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Brian Jack c/o Anime Mayhem  

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Anime Mayhem: Group picture finished

Journal Entry: Sat Jan 26, 2008, 11:04 AM
  • Mood: Tired
  • Listening to: My Tinitis (ringing ears)
  • Reading: Shoujo Manga and Anime How-To Books
  • Watching: CSI, Mayday and Star Trek (Vgr+NG)
  • Playing: World of Warcraft
  • Eating: A&W Double Teen Burgers
  • Drinking: Water, Coffee and Raspberry Juice


DA Friends

Wake up in the morning...
...and fall back asleep.

Story of my life by me.
Art by ~nuxill.


Group Commission Done


*Zue did a group comm for the Anime Mayhem characters Ayuko, Ariko and Aleesha. She did a fabulous job with it. Go visit her and give her many hugs. :


New Year 2008


It's the start of the year A.D. 2008!
Happy New Year!
akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!
明けましておめでとうございます

You really have to write that one in full kana and kanji since the first word holds 99% of the meaning of the Japanese New Year welcome. :D

I'm working on the game as usual. :)

Story, character background and setting are going to be my attention over the next while. Among things I need to establish the vocabulary that will describe everything that exists in the game's world. This vocabulary is used most notably by the story, conversation and automaton (operates any characters not in active control by the player and NPCs) engines.

Once I get sufficiently development data I want to mock up the conversation engine since it will likely take me many tries to get the interface not to be cumbersome and inflexible yet not being too flexible otherwise over-expectation overpowers any suspension of disbelief (undoes the whole point of having deeper self-acting character AI).

BTW: The character pages on the Anime Mayhem website have stats for some of the characters now. I'll complete it in the near future when I finalize the numbers and stick them into the database.



A while ago I bought =seika a devart sub This link goes to the commission she did in exchange. I think she did a really good job with this. :D Go visit her and spread the holiday cheer. :D

It's that time of the year where I spend time with the family(--ies since there's four sides to mine which makes it huge) meaning lots of time away from home and the computer slowing to a crawl any game work. It's all good though and it'll be back to normal after the New Year.


Work on Ayuko's Sprite Continues


I've rigged Ayuko for animation. In blender this involves assigning a skeleton of armatures, constraining its movements (so they match the way the joints can actually move), then weighting the model to move accordingly with each bone.

I started to do some of the texture work as well. It can tricky trying to find the contour lines on the UV mapped templates in order to properly draw textures. You can't just grab a brush and draw becuase LSCM (Least Squares Conformal Mapping which basically maps an arbitrary 3D surface onto a 2D texture and tries to keep shape like if you slice open a shirt by its edges and flatten, or "unwrap," it.) may generate a template where a contour line that should appear straight in 3D land is not straight on flattened template. It's noticeable particularly for hair. If you just use a straight line hair pattern it will have weird angles on the 3D object. The hair has to be drawn to match the contours .

I rendered a small walk cycle animation sequence. She walks a short distance and the camera tracks her. Even at 400x300 it's kinda largish, though, at 1.3M, and trying to GIF it did not drop the size any either. :cries: I'll get the file onto Anime Mayhem's webserver in the next few days and I'll update with a link.


Updates


I have started rebuilding the Domain AI framework of the game after losing the previous database and I finally added a needed function (renaming symbols) to the editor. I no longer need to use SQL directly on the database to rename a symbol.



A good exercise for practicing perception of lines and spaces. With a little patience you can improve your ability to draw from a reference using just your eyes--and no tracing paper required nor desirable (for this exercise).

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Devious Information

  • Current Age: 31 and getting older by the year
  • Current Residence: Prince George, BC, Canada
  • Interests: Computers, Anime/Manga, RPG/Role-playing
  • Favourite movie: Spirited Away, Mononoke Hime
  • Favourite band or musician: Megumi Hayashibara, Aya Hisakawa
  • Favourite genre of music: Anime, JPOP, 70's-early 80's
  • Favourite artist: CLAMP, Tomoko Taniguchi, Naoko Takeuchi, Natsuki Takaya, Megumi Tachikawa, Hayao Miyazaki
  • Favourite poet or writer: Groucho Marx
  • Favourite style or digital art: anime/manga/bishoujo/plushie
  • Operating System: Linux/FreeBSD/Win98/WinXP (ordered by decreasing preference, highest first)
  • MP3 player of choice: XMMS, MPlayer(Linux/FreeBSD), mpg123(Linux/FreeBSD), WinAmp(Windows) [ordered by preference]
  • Shell of choice: bash (Linux/FreeBSD), Aston Shell (Windows)
  • Wallpaper of choice: Little Snow Fairy Sugar
  • Skin of choice: Little Snow Fairy Sugar
  • Favourite game: Lunar Series RPG (Silver Star Story and Eternal Blue)
  • Favourite gaming platform: PSOne
  • Favourite cartoon character: Kinomoto Sakura; Honda Tohru (fruits basket)
  • Personal Quote: Friends are hard to come by, but enemies accumulate.
  • Tools of the Trade: UMAX AstraScan 2100U/Wacom Graphire/GIMP/OpenCanvas/HTDM Series Books

Devious Comments

=winnietehpoohie:iconwinnietehpoohie: Apr 20, 2008, 4:52:17 PM
i finally got pm's to beep me lol

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The scenery is evergreen...
You've always been so dear to me...♪
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Apr 20, 2008, 4:19:55 PM
The world on the other side of cyberspace has been keeping me occupied as of recent. I'll try to catch you on IRC some time.

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=winnietehpoohie:iconwinnietehpoohie: Apr 20, 2008, 1:22:45 PM
>w<!!, haven't seen you for a bit now. how's it been? ^^

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The scenery is evergreen...
You've always been so dear to me...♪
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Apr 20, 2008, 12:02:49 PM Mood: Joy
You're quite welcome. :D

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=winnietehpoohie:iconwinnietehpoohie: Apr 19, 2008, 11:22:10 AM Mood: Joy
thanks for the :+fav:! <3

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The scenery is evergreen...
You've always been so dear to me...♪
~Nakuru-Nebelung:iconNakuru-Nebelung: Mar 25, 2008, 12:33:52 PM
Yeah! A lot of movement and motion :)

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Please visit my gallery you too [link] :aww:
~Nakuru-Nebelung:iconNakuru-Nebelung: Mar 22, 2008, 1:26:01 AM
LOVE your style. there's something really edgy about it

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Please visit my gallery you too [link] :aww:
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Mar 17, 2008, 8:52:12 AM Mood: Cheerful
You're most certainly welcome. :D

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*Aki003:iconAki003: Mar 16, 2008, 12:14:33 PM
thank you for the fav!

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*ryuuha:iconryuuha: Feb 12, 2008, 3:59:12 PM
Well, personally I don't think I'm good enough to be watched 'cause my art is average-looking, but I am very thankful to those who do.

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Just drawing...Colors in light and darkness
And take it...Colors in light and darkness
Ima wa todoka nai yasashii iro mo
Subete wa mata kono te de egaki naoseru kara
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Feb 12, 2008, 4:18:05 AM
Why does everyone say that?

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*ryuuha:iconryuuha: Feb 12, 2008, 12:08:17 AM
Thank you so much for the watch :glomp:. I'm not worthy :worship:.

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Just drawing...Colors in light and darkness
And take it...Colors in light and darkness
Ima wa todoka nai yasashii iro mo
Subete wa mata kono te de egaki naoseru kara
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Feb 8, 2008, 9:03:23 AM Mood: Joy
I'm looking forward to the art book the two of you are doing. :)

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*sapphirez:iconsapphirez: Feb 8, 2008, 2:24:23 AM
thank you for the add :)
ooh, you're the one Lily did a commish art for your game~
good luck with your game :)

have a nice day n take care :XD:

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*MemoryLain:iconMemoryLain: Jan 28, 2008, 7:41:47 AM
thanks so much sirr! ^_^:glomp:

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put this in your profile if you'd give your life for your best friend (Kseniya) :heart:
(~Misiru <3)
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Jan 23, 2008, 11:27:55 AM Mood: Joy
You're quite welcome. :D
That's a wonderful work.

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*Lina01:iconLina01: Jan 22, 2008, 12:30:35 PM
thanks for the fav :hug: ^_^!!

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*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Jan 13, 2008, 2:38:55 PM Mood: Joy
You're quite welcome. :D

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~Lyricalx:iconLyricalx: Jan 13, 2008, 12:26:11 PM
thanks a lot for the fave!
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Jan 4, 2008, 3:25:02 PM Mood: Joy
No problem. You're quite welcome! :D

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~Shuichigirl:iconShuichigirl: Jan 4, 2008, 5:31:08 AM
Thanks for the fav!!:hug:

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*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Jan 1, 2008, 10:08:28 AM
You're welcome. :D

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~suka:iconsuka: Dec 31, 2007, 11:02:11 PM
Thank you for the watch and the faves :)
*gauveldt:icongauveldt: Dec 30, 2007, 12:20:22 PM Mood: Joy
You're very welcome. :D Keep up your great gallery. :)

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