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.
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
Hello.
It's been too long since I posted anything and I've lost the knack of starting a post with a load of bullshit so I'm just going to post pictures and tell you what they are etc... (Don't forget to right-click > new tab if you want to see the images in full resolution)
I decided to add a lightsaber to my graduation photo and it received a massive amount of positive feedback on Facebook (I graduated last year with a 2:1 with hons in Computer Games Design):
Then my friend Dan of Toxic Games (creators of Q.U.B.E) asked me to do one for him! I'm in the Q.U.B.E credits as a tester! My first credit in a game :) It's a great game and you should definitely check it out. You can find it on Steam and loads of other places.
Similar stuff again here although a lot more recent. A friend asked me to Star Wars up some photos of his brother and nephew, both of whom love the films, so here they are. I'm very happy with how they turned out and they are probably some of my best photo manipulating in Photoshop so far:
Jack
and Jamie
Next up is an image I have only finished tonight. It's a Photoshop painting of an angry parrot, created as a promotional image for my friend Steve aka Phrazer for his soon to be released track 'Angry Parrot'. Visit his Soundcloud and listen now!
This last picture is a WIP of a creepy Mario drawing I am slowly doing. I made the mistake of posting it on Facebook as it is here and got some really positive feedback meaning that I decided it was good enough like this. I really want to finish it though:
In other artwork related news I had my first potentially paid commission for a website header but it fell through and they used their own design. I was very happy with the work I did and it showed progression in my design skills but I won't be posting the work on here as it might act as promotion for their website and basically fuck that. I learnt quite a bit from the experience though which is great!
Finally my two housemates (Pete and Ollie) and I have been playing a lot of multiplayer Minecraft on the Exiled Gaming server and have made some really cool stuff. We have set up a Youtube channel for videos of our adventures on the servers as well as some up-and-coming building instruction videos by me.
Here's our first video. I'm blocodile and I don't have a mic (subscribe, like, comment, share etc):
Hope you like what I've had to show. Hopefully Blogodile droppings will become more frequent again soon. Please like, follow, comment and all that stuff if you feel like helping me out :)
