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Dienstag, 22. Juni 2010Games: »Trine 2«-Trailer (and »Rock of Ages«)
Samstag, 19. Juni 2010is looking even more awesome than the original Trine. I really want to play that game now, even though I totally know I am going to fail big time (which also sums up my feelings towards Demon’s Souls exactly):
Also look at this other epic thing from Atlus, Rock of Ages:
Games: »Journey«
Freitag, 18. Juni 2010
Omg, That Game Company, die Macher von flOw und Flower haben ein neues Projekt namens Journey in Arbeit, daß fantastischer Weise an Fumito Uedas Spiele (Ico, Shadow of the Colossus) gemahnt. Das nenn’ ich doch mal eine schönere Inspiration als diese komische, meiner Meinung nach von SotC losgestretene Welle, daß die Entgegener in Fantasy-Spielen alle unendlich groß sein müssen (Demon’s Souls, God of War III, Bayonetta, Castlevania Lords of Shadow* etc.).
Ein Pferd scheints aber nicht zu geben, was ich ein bischen schade finde, daß war eine der besten (und bisher unerreichten) Sachen an SotC: Agro. Aber immerhin gibt’s eine versunkene Kultur, die es zu erforschen gilt. Und zwar tw. im mit anderen Spielern zusammen (á la Tale of Tales Endless Forest).
Sehr geiles Character-Desgin übrigens (schaut mal die Beine!)
*Wie beschissen kann ein Spiel Character sein? Genauso beschissen wie der Spacken aus Prince of Persia.
Der iPhone-Apps-Entwickler in der Gummizelle
Sonntag, 13. Juni 2010Hihihi, bei(m Podcast von) Chaosradio Express heißt es grade iPhone-Apps zu programmieren sei wie mit zehn schönen Frauen in einer Gummizelle zu sitzen, das würde ‘ne Weile gutgehen aber irgendwann …
Android-programming sei eher mit Nerds auf der Wiese zu sitzen, da könne man auf jeden Fall den Horizont sehen und habe etwas Woodstock-Feeling.
Für solchen frischen Blödsinn liebe ich diese Sendung!
Illustration Friday: »Trail«
Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2010Well that led me a little away from the original topic but just let your imagination wander … So here’s some pirate-musketeer-espionage-chase on the roof stuff:
Drawing Day: A storm coming
Samstag, 05. Juni 2010Today is Drawing Day, didn’t do much though, here’s another rough one. I think I might get used to the tablet a little bit though, it was quite fun.
EDIT: Wow, I was sure I saw this runestone while looking up Öland on Wikipedia but I cannot find it anymore. If someone has a clue, please leave a comment. I remember it being a stone with some kind of poem about a warrior (from Denmark?). The interesting thing about it was that there were romanic/blackletter characters on the back even though no one could figure what they meant.
EDIT2: I was mostly right. It must be the Karlevi Runestone south of Färjestaden (though in my drawing the stone looks really different).
Illustration Friday: »Slither«
Donnerstag, 03. Juni 2010Tried the Wacom Tablet again, still didn’t really like it. Vectors are much faster to work with, doesn’t take so much time until something doesn’t look totally shitty anymore (my problem still being that I get bored before I get to the point were I begin to like it with the tablet).
Yes, that is a viking-airship. Awesome, huh?
Illustration: »Blue Moon«
Mittwoch, 02. Juni 2010I have no idea why I gave this that name but I can’t think of anything better right now. I also have no idea where this came from, the image of trees with lots of blossoms/leaves glowing in the dark beneath one of these infinite skies at night just popped into my head. Might be an aftermath of the awesome nature in Öland.
One of the rare things that turned out almost exactly as they were in my mind.
Happy B-day, J!
Samstag, 29. Mai 2010
Illustration: »The Book of the Dead«
Samstag, 29. Mai 2010Okay, someone calling himself »amotionpicture« (wtf?) posted this entry on ifreelance.com:
Though that is one of these things you can’t really call »illustration« because you have almost no room for any interpretation I had a vivid image in my mind and though it would be fun to just do it.
I am not going to participate since ifreelance.com is one of those sites that not only fuck up the design-business by making it possible for people to get stuff designed for unbelievable low prices – we have these kind of sites in Germany too, like 12designer or designenlassen – but at least the German sites don’t requiere the designers to pay just for an account* (huh, just saw the guy posted an e-mail-address, maybe I’ll send it to him anyway).
Well, as it has been said on fontblog, people making entries in sites like these deserve to get shit for the no-money they want to spend. Of course there are situations – as maybe the one above – were you just don’t have any money you can give. But especially if you are in the creative industry there should be solutions for that. I think it is quite normal to design t-shirts or booklets for small bands and they give you some merchandise, free entry to a show, a dvd or whatever.
Anyway, I had fun doing this and I am sure that that is completley not what this guy wants since I largely dared to ignore his suggestions (moon, media, insects etc.…):
*Coming to think of it: I have no idea if there is a fee on the German sites, I never bothered trying to sign up.