Rounding off March.

March, the month where it snowed and my neighbours still left the front door open on the flats where I live.  I'm convinced that humanity is really just composed of people who're full of self interest.

The art I pushed onwards with this month was:-
The screen to the game I'm making, though I'm still not sure of the name...  I was thinking "The Ice-shaper" but the more I look at the picture, well the less I feel that I should be trying to change it to fit the title of the story, even though I haven't really got much of an idea of the overall story, beyond a few basics that is.

This is the start screen:-

Which I started the other week, testing google hang-outs. :)

Well I'm stuck with it at the moment, because I can't work out what I need to do to improve it.  I'm not that good an artist.  It's supposed to be a foggy snow scene, with the mystery figure, who will probably be the one to blame for all the bad stuff happening in the game...

I worked on some 3D stuff too, and spent a few days tearing my hair out, as it was better than head-butting the monitor.  It's supposed to be for the untimely death screen of the game, with game over in it's middle.  I was trying to run a physics simulation on it though, with trying to get coins to fall correctly, so I had a small pile of treasure, plus the basic items, but it took over 26 hours and was still going. I reallllly need a better PC.

It's an attempted remodelling and render of a scene I created back in the day for someone else's game, with truespace 4.3.  The package I use today is Daz Carrara, though I'm kindof ashamed to admit that to most people as it really is a 'lower end' piece of software that only poor people use... But yeah, I'm poor :(.

The old version (made in truespace) is here:- deviantart.

I've been doing other things too, but most aren't huge or wonderful. Like making a banner to link to my deviantart account, for forum signatures and whatnot:

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I've done little things mostly, watched videos on how to be someone who's actually good at art, and then the big project was the game.. I've had RPGMaker VX ACE for just over a month now, and don't feel like I've produced a whole lot with it.  That's detailed in my other blog though, relating to game art.

That's the round-up done for March, hopefully I'll have some new stuff to post here soon this month.

Art gaming

New day or late evening of a new day, yes, that's it.

So what I've been doing lately is, apart from procrastinating, working on the new prospect provided by my purchase of:-





Yes, I've entered the world dominated by Jrpgs, that is Japanese Role-Playing Games. Though my opinion that they aren't really much of anything to do with roleplaying aside, this could well be the way forwards for me, as there are many groups seeking commercial standard team members and so here I am, with stylus and tablet at the ready, putting together a bit of a portfolio.

I'm going to start this with doing artworks for opening screens, character art, and also even sprites and such.  I think it's more commercially promising than anything else I've been trying so far.

So wish me luck, for what it's worth, heh.

I'm also going to attempt a project of my own, for the ol' portfolio, as a sample of what I can do with my brain and my fingers, with maybe an eye or two thrown into the mix, and also some other organs perhaps...

My starting point is just posting on the forums, so that people get used to me.  So after I've made a bit of a nuisance of myself now, I'm going to attempt some art challenges on there, the first of which is to attempt this:-
http://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?/topic/6655-the-daily-sketch-thread/

The 25 minute result:-