Sack Scyther

A quick normal texture to see what its like and it certainly helps a lot more than a flat colour. Ill make it more intricate as time goes on  but for now i wanted to see what it looked like, those blades could be a pain though

Sword

A pretty basice painting and i need to learn how to waste less time when i paint. The front arm is cut off btw

WHOS THAT POKEMON?

???

ITS SCYTHER

My latest model, a bit of a fleeting one but it kept eating at me until i made one. So ill texture this in the next few days i believe

Could this be our BG&E2?

Personally I'm hoping it is. Compared with the first trailer it looks like Jade. There is a Bo staff there to. IT also sounds like her. A little wierd that shes gone MGS4 and travelled to the middle east to do what shes good at. Running from the authorities in a very stylish fashion. I hope this turns out to be it but that even will be a cutscene, a quicktime event or ingame but not as cool, with running into walls without hands being put up. That said BG&E had some impressive animation, for Jade anyway.

Ooo I hope it is, its been like 10 years since we got that wonderful underrated and underplayed game.

 

How many games people lost their jobs?

12% of the entire games industry it seems.

This personally isn't that good especially since it isn't people being cut from studios, we have the entire game studios shutting down. Like 3D realms this week. They brought us Duke Nukem, they didn't bring us Duke Nukem forever. Must be hard 'making' a game and then having the hardware change so you have to do it all again.

Wanda Meloni has worked out these numbers and 12% is 8450 people that lost their jobs due to this recession. I wonder when we'll be getting out of that, it has been quite a while since we got into it, also seems that Swine Flu hasn't been spoken of for a few days.

She also claims these people are working at other studios or making their own which can be good in ways  but then it means theyre filling up all the jobs before we get there :( But good for them getting those jobs back.

I just thought, i hope its those people who make crappy shovelware Wii and DS games that lost their jobs, then again, they probably make enough money to never worry about it again

Artsy games *Persona 4 spoilers*

My artsy game of the moment is Persona 4. Its a great looking game and has a fantastic atmosphere for a little rural village.

It has a great use of colour and the detail they have on every model is very impressive. I love the characters and i stare at their clothes as often as i can to see if i can pick up anything for my own modelling. Obviously i can't put a massive gap between the thighs as all these characters seem to have but the texture space must've been used well if they can show alot of detail on each character.

The point of this post is to show one of the models from the game that i was really impressed with. And that is one of the later bosses, Shadow Teddie. It was a great concept and it was modelled and textured great and i couldnt help but think i want to model something like this at some point.

This is the concept for him showing size and his general prescence on the screen.

And this lame youtube shot shows how he fully looks ingame, a cracked face to show how hollow he is inside. Poor Teddie, though those eyes and expression are really damn creepy for the comic relief of the game

Final Texturing renders

The final renders of my piratey babe. Done on the 512 diffuse with no speculars of normals. I kinda like it this way and flat diffuses always have a charm, especially since all the games I'm playing at the moment don't have any of that.

I wanna learn how to paint like persona 4 T_T

Inflation

MY first speed painting in a while and I am gonna aim to do one each evening over the summer so that i keep painting. This one is about an hour but i was constantly distracted by msn to have my full attention on this. I hope to get quicker.

I will also aim to learn how to draw animals as I have never drawn them properly before and itll be helpful to finally get some things right.