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Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
I am Ollie Elliott. I studied BA Computer Games Design and got a 2.1 with honours at Newport University. I'm from sunny Somerset. This is my blog. It's about different things. Go away.

Thursday 27 January 2011

Cats

Lanny asked me to design a front and back cover for his new EP that had to have simple colours on as well as "a weird cat or animal or something" so here they are. There were a few variations of both covers, some of which I preferred over the final ones, but Lanny liked these best so they're what we went for.

The front:

The back:

Yeah so there we are. Amazing really. 
Here's some links:
Lanny's Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/lannyboom (where you can also see my classic drawings "Cat moustache man" as the profile picture and "Man having a poo" next to the track "She's a Conflict Diamond")
and finally
Enjoy. bye.

Wednesday 19 January 2011

Mein Kraften

 I have spent a significant amount of the last couple of days watching a series of videos about the game Minecraft by Yogscast on Youtube. They are very funny on the face of it but also tell a superb and unique story of discovery set in the world of Minecraft as well as introducing the game to people, like me, who aren't/weren't aware of the depth of the game and all it has to offer.
 The videos have already sold the game to Pete and Rich and I think I might be making a purchase soon. It's hard to say much without spoiling both the videos and the game itself so I really recommend watching them. I must have lost about ten hours watching them over the past two days and I'm not close to bored yet.

 Anyways here's the links:
The first series starts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdEFmxRmNE
And the "Survival Island" series starts here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcsN3d7eKgY

 There are more videos after this but it's best to watch them in order otherwise some parts won't make sense. Genuinly impressed and haven't seen any video game commentary (if that is what it is) this good before. It's like a culmination of contemporary media: video games, youtube, podcasts, comedy, tv series and plenty more. Glad it's got so many views and so much positive feedback it's just a shame about all the adverts...

 Enjoy. BYE  

Update: If you're put off by the adverts and using Google Chrome (which you should be) install the AdBlock extension and it will save you a lot of grief.

Monday 10 January 2011

2011

A belated image for the new year (as I actually went out and celebrated this one):

Last year's for those who missed it, unlikely as that may be.
BYE