http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:04:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well School is all done and I've started a few side projects to keep me busy until I land something. Here's a little something i whipped up playing with the new cintiq.... UPDATE (June 30) Ok, so I'm not happy yet on this one so I'm going to make it an ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/post-school/ I have the kind of body type where everyone assumes that I've lost weight. I don't know what this means. Let's say, for example, that I haven't changed my net mass in approximately six months. Let's say I last saw you five months ago. Let's say I saw you today. ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/jelly-management/ Well, here's the explanation for me being MIA the past month and a half. This is the final split between 3 classes and was done with the aid of several Bioware employees offering crits. The proposal was for a game that would allow you to fly around ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/skywhaler/ Here's the two kid's book covers- both have turner out quite good so I'll post the two of them. For the two of these i decided to choose similar books to mimic in the layout and design. For the Lobster Dragon, since it is naturally a parody of ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/kids-book-covers/ Here's an interior illustration for the Oidipus story line - credit also goes to Cristy for the typography and Andy for the writting - thanks again guys. http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/oidipus-interior-illustration/ There were actually 5 illustrations as part of the last project involving the crab people. Three out of five turned out nice. Here are the last two good ones. For the first, we have the massive monolithic government area/market where i got to experiment with laying down a perspective ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/and-the-rest/ Thus begins the portfolio piece marathon. Here's the dock area for the crab people who ride inside the jellyfish. This is all going to tie into the overarching universe of the Skywhales which is being tied into several projects at school. http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/crustacean-city-docks/ Here's all the character designs for the two children's books. First we have roughs for Simon Boy Wizard in the cave of the Lobster Dragon along with the final renderings. This includes the previously two mentioned characters with touch ups and the fearless Beaver-Woman sidekick, Judith (Who's actual ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/childrens-book-finals/ Not much to say here - just some character designs for Simon Boy Wizard and the cave of the lobster dragon - I'll have to see if I have time to do up a character study of his anthropomorphic-she-beaver-side kick... Otherwise - there's still two more on the way ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/more-childrens-book-stuff/ Here's the rest of that assignment - with the Wendigo/Fantasy-Creature-Hunter-for-hire by the HBC John Rae. As far as a game concept goes, i thought id make it interesting in that he would sport a flintlock-shotgun with a side-attachment flintlock incendiary grenade launcher. Now that's a gun. Its surprisingly tough ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/historial-character-redesign-childrens-book-stuff/ First Assignment of the new year is a redesign of 2 historic characters. We're given to opportunity to twist history a little bit in order to make the characters apply to a video game setting. Here we have John Franklin, famed arctic explorer who ended up getting stuck ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/john-franklin-the-wendigo/ Decided to go about the arduous process of updating the look of my portfolio page tonight. So a more refined feel, my email is actually listed now, a bunch of old stuff has been removed and the Baron piece added. Small changes will be getting made here and ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/portfolio-updated/ Time to get my 'A' game on. Last semester to pump out work to a quality that will put all my previous work to shame. I'll be posting alot more character stuff as the next 4 months go on. We had to do a WW1 themed blog entry for ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/122/ Gord and I shot this a million years ago. I wasn't going to put it online until I had more material to follow it up with. But realistically, I'm lazy. I may never make anything ever again. Might as well put it out there. New ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/rock-video/ Time for something a little "weird". Illustrating a creepy, emaciated Maharaja being attended by children is a first for me. Tried something a little different this time illustrating children (which i never do) and focused alot on lighting effects which wouldn't be defined by brush pen but by color. ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/maharaja/ Tis be the end of the semester, so here's a 'chunk' of that wendigo /forest spirit comic i was working on for the past few weeks. It was enjoyable - though i think i'll go back in and redo it differently with more limited colors, or none at all. ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/117/ Another fun time rushed project - tested a new method to do the shading on this one - worked out pretty good for the first try I think. Anyways it's supposed to be a dramatic lighting on a character. Themed this one to the tune of sci fi-industrial-WW1. ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/ze-baron/ Current Count: 7,561 I would really like to make the 10,000 mark by bedtime tonight. I think this is a reasonable goal. With any luck, I'll be able to nail another 1,000 before lunch, and then I've got until sleep overtakes me to do another 1,500. I'm happier with the ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/day-4/ I'm a bit stuck. Stuck has a different meaning here. When I'm stuck on a story written any other month, I can be stuck for weeks, stuck forever. I have written 1,500 words this morning. I stopped writing at 12:08pm. I have been stuck for ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/day-3/ Count: 3029 Ideally, I'd like to be at about 5,000 words by bed time tonight. This is among the worst prose I have ever written in my adult life. I'm pretty sure the story has been done a dozen times, and in one month time, I'm going to end ... http://www.criticaloddness.com/blog/day-2/