Group Hug Comic

Rube Goldberg Machine

2009-04-29T21:27:00.000-07:00

Made a Rube Goldberg machine for physics class. Here's a 3d model of part of it. I didn't render the dominoes or mousetraps.
Orthographic and perspective views both there.

Oops!

2009-04-29T10:56:00.000-07:00

I didn't manage to update yesterday, because I was working on a physics project all night.

Here is a weird face to make up for it:

Another update coming tonight!

Woo, a comic

2009-04-27T20:56:00.000-07:00

I'll also be posting this on ThatOneComic.
I might clean it up later.

Got my tablet back

2009-04-26T20:30:00.001-07:00

It's not great, but it's not bad for my first time using a tablet in months.

Walking Animation

2009-04-25T01:08:00.001-07:00

It's not great, but here's a walking animation I made following a tutorial:

I think this is 7 days in a row without missing an update!
But does anyone actually read this?

Eye Tracking

2009-04-24T19:21:00.000-07:00

Eye tracking is pretty easy to do. You just define an object or bone to track, and which axes to use when calculating rotation. Then I had a burst of inspiration, and decided to make the head swivel too. It rotates using the same guidelines, but with influence set to 30% so it doesn't move as much:

These upload a lot faster when I've had a chance to convert them from a ~70mb AVI to a ~130kb WMV. The treasure chest one I posted before was made on a different computer, which didn't have Sony Vegas, so I couldn't convert the file.

Rigging Pretty Much Done

2009-04-23T17:18:00.000-07:00

Rigging is just about done! Some little issues where I messed up the vertex groups a teeny bit. Rendered at 1920x1200 with 6 levels of subsurfing because my computer is that awesome.

20th Post

2009-04-22T08:31:00.000-07:00

Don't have my avi-to-gif converter on this computer, so here's a video:

Should I keep the animation like this or make it open on a hinge?

...Video upload takes a long time!
This is my 20th post, by the way.

I know this post seems odd, but I'm just waiting for the video to finish uploading.
Processing...
Dang this takes a long time. Let's see how much I can write before it finishes.
Um. I keep planning to update ThatOneComic but I never get around to it. I have an idea for a story involving someone who is trying to fail out of school but is unable to. The school is forcing him to pass so he doesn't break their no-dropout record.
This is not going to finish by the time I need to leave. Yup. Gotta go. Oh snap. Finished. Publishing.

Treasure Chest

2009-04-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

Work-in-progress treasure chest made in blender:

Not sure if I want to make it open and close realistically, or have the top pop off.

3d Work

2009-04-20T20:51:00.001-07:00

Working in blender some more. Getting the hang of UV mapping. For some reason, certain squares in the UV map turn out sideways, and i have to do a whole lot of repositioning.

2009-04-13T14:17:00.000-07:00

More vector stuff:

Here you can see what it looked like before I cleaned up the lineart.

Inkscape!

2009-04-12T19:33:00.000-07:00

I've been playing around with Inkscape a bit. I really like how the pictures are turning out, but it takes much longer to make anything than it would in gimp.

Colorinz

2009-04-10T19:16:00.001-07:00

Coloring!
No shading or anything tho

Planet!

2009-03-25T20:10:00.000-07:00

Another planet in GIMP. MUCH better than earlier attempts. Thanks to Queue and Ternal-sempai for the advice.

2 Days in a Row!

2009-03-23T19:37:00.001-07:00

More female drawing practice. Still not perfect. Remake of an old pic I did in 2006. It was called "Flow."

Finally an update

2009-03-22T21:26:00.000-07:00

I shall attempt to update this more often! For now, here's a sketch I did the other day. It's a random female character, because I needed practice drawing female characters:
How can I improve?

I'll try to come up with some comics soon. They'll be less sketchy.

2009-01-18T15:55:00.001-08:00

Guess who totally forgot he had a blog!

Early version of a character for my RPG made in Game Maker 7 Pro. No face/hair yet.

2008-12-10T09:47:00.000-08:00

Another wallpaper.

A Wallpaper

2008-12-09T10:49:00.000-08:00

I made this quick wallpaper in GIMP by playing with flame renders and colorizing If you want to see it in a different resolution, post a comment (current is 1024x768). Feel free to use.

2008-12-06T16:13:00.000-08:00

I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw. I can't think of anything to draw.

Alright. I made a new planet in GIMP. Came out MUCH better:

A few days early...

2008-11-25T14:33:00.001-08:00

It's a few days early, but I felt like posting it anyway.

Pencil Sketch

2008-11-24T20:04:00.000-08:00

Oops! I forgot to update yesterday...

Anyway, here's a sketch I did:

This is the character I use to represent me when I make comics about fantasy RPGs.

It's really hard to color pencil sketches on the computer, but I have no good pens, and I still don't have my tablet back.

Vending Machine Woes

2008-11-22T20:36:00.001-08:00

Writer's Block is not fun. Poor art is because a certain Maximum-Can has my drawing tablet right now.

Planet

2008-11-21T23:02:00.001-08:00

Made this planet in GIMP. Not my best work...

Comic!

2008-11-20T20:01:00.000-08:00

It was either this or a comic about hobos. (click for a bigger view!)

First Post

2008-11-19T17:04:00.000-08:00

Alright, this is my new art blog. I am going to try to update this every day if at all possible. I haven't updated my webcomic in quite a while. I'm frankly bored with it. I'll be posting my random art and comics here, and maybe it will motivate me to start updating my webcomic again.

Anyway, here's some art to start us off:

Experimenting with coloring in GIMP. If i had cleaner lineart this would have came out better, but i started with a pencil drawing.

I get bored easily. Made this to show how easy Final Fantasy style logos are. I forgot to underline the text.

Tomorrow I'll upload a comic or two.