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Jan/1020
Jan/1020
How to Cheat at Backgrounds
It’s a sad truth that most people can’t draw everything. Artists who are good at drawing organic things like trees and people are usually bad at drawing man-made things like cars and buildings, and vice versa. This is why in comics and animation you generally have a specialized background artist working on the project. Or in the more manga-centric world the use of screentones, which you’ll see me use screentone flowers in this video. Despite the fact they are indeed organic flowers are surprisingly one of the hardest things to draw.
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Jan/1010
Jan/1010
Digital Inking Timelapse
I know this isn’t really a tutorial but I’d rather not have too many categories. Besides it might teach someone something. Maybe. I’ve seen timelapses of people drawing before and thought it would be fun to make one. Sadly this isn’t the whole drawing, I had more footage but I messed up the compression on the rest of the video I recorded. I’d like to do more so definitely tell me if you enjoy it!
As you can see in the video I’m not all digital still, I sketch in pencil and scan it into the computer, though it is faster and cleaner to do digital inking (not to mention you can easily change your mind.) I’m still not totally comfortable with a tablet so you often see me shaping lines with the eraser.
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Jan/1015
Jan/1015
Bayonetta
Bayonetta is a difficult game to describe, at the same time I can sum it up in a single word: camp. It’s pure, unadulterated camp. It’s outrageously over-the-top absolutely revels in being so. This is a very self-aware game that seems to seek to above all be entertaining and it does this very well.
On top of that it has the best action control scheme yet seen in a game. I’m serious. It’s not a God of War ripoff, it’s everything Devil May Cry 4 should have been except with hot chicks with guns on their shoes and a ludicrous sense of style. So, yeah, it’s pretty rad.
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Jan/100
Jan/100
Improvement Meme!
Since it’s a new year, and a new decade, there’s been a new meme floating around old deviantART. It’s the only one I’ve ever taken part in because it looked pretty fun. I encourage any artist out there to do one, makes you feel a bit better about yourself ;P
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Jan/1012
Jan/1012
Dante’s Vs Darksiders
The video games industry is turning into Hollywood. You know how a handful of movies based on the same theme, time period or subject matter will all come out around the same time? That’s because movie markers will find out what other studios are producing and make their own similar movie. So like the big Prototype vs Infamous debate we now have Dante’s Inferno and Darksiders, two games surrounding Biblical apocalypse/hell themes.
Now I know I have a bad habit of hating games before they even come out, but I HATE Dante’s Inferno already. Let me tell you why.
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Dec/0935
Dec/0935
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Follow-Up Rant
SPOILERS SPOILERS
SPOILERS SPOILERS
SPOILERS SPOILERS
Yeah. Spoilers. For this and other Silent Hill games.
So you know what? No. I’m not done bitching about Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. In my review I tried to avoid spoilers but now, now I want to rant a bit about the story as a whole and why it just doesn’t work.
So if for some reason you were planning to play this game and don’t want its stupendously stupid ending ruined for you, well… don’t read this.
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Dec/0945
Dec/0945
Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
I was genuinely excited when I heard Silent Hill 1 was getting the remake treatment on the Wii. I never played the first one, so the idea of getting to play it with updated graphics sounded good to me.
Sure American companies have been making terrible Silent Hill games lately, but how can they screw up just taking Silent Hill 1’s gameplay and script and making the game again?
Well they could screw it up by deciding to make this a “re-imagining” rather than a remake, and by being developer Climax Studios the people behind Silent Hill Origins. Great. And like always, Climax has friggin’ missed the point of Silent Hill.
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Nov/096
Nov/096
Assassin’s Creed 2
I have really waited all year for this game. The first Assassin’s Creed was really a love-it-or-hate-it title, and I loved it! Sure the narrative had a few problems and the ending was retarded, but that doesn’t stop me from being a fan. It’s the core of the game what really matters anyway.
So speaking less favorable aspects, the game begins with a prime-time TV-like recap of Assassin’s Creed 1 narrated in the first person by Desmond, the man in the Animus machine experiencing the lives of his ancestors through genetic memory. It works alright as a way to catch up people who didn’t play the first game but it starts to get a little embarrassing as it goes on.
Then you begin in the present-day setting in control of said Desmond. The sci-fi plot going on in the background of Assassin’s Creed is still weak. It still just serves as a glorified device to explain your health, invisible walls, the HUD, time skips, and other abstract gameplay and cinematic elements, and it shows. I was however pleased to see that events take place here that I had assumed would be the subject of the third game because at this point I don’t think I’d like to see the series go into the future as Ubisoft initially seemed to have planned. These events also serve as your primary tutorial, which is mercifully short and nothing like the first game which forced you to ass about in a nebulous purgatory listening to a voice drone on about every single little gameplay control before it would let you into the game.
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Nov/093
Nov/093
Updates Galore!
Hello, my duckies! Sai here, and have I got updates. Well first of all my one-shot comic Mage Knights is available to buy on Indy Planet now. It’s only $2.99 and it’s a fantasy.. magical boy.. comedy… well just go buy it and find out!
Second of all I’ve improved the site’s layout somewhat and added more to the art galleries. I really like NextGen gallery, I can just plug images, albums and whole galleries anywhere in the site. Like so:
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