Viko

Quick painting i did which i plan to turn into a pure diffuse char, done on a lunch break

Oh times are a changing

Well it sure as hell has been a while, according to the last post since November 2009 o_O was long enough to read that post again and not recognise a single bit :P

Well its time to get back on the wagon, Uni is done and dusted, job at Outso is going well! and recently been spending every moment i have doing personal work :) (well as much as i can without upsetting the misses XD )

So as with all art, its made to be viewed, that and with all the Art dailys I do at work think ive had enough practice to maybe manage to keep some succession of posts on this old blog ^_^

Finally bit the bullet and started working with colour in my renderd drawings, Il always love the greyscale, simple but sweet, and colour is a bit of a sscary animal, but you cant get anywhere unless you try!

Heres some of the pics ive done, alot of the ones ive done whilst at Outso fall under NDA though ¬_¬

Infinity Ward

I wonder sometimes what companies are thinking of, what kinda plans these guys have hatched, and how they really never did their numbers.





When they decided to not include dedicated servers, no offline playing, or anychance of mods, did they expect their autiance to sit quiet?

Numbers are an important factor of every day life, and deligation of control is a very useful tool when handling large numbers of people.

Deligation in servers translates to dedicated servers, user made servers etc, where individuals and groups of individuals can control and look after their servers, like clans etc.


So instead IW made IWNet, a single entity to control the masses. They upset the modding comunity, the clans community, and PC gamers in general........so what do they expect.

Within days their IWNet was hacked, and even now a week after release it still having issues, not only that but the hackers have managed to leak Viruses into IWNet infecting people who join games.

Now i dont agree with viruses, but they had to be prety cock sure to rip out all that is PC from a game, and then sell it to us at a higher price, this cockyness will bite back as it is now, and is ruining a potentially good series.



For future reference, dont anger a very able hacking community, because theyl shit you up

Art mode

think part of this tech week im gona artify my blog, its way to bland!!!

i might propose an add on to cam lessons, have a 3ds Max help session or something to help ppl tackle that horrid yet awesome program!!!

Tech urge

I was never really very aware of it at first, and when I was I thought that it was just me, but the tech urge, well, it’s in all of us
Is it a coincidence that on the very same day, me, mitch, bexs mum and bexs brother were all looking into new phones? Even bex is drooling over a new phone, but her gaze is entirely swamped by the thought of a intuos 4........*drools*
All I know is that I seem to get an urge for new tech about once a year, and it’s such a strong feeling it makes me worry, as if u can’t last a day without going and buying this particular piece of tech you’ve seen
Last year was a new mp3 player
Year before a new pc
This year, a new phone, but to b fair my phone is really dying one me, but that still doesn’t disguise the fact that within 2 days of me getting a random idea about a new phone, that i am now currently on a contract with a blackberry phone.....
And wtf is going to happen next year, I literally have a working piece of tech for everything I do......I’m worried for next year, something better break lol
I guess this means I’m materialistic, I’m not even sure if that’s a bad thing or not, were so hooked into the world we live in, we can’t just buy a piece of tech an keep it, nothing is built to last too long, and even if it did, technology is moving way to fast

Fuck you money!

OOOO a good start

Well we can all suggest that the next year will be different, that things will change, but with a lingering doubt of what the future holds....

.....and it seems all is well  everyone is working hard, and working well, seems like everyone is in the groove, which is fantastic
Finding it a bit weird though i am, without the Chris side of things it doesn’t seem right, even though were working on our final project im still getting major urges to do some 1 week projects on the 2d side.
Bex and me were thinking of even doing some canal pictures, blast from the past or what, would be a good test to see exactly what has changed or not changed in our time here at DMU

Whats your trigger

Today im going to give Relentless a go...(stupidly high caffine drink)...ive always been one who knows the power of sugar, yes i know its bad to run on sugar highs but its my trigger.

Any kind of artist will know of triggers, special things you do to help flip the brain to the Right side and fly into art land.

With me i work best with a 2ltr bottle of coca cola and a box of maltesars = off my tits sugar rush.

Thatl keep me going for an entire day straight of painting, eat at the computer aswell but by the end of the day im a bit of a zombie, i can literally feel the switching point, the point when my body goes back to normal, its no gradient, its instant!

But its interesting to see how everyone is different, Del says he works best in the morning, and Mitch at night......it made me realise, im a night person too, but not really for the time, but the light.

Last year and preceeding that i would quite happily paint away, but this year its been quite difficult and i cant trigger into that mind, but during this talk i realised, my room in the house im in this year it quite bright, even with the blinds closed.....could it be that ive been failing with my painting because of light levels???

can i control the trigger, and stop abusing the sugar technique?

should i even try, i duno

But ppl who are reading this, post a comment tell us all what your trigger is ^_^