AudioVineyard

So unfortunately it's been a while since my last post as I haven't done much work on Congo War Child or anything else, but here's something new! I've done a few cartoon illustrations for my good friend Rory's new website AudioVineyard.net. It's a website selling royalty-free music and is amazing and definitely worth a look so go and look. Go on.

Anyway here's the images all put together:

And here's a screenshot of them working on the website:

Really happy to have my work on display in another place online and glad I could help Rory out.

More news soon hopefully, been really busy in work and out but really want to get the ball rolling with my creative work again, especially with CWC.

That's all for now.

BYE  

MCA drawing

 More drawing warm-up. Today I drew MCA from the Beastie Boys who died yesterday. I'm not really a superfan but I've listened to and loved the Beastie Boys since school when I got The Sounds of Science so thought MCA deserved a tribute drawing. It's not as good as I would have liked but I have a lot more drawing to do as I said yesterday so couldn't spend too long on it (it looks better in full screen so click on it):

And here's Rhymin' & Stealin', a classic BB track: 

 I have the DVD of 'Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!' which, if you like music at all, you have to watch.
The concept art I'm doing is coming along nicely so will hopefully be posting some finished art soon.
BYE

March 2012 Update (with added Star Wars)

 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 :) 

 Bye.

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.

16 Bit Lanny

 I've been doing some more work for Lanny. This time he wanted three 16-bit style pictures of himself in Mario, Sonic and Link outfits. I'm not sure what he wants them for, possibly the music Grad Show, but here they are (font is aansa): 

 I'm glad I copied the 8-bit Mario last year to give me a very basic idea of pixel art as drawing with a small amount of pixels is a lot harder than I would have thought. I found you have to really think carefully about what goes into each pixel to make it readable at such a small size and with so few pixels to actually use. Noses are particularly hard it seems. But yeah I think they're ok.  

 In other news I got the new Mortal Kombat which is amazing. I'm not very good at fighting games but I thought the demo for MK was great so bought it. I've played through the story now. It's weirdly done and very very cheesy, like the films, but I think it suits the game and its 90s roots.
 The final boss fight against Shao Kahn is a piece of shit and instead of being a culmination of the rest of the game, where the player uses all the skills they have learnt to beat them, you basically have to cheat and run away. If you fought real people in MK the same way you have to fight Shao Kahn everyone would hate you... I tend to be a lot more critical of things when they're really difficult and take me an hour to beat!
 But the game is great so buy it if you're thinking about it. I've mainly been playing as Sindel. Hurry up and get PSN working Sony!

 That's all. Skyway update coming tomorrow or later probably. Check out and like the Facebook page (link on the right hand side here). Also click the Enormous Blogodile like button at the top of the blog, if you want :)
bye

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 EP ad thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QcZqIUvIQo

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

My image for his christmas track: http://theenormousblogodile.blogspot.com/2010/11/farverxmas.html 

Enjoy. bye.

And now for something completely different.

Here's a kind of old school grime instrumental I made a while ago. I don't really know how good/bad it is or how finished it is.
It's pretty tinny becasue its basically a midi made in Guitar Pro 5 and converted to mp3 online. I didn't realise that by doing this the actual midi sounds change so it sounds quite different and slightly more professional than the original although some of the levels seem to have altered and some of the tracks are really quiet.
Also it's VERY LOUD for some reason.

bye

Guitar Update

Almost finished texturing Kama's guitar. Just need his signature/name to put on the head then I'm ready to rig. While I'm waiting for it I'll probably plan the movement of the balloons and the camera somehow.

You can see the new, more refined colours in the lighting and balloons. I also made the previously black background a very dark green and adjusted the main lights to help the guitar stand out as before it was lost in the backdrop due to its darkness.
Tried to get a shot of the right hand balloons but Maya kept crashing when I tried...

Guitar banner for Kama

I've been working on a website banner for my friend Kama's website to promote his music, gigs and guitar lessons.

Above is a Work In Progress of the Maya model I've been making. The six balloon type things coming from the guitar strings will illustrate the types of music he specialises in: metal, rock, folk, jazz, acoustic and classical.

If all goes to plan the banner will be an animated flyround of the guitar head showing all the balls moving and the music they represent. If animation isn't possible it can be used as a still image.

Next I need to texture the guitar properly, pin down the colours of the balls and rig and animate them so it looks like they're floating around.

Very pleased with the guitar model. Hope he likes it :D

Hopefully have some more stuff from the Caerleon project up soon. BYE.

5 Cool Sampled Songs

Sampled in And I Will by D Double E


Sampled in Out of Space by The Prodigy

Sampled in Watcha Say by Jason Derulo

Sampled in Through the Loop by Pendulum (dunno if it's technically a song but it's one of my favourite films so go away)

Sampled in Hits from the Bong by Cypress Hill

IK WIL MEER

My mate Rory introduced me to Steen a while ago with his performance of 'Haat', with Spinal, on the Dutch rap sessions site 101barz. I've really gotten into his music. Rory suggested that the Dutch language really lends itself to rap and I definitely agree.
I find Steen's sociopathic Sid Vicious persona exciting and believable. It fits seamlessly with his dark rap style known as kadaverrap (dead body rap haha). Spinal is ok but Steen's genuineness overshadows him I reckon.
Steen is the one wearing the black baseball cap who starts second.