Merry Christmas!

Warning, it’s a bit disturbing. And hilarious.

I have been oddly busy these last few weeks. Combinations of school work and commissioned stuff. Been wanting to work on secret projects but haven’t had the chance. Managed to clear everything non-school related yesterday though. Now I just need to make a comic today and then I can go on to other things.

Character rigging class started two weeks ago. Was supposed to have 2 robot things done by last friday. Thanks to another deadline with another class only a few people actually had something done. So now I need to have them done by next friday. Pretty sure that sucks up most of my free time for that week. Have to make one human like and one that is structurally different from a human.

I was thinking of putting together a small video that shows stuff I’ve been doing in school. But since wont be doing any character animations yet, might leave that for later. And I have a habit of never really finishing school work anyways (you know, I just prove to myself I know how to do it and then put something in the return folder to pass the course), wouldn’t put any of it in my portfolio.

Next weekend I go home from this student apartment for the holidays. They have a crappy screen there so I wont be drawing anything.

EVE is getting skin-tight rubber suits.

Screens of the eve expansion that has the fabled ambulation feature.

Morr says: http://images.eurogamer.net/assets/articles//a/3/1/2/5/0/5/WiS_screen_16.jpg.jpg
Morr says: cant have future bar without skintight rubber suits!
bram says: wut
Morr says: its the eve expansion
bram says: oww shit
bram says: i have a male character
Morr says: me too

bram says: so when was it coming
bram says: somewhere next year?
Morr says: march
Morr says: they said
bram says: yeah + the default period of WE MADE A WHHOOPSIES ITS GONNA BE ANOTHER MONTH OR THREE

(I should write all my blog entries by just pasting random msn conversations. It’d be so easy.)

The bar looks stupidly dark for somereason, but other than that should be fun. I don’t play EVE much, but still like it.

blarg, I’m a zombie

Left 4 dead.

Not worth the 50 bucks. Either get 3 friends to get the discounted price or wait for prices to drop. You dont have to get it right now… this is a game that will be played for a long time to come. Would strongly suggest not to get a xbox version of the game because it seems only way it’s worth the money (other than that I’m biased towards keyboard+mouse controls) is if you have access to the million player-made maps/mods/content to come. There is 4 maps, out of whics few overlap. And if you played the demo you saw all the weapons. There is really a small amount of content on any sort of a scale. It is designed to be replayed ALOT. Masterfully designed to be replayed alot I might add. But still.

Other than that… Quite fun. Quite alot of fun indeed. They do the “you have to work as a team” part really, really well. You never feel like leaving the group. You need the group. You simply cannot survive without the group. I played sven coop in the past and thougth to myself “this is such a great idea for a game”… Left 4 dead seems like the first real commercial version of that idea… Improving on alot of things. I’m sure there will be many more to come.

There is no singleplayer in this game. I mean, it is there, but this whole game was built as a multiplayer game. Playing with the bots is absolutely nowhere near the experience of playing with humans. There is no story in the game so… seriously, play it in multiplayer.

I have yet to try the versus mode. I am generally not a big fan of versus modes because I have gotten old and now only play games to relax and not to compete. But I expect it to offer atleast as much gameplay as the campaing mode.

So in conclusion. I do recommend the game… when it gets cheaper.

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In other news: I seem to have begun thinking like a marketing person. Putting a dollar sign on everything. And for a long time I have tried to steer myself away from adveritings and marketing (afterall it’s one of the most likely jobs I might get after learning 3d graphics in finland)… it is actually one of the areas I’m most interested in. I enjoy manipulating people. Thinking of ways to manipulate people is a hobby of mine. A skill needed in marketing for people. This worries me.

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We have a TGSA group on steam where you can find me, if you wanna play sometime. I don’t play much, but might accept the random invitation.

Demons!

ahahahaa…

We learned new things in school today.

Random gaming things.

Crysis Warhead.

Liked it. It’s alot more fast-paced than the original and seems to have a better focus. And Damn some of the levels are amazing. Some random screen.

I’m also still playing Dwarf Fortress. I started building a fortress above the ground for the heck of it. Then I lost about 15 dwarves when I forgot to tell the ballista to stop firing. Later a goblin siege took everyone out. Good times. Large early shot of the castle.

In other news. Still haven’t fixed my xbox. It’s been like 3 months now, heh.

Also World of Goo was released to pre-orderers. “The game will be released to everyone on Monday, October 13, but we are sending it to you a bit early as a small thank you for pre-ordering”. You should buy it.

Kone

blarr blarr

Schoolwork. This is… we had to do a scene where a camera moves. We were learning how to fake things and … things. I started with a city, but scrapped that idea half way through and didn’t exactly finish this new one… But hey! Use for my blog.

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The Forum

Story time!

I once came up witha random comic idea.

It was about a planet that was covered in science equipment. So much that the planet was like 30% machine. The planet was sort of a central hub for alot of things for the various colonies of the human race. It had a ruler who had great plans for the planet. After a while though he started to hate the place and the people in it. He stopped caring and the planet was left to rot, forgotten.

The story was about a guy who crashlands on this planet and fights the evil robots or something with some people who still live on the planet.

It was actually based on the gotmorr forums that always depressed me. I was gonna do it basically in secret, never telling anyone about it (I mean, I was gonna put it online, just never point anyone to it.) and as such I was just playing with lots of fun ideas for it. It was very much a Blame! ripoff.

Later the idea evolved into something else and was eventually discarded completely.

Dear diary.

The summer passed! School starts on monday. I found that out about a week ago. Thought it would start earlier. If I had known way before, i’d have flown to seattle to attend PAX.

I actually forgot about blastwave. Seriously, just forgot about it. I can’t belive how good that felt. I don’t really know what I am gonna do with it. I mean I still wanna do a movie or short movie based on it, but everytime I think of doing another comic for it my mind just goes blank. I’d like to sort of do it every two weeks again, but everytime I try to think of an idea I just get annoyed. Blarg. I guess it mostly exsists as an animation project in my mind right now. I don’t know.

Here is my school schedule for the fall. Environment modelling, Photography, Picture and interpretation (whatever that is), Environment modelling, TV-Graphics, Character modelling and rigging.

Feels like going on vacation.

On the sweden trip: I went to visit my sister who lives in sweden. I went to stockholm, the capital. There I mostly followed my other sister around to various shops. I bought some shoes.

I’ve been playing lots of Dwarf Fortress. It’s pretty fun. A carp ate half of my dwarf population once.

Sweden!

Tomorrow!

Sitting here in the dark.

Managed to go a week without going outside!

Then I ran out of food.