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Yea I posted this on my website I ♥ lazers, but I thought it might be worth sharing here with all you Dtoiders. CTZ randomly asked me to draw him as Wolverine with adamantium body hair instead of claws....yea he's a special guy....I mean, I love uuuuuu! read more
This doesn't have much to do with gaming per say, but I thought it was noteworthy anyway. On Saturday night I attended the Star Wars trilogy screening, which was a special last-minute addition to the Siggraph Spark VFX Festival, here in Vancouver. Lucky for me, non other than Dennis Muren was there to introduce the films! I was able to meet him, get my picture taken with him and get him to sign my lightsabre. Yea, I'm a huge geek, but you already knew that right?
I've included some video footage of Dennis Muren's introduction to the films, where he talks about what it was like working on Star Wars, enjoy!
I've got something in my front pocket for you.
Why don't you reach down in my pocket and see what it is?
Then grab onto it, it's just for you.
Give a little squeeze and say: "How do you do?"
There's something in my front pocket...
There's something in my front pocket...
There's something in my front pocket! read more
Hey guys, so i was bored at work today, not too much to composite, so I put this little scene together. I'm not sure how it's going to look in teeny-tiny youtube size, since I made it in HD, but that's what ya get!
If you can spot the Dtoid reference, you get a gold star!
Yeaa. So time for another comic. Sorry it took so long to get this one out the door, I hate my scanner so much and desperately need a tablet and work has been crazy busy! If anybody knows where I can get a good deal on a Cintiq, I would love you forever.
Anyway, the comic is really Azin Joe's idea...we kinda worked on it together. So complain to him if you hate the way you look in the comic! He also picked who was in the comic, so if you feel left out, I'll try to get you in there next time :) I've blurred out the ending in the thumbnail, so just click on the image to see the full size dealio :)
This comic randomly came into my head a couple days ago, yea...I'm weird like that.
A big shout out goes to Dan Paladin for the inspiration, and it was so awesome to party with you at PAX! I'm sure your guys are working super hard to fix the online stuff, don't worry I LOVE your game so much!
Click on the thumbnail below to see the full comic.
I will warn you now, this blog contains sappy and heart wrenching content! You've been warned!
PAX is one of those things that can't be explained or described...you just have to experience it for yourself. I'm not exaggerating when I say that this was the best time I have ever had in my life! Let's see...gaming, sexy ladies, drinking, ass grabbing, concerts, more drinking, tonnes of sex?! Ya...best time evar! Honestly, next year I could just forgo buying a PAX ticket and just drink with you guys all weekend, because that's pretty much all we did!
Meeting all of you for the first time was amazing. It was like seeing an old friend that you hadn't seen in like 15 years; everything was very familiar but at the same time was so new. After the first day of meeting like 40 of you my head was spinning! It was just so much to take in. Honestly I was super nervous to meet people at first. but that all went away....oh, and the drinking helped that too.
Our home base was the Red Lion, we pretty much lived in that bar. All of you beautiful people just took the place over day and night! We would stay up till 3, 4, 5am just drinking, talking, lighting each other on fire...you know ;)
Oh yea...this was a special moment! Necros, you were crazy! This is my favourite picture ever!! I loved how the makeup was hurting you all day after we took it off...your poor nose!
CBM guys and gals...I <3 you all! Not surprisingly, you are all just as cool in person as you are online (and cute)! E-mailers may come and go, but you will always have my heart (I know...really sappy, yea yea!)
Neiro, thank gawd you made this amazing place called Dtoid a reality. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have met you and all of these fabulous people. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving us the time of our lives.
All the Dtoiders PAX: You freakin complete me!! And Liz says hi...she erm..completes me too ;) read more
Yes, you heard correctly. Some game studio called "IG Fun" has started development on this title. The video above isn't footage of the Bioshock game, but this other game they are working on called Re-Volt. I'm sure it will be a similar engine to the one used for the game, since the iPhone probably can't handle anything close to the complexity of the real Bioshock engine.
You can get the whole story here and here's a quick taste:
The real questions are over controls (will the game be intuitive to play on a mobile keypad?) and on whether IG Fun can successfully translate the original's atmosphere to the small screen.
It's way too early to tell that from this demo. But from what I could see, IG Fun is certainly pulling out all the stops. And the iPhone version could be even better.
What do you guys think? Will they totally ruin the Bioshock franchise with this game, or has the sequel already done enough?
As most of you have heard in Hoygeit's post here, there is this really cool new program for your DS with Photoshop-like functionality!
Here's a link to the program it's called "Colors". You need a modded out DS, so a SuperCard DS or something similar should do the trick.
Anyway, here's what I did for my first drawing...Hoygeit said I should do Poison so I did.
I think it turned out ok...the resolution is hard to deal with sometimes, so you can only zoom in to 4X, so it turned out scratchier than I wanted it to be.
Hoygeit says he will be painting something similar too...so look for that!! read more
Who is this DJ? I'm not really a DJ at all actually. If you really want to know just ask me...its a long story. I'm a Canadian gamer who reads and writes about video games just as much as I play them. I am just as hyped on the industry as I am on playing the games.
What games do I like? Yea, I play pretty much everything and anything.
Music is another awesome thing in my life, I've been a part of a lot of cool projects. Right now I'm just playing guitar casually on my own time, but maybe one day I'll be a huge rock star, who knows! (yea right) I've been taking lessons on guitar for about half a year, but I'm pretty pro on the drums...played for about 8 years.
Also I work as an animator in the animation industry, which is another kick-ass thing I'm passionate about.
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