Knight In Shining Leather

Dingwall Guitar

2012-02-12T21:57:00.001-08:00

Dingwall is a phonominal guitar/bass shop in Canada. They are mostly known for the gorgeous bass collections, and exotic woods. To be quite frank, I'm not a big fan of their guitar selections so I decided create my own mockup based off their bass designs.

It's an 8 string fanned fret guitar

Hipshot tunner/ bridge

Dimarzio D'activators pickups

Ebony fretboard

Buckeye Burl Top

(still thinking of wood but..) Walnut body, and mahogany/ Maple 4 piece neck. (neck thru)

Thinking of contacting them to see how much something like this would cost?

Be sure to check out their website!

http://www.dingwallguitars.com/

Astro Theory

2012-01-09T03:17:00.000-08:00

Part 4.

Inspired by Galileo's sketches and Da Vinci. Just a quick photoshop paint job.

Red Matter

2012-01-04T02:49:00.000-08:00

Part 3 in my 8 part drawing series.

This one is called Red Matter.

Chromosomes

2012-01-02T00:05:00.001-08:00

Next Painting in my awesome series of this project I'm working on. =D

Worm Gate

2011-12-31T18:26:00.000-08:00

Latest project! Little somethin-somethin I did for fun in 3Ds max and Photoshop.

Enjoy!

Bow chicka bow wooww

2011-08-20T11:29:00.000-07:00

Okay for those that don't know this, aside from being a professional artist.. I'm also a pretty hardcore musician! Check out some of the stuff I've collected over the years!

*In photo*

Ibanez 2228 (8 string guitar)

Fractal Audio- Axe Fx Ultra

Peavey 6505+ w/ custom metal grill

4x12 Orange cab w/ original vintage 30s

4x12 Egnater vintage 30s speakers (friends cab)

I also own a Fractal audio MFC 101 midi controller pedal for my Axe Fx Ultra. Other then that just working on a few more things. But over all.. I've spend thousands of dollars worth of stuff here.

Yeah, tiny hobby of mines. haha

Holy smokes

2011-08-15T15:03:00.000-07:00

Hiya Everyone!

Man, it's been a while. Last time I posted was on January. A ton of things have been going on this year! I've been fortunate to be a part of projects, I'm still working at T1 gaming, I've lost a lot of people that meant a lot to me (RIP Alex
), but I've also gained just as much! I've traveled a bit, and I've also met quite a number of famous people (From amazing guitar player Greg Howe to presidential candidate Ron Paul)! Over all I've experienced a number of things that I wouldn't trade for anything!

I hope all has been well for everyone. The only update I wish to leave you now with, is that I'm starting a mammoth project... which I will hopefully reveal by next year. I'll try to post some more stuff later.

Take care everyone! :)
~A

(Me with Greg Howe) Legendary guitar player for Michael Jackson. Solo artist.

2011 Update (Jim Rivers Presentation)

2011-01-27T21:14:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone! Hope everyone had a great New Years!

Things have been going well so far this year. I'm still working with T1 Gaming, and I completed this epic poster I built for one of their slot games called "Dragon's Gem" and a couple other ones but this one was my favorite!

Earlier today we had a guy named Jim Rivers from Obsidian games come in at AI to give an excellent presentation on what he looks for when he hires people to work for them.

Some of the things that he went over were...

-Things to write in Cover Letters
Passion for what you do, don't be a fan boy, research the company, be confident, and show what you can bring to the team.

-Resumes
He prefers functional Resume's over chronological, make your resume match the company your sending it too, keep it less then a page, DOC or PDF only, Spell check like a mother #$#@er!, Have a link on your resume, and keep it updated frequently!!!

-Business Cards
Keep it professional, What are you?, and if you have it.. Use it!!!!

-Websites
Label what you are (artist, programmer, designer), Links to resume, Show your best work, Split work into categories, links to your friends, and Keep your work organized.

-Networking
Hello goes a long way, use your existing ties, association, and Volunteer

-Conventions
Prepare and Research (do your homework before), and Supply yourself! (Cell phone, money, shower, gum, pen.. etc...)

-The interview
Take a shower, Be on time and be prepared, Listen then answer, be excited, get the business cards, and be professional.

Thanks again for your visit Mr. Rivers!!!

Naga (Game Model)

2010-12-21T22:34:00.001-08:00

Good day everyone! I've completed this model a while back but forgot to post it up on this blog.

I posted up a small tutorial up on the hotsaucegang blog where I give you some tips on texturing!

You can check it out here!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!

Frankie's Weapon of Choice

2010-12-20T21:49:00.000-08:00

Once again, I did another painting for my friend. If you haven't guessed it yet she's a musician! What I did was a combination of both 3D studio max and digital paint with photoshop.

Have a good day!

PS. Buy a silver coin and crash JP Morgan!! Destroy the financial terrorists!!

Trains!

2010-11-17T20:00:00.000-08:00

Back when I was a little kid around 5-6, I used to have a huge obsession with trains. So what I did was I drew and colored trains for my best friends and family. Each train kind of represented what they liked or how their personality was like.

Sooo for my best friends birthday I decided to draw her a train. :) Hope you guys like it!

PS. I totally tried stealing Scala's art style for this. haha

Naga Zbrush model

2010-10-26T20:38:00.001-07:00

Here is a small project for all the WoW nerds out there! More to come! Enjoy!

Sub Surface Scattering

2010-10-20T15:48:00.001-07:00

Hey guys! If you haven't heard I landed a fulltime job at T1 gaming! Just need to finish the backround check and drug test and I'm in!

In the mean time, I've been teaching myself some minor tutorials. The image above is what I came up with.

Here is a cool one on subsurface scattering for 3D studio max.

SubSurfaceScattering3DsMax Link

Here is also a cool website that shows what it does, and how useful it would be to apply it to a 3D enviornement.

SubSurfaceScattering Link

FIG in Game Developer magazine!!!

2010-10-02T19:25:00.001-07:00

HOLY SMOKES!!!! This is absolutely amazing! After the production team ended Mike Scala (our level designer) and Brendon Fitzgerald (our Technical Director) hit it off with someone in game developer magazine. It ended up with us having our very own article in the magazine itself!

It's amazing how all the pain and blood we put into this finally gave us something amazing in return. It truly is a major award for us all. Great work team! Broken mind for life!

~A

Finally over!!

2010-09-24T16:38:00.001-07:00

Thank you for everyone who has helped me through this major chapter in my life! Everyone from the faculty, the students, and my family.

(especially my dad... since I forgot to thank him in my little speech. hehe I Love you dad.)

Also, The portfolio show went very well!! I won best in show! Thank you to all the industry people that stopped by to check out my work. You guys rock!!!!

(My booth and my award!)

Summer 2010 Graduates

2010-09-20T22:11:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone! In case if y'all didn't hear me in the hallways yet, I'm totally passed my reviews!

Here is my final demo reel, with all the fixes they told me to do! Hope you like!

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I wanted to also say congrats to everyone that passed along as well. This was one hell of a quarter! A lot of talented folks graduating this quarter. I can honestly say there is going to be some stiff competition! You guys are very amazing! It's been great being at AI with all of you guys. I wish you all the best!

..and to those who didn't pass yet, don't give up! You've been given a whole new opportunity to work on your amazing work further with less classes from distracting you. You may also have more free time to learn a new program, learn a new art style, work on your life drawing, etc..
Just don't be lazy and take full advantage of it.

The portfolio show is going to be at the Fashion show mall @ 1, and if you wish to come, the walk ceremony is at 5:00! So be there! I highly recommend it to all the new guys too.
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www.Alimination.com
http://minaian.blogspot.com/

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Final Fantasy XIV (beta)

2010-09-11T18:02:00.000-07:00

So I downloaded the new final fantasy beta just to check up on what square has been cooking lately. Back when I was a sophomore in high school, the first final fantasy online game came out. I never really got into mmo's at the time but I got the game because I was a major geek over the whole series (before they butchered it). I have to say that they majorly improved upon the whole thing, but at the same time it has it's major flaws.

Graphics:
- Hand's down this the best looking MMO out now. The graphics compete with some other regular games out in the market. As we all know, since mmos are played with many people at once, the graphics are dumbed down by a lot to improve frame rate.

-Though this is a great looking game, they should have dumbed it down further. I can run Batman Arkham Asylum, Dead Space, and Fallout perfectly fine at it's max. With the ff online, I had to heavily lower my settings before I got something smoother. Even then it was still slow at times for me.

-I'm not sure how the PS3 will handle, but hopefully they aren't having the same issues as me.

-It is gorgeous. Great use of Depth of field, you can see each strand of hair on a character, the muscles popping out of the monsters, a little too much bloom for my taste, but over all it's fantastic.

-Such simple shaped objects but the normal maps make it look so damn good!

-Great animations, you can feel the weight of the armors on these guys.

-Very great particles too, best looking rain effect's I've seen in any game.

Gameplay:

-It's a tad bit different from most MMO's. Usually you pick a class and a race that would hopefully compliment it as you level. In this, there really isn't much of classes to pick from.

-Your skills develop by the weapon you hold, and you can spend your skill points however you wish. Your character can end up being whatever class you want as you go.

-After a while of playing you notice that... it's just another mmo... same boring routine. Oh and same lame quests. Funny thing is that you must complete them one at a time, AND they are timed. Sometimes it could be kind of a rush, but it's still pretty boring and not as in depth as I hoped it would be.

-Excellent character customization. Best it any mmo's so far.

-Sensitive collisions, sometimes you can't fall under a tiny ledge, so you have to walk allll the way around something just to get to where you could have went under a second.

-The tutorials were not as deep as I wished, I ended up teaching myself how to play the game.

-There isn't any loading zones (other then cut scenes), I guess that's one thing I like about it too.

-Doesn't take you long before you realize you can't play the game alone... even if there are easy monsters in the beginning areas.

Controls (PC):
-VERY VERY AWKWARD. If anything, this is the thing I hated the most about the game. It definitely isn't mouse friendly. The mouse sensitivity is sooo slooowww, with no options to boost it up. So you rely on your keyboard for targeting enemies.

-The menus are set up differently (again mostly set up for keyboard movements rather then mouse).

-When you press F to bring out your weapon there is always a major delay. So sometimes you press it twice thinking you didn't hit it, and you end up placing it back in and out.

-No drag and drop options for equipping armor.

Design:
-Very good sound. It's very powerful and realistic.

-Impressive creature design... even the tiny things like rats or bugs!

-Character designs are the same as the old ff online, but they improved their looks quite a bit... no more girly looking men!

-Very cool weapon designs, and clothing

-Pretty unique town designs.

-Over all great art style, but what do you expect, it's a final fantasy game.

Story:

-There are 3 different stories within the game (by choosing the town you want to start out in)

I choose a fishing sea city, so the story started out with me on a boat during a storm, when it gets invaded by sea monsters, you end up defending the ship when a big epic monster (assuming it's leviathan) flys over the boat.

...After that, you make it to the main town, and join the adventures guild to make some money. From then on I couldn't understand the rest of the story... BECAUSE most of the NPC are supposed to have "accents" but you can't understand what some of them are saying because The'ey ahr le writt'n tah talk Liek thee'se. <--- written like that. - I'm sure it gets more in depth as you get halfway through the game... if you want to invest more of your time into this game. I don't think I am.

Overall: Going to have to give it 6.5 out of 10. I was looking forward to the next generation of mmo's but all they did was upgrade the looks of it. World of warcraft definitely still has this one up. Which is sad because it's.. what? a 7+ year old game? Yet no one can still beat these guys Even with the current technologies we have now.

I had absolutely no interest in figuring out what's going to happen next. It became more of a chore rather then video game which was supposed to entertain me.

It still has a great art design, atmosphere, sound, and graphics, but nothing more. I recommend it for the true FF fans. Other then that I wouldn't spend money on this, let alone a monthly fee.

Good day everyone!

architectural interior (mental ray)

2010-08-31T19:50:00.001-07:00

Here is an architectural scene that I did in 3D studio max, and rendered out in mental ray. I also did some minor Photoshop tweaks.

Enjoy! :)

Andy Gentile

2010-08-21T13:20:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday, we had a special guest come here to the Las Vegas Art Institute. The guy's name was Andy Gentile. Andy worked on many projects for Neversoft Entertainment, doing stuff like level design for the Tony Hawk games and Drumming for the Guitar Hero games.

Andy told us that how when he started out he used to play the Tony Hawk games online while still in high school. He mentioned that being an overall nice guy to everyone over the internet helped him meet a lot of the head guys in Neversoft. Right after graduation, he began working for them as a game tester.

Feeling that he should have moved up the ladder, he thought himself 3D studio Max with the F1 button. It was only a matter of time before he landed the gig.

Finally with the success of the guitar hero series, they sold off Tony Hawk to another company. Within a matter of time they had to layoff the level designers. Since Andy had skills in drumming they kept him around to do most of the drumming in the guitar hero games. Proving that it may be a great thing being a jack of all trades!

He was an awesome guy, and we all learned a lot from him. His experience to us was worth more than gold. Oh! ...and he was a major Dream Theater fan like me. ;)

Hand study

2010-08-20T14:22:00.001-07:00

Here in the Las Vegas Art Institute, we have the collection of all the Gnomon videos. I took the time off to work on one of my more weaker anatomy section. They had an excellent tutorial guy explaining different hand gestures in different angles. Those Gnomon guys are very great instructors. I felt that my skills improved greatly.

New Dragon age II trailer

2010-08-18T12:17:00.000-07:00

This game looks like it will be pure awesomeness. I was a very big fan of the first one. I can't even tell you the countless hours I played with different characters. The story was very enjoyable too. I can't wait to see what this new one will hold.

God of war -Chimera design-

2010-08-16T00:01:00.000-07:00

This is a very very cool character creation of a monster used in god of war 3.

Very inspirational! enjoy.

Alimination.com 2.0 is up!

2010-08-13T16:07:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, my new updated website is up along with my gallery. Please check it out here at www.Alimination.com

Zbrush Study: Charlotte

2010-07-28T14:00:00.001-07:00

Here is some more Zbrush stuff I did for fun. Went for a cartoony/pixar style this time. :-)

Photography

2010-07-27T18:26:00.001-07:00

Here is a photoshoot I did for my friend Lexi Marie. I shot it with a cannon XSI, and did some design effects with photoshop.

Enjoy!

Fiend Cleaver

2010-07-22T15:30:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. This is my last quarter so I've just been rendering and focusing on my marketing junk. I managed to squeeze in some room for some new work.

This is my latest creation Fiend Cleaver. I figured I'd do some little stuff to build my portfolio. I sculpted this sucker in zbrush, which took me around 5 hours total, and then I rendered it and painted over it with photoshop. That took me at least 2-3 hours. In return I came up with something quick and easy. Hope you guys enjoy.

Wish me luck on graduating!!

Speed Tree Overview

2010-06-21T12:01:00.001-07:00

So I downloaded the new UDK so I could see if my scene I'm working in would work faster than the regular unreal editor. Opening it up I realized they have the speed tree editor in it. It's not the full version therefore it is pretty limited, but you can make some pretty nice procedural trees/plants really fast!

I made my own custom tree and my own textures in Photoshop (since I hate using other peoples), and this is what I came up with in less than an hour. It's pretty cool, it already rigs the trees up for you, and you can set it up in its physics engine and animates it according to the setting.

Of course being that it is procedural, you have limited controls over the UVs. There are some real harsh seams on the branches, or you can't individually move a branch/leaf.

Other then that I had fun messing with this thing! It is the industry standard for video games and some movies! Go check it out!!

Broken Mind games

2010-06-16T00:50:00.000-07:00

Holy smokes! It's hard to imagine a whole yeah gone by. It's amazing how from day one, starting out in a random group thinking that it was going to be the worst experience ever. Learning a new game engine in the middle of this project, working with an art style that you have never even considered working on, or putting up with mike scala for a whole year. :)

It's amazing how much we accomplished. In a year to boot! This has been an amazing experience. We pulled through as a team in the end and made one of the greatest student games in history. All assets custom made, original story line, original art style, and we even managed to push the Unity engine to it's full level.

The presentation was very successful. We gathered in a lot of people to play, the setup was very professional, and we had a LOT of good comments! As much as I hate saying it, I'm going to miss everyone I've worked with on this project. It feels that a part of me has been taken a chunk out of. I'm sure a lot of other developers feel this way when a project you work on has to be over with. After all, it can't last forever.

Thanks for the experience and memories everyone! Thank you everyone else for joining in the presentation!

Fig the game!!!

2010-06-08T21:47:00.000-07:00

Next week, Tuesday June 15 In room 146 @12:30 We are going to give a presentation on the game we have been developing for about a year now. Then we are head to room 241 to play our game! So come on a join us!!!

I'm the lead modeler and music composer!

For more stuff about the game, you can check out our website.

http://www.figthegame.com/

New Dead space

2010-05-26T11:20:00.001-07:00

It's about time! The original was such a brilliant game. I can not wait until the new one. I will be the first in line.

RIP ronnie james dio

2010-05-16T14:26:00.000-07:00

You will be missed. :(

Zbrush Final

2010-05-12T23:37:00.000-07:00

Well it is finally done ladies and gentlemen! My first Zbrush project, and I have to say it came out very successful. All the researching came out in handy! Took me a while, but I feel very comfortable with the program now. The end poly count with this guy reached up to about 25 million polygons.

Crazy huh? I am very much surprised that the computer at our school could handel this monster! It ended up lagging near the end but I finished it successfully.

My next objective is to break apart the high poly, then bring it in to the program Xnormal, where I will extract my high detailed Normal map and Ambient Occlusion map (w/ Cavity maps).

Until then Good day everyone!

Free Zbrush Alpha Brushes

2010-05-12T23:19:00.000-07:00

Before I began the fine details on my Zbrush model. I went texture hunting and began to make my own Alpha brushes. I carefully choose each one for it's own specific purposes on my model. I also tested each one on a dummy model and adjusted/painted it so it will come out clean. Most of them are noise free and will produce clean looking details.

I left them all open for anyone that wants to grab them. Hope you like. :)
Just keep them as BMP files.

(Leaf Vain)

(Splatter1)

(Splatter2)

(Reptile1)

(Reptile2)

(Reptile3)

(Elephant slash)

(Skin)

(Rust/scratch)

(Rino Skin)

(Noise1)

(Noise2)

(Old Nail)

(Gator)

Zbrush

2010-05-02T00:45:00.000-07:00

Here are some more WIP junk on Armored Akhilesh. I decided mudbox wasn't cutting it out for me with this guy. I figured, hey! this could be a great opportunity for me to mess with Zbrush.

So I checked out all their free basic Video tutorials on http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/ AND got a couple books off the Library to teach myself this stuff. (since my school has YET to produce any digital scupture classes.)

Why wait, I'll just teach myself.

Anyways this is what I got so far. I'm still blocking things out, and shaping the armor up some more. Stay tuned!

Armored Akhilesh

2010-04-14T15:13:00.000-07:00

As I stated in my last level, This is the dragon I was talking about. That level is pretty much his fortress lol.

This will be my last character model before I graduate. I will also be making a tutorial with it as a go along. Stay tuned. :)

Level Design (WIP)

2010-04-11T23:29:00.000-07:00

Hey guys I haven't posted in a while.

My latest project (which is still in progress). Basically I'm designing a level based off a character which I am also designing at the moment which is an armored dragon.

It supposed to be his citadel located inside a volcano. Around the caverns you will find old busted ruins which were run by people that used to worship this thing. (I've been hella into dragon age when I came up with this concept lol).

So far I have built around 50 custom mesh assets, 6 custom particle animations, 64 custom materials, and probably around 80+ custom textures I have built from scratch. This includes Diffuse maps, Normal Maps, Specular maps, Gloss maps, Parallax/displacement map, Emissive maps, and just random noise maps for particle/material effects.

I'm almost complete will all the assets, I'm still not quite done, but almost there. Once I'm done i will finish populating. But just for shits and giggles this is what I have so far. Enjoy

~King Ali

WMS gaming

2010-03-11T00:18:00.000-08:00

A while back ago, I felt a bit nervous figuring that Petroglyph gaming was the only real shot of anything seriously close to my major. I mean I know there are other jobs out here for commercial artists for guys like me. Video game wise, I figured I would be S.O.L if I couldn't land a gig for Petroglyph.

Last Friday, for Randolfs class we decided to go on a field trip to WMS gaming here in town. Lucky for us Brett the Program Manager of the place took the time off his busy work to teach us about the game industry vs the casino gaming industry.

I learned many things such as how each side handles their employees. I learned about how both sides have their major ups and downs. At the end of the day my mind was blown away. I never really thought how something like casino gaming could be so much similar to regular video gaming. I was majorly inspired!!!

At the beginning we got to check out some of their games that haven't been released yet. Let's just say that it blows any other machines out of the water! They clearly thought everything through to make them stand out ahead of their competitors. They took consideration of age demographics, to playing the machines as a team. Very brilliantly thought through! I was very impressed! (Also they are 3DS Max people! woohoo!!)

I look forward to hearing the latest news on these guys, and will work towards seeing if I can build some work to impress these guys in the future.

I always compare my work to the industry rather then teachers or students. So I will make a new goal on a later project to compete against some of their own work. Let's see what will happen. ;)

Have a great week everyone!

Finished

2010-02-24T11:08:00.000-08:00

I finished the project on my last post. I dubbed her IronFox (named after Ironhide from transformers and fox from wanted after I just finished watching the 2 movies again). I enjoyed the 2 characters personality and thought it blended well with mines. :)

Took some time but I finally finished the textures in between projects in school and here it is!

I finished rigging it, all that is left is to finish the programming so it is a playable character in UT3.

Good day all!

Winter Break update

2010-01-06T02:02:00.000-08:00

Well damn it's been a while since I posted anything. This break has been absolutly wonderful. I've been catching up on working out again, laundry, cleaning, and being around my friends again! I had family over for christmas and new years as well. It sure has been wonderful. I've been so burnt out, now I'm totally ready for school to start again.

I also got to catch up on old models that I never got to finish! I'm working on this one and this armored dragon I named "King" which I will post later, but for now here is my old female unreal3 character I created a while back that I'm working on the textures for now.

Once It's done, this sucker will be up, running, and a playable character. I'm very excited! Take care guys.

Chroma Key

2009-12-05T12:18:00.000-08:00

Lately I've been listening to a lot of soft ambient/electronic music, no one pulls it off better then this guy! His lyrics are very strange but are very nicely put together. The guy's name is Kevin Moore. He was the original keyboarder of Dream Theater (hence how I found him in the first place). It helped me search for similar musicians as well. Another one of my favorites is "gabriel le mar vs cylander" with his album Night Radio. Very catchy tunes!

Also, Last night I was with my buddy gary and we went to a Pantera tribute show. I belive it is the 5th aniversary of Dimebag Darrell's death comming up on the 8th of this month. The guitar player of pantera/damageplan was shot by some psychopath on stage. He was a real good musician and very cool dude. It's a shame we lose great people like this. RIP dime!

Interview with Nobuo Uematsu

2009-11-18T23:10:00.000-08:00

Incase if you didn't know, Nobuo Uematsu is the composer for many of the Final Fantasy genres. He's a brilliant composer. A lot of his musics from squares games are still imprinted in a lot of our heads. It seems that a lot of music composer for games arn't like that, which is why I have true respect for this guy.

I found this interview at gamespot.com and I found it very inspirational, because I'm doing the music for our team production game. It's going to be rad!

New Dream Theater video

2009-11-18T10:56:00.000-08:00

Well if you know me well, you'd know that I'm a real big fan of dream theater! I practically know everything about them. When their last album came out Black clouds and silver linings I was a smidge disappointed. Though it had some of their real heavy tunes, you could say it wasn't their style in a way. compared to Awake or Images and Words.

Anyways, they released a music video last night for the song "wither" which I thought was a poor choice of song to do, but whoever did the video production was real real real good! I was very impressed at the awesome compositions he gathered. I thought that it made the actual music more easier to listen to then before. Goes to show you how us artists can influence many things besides even our own mediums. I felt real inspired after watching it. I hope it does the same to you.

Hack n' Slash

2009-11-12T23:52:00.000-08:00

New up comming game called Darksiders came out with this awesome cinamatic scene. I thought it was real bad ass, and thought I'd share it.

You know, there has been a lotta hack n slash games comming out. I mean I'm a real big fan of that kind of game and all, but It sucks because everyone is just on this "safe" path of the same gameplay. No one is steping up to change game play style. As kick ass as this trailer was, the came could be no different from god of war, dante's inferno, or devil may cry. :/

Same goes with this new Modern Warfare 2 game. Yeah it looks damn pretty, multiplayer must be fun. Cool level design. Overall it's just another damn first person shooter. So I really don't get the big hype over it.

Go to HELL!!!!

2009-11-08T01:34:00.001-08:00

Hot damn the Dante's inferno game looks amazing. I've always been a big fan of the story since I first read it in high school. It was brilliantly put together. After watching developer videos like this, it's real interesting how they've took the original story, and made it themselves. The art style is obviously much different then how they originally made it (ex. Cerberus no longer being a 3 headed dog, but this worm thingy with a big mouth). Much much more bad ass.

I pray that this game will one day come to PC. I refuse to buy any of the newer systems. Not that I'm against them or nothing... but they're practically a computer themselves!! (minus the wii)

In any case I will get my hands on this game one way or another!

2009-11-05T21:57:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone, Just wanting to say I got my website up and working! I still in the process of sizing it, working with color and all that other good stuff. As for now, I'm in the process of using After Effects to animate my 3D vampire of me. Check out this after effects video up on youtube to show you an example of how I will accomplish this. :)

Click over this link to view my website!

2009-10-27T14:05:00.000-07:00

I bought a new computer the other night. The HP Elite-m9600, which really isn't too crazy, but it's a hell of a lot better the the one I had since I was still in high school. In anycase I'm very happy with what I have now. All the new computers now computers that come now are pretty much loaded with it. I have to say I'm a hell of a lot more impressed with windows 7 then vista. Some of the layouts are pretty much similar to both xp and vista, but I find it a lot easier to navigate through then before. Still getting used to some small things but for what it's worth it's very awesome. It is very fast too. Fallout 3 and Ut3 are running insainly on it. Makes me wana go out and grab some of the newer games.

I'm very much looking forward to grabbing borderlands or Guild Wars 2 if it ever comes out soon!