The original idea explorations from earlier this year didn't touch upon the feet's design at all, so I made a couple ideas.
Friday, 30 November 2018
Course final project: cross-over art pt.2
Today I studied through the Sea of Thieves art book and made some notes of the style's general vibe, and what I'm particularly after for in my design.
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Course final project: cross-over art pt.1
Probably should have updated earlier about this, but for our course's final task/project I chose to do a cross-over art piece. My own definition for a cross-over means imagining what person/object/thing X would look/be like if it was in universe/story Y instead of their own. It's a fun little thought exercise that puts the creative muscles to the test when trying to boil down the defining elements of each universe. It makes possible practically an endless amount of scenarios for fan fictions, fan art, et cetera.
So cross-overs could be like "what would happen if the Simpsons were in the Harry Potter universe" (placing the characters in a new universe and imagining how they would behave) or maybe like "what would Marge Simpson look like if she was a wizard in the Harry Potter universe" (imagining how to merge the two visual styles).
For my work, I will try to merge the visual styles of two games by taking a character from Battleborn and putting him into Sea of Thieves, and trying to make it look plausible. The idea came from a friend who earlier this year did this cross-over with her favorite character and it came out great. I meant to do my own and jotted down the basic idea, so now's a good chance to finish what I started.
I used to play a lot of Sea of Thieves when it came out in March 2018 and I love the stylized world it has. Haven't played the game in months now, so my secret weapon is this hefty opus right here:
So cross-overs could be like "what would happen if the Simpsons were in the Harry Potter universe" (placing the characters in a new universe and imagining how they would behave) or maybe like "what would Marge Simpson look like if she was a wizard in the Harry Potter universe" (imagining how to merge the two visual styles).
For my work, I will try to merge the visual styles of two games by taking a character from Battleborn and putting him into Sea of Thieves, and trying to make it look plausible. The idea came from a friend who earlier this year did this cross-over with her favorite character and it came out great. I meant to do my own and jotted down the basic idea, so now's a good chance to finish what I started.
I used to play a lot of Sea of Thieves when it came out in March 2018 and I love the stylized world it has. Haven't played the game in months now, so my secret weapon is this hefty opus right here:
The perfect style guide! I will need it to study the ship and weaponry details up close because the character I will be re-imagining in Sea of Thieves' world is a big ol' metal boy, quite fancy and deadly looking robot with more than enough guns under his hood.
(Happy looking chap, ain't he?
The idea I got was to make him look like a haunted shipwreck with cannons and guns attached. The notes I did earlier this year have the basics down, it's just a matter of chipping down an assload of details, and for that I need to bury my nose into the art book.
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
I read a whole book and I liked it!
[I aimed to keep this review-let spoiler free, but it's up to you how much/little you prefer to know before checking it out yourself]
During my recovery from a surgery I read a book from Becky Chambers, which is maybe a little bit unusual to me. I'm not a very good reader because I can't focus on the text as well I can on pictures; it needs to be a really intriguing piece of text for me to properly read it. It's a shame, really, because I like the idea of books; you're entering some other person's mindspace through them, and they can teach you a lot. That's not what meant to ramble about but anyway.
The book I read is called The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and is the first science fiction novel in the series from this author. I stumbled across this author's works last summer when I by accident bought the second book in a 3-for-2 deal. I didn't read it then, but deemed it was interesting enough so I also got the first book later.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, or "TKWSAP" (?) with its bare-bones settings seemed hilarious to me; judging only the fact that it's a scifi book which implies spacetravel, I was amused by the idea that maybe some alien race is making their way to Earth only to find a species of grumpy little things. While the expression "Angry Planet" still holds true in the book, it was not Earth they journey towards.
The story focuses on a small patchwork crew who work on an equally patchworked spacecraft meant for creating wormhole tunnels for travelling quickly through the cosmos. The crew is a mishmash of various alien species, each with unique traits, racial history and customs, and during their "Long Way" to the place where they need to be to do their job, they also meet other alien life forms, and this was personally the reason why I liked the book so much -- the richness of other sapient species in the story. The sense of adventure and the thrill of the unknown, not knowing just what kind of creatures you will meet next. The book's tone was cheerful and hopeful and majority of the species were friendly, and it was just so enjoyable to indulge in a crazy story of how no matter where you were in the universe, you always had friends around. Especially true for the crew; as the story went on, each of the crew members got to tell their background and why are they like they are as a species and/or as a person, and it was such a curious and intriguing thing to learn about.
Yet, here I think was also the book's weakest link; many of the alien species seemed perhaps too similar to the human psyche and it may have gotten a little numb at some point. Still interesting, but I feel there was potential for wackier and more imaginative alien life forms. Another thing that somewhat hindered my enjoyment of the book was the fact just reading the back cover of the second book ahead of time was enough to spoil me a bit.
I know the plottwist at the end was meant to tug your heartstrings, but personally it hit me pretty hard. The twist put forth a chain of events that I'm curious to see how they have developed in the second book, so hopefully some good came out of it.
I really enjoyed reading this book and not just because I had to lie in bed and had nothing else to do. I was always looking forward to opening the book and I was practically devouring the story. During the big climax scene I was pretty much unable to put the book away, super-glued to the text, and I love when that happens because it's so rare to me.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet gets a solid 4.5 out of 5 from me. I recommend looking this up if you like smart and whimsical scifi! Very fresh stuff!
During my recovery from a surgery I read a book from Becky Chambers, which is maybe a little bit unusual to me. I'm not a very good reader because I can't focus on the text as well I can on pictures; it needs to be a really intriguing piece of text for me to properly read it. It's a shame, really, because I like the idea of books; you're entering some other person's mindspace through them, and they can teach you a lot. That's not what meant to ramble about but anyway.
The book I read is called The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and is the first science fiction novel in the series from this author. I stumbled across this author's works last summer when I by accident bought the second book in a 3-for-2 deal. I didn't read it then, but deemed it was interesting enough so I also got the first book later.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, or "TKWSAP" (?) with its bare-bones settings seemed hilarious to me; judging only the fact that it's a scifi book which implies spacetravel, I was amused by the idea that maybe some alien race is making their way to Earth only to find a species of grumpy little things. While the expression "Angry Planet" still holds true in the book, it was not Earth they journey towards.
The story focuses on a small patchwork crew who work on an equally patchworked spacecraft meant for creating wormhole tunnels for travelling quickly through the cosmos. The crew is a mishmash of various alien species, each with unique traits, racial history and customs, and during their "Long Way" to the place where they need to be to do their job, they also meet other alien life forms, and this was personally the reason why I liked the book so much -- the richness of other sapient species in the story. The sense of adventure and the thrill of the unknown, not knowing just what kind of creatures you will meet next. The book's tone was cheerful and hopeful and majority of the species were friendly, and it was just so enjoyable to indulge in a crazy story of how no matter where you were in the universe, you always had friends around. Especially true for the crew; as the story went on, each of the crew members got to tell their background and why are they like they are as a species and/or as a person, and it was such a curious and intriguing thing to learn about.
Yet, here I think was also the book's weakest link; many of the alien species seemed perhaps too similar to the human psyche and it may have gotten a little numb at some point. Still interesting, but I feel there was potential for wackier and more imaginative alien life forms. Another thing that somewhat hindered my enjoyment of the book was the fact just reading the back cover of the second book ahead of time was enough to spoil me a bit.
I know the plottwist at the end was meant to tug your heartstrings, but personally it hit me pretty hard. The twist put forth a chain of events that I'm curious to see how they have developed in the second book, so hopefully some good came out of it.
I really enjoyed reading this book and not just because I had to lie in bed and had nothing else to do. I was always looking forward to opening the book and I was practically devouring the story. During the big climax scene I was pretty much unable to put the book away, super-glued to the text, and I love when that happens because it's so rare to me.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet gets a solid 4.5 out of 5 from me. I recommend looking this up if you like smart and whimsical scifi! Very fresh stuff!
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Socially acceptable stalking
So I chose this one university teacher to be the target that I observe on social media, and when I went to see their latest blog update, I was very confused about the way they greeted their readers this time!
Chairs? Normally this person greets with something like "realists" or "meme-crunchers" which usually refers to the topic they discuss in their post, but in this one they never talk about chairs. It made sense only when I saw the time this was posted at.
4:34 AM is when you should be asleep.
Thursday, 8 November 2018
"What's happening?"
The long and the short of using Twitter is knowing what's up in real time from the trending tags.
This is depressing.
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