So I decided now that I’m working on getting more finished renderings up, I needed to paint my oldest love. A Dragon! I can’t say that a dragon was the first thing I drew, but I doubt it took me long and through out my childhood I remember drawing more dragons then anything else. And […]
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The cat continues to jeopardize those nine lives. The exploration of the “why” is one of investigation of etiology and beginnings or state of being. This can be a very dangerous expedition. Exploring why often takes the cat into to unknown places and situations. The cat is also at risk from those that work against […]
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Speed video of working on the face and the background.
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Character Development Sheet Exercise
My goal with this exercise was to create an entirely new creature without any relationship to fantasy or science fiction creatures I’ve been exposed to, but based off of real world animals. The goal is to give myself parameters to work within to practice client-based work. When working with clients on any creative project, you’ll […]
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As we left the cat with nine lives as insurance for the curse of curiosity, we have to wonder how this would lead us astray in the first place or lead us down the path to become a creationeer. This curiosity is seeking answers by observing, asking questions, testing the limits and pushing the envelope. […]
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Landscape view issues with cocos2d v1.1 and iOS 6
In this post I want to discuss a workaround we have implemented to address display issues we were seeing on iOS 6. Our app is setup to operate in landscape view. When iOS 6 came out we found that under the new OS, in both the simulator and on the device, the app would only […]
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Curiosity actually has many meanings only one of which is inquisitiveness, the desire to learn. According to Webster’s Encyclopedia Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, curiosity indicates a certain strangeness or interesting quality as well as having fastidiousness or carefulness. A curiosity can be a rare or novel thing. And even more curious to note […]
Continue readingStaying Current – cocos2d v1.1 RC0 with GBox2D
As we progress with the development of our first game we are trying to stay up-to-date with the frameworks we are using to allow us to support the latest iOS and iPhone releases. On Oct 21st cocos2d v1.1 RC0 was released. Since this release included fixes for iOS 6 and support for the newer phones, I […]
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