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.
Just a quick drawing to warm up for the massive amount of drawing I have to do over the next week. As it's May the 4th I decided to do a Star Wars-themed picture so here's Darth Maul (probably the best thing about The Phantom Menace). Might do one every year!
Also my amazing girlfriend bought me a Lego Boba Fett clock (click the Star Wars label at the bottom of this post to see my other Star Wars stuff including a sketch of Boba!):
More stuff coming soon byyyyyyyyeeeeeee and may the force be with you.
We hit 10,000 views last Friday so a massive thanks to everyone who has visited and fed the Blogodile over the years. I think the stat-tracking started in mid-2010 so there are probably some uncounted views but yeah, hopefully the next 10,000 will come quicker!
To celebrate we've given the Blogodile a wash and a make over as you've probably seen so let me know what you think of the new design.
Also decided to leave my Creepy Mario picture as it was (with a couple of adjustments) as it received so much great feedback. I did start adding textures to his clothes but in the end decided it was good enough without so here's the finished piece:
Lanny is hopefully going to get it printed as a poster so I will post a photo of it when he takes one.
Finally here is the completed version of episode 1 of my Lego Minecraft videos:
There's still some stuff that needs changing and adding. I've changed the font of the 'BLOGO' logo on the title card as well as changing the Minecraft text colour. I also want to change the font of the text in the instructions. Any ideas let me know.
In the future I want to do a 3D animation of a Lego-style Minecraft box opening and the instructions and blocks falling out to start the video rather than just a title card. Finally, a friend's idea, I will add a page at the start of the instructions listing all the blocks required for the entire build.
I finally got in gear and decided to finish off one of the two drawings I missed during my 30 days of drawing back in August/September 2010 as it's been bugging me for ages that I didn't finish all 30 days at the time. This is the view from my room in Cardiff as opposed to the original attempt which was the view from my old Newport room. I'm very happy with it, it's fairly simplistic but I think it looks good.
Was thinking about maybe getting it printed on some white T-shirts or black ones if it had a white border in a similar vain to these http://www.supremebeing.com/lo-fi-towers-t-shirt-white/. That was just an idea though.
Only one more to do now and this time I'm going to stick to the original idea and draw my Grandpa.
In other news I've made a Minecraft building instruction video based on the paper Lego instruction manuals. It's just a tester type thing to work out the format etc but here it is:
Please give it a watch and your support with a thumbs up and a comment. I'll hopefully do more in future of the bigger and more exciting buildings I've made in creative mode so watch this space!
Mental note: other things I have to finish are my Emma Watson portrait from ages ago, my Mortal Kombat picture, and my creepy Mario.
BYE
