Parrot Nest

2d Level Design

2012-11-08T16:03:00.000-08:00

Designing a game level seems pretty straight forward, you know few platforms a path blah blah

I'm moving along nicely until I get to a dilemma... what can be underwater and pass in front of you that doesn’t look out of place

I thought maybe spikes, floating ice, even thought of making a moving seal... I of course didn’t think of bubbles until someone else brought it up -_-

Am I an idiot or what?

New/Old Renders or Lack of

2011-11-28T12:07:00.001-08:00

Drafts

Kitchen Final

Balcony - draft

Okay, less then I thought I had done, but as of two nights ago I got a lot done, but not quite things that anyone would be able to see, I haven’t done any recent renders for two reasons. One being the time it takes to render is huge, even a draft can take some time. Two, There is no significant change demanding a new render

I promise(though I dont know if anyone is even paying attention XD) to actually have some real renders next post

Final Note: I Just noticed even the "Final" render is of low quality, my bad

Lack of posts...

2011-11-24T23:39:00.001-08:00

Geez months now...

A trip to Montréal stopped my rendering progress T_T

As of today I started working on my "project" again but immediately frustrated myself, well technically I frustrated myself half an hour into it. After which a nice stack of Toronto Maple Leaf Glass placemats (if that is their name, anyone who sees this please correct me) ended up across the room in an effort to vent it all out. All in all it was a nice reboot and should lead me to get back into this and hopefully still be ready for my college application

Well in truth there was another set of renders which I think technically would fall under the Fourth render set, where I now have the entire "house" modeled, just not filled if you catch my drift. So basically I have the starting layout setup but no exterior textures and basically an empty tiny seaside home

At the moment the plan is to make the house bigger, fully texture the exterior(which means I have to now create some textures or use some presets), create an environment around it(aka grass, water, etc.), while creating some basic furniture for the two floor interior.

If I had enough time I was going to add a car for the garage (which I will admit is what I was just working on), but in the end it’s all for a college application. Not to mention it’s still all self-taught, which means I honestly don’t know how good I’m doing however I like to think I’m doing a decent job, though obviously I could be doing it all completely wrong XD

BUT let’s see where it takes me...

Now on a much more related matter, I’ll post some more up to date renders in the next couple days; first I have to find them XD
Thanks for reading my overly thought out blog :)

Second set of models/renders

2011-07-08T06:09:00.000-07:00

Drafts

Final

First ever 3D Models

2011-06-27T01:11:00.000-07:00

Mytouch 4g steps 5-1

Now these are a very quick set of "Death star" renders made for a class that has nothing to do with 3d modeling
Death Star 3-1

Enjoy

The life of Vincent William Van Gogh

2011-06-26T23:07:00.000-07:00

Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853 in Groot-Zundert, in the south of the Netherlands. As a child, Vincent was serious, silent and thoughtful. On May 1st 1857 Vincent’s brother Theodorus was born, who later in life assisted Vincent greatly in his art career

In July 1869, his uncle helped him obtain a position with the art dealer Goupil & Cie in The Hague. His father and uncle sent him to Paris to work in a dealership, where he became resentful at how art was treated as a commodity. On April 1 1876, he was fired presumably due to the resentful attitude.

Van Gogh moved to Nuenen in 1884 where he lived for nearly two years, during which he completed many sketches and nearly 200 oil paintings. His palette at the time consisted mainly of dark earth tones, specifically heavy amounts of dark brown. On March 26th 1885 his father died of a heart attack, it is said that during these moments Vincent was grieving heavily of the passing.

In November 1885 he moved to Antwerp and rented a small room above a paint dealer's shop in the Rue des Images, He had little money and ate poorly, preferring to spend what money his brother Theo sent on painting materials and models. Bread, coffee and tobacco were his crutches. While in Antwerp he studied color theory and spent time looking at work in museums, specifically works created by Peter Paul Rubens, gaining encouragement to broaden his palette to Deep red, Dark Blue and emerald green.

Van Gogh traveled to Paris in March 1886 to study at Fernand Cormon's studio, where he shared Theo's Rue Laval apartment on Montmartre. While in Paris he painted portraits of friends and acquaintances, still-life paintings, and views of the great city.

Van Gogh moved to Arles hoping for refuge on February 21st 1888, Arles appeared exotic and filthy to Van Gogh. His works from the period are mainly in yellow, dark blue and lavender. His portrayals of the Arles landscape are informed by his Dutch upbringing; the patchwork of fields and avenues appear flat and lack perspective, but excel in their intensity of color. Three of these paintings were shown at the annual exhibition of the Societe des Artistes Independants.

Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background

On May 8th 1889 accompanied by his priest he committed himself to the hospital at Saint Paul-de-Mausole located in an area of cornfields, vineyards and olive trees which became the main subjects of his paintings. Some of the work from this time is characterized by swirls—including one of his best-known paintings The Starry Night. He was allowed short supervised walks, which lead to paintings of cypresses and olive trees, like Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background (1889), Cypresses (1889), Cornfield with Cypresses (1889), Country road in Provence by Night (1890). His work was praised by Albert Aurier in the Mercure de France in January 1890, when he was described as "a genius"

Starry Night

In May 1890, Van Gogh left the clinic to move nearer the physician Dr. Paul Gachet, in Auvers-sur-Oise outside Paris, where he would be closer to Theo. In June 1890, he painted 3 Portraits of Dr. Gachet and completed two in oils, as well as a third in his only etching. In all three the emphasis is on Gachet's melancholic disposition.

Although he had been troubled by mental Illness throughout his life, the episodes became more pronounced during his last few years. In some of these periods he was either unwilling or unable to paint, a factor which added to the mounting frustrations of an artist at the peak of his ability. His depression gradually deepened, and On July 27th 1890, aged 37, he walked into a field and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. He survived the impact and managed to walk back to the Ravoux Inn. He died there two days later. Theo rushed to be at his side. Theo reported his brother's last words as "La tristesse durera toujours" (the sadness will last forever)

Starry Night Over the Rhone

This image is textured to look almost moving or to have life, but in a non-violent almost "mellow" manner

It is done in mostly dark tones of blue with shades of yellow for lights and stars. It radiates with a lonely or sad feeling while also vibrating with a cool calmness when looking at, what I find to be, the long smooth strokes used to make the water and its waves

It is left brighter in the center of the image, very clearly showing a dominant area for the viewer to focus on while adding depth to the painting

I for one love this image as it says so much and is so deep, while being an image of a river, which can be seen to symbolize a plethora of different meanings some of which being life and strength

I think that I am a fan of Vincent’s later work but not so much his early work. I specifically admire his starry night paintings which to me give off a calm nature/feeling but it could also be because of the mood that he sets for his viewers with the lightly radiating lights over the cool calm ground.

To me his earlier work is a little too simplistic for my liking and lacked meaning or depth; it wasn't until his later work where you could see him letting his feelings leak on to his art almost taking complete control of his artistic capabilities

I hope you liked this post :) thank you for reading

p.s. motivated by my art class/teacher to make this post... by motivation I, of course, mean this is an art project that I thought I’d like to share with anyone who might glance over this overly thought out blog

Odd uses for drugs..

2011-06-26T01:16:00.000-07:00

After a long eight hour wait in the hospital I finally marched into the room and had a chat with the doc, eventually leading to the packing of my nostrils with thick gauze... nothing strange about that, that's what I was thinking until he explained what the gauze was "laced" with...

Did you know that Cocaine is used medically? if not you're not the only one... apparently they use 4% cocaine specifically to constrict the blood vessels in situations like mine, where you have a never ending nosebleed and need it to heal cleanly... so for the first time in my life I had an "illegal drug" in my system only to find out it's allowed if it's a doc administering it...

Makes me start to wonder, what happens with the rest of it? I’m sure it doesn't go in the trash upon expiration (if one exists) I’m under the assumption it gets used ;) but you know what they say about assumptions...

If it isn’t obvious already I don’t know a thing on this subject but I was still surprised

The Path Less Traveled

2011-05-30T16:21:00.001-07:00

“The path less traveled is a path that has been set; to be unique one must make their own path and venture into the unknown.”

-Me

The Dating Game

2011-05-27T14:56:00.000-07:00

Head games... designed to leave the other second guessing the user’s motives... come on people head games are good for only two things, being on top in a relationship and confusion.

Through head games you create confusion in the your and it makes them second guess everything. Some questions that might come to mind are "Does he/she not like me?" "Do they dislike talking to me?" which inevitably makes them start to “move on”

These can be easily created with women and their annoying habit of texting last. Their refusals to do it first, they all must reply and can never start a conversation which will make the guy think "she’s not interested". Men with their idiotic "I’m not interested" attitude, all that's really good for is to make other women feel unwanted.

If it’s about being on top, isn't a relationship meant specifically for opening up to your significant other? Does it really matter who is on top? A real relationship is a shared experience; no leaders! only partners, would you risk a possibility of a lifetime of happiness just so you could be on top? I wouldn't...

So what are these really good for other than confusion?

Tell me with these glaring issues why are head games even used in todays "Dating Game"?

Harmful Dose of Alcohol

2011-05-25T09:29:00.000-07:00

Do you ever get that sensation of undiluted rage pouring into each and every pore on your body, streaming through your inner pathways, and flooding your every mental chamber?...

All simultaneously preaching to you to let your instincts fly in whatever direction your heart intends. During which all your, unexpectedly chatty and overly worked, muscle can say is... do the right thing? Be the nice person you know you are? Keep it to yourself it’s not worth drama? Pretend you don’t know?

Then you have the other little feeling coming from your right side attempting to force you to give in to temptation, feeding your ideas and motives. Just arguing with everything it can muster, about what to do and screaming to… Ask everything that comes to mind! Do everything whispered into your ear! Break every filter you have ever set on yourself! And most of all cross every line you have ever assured yourself you would never and/or could never cross...

As both of these voices battle it out for top spot you have a third voice coming from the left side telling you why you feel this way and where these ideas came from, each more crazy then the last… who would ever think someone can be too kind? Maybe it can be annoying? Maybe they sense hidden motives in everything you do? Or maybe you are just too cocky and talk too much?

Funny how this all crosses your mind in an instant almost like it’s hardwired into ones very core. During these frantic moments of intense... let’s call it creativity... you have that one original instinct to either call it quits and give up or stand up and take it. During these moments that your true self is so flooded, you end up listening to one of these three to five voices instead of the all-powerful voice in your head… which would almost definitely say “it’s better to live on your feet than to die on your knees”

The Worst and/or best part about these voices is that the only way to shut them up and loosen up a little is with a harmful dose of alcohol and in this world these voices are constantly bottled inside or thrown into any of the thousands of bottles located at the nearest liquor store.

...but to answer this overly thought out, dragged out, and huge waste of time... No that has never crossed my mind… but the real question is which voice would/do you listen to? The answer to that question is what defines who you are!