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  • Modeling Update

    My plan is to spend some quality time with ZBrush this week to get solid texturing on my character. One problem remains: I don’t have the newest version. Thank goodness for buy-and-download options. Otherwise not much to report on the modeling project, but I didn’t want to leave you hanging. Running D&D tomorrow as well.

  • We’re Hiring a Teacher or Two

    I got permission to post this, so, this is just to say that IADT Detroit, where I work, is looking for a full-time game faculty member.  This is to replace my old job, since I’m now Department Chair, and I need someone to teach all those game classes. View the job posting here. Also if…

  • On Easy Video Games and the Impending Apocalypse

    Are ‘easy mode’ video games putting our entire planet at risk? Video games have had occasionally had easy modes for less-skilled players since the dawn of home console systems. However, a totally scientific study of “just guessing” has shown that the amount of easy games, or even easy modes in what have traditionally been core…

  • The Project I Was Working On

    Now that I’m back and have essayed to death, I’ll post that my 3D model is moving along.  I had a setback, which is typical with a project such as this.  Specifically, I had put the skeleton in the model and gotten it “skinned” for animation, but that particular file has somehow gotten corrupted and won’t…

  • Samus is Slowly Shrinking

    I took this picture at PAX, at the Metroid: Other M booth.  These are models of Samus’s “Zero Suit” and her military uniform as she wears in the game “Other M.”  My initial observation was that they are pretty, but, much too small to be Samus Aran. Samus Aran is a large, tall woman, who…

  • Post-Pax Report

    Been a hectic week around here, so I just now am getting around to posting a PAX report.  Just my personal experiences… Photo-heavy. Click through for the write-up and pictures. Things I saw: Warren Spector’s keynote. Was very excited to hear him speak.  Funnily enough the people behind me in line were just in line…

  • This Weekend I Played Shadow Complex

    I’m going to take a small break from art updates for some likely-unfocused game punditry of my usual variety. I had a little free time this weekend to actually game, and I have a lot of games in my stash that I haven’t actually touched, on pretty much every system in my house. I spent a…

  • Dragonborn Model Status Update

    Despite my optimism, the mesh for my Dragonborn isn’t quite done. Well, the body is done, but I’m still working on the head. No new progress shots because the body was mostly done last time I uploaded, but here’s my current area of focus – the eye: One thing I haven’t liked about other Dragonborn art…

  • I cut my hair

    I cut my hair, so, it was time for a new avatar.  This one comes courtesy of Len Peralta, though it’s not a proper portrait of myself but instead an avatar given out to RiffTrax fans from last night’s viewing of classic film Reefer Madness.  I’m a big fan of MST, Rifftrax by association, and…

  • Progress on Modeling my Dragonborn

    Keeping up with my progress reports on my modeling project! So I continued to model on the base mesh, until I have something that looks like this: Notice it isn’t entirely done yet, as I still have the boots to work on.  They aren’t in my original sketches so I think I will just get…