Unscanned

Today I discovered a pile of old sketchbooks full of drawings I never got around to scanning in. I decided to take pics of some of the better ones, so they might be preserved digitally in case my house ever burns down (which seems likely when you look at the number of power boards plugged into each other in my study). 

You can click the image for a high-res version.

I thought it was quite interesting to see them this way - you can see the different phases I've been through over time. It's not in exact chronological order, but it's close. Thought I'd share!

Volcano Rush - Explosive New Trailer!

If you thought Michael Bay's trailer for The Run was good, just wait until you see this trailer for my latest games project. It has fast cars and at least 30 explosions. At least...

Song of Storms - Music Box style

My brother gave me a music box kit for my birthday, which allows you to make your own melodies. You punch these little holes in a strip of card paper to make the notes, then pull it through the box with a little crank to play it... Which made me a balding musician with a crank-powered musical contraption...

Sort of like this guy. (err, nevermind... The clip has been removed from Youtube.)

At least, that's the first song that came to mind when thinking of something to make for it. So here it is - my first experiment with a music box - The Song of Storms, from Ocarina of Time. I swear it started raining as soon as I was done making this.

Hope you like it! There'll be more coming soon.

Being Sirious.

I am very disappoint.

You know what's disappointing? Waiting for months out of contract with a dying old phone, only to find that the "killer device" you've been waiting on is little more than a minor update to last year's tech - and that the competition already released a more powerful phone half a year ago.

Ironically the coolest feature of the device is a piece of software called Siri - but it's also the one that will make you look like the biggest tool as you argue with it over when to schedule your meetings.

Apple, you had a chance to win me over and you blew it, man.

A Blog Post Named Harry

Once upon a time I wrote a short story. It was the result of sitting at the computer and forcing myself to write some filler content for a magazine I was designing, as part of my uni homework at the time.

Well, recently I've had the honour of seeing this story published in a real, actual magazine - a local publication produced by Underground Writers. The story, titled A Dime Named Harry, appears in Issue 7 of Underground, alongside a bunch of other great little samples of prose that I thoroughly recommend checking out!

2b || !2b

I did this one up in some downtime the other week. 

All thine base art belongeth to Shakespeare.

It was a t-shirt idea I've had floating around in my head since I first learned OOP boolean logic back in '05. The problem, of course, is that it only really appeals to programmers with an interest in fine literature and old-school graphics.

It's kind of a niche market.

Doom.

*not an actual shirt... yet.

This is a remake of my sort of internet famous design from 2005. I'd love to get this printed as a shirt, but Threadless didn't accept the submission due to the text (or something), and I never really got around to trying elsewhere... So I figured I'd just share it here instead.

Balls

"Balls" was an OpenGL / C programming project done last semester as part of my study. I worked with fellow student Joel Stewart to produce our first ever experiment in graphics programming, collision detection and physics simulation. I handled the display routine along with the base physics (gravity, object-world collisions and the attraction mechanic) whilst Joel tackled the object-object collision detection and texture loading.

Together we produced something I'm rather proud of.

Viva lo Resolution!

I put pixel Che together for a threadless submission a while back, though it never saw the light of day as an actual, printed shirt. I'm thinking of resubmitting with this version - placing the punchline right next to the main graphic (on the chest) as opposed to being on the back of the shirt. Would love to hear your thoughts - is this something you'd want to wear?

Toying with the idea of the Commie emblem on the sleeve.

Against a Blood Red Sky

This animation was created as the final project for a 3D graphics unit I did last year. We weren't taught how to texture our models or how to properly set up lighting (or a whole bunch of other important things - thanks to the terrible, terrible lecturer we had), but once I got over the initial frustration I experimented with turning those very limitations into my style for the project; this was the result.