Skyway Update 9th February 2011

 So last week we finished our pre-production paper work and handed it in and yesterday Ben and Ollie did the  presentation on where we are now with the project. It all went pretty well.

 Here's what I've been up to over the last couple of weeks, Oscar's Rocketcycle.
DON'T FORGET TO CLICK THUMBNAILS FOR THE FULL SIZE IMAGES.
This is the final colour design for Oscar's bike (I think I posted the first colour variants in my last update):

 Here are the texture maps I made for the 3D Maya model. Each one's real size is 2048 x 2048. 

On the left is the original UV map. I had never really unwrapped a model properly so had to learn as I was doing it but, as the model and colour scheme are fairly simple, I was able to use planar mapping for almost all the parts. The rocket was the only part that needed more than one side of mapping.

 The middle is the diffuse (I think) map (the black and white wireframes are transparent), hopefully you can start to what the parts are a bit more easily here.

 Finally is the specular map, which I only recently found out the purpose of. It is basically a grey-scale map that determines the amount that parts reflect light with black being not at all and white being completely and everything in between.     

 This is the 3D model with the UV map applied, roughly showing the wireframe although for some reason some areas seem to have a lot more lines than they should... The model has around 3500 faces (not sure if that equates exactly to polys) which I am pretty pleased with:

 The model with diffuse and specular maps added. Essentially the finished model:

 Here it is in a scene I made (textured by Ollie L) as a kind of mock-up of Skyway's title screen that we used in our presentation:

 That's it for now. Hopefully a lot more actual stuff coming soon as the project gets properly going.
And for fuck sake join our Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Skyway/161571303886228?ref=ts

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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...