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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.

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

Thursday, 23 December 2010

MISFITS

 The finished group. Make sure you click on it to see it full size:

 Pleased with it. A couple of people have mentioned buying prints so if you're interested or know where to get art printed let me know in the comments.
Thanks to LoveTextures for the background texture and Junkohanhero on DaFont for.. well.. da font.
BYE

Nathan

Group pic up soon bye

Wednesday, 22 December 2010

yoo fink yoo can dick araan wiv ooss...

 Finished Kelly and Alisha:


Learning a lot from drawing them :) Nathan later then I'll have finished BYE

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

Simon

 Bit concerned about the difference in style to Curtis but we'll have to see what they all look like together:

I've started Kelly now and she's looking good if I do say so myself. More laterz bye

Monday, 20 December 2010

Pictures

 Here are some pictures by me.
This is a picture of a spaceman/octopus I did a couple of weeks ago. He's feeling a bit left out, maybe because part of him is: 

And this is a drawing of Curtis from Misfits. I'm going to try and draw the whole team:

More soon now I'm home for Christmas. Bye...

Friday, 17 December 2010

Craig's Direct Line Viral Phone

 Tuesday and Thursday this week I have been doing some 3D modelling for my mate Craig. He is doing Advertising Design and making a Direct Line Youtube viral ad for a project.
 I modelled the iconic red phone while Sooth Efricon Craig modelled the more recent red mouse (with some help from me :D) and is going to do the animation.
 Anyway here are some renders of the model. It's not very economical with polygons but otherwise I'm very pleased with it:






 Let me know what you think. OK. Thanks. bye

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Find us on Facebook...

 We now have a public Facebook page for people to follow the progress of SkyWay.
So like it and join us on our journey :D
 Also there will be a new widget on the Blogodile for SkyWay's Facebook escapades. And we are working on getting an IndieDB page on the go as well.

That's all for now
Goodbye