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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.

Monday, 19 September 2011

Ken ya till what it is yit?

 Just a sneaky peek of what I'm doing when I should be finishing the Mortal Kombat picture. It's a pretty big task this time and this is only early work, maybe you can guess what it is: 



Done in painter using oils. 
Keep them peeled. Bye.

Thursday, 15 September 2011

WRC Competition

 I entered this competition. Not expecting anything to come of it really. If I win the prize won't mean much to me either as I'll be living in Cardiff anyway but yeah the other parts are cool and the runners up win power tools which my Dad will love!
 I submitted it last night before getting any feedback from people but had some good pointers afterwards. It's practise with Photoshop anyway and forced me to learn how to do clean cut edges and vector stuff properly so here's my entry:


 Hopefully you can see the Welsh flag theme... or not. I'll do an update if I hear anything back about this. I doubt it'll be for a while anyway.

 When I go to bed I keep telling myself that when I wake up I will spend the next day continuing my Mortal Kombat picture but I just end up playing games. I'm determined to finish it though so more soon...

 I completed Deus Ex 3 on hard on my first playthrough (although I only beat one boss because she glitched). It's a really great game and definitely worth playing, although I doubt I will go through it again, at least for a very long time. One thing I noticed was how conservative the poly count on anything aside from the main characters was. It's still a good looking game though.

 I'm beginning to learn the German national anthem from watching the Formula 1.

 Anyway bye.

P.S. I finally discovered this song and it's too catchy:

 

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Car Wars

 Check this out if you like Star Wars/the environment/cool stuff/Greenpeace/clever branding and marketing.

Basically I barged into this without learning the facts but I don't care.

CLICK HERE TO SAVE THE WORLD VIA STAR WARS


Give it a go.


More drawing soon. I've been busy playing Deus Ex 3 and sorting out moving into a new house but I'm going to get on with it tonight.


BYE


P.s. Here's a picture of Darth Vader I did as one of the first things on my Wacom (Intuos3 A4) about 2 years ago:


Friday, 2 September 2011

Devlin

 Just did this quick drawing as a break from my MK picture. It looks a bit too much like Westwood in the thumbnail but I'm happy with it:


 Check out Devlin's album 'Bud, Sweat and Beers' it's pretty awesome, some really great tracks on it.
Bye.

Thursday, 1 September 2011

Raiden Loses

 Last post I mentioned I was working on an original picture. It's taking quite a while but I hit a checkpoint today so I thought I'd post a snippet of what I've done. Here's two versions lit differently:



 It's Raiden from Mortal Kombat if you couldn't tell. More coming soon.
Feedback wanted as always.
Bye.