Cut Out The Past

in memory of MJ i cast aside my childish ways, and live anew...

The Best There Ever Was

No one else will ever compare...

Fashionista At Heart

Was talking to my girl and a question came up that not many people have asked me before:

"What do you would you be working towards if you just weren't into what you're doing now?"

For some people they claim that they 'couldn't see themselves doing anything else', or they just never really thought about it. For me, I'm like 90% sure I would be on a fashion course. Specifically female shoe design; I think the femininity in platform heels is unrivaled to any other piece of clothing. Many of the blogs I follow are couture fashion and I could really see myself being good at it. Maybe if things were slightly different I would be in a classroom full of hot girls running my tape measure around some breasts instead of worrying about 3D programs... *sigh*

- There's a ton of innovation in Fashion Photography that I'd love to be a part of too, I got a bunch of favorite fashion photography blogs. Too many artforms just get into the habit of copying itself too often but fashion photography really ain't even like that, at all. I can respect that.

Think you could see yourself doing something else than what you do now?

check jakewalters.com for the above photographer

Top 75

2D Finalists ---------- 3D Finalists

Congrats to the some 1100 entrants that submitted successfully. And congrats to the top 75 that made it and are now certified and immortalized. Remember; the competition was only ever with yourself.

This was my first DomWar and I had a blast and learned a huge amount. More than I ever have from a single model, how can I ask for much more than that!?

E3

Make sure you watch E3. Some truly epic amazing shit was announced. And some bullshit happened too.

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I completely fucked up my score this month. A fantastic piece of fail. Too much socialising and not being serious, has led me to disappointment in myself. My number actually decreased down to an overall of 43%.

My Productivity Gauge has taken a deep hit, I must make amends...

Now Online

Productivity Gauge

On reflection; my biggest hindrance to the speed of my learning/improving is consistency. I am sometimes very productive one week, then will go two weeks of doing virtually nothing because I'm wallowing in my self satisfaction about the productive week I had previously. And wallowing instead of training results in tiger uppercuts to the face from real life:
In order to stop this and become the best I can be, I am going to be weekly grading MYSELF on my productivity.
I have made myself a formula whereby;

★★ For every day that I have more than 2hours of (internet-less) productivity (e.g. Practice Anatomy, Model Something, Paint, Learn Something New, etc) I will give myself a pink circle on my weekly calendar.
★★ For every day that I do jack shit or don't achieve the minimum time of productivity I will give myself an orange strike:

(not very impressive...)

This week is the first week I have done it but to further explain how I got my grades:

Monday - Finished Dom War,
Tuesday - Pretended to do work but didn't do jackshit.
Wednesday - Read 1/3rd of 'The Element' by Ken Robinson
Thursday - Blatantly did jackshit
Friday - Sketched out group project ideas/read more of 'The Element'
Saturday - On MSN all day
Sunday - Began my uni summer project (I realise its not Sunday yet but I vow to live up to this one)

I will then work out the percentage of the month and then try to beat that score the corresponding month. Eventually two hours minimum everyday will be second nature and I'll increase the minimum amount of time. If I ever fail a week, then I remove my internet for day in order to catch up on lost time.

LMFAO

Because DirectX makes your art better... apparently

Shadow of the Miniature

Team Ico; makers of Shadow of the Colossus (probably one of the best games in the world ever) have a new video moving around the net of their next project. Don't know what that big feline thing is, but it clearly has had its wings clipped :(


~ Also, I need this PC in my life. It's the the smallest, most power-efficient Intel Atom PC. The specs are really reasonable. Waterresistant, temperatureresistant, shockresistant with an affordable price tag? My laptop is starting to look really unattractive about right now, hmmmmmmm...

fit-PC2 Wiki

Arcadia

~ Description

~ Beauty Render

~ Presentation Render

~ Texture Sheets

~ Construction Shot

~ Concept Sheet

Unchartered Gameplay

These environments are breathtakingly rich. I am astonished...

Test Render

- Okay, the general feedback was that Max renders look better, but marmoset has the bloom. So I figured I'd add the post process bloom in photoshop with a pose and see how I felt about it. Thanks to Dan for helping me figure out stuff.
I'll be glad to see the back of this project. So much time spent on a single model isn't healthy. I'm fed up of the bitch.

Comparison

A render in mamorset engine and a render in max with the standard shader:


I prefer max, even though it doesn't have bloom. Just because I think i can apply my lighting knowledge a lot better in it. I'll definetley use marmoset to show things "in-game" for portfolio purposes; but I still prefer 3ds Max.

Salvation Bundle

New PS3 bundle in Poland. (In Polish; Pismo Swiete = Holy Bible)
Maybe the PS3 version will have exclusive content...?

(also i updated my last post)