tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54461690295812671642012-01-20T03:36:46.066-08:00The Project Blog for Big Stompy RobotsBigStompyRobotshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02833905747763334261noreply@blogger.comBlogger2061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5446169029581267164.post-81655530609251341172012-01-05T00:22:00.000-08:002012-01-05T05:41:55.848-08:00

So finding time to get anything started at all is already proving difficult... Hopefully once things start getting into a groove it'll get a little easier. The plan is to start working on a game of my own. I have a few designs in mind, but finding something that will be relatively quick to make solo is the challenge here. Ideally I'd be after something high on gameplay mechanics but low on art

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This american Air Force guy beat me up and told me to, so I did. I realise that it's been a while since I've done anything, but times have been busy/tough. To be honest I wasn't going to bother doing anything until after New Years, but what's the point in sitting around waiting for a couple of days?

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You've got some strange friends, Sister!

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Just dipping into another of my art comp entries, because it's hard to find time to do much else at the moment. I didn't win this one, losing out to the incredible Saxon Dixon, but I still like it. The topic for that week was "Lobster dog" in the style of "something game-y". The reason: Do we really need one? It's freaking awesome! (Or alternatively because I had just seen Lobster dog and my

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As requested: A moderately detailed steampunk Iron Man in front of an icecream parlour. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out... Although by the time I got to the background and drew the icecream parlour, I no longer wanted to draw a background. One of these days I'm really going to have to work on that. So I hope you like it Ithyrn Luin. If not, send your complaints to Stan Lee c/o Marvel

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I had really expected to have had something else done before dipping into the backlog of art comp entries again... but meh, time etc. This one did win me back the coveted "Lead Artist" title. For those it's not blindingly obvious to, the topic for that week was (3 of the) characters from Team Fortress 2, in the style of The Powerpuff Girls. Critics may debate the proportions of the said

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Now all of that "200 post" business has been dealt with, I can finally get around to posting the work art competition stuff that I've done in the 6 or so weeks that I haven't posted anything. Today's theme was "Yourself as a My little pony" in a Graffiti style. Since the running joke (or secret fact) is that I'm German I decided to draw myself as that, instead of the respected,

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It's (finally) time for the much awaited, presumably forgotten about 200th post image. Not really much to say about it except that I started a few different things that didn't work out, and things have been pretty busy recently. It's not a celebration without prizes though, and today could be your lucky day. I will draw you whatever you want* if you can either: a) Accurately describe the "

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So the art challenge this week was "Zombie vs. Pirate vs. Ninja vs. Werewolf vs. Alien vs. Russian", in the style of Street Fighter 4 ink splatter. Due to much complaining from the rest of the artists at work, this was then cut down to "your choice of three". I'm such a bad-ass through I did all of them and threw in a robot for good measure. Alas, I didn't win this week (although I swear I was

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So, once upon a time I did a bunch of art for a game that never really happened. Many tears were shed, but such is the way sometimes. Imagine my surprise then, when one of the games our interns are working on is using my art... Mixed emotions for sure. I never really finished that art though... at the time the thought of animating the Ogre attack seemed way too daunting. However, if it's

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And so... my reign as Lead Artist comes to an end. It was a good run, but eventually one of the proper artists had to win. This fortnight's challenge was to draw Mozart and Bach as vampire hunters, in a "gothic" style. I ran out of time during the week, but I didn't want to pass up such a cool topic. It's kind of more steam punk than gothic, also I was totally going to colour it in but I have

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Except not. Despite the fact that I didn't have time to properly complete it (due to work/sickness/laziness), this picture won this fortnight's "Artist Off" competition.  Lead artist for another 2 weeks!

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So the next Artist Challenge (of which I can the current reigning champion) is to draw a "Whale on fire, steampunk style". This isn't my actual submission, but instead is a distraction to make the artists think they don't have to aim very high to beat me this time. You might say "But Gareth, wont they read this text next to the picture and know it's all a ruse?", to which I would reply with "You

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I've been a little slack when it comes to posting stuff recently, but I seem to have problems in getting any time to do anything... So, in the meantime, here's some additional stuff from Plank'd! There's a couple of additional hastily animated ones after the jump, I just didn't want to subject any causal viewers to them... Expect more non-Plank'd stuff soon.

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So things have been pretty damn hectic the last couple of weeks, so I haven't really had a lot of spare time to do any of my regular extra-curricular activities. Hopefully it's going to calm down a little now... but if not I guess I'll just have to put up work stuff:P So the image to the right here is not related to any games we're working on (although... maybe it should be...), but is in fact

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So yeah yeah, planking is dumb, but surely that makes it the all the more challenging to make a decent game, right? Well, as it turns out I am always up for a challenge. So I think it turned out OK. It could use varying levels of polish, but what are you going to do on such a small timeframe eh? I guess what's more important is that it lets the bosses know just what we can do if we're working on

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So, work has again been too busy this last week to really have a chance to do anything again... So instead I'm posting something from work. Behold part of what I spent the last weekend crunching on. We'll be releasing tomorrow apparently (which is just nuts) so this can act as a teaser, but people who know me way want to keep an eye out for the sole purpose of listening to me embarrass myself.

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I've been pretty quiet over the last couple of weeks because work is getting really busy again... But that doesn't have to mean I have to spend all my time coding loot tables. I finally got around to picking up a USB-to-MIDI cable, so I figured "why not give that music thing ago again?" So this is something at least. It could possibly be in one of the games we're currently making... But it was

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I got a new phone and I wanted to personalize it a little so I banged up this wallpaper out of whatever I had around. And now it's late.

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I haven't really been very Batman recently... so in an effort to remind myself I drew and coloured this. I'm pretty damn happy with it but at the same time I wish I could have done something with the background. I had no idea though, and it was pretty late, so it was not meant to be.

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... And I've never even been to the place. As requested by my sister, a shirt with a logo on it like the Fraiser logo but with Port Augusta's skyline (i.e. the only thing over one story high, the power plant). She didn't really explain what it was for but odds are it's something to do with a pub crawl coz it always is with her!:P

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Unfortunately it's not readable now I've shrunk it down, but at the bottom of that piece of paper it says "This page has been intentionally left blank." What's it all about? MYSTERY

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Here is a thing for a thing I'm doing. It'll probably go nowhere but hey, at least it's got a little colour for a change. More to come tomorrow (maybe).

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But the real mystery is, how did I stop playing it for long enough to get this done?

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Possibly not an accurate representation of the real thing. So you know back when I said I'd finally beaten the last of the Trainz to death with naught but my manly man-fists? Total lie. Trainz came back in a big way and took it's revenge with a week of my life. That, now truly, is over, and with it my days as a tester. As of a couple of days ago I am now officially a game designer. What that

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This is not a game we're currently making- but it's one we should be. Also I was going to colour this but now it's late and Trainz yet beckons... like some kind of steam-powered mistress.

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So once again, Trainz has been kicking my ass. The good news is that phase is over now. The bad news is that now begins a new phase of things kicking my ass. Coincidentally, this is my favorite self portrait so far, mainly on account of my face not being visible. The advantage of this is that you can't see my brand new crunch-time goatee. It is never too late to disregard advice given in comments

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I'm pretty sure it's no coincidence the two games I've played recently both feature goatee-d dudes, but what it means is still a mystery.

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So looks like I do (or at least should) have art credits on a released game. The 3D artist at work (The awesome Rob Shaw) snuck on my concept train art into My First Trainz Set on the back of a cereal box. Somehow, I hadn't noticed until now... And that is pretty awesome.

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Could there be a more perfect buddy cop team than Putin and Obama? One's a violent hard-ass who does whatever it takes to get the job done. The other's the hippest, street-wise cat this side of Harlem. Together, they put the boot into crime and take back the streets. After botching a major drug bust, Police commissioner Kofi Annan assigns Detective Barack Obama his new partner, Detective

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...The button is bad.

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Or not. So this is "female protagonist" from "Undisclosed project". I imagine it's still a little early for anyone (and by that I mean my sole reader) to know what it is but hold out there Drew... It'll be obvious by tomorrow. In other news: I think I know what I'm going to focus on... I just need to check some particulars first to make sure I wont be wasting my time. Lastly: I think I went

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... It's been a while! What's news? How are you going? So admittedly, I've been pretty bad. Sure, I've had my reasons... But let's be honest: reasons are only a lazy mans excuse to be lazier. So, what's the plan now? No idea. I want to do something that a) I might actually finish and b) that I might eventually be able to sell. What exactly that is, is still up for debate. It could be Project

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Due to non-Valentines Day issues I almost didn't have the love to do anything today... But then I figured if I didn't do anything, that would mean the terrorists have won. So here we are... It then became apparent that it was getting late, and also that I didn't want to be the terrorists too much, so nothing but flat colours for everyone. Lastly, this goes out to anyone who's not a crazy bitch

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Happy new year! How the bloody hell are you?! I figure I've left long enough of a gap to make a proper, stylishly late entrance. So, in the 2 months absence, the following things have happened to/around me: - I didn't finish Project Voltron. - I got a promotion. - I got a new car. - I moved to the Gold Coast. - I almost touched a rhino. I believe all of this adequately sums up why I haven't

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...Don or Dana (or Daria) Darling (depending on what gender the player chooses/how I feel at the time) Due to an administrative error, what was supposed to be a draft of the famous flying ace D. Daring, resulting in mild-mannered accountant/furniture salesperson/professional gamer (once again, depending on how I feel at the time) D. Darling being drafted instead. The purpose of such a backstory

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Here is an animation test of the player ship's movement. Of note: Idle movement gleam, directional tilting and evasive move. My apologies for subjecting you to a .gif file in this age of web2.0 and all, but I though my blog could do with a Geocities make-over. Next week: "Under construction" images. Please ignore the jerkiness and the graininess, but I knew no other way of uploading an animation

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Another day another ship. This is another one of the NPC ships, obviously lightning themed. Obviously blue. Obviously not greased. Meanwhile, things have slowed down a little development wise now that I'm doing some animation. The current plan is to finish animating the player ship and at least one enemy ship, and then work on an alpha version of the game. Animation is a lot more annoying than I

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... So maybe that retarded idea from last post has legs after all? I mean if Twilight can work, why not some story featuring all the romance and action of World War 1 mixed with the supernatural mystery and raw sexuality of werewolves. It's a no-brainer: World War  = WW = WereWolves! The have DOGfights in the skies! We can have a British pilot that turns into a were-bulldog! The question is: Can

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For those of you who don't follow (warning, you will get sidetracked) check here. So this is the female variant of the main character... I'm not 100% happy with her, but hey- When am I ever? It's more than enough for the moment though. I had also planned of having a background story for these two (well... one unisex story at least) done by now but I still can't decide whether I want them to be

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So as mentioned before: The player's ship, plus decals. I originally struggled with this a little... Some of the designs for the NPC ships have come pretty naturally because I want them to tie in with the characters traits/themes. Because I hadn't fully decided on what I wanted the main character to be (see previous discussion) I didn't want to impose a theme on the ship, nor did i want to

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So this is taking a little longer than I was anticipating. Not all my fault though, I was pretty sick there for a while. So this is the player character, and will be used in game during conversations with other pilots. I'm thinking about doing a female version as well, and at some point I'll add some simple animation. I don't really have a massive need to get this done now (i.e. I should be

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In what I'm now dubbing "Sketchy Mondays": this is a sketch I did of the cocky hotshot NPC. I really need to work out a way to make him look more like a jerk... This is just a sketch though so I've got some time to work it out. I don't have a name picked out for him yet, but I'm thinking "Dirk Lightning". Yes? No? Too pseudo-phallic?

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So this is the 1st NPC ship... I haven't exactly worked out what NPC will be flying it yet, or what the name of the ship is called. Any ideas in that respect? I do know it's attack will be some kind of beam that sweeps across some of the screen though. I think that's plenty for a Sunday night. I also know that on reflection the nose looks very beak like. Make of that what you will. Also note

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So I didn't get as many done as I was hoping (damn you Starcraft!) but here's a taste. I still need to do highlights and maybe darken some of the shadows... Oh and add some colour and stuff. This will be the player's ship though. The little one should be about the size its going to be on screen (at full resolution at least). I had planned on writing some goofy background about the ship or

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So updates haven't been as forthcoming as I was hoping, but the wheels are in motion. I'm just making sure everything is  properly though out before I start working on stuff. This is supposed to be serious operation after all. So I'd say at the moment, preliminary design is done. I've been spending a little too long on it I feel, but I'm now sure of enough to begin setting up the framework.

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...Or posts for that matter. That changes now. So I've had a little trouble getting started on things. I got a new system, complete with snazzy new tools... But unfortunately with that came Starcraft 2. And Fallout 3. I've managed to cut back a little though so things should be back on track. Well they would be, but I'm having some trouble adjusting some of the new programs I'm using. It's

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Ok.... So it's a little late. I've been busy. But this metaphorical 40' I'm tipping out goes to Drew, a comrade in arms taken from us and the blogs all too soon. Without him around, I no longer have a blog rival, and I feel I'm a lessor man because of it. (I know his blogs continued now elsewhere, but it's just not the same :P) So meanwhile, having entirely failed at my last reinvention almost

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So surprise surprise: I'm taking the blog in a different direction again. The transformation begins one more. While I did enjoy the whole "month-focused-on-one-thing-everyday" thing (for the entire month that I did it), I have to focus more on getting things done. Gamey things. Things for work. However, since so much of it is seemingly going to be done in my own time anyway, I currently plan to

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So here we are at the end of the month... and while I know I kinda dropped out of it there for a moment (due to reasons beyond my control, I assure you I've still managed to make a mighty 21 posts this month, which is far and beyond some kind of record for me. While I don't think I've learnt as much as I should've, I guess any learnin' is good learnin'. I'd like to keep up this kind of format,

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So is it Streetfigher's Q, Giant Robo's Iron Mask, or just some other sad robot detective? It's a mystery - Only he can solve!

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The Mighty THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR

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So I know that I'm behind a couple of days, but screw it. If I can make it up I will, but we'll see what happens. Anyway, I wanted to draw some more scythes because I couldn't find anything else to draw... Originally he was going to have a more goblinic/demonic mask but then i stalled when it came to armour ideas. A quick google image search turned up this, and naturally, I had to redo what I'd

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So I've finally had a chance to play the Ace Attorney games and I'm pretty damn impressed with them. This picture semi-inspired by something Dick Gumshoe said during the 3rd case... Something about Edgeworth being all distant after losing to Wright, standing around with his coffee and staring out windows. Or something. It was late, but I hear ya' Edgey-baby... Also: I think this post makes it

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No.3 of 3. I figured it was about time to have a little colour again, so hasty (but appropriate) colouring go! Also I went back and fixed up a couple of things on Spike and Jet that were bugging me. The End. Something about the Lost finale reminded me of the ending of Cowboy Bebop, so I went back and watched them all again, having been a few years at least since the last time I had. While on the

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Jet Black! No.2 of a few! Collect them all!

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Spike Spiegel! No. 1 of a couple!

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True Blood is back! More naked vampires for everyone! Also, I only noticed after posting, but this is my 150th post! I don't think its really special drawing post worthy, but I'm still pretty happy with it! Thanks to everyone who's told me to post more! Exclamation mark!

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Mild mannered Aliesha C. was just a regular girl... Until one day, while using her calculator, she was struck by lightning and fell into a vat of gamma radiation toxic waste ooze. Emerging from the ooze, she realized she was suddenly capable of extraordinary math related feats, like long division and... addition... or something. Vowing to use her newfound powers for good, and armed with her

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If there is anything that's more in need of a gritty remake than "The Crocodile Hunter", I'll eat my hat...

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Random scribble or my subconcious telling me I need to go to the doctor? You be the judge. Speaking of judging, I was going to assess my performance so far this month, but I'm officially too tired for that right now, so instead, I'm just going to dot point stuff. Tell me if you think I'm missing something. - I've done pretty well to actually post something everyday... I dont honestly think I'll

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So this awesome test footage came out today, showing a directors proposal for a new Mortal Kombat reboot. It's awesome, and it's good to see someone actually treat the source material with some respect (even though it's ditching the mysticism by the look of it, it's still got the gore and the blood like Mortal Kombat should). Unfortunately, thats why this will never get made :(. Once again...

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Tonight I was going to give myself a one week evaluation of how I was going so far, but ironically (I think) I fell into the biggest problem I have so far: Spending too much time on things. Still, I don't care so much when it turns out OK. The keywords tonight were "Heroes of Might and Magic".

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Just kidding, it stands for "Adorable". I saw Legion the other night, and to be honest, it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I think the problem was that it thought it was a lot more than it was. What it was, was the story of The Terminator, taking place during Dawn of the Dead but with angels, which sounds like an awesome idea really. Regardless... While we went to go see it for Keamy from

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So apparently there were UFOs buzzing around my home town in the last couple of days... I didn't see them personally, nor see any news about it until someone passed me on that link, but really, communications disruption can mean only one thing: INVASION.

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So I'm possibly the only person I know who's excited that there's going to be a Marvel vs Capcom 3, but I don't care. There's not much I'll admit to being a fanboy about, but Capcom is one of them. I have previously bought games solely for the Capcom logo on the box, and I haven't been let down yet (and I bought Bionic Commando). The only downside is that it looks like they're going for a darker

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Death is the only one who can legitimately say that CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL. Also... so far I'm doing a pretty bad job at this time limit malarky. Please note: Yes - Scythes, but I think I can do better, just not tonight.

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I have a friend to told me my sprite of Naked Snake was infact a shirtless Daniel Faraday from Lost. No... this is a shirtless Daniel Faraday from Lost, that's jumped back in time to the 60's and ended up in the Russian Jungle. Cue references no one will get...

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So I still feel lousy about hardly posting at all last month. Plus... I haven't been drawing nearly enough lately as it is. So under the guidance of my No. 1 fan, I've decided to try and draw something every day for the next month. Since actual good stuff always takes multiple nights (or at least it does with my schedule) what I'm also going to do is start doing warm up sketches every night....

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...Wait around for a little while (i.e. however long it takes to make a sequel) and it'll become a Naked Snake. But wait too long and it'll turn into an Old Snake. Ladies and Gentlemen: Comedy. So the 4th game I finished this year (maybe... I need a better recording system than just "my memory") was the long awaited (for me at least) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots. Check out what I

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I would hazard a guess, that if I just sat down and started sketching, about 50% of the time it would come out as a samurai. Someone told me that they think the chance of it is in fact, probably higher, but I think that might be because there's a 75% chance I'll draw something with swords as well anyway. I can't help it- swords are just that great. Do you think I'm drawing too many swords? Am an

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So yeah.... not dead, just really busy with work... And not in any good way. I'm planning on catching up somehow but I may need to rethink how I'm going to approach things for a little while... I really need a bit of a break. But at the same time, I don't want to not do stuff and post it here, I like doing that. It's just time is tight right now. I didn't even realise an entire month had passed!

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KICK-ASS!

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Completed! Well as much as I need... I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Don't forget to click on it to see the larger version. I decided to change things up a little too, so now I've ripped off been inspired by some other non anime things as well. Probably even more obscure though, so don't fret if you don't notice it... That's the plan! :P Anyway... I dunno how much I should say about

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So I had this idea of what I wanted to do tonight, and as normal, it didn't turn out like I was expecting. The difference is though, that this time, I was just trying to sketch out some ideas. But then they started to look good so I decided to spend a little more time on it. I've got some other ones similar to these still to go, so expect them in a follow up post soon/eventually. Maybe I'll even

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By popular demand a couple of my friends asked me to do JRPG characters for them too. So I did. I didn't just want to post them boringly standing around, so I decided to make a battle scene for them. When I asked them who we should be battling, their responses were "France" and "A couple of jocks?" I was planning on compromising, and drawing us battling "A couple of Jacques..." (presumably

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Congratulations to the one person who guessed correctly that it was Mirror's Edge (not via the blog). She wins my copy of the game (maybe), or at least a close copy of it. To find out what I thought of it (and possibly hear some spoilers), read more after the "Read More >" Once again, it's not like I'm exactly on the cutting edge of games here, but at least Mirror's Edge doesn't have a sequel

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It's that time of night again: my eyes have gone a-twitchy and my hands have gone a-crampy. But it's been worth it. I haven't finished this one yet, but I thought I'd put up what I've done so far. So can you guess the game based on the linework? It should be pretty damn easy (if not, I'm clearly doing something wrong). I've finished basic line work and then started from the bottom and added

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So I was supposed to be working on something productive, but then I noticed that someone has commented on ALL of my posts with spam about hotel broking (and in Chinese no less). Normally I ignore spammers, but if someone (or in this case "somebody") thinks I need to know about hotel brokerage that much, it's obvious that they are really looking out for me. They're basically saying: "Hey... Video

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Trainz. Kicking my ass. 24/7. I'm pretty sure I had other stuff to say tonight as well, but I'm currently punch-drunk and I'm not really sure what it was.

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So work's still kicking my ass, so I haven't really had the time or energy to do anything post-worthy. Also on the weekend circumstances forced me to immediately learn video editing (having only ever watched videos prior). I'm not so good with moving pictures... I just cant draw quick enough to do 30 in a second. (Rimshot). So bad jokes aside, tonight I didn't have to run resource crunching

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So I was watching this TED talk about solving the worlds problems by playing game, which can be found here. Now I agree up to a point (and that point is most of  second part of the of the talk), and sure, she repeatedly uses the phrase "Epic Win" with all seriousness many many times, but it's still an interesting watch. But what I take most from it is the unquenchable need to level up. "Epic wins

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A lot (okay... 2) people have asked me to write something about the game classification/censorship throwdown currently (or not so currently as it may be) happening in my home country of Australia. I've kind of avoided it because it's obvious. Really, everyone should know by now that censorship is bad, and if you don't, my blog's hardly going to be the place to convince you. There's no real

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I was just messing around and then decided to have another go using that colour flatting technique from before. This time, I made sure I was paying attention to the lines (so they all cross this time! even if they cross a little too much). Meanwhilst, this string of coloured posts totally means I can just slack off and do some easy black and white ones ;). (Note: the thumbnail came out kinda

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So these minimalist poster/case/cover remakes seem to be the "current in thing" on the web... I don't really have the design skills to pull it off properly, but I more than make up for that with ham-fisted pointless symbolism. Robert Langdon would shake his ridiculous head of hair in disgust. Anyway, Shutter Island was a good movie. Probably the best movie I've seen this year so far (but it's

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The second game I've completed (well as much as you can complete at least) this year was Torchlight. For me, this game really came out of nowhere, but once I heard about it was was pretty excited. I was a massive Diablo 1 and 2 player, so naturally, a similar type of game by the same guys got my attention. I didn't mind the cartoony graphics... I know theres all the hoo-hah about Diablo 3's

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So I saw this pretty cool colouring tutorial tonight, and instead of sleeping I decided to give it a shot. I also thought I might finally do something for the second game I completed this year: Torchlight. Naturally, things got carried away and instead of a dinky little coloured drawing I got too into the inks. On the plus side, I'm getting a whole lot more comfortable with the freehand tablet

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Just a quick thing tonight because I'm flat out and should really be doing other things. Recently I had my birthday, and in a not so strange co-incidence,  we hit the Chinese new year: The year of the Tiger. One of my (many) nicknames is Moggy, and the Videogame character I identify most with is Travis Touchdown, who is also linked with tigers. I think you can see where I'm going here... My

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So Valentines day came, and I was a little too preoccupied at the thought of picking up a certain console and game... and it kind of blocked any other ideas I might have had. But then, just like somebody insulted me and I couldn't think of anything witty to come back with, I walked away and was suddenly hit by bunch of ideas. The following cheap captioned pictures are the ideas that were not too

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So it didn't really go as planned there. Plus I didn't really like that last picture anyway. Time for a redo! So my plan for this year, when it comes to games at least, was to stick with one game at a time and actually finish them. I was hoping that would at least stop me from spending too much time playing multiple ones. and maybe save me some cash (although considering I finally got around to

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Happy Valentines day everyone! It seems everyone else does these videogame themed valentiney things so I figured I may as well do one too. This one goes out to all the Geek Grrls out there. You're all gorgeous ;).

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Text coming later coz I'm tiiiiiired

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So I know I said there'd be some colour in the next post...What can I say? I lied. To be honest, I dunno what the standing is on whether I can post stuff like this... Even when it's all blacked out and kind of warped out of proportion. I'll have to check that out, but i was getting annoyed at doing stuff only to have nothing to put up. For now, let's just play a game-  A game of knowing winks.

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Frustration [frʌˈstreɪʃən] noun - Doing a whole bunch of stuff that you can't end up putting on your blog. I've been flat out lately, doing some good stuff, but stuff that I can't put up here (or at least, I think I can't put it up here). Unfortunately, this stuff's gotta get done, so I don't know how much time I'll have to do something else in the next few days. Which is of course a shame,

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That's right, I aim big. Hardy har har. Also widescreen. So as customary on the Stompy Blog: January means it's resolutions time. This blog is nothing if not an outlet for me to document my resolutions, after all, that is how it started. I'm pretty happy with how it went, and I want to keep it that way, but unlike a giraffe: It's gotta evolve. I'm in the position now where my work experience

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And just like that: I'm back. Apologies to all of you (all one of you) I've let down by not posting since that last post some time a while ago. Times have been tough, what can I say. My holiday didn't really give me much time to do anything at all, then I had to move, then I had to catch up on all the TF2 I'd missed. It's been very busy. But this week marks the official return to form of the

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That's right, it's dog-punching time! Evening all! So, you may be wondering: "Whatever happened to the Stompy Blog?" Life happened. Well not really. But I've been about and busy. So first things first, I went on a trip to Melbourne to see what I could see for a week. I took 50 something photos of trams IN ACTION. Needless to say, they were so interesting I decided to not post any photos here.

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To be honest I'm just glad I got something out. I've been having a rough time of it™ recently and everything else I've tried has come out crapola. I've got no idea what's going on here. I started out just wanting to do some freehand tablet practise. Lets just say that the little guy is a vengence devil that speaks in dimensional portals and comes out of peoples belly buttons when they can't

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Self explanatory, I hope. Side note: I'm so very over trying to draw myself at the moment. And indeed other people I know. All mountain training, I know, but that's enough for now. Side side note: While doing this tonight I had the weirdest recallection of this old TV show called "Step by Step" that featured this surfer/layabout guy called Cody who was secretly a martial arts master or

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It's done. No more. I couldn't take it anyway. Oh woe is me. Etc. So this whole thing has taken a lot longer than I thought it would. On the other hand though, it turned out a lot better than I was planning (or indeed, expecting). And considering how sick (and delusional) I've been feeling (and are continuing to feel) these past few days I'm surprised I made it at all. Don't be surprised if I

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