myself a NEW Digicam! Woah <3 A pink Digital Ixus 80is. I wanted it cause my old one is also a Digital ixus (cept 2mp).
So, from now on I’ll be more active on the image posting~
Tried the Cam today on this young photo model… monster… thing.
Keiki 28/07 - 2008
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