A site I like and some updates on me

Hey, y'all.  Sorry it's been a while (to anyone out there actually waiting to see stuff from me, if any).  I've been doing a lot of digital clean-up on my computer.  I was down to about 100 MB on my computer's hard drive, and I couldn't really go further on some of my stuff until I cleared enough space!  It took me almost two whole weeks to do, from all the searching and sorting and organizing through over 650 GB worth of junk between my computer's 150GB HDD and my external 500GB MyBook HDD, and it was tougher than I thought it'd be, but I managed to clear over 20GB!  I just burned a lot of crap onto double-layered DVD+R discs and now I can finally get back to finishing my first sharetorial video soon and just save some more work in general.

Anyways, that's what I've been doing.  I don't like to make definite plans, as I can never seem to keep them, but I will say that I plan to show more of what I'm working on this week.  I've been a busy guy, but delightfully so!  Last week I finished an overall story for a game, and I actually like it!  It's an indie dev game, an RPG of Japanese style, and as soon as I get some actual character concepts down in illustration form, I'll share it.  It's a relatively small project to start my other projects, and I plan to invite other developers to help me develop it!  What fun!  But I'm still working on my webcomic Kung Fu Space Cowboy as well, as now I'm fighting with a change in both story and art direction, so now I'm back to square one!  While I want to keep a comedic element to the story, I also want to keep an action element to the story, too, so that it's hilarious half the time, and awesome the other half of the time.  I want people to look at the webcomic and laugh at the ridiculous title, but also say, "Hey, KFSC kicks serious butt!"  I dropped the love-story element.  I was originally going to include, so now the plot has kinda changed and my vision of the art style with it.

While I'm here, I just want to give a little attention to a site that perhaps some manga art lovers like me would like to visit.  The website site is called Dreamchaser, and it's by a professional manga artist named Marlon currently living in Japan (if I'm not mistaken), though originally from the Netherlands.  She's very good, and I like her style (she illustrates in many styles).  I got wind of her work through her YouTube videos under her name bluemonika, as she makes (relaxing) videos where you can watch her draw.  I'm pretty sure sje has a deviantART account as well.  Anyways, I like to promote other people that I like, like I did Feng Zhu and his YouTube videos a while back, so check her out sometimes.

Well, that's all for the moment.  Keep exploring!

- Brian


>>Be about others, and you will never be bored.<<

Just An Update: New MediaFire account and gallery page soon

I've got a new MediaFire account, which is good because it will allow me to share rather sizable downloads with anyone.  In the future, this will come in handy when I make links to any available software builds from project I'm working on.  At the moment, I'm working on just one of my ideas which is currently just in concept stage of development.  I won't give too much away, but it's a software that many 3D artists are going to appreciate, a real time-saving and fun-to-use aid for the 3D modeler that especially keeps Blender in mind but will be handy for 3D artists any 3D package, and it will be free.  I'm looking forward to charting that adventure soon enough, and I'll be using Ohloh to chart development in addition to adding posts here once I begin some programming.

I'm still working on that stuff I posted last post about working on.  I will put the .blend files of my finished 3D vehicle concept models here, and post new pictures in a new gallery page I'm adding to this blog.  Though, I don't like to give away stuff in early development, I'm getting closer to completion on some character designs for my Kung Fu Space Cowboy webcomic.  I'm also getting some ideas for the first season of story for it.  I want this to be an action comedy, strange yet stylish, an adventure with even a dash of romantic element.  Despite the inanity of the storyline and purposely simple title, I'm working on making this brilliantly executed with the art direction.

Anyways, that all for this post.  Keep exploring!

- Brian


>>Be about others, and you will never be bored.<<

More Stuff Coming...

I have some stuff that I'll be posting up soon.  Primarily, I want to post up a tutorial on perspective, some time-lapse illustrations videos, some early concept designs of characters for my comedic action webcomic, Kung Fu Space Cowboy, and I want to post some shots of some 3D vehicle designs, which I will render them quite photorealistically and do some post-production to them.  I'm working on a lot of different projects right now, and I'll be keeping this blog very busy pretty soon.  Keep your eyes peeled for stuff coming from me.

Also, if you're into concept art, check out these series of videos on YouTube produced by an expert in the industry, Feng Zhu, who has contributed to the industry for more than 11 years, and has worked on films like Transformers, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and Tron: Legacy, and on such games as Command & Conquer III, Dead Space, and The Lord of the Rings Online.  He is the founder and director of FZD School of Design, and co-founder of Possibility Space, Inc. and Gamma Ray Studios.  In other words, he REALLY knows his stuff.  He created the first industrial design DVDs for The Gnomon Workshop, and has been teaching at his school since he founded it two years ago.  He releases free lessons and tips on some of the basics of industrial design (concept art and design for films and games) on YouTube under the channel name FDZSCHOOL, available for both his students and other YouTube watchers, and they're all just so top notch.  In these videos, Feng is casual and easy to understand and yet professional and knowledgeable.  I highly recommend them, and encourage you to subscribe to their YouTube channel.  Just thought I'd give him a shout-out.  I'm a big fan of his work, and have learned a lot from him.

I also want to mention that I will also be looking into designing a software project I've been wanting to do a long time.  I won't give it away yet, because I prefer to work in secret first and then show my progress, but it'll be a wonderful piece of software that I plan to make free and open-source.  It's a 3D graphics-related program, and I'm just working hard to get some more time and money to begin it.  But in the meantime, I'll be using this time to organize and weigh my ideas for it, and really just have arranged for it a good layout of what I want to do and how I will achieve it.  I'll keep you informed about it.

Well, thanks for reading yet another post from me.  Keep exploring!

- Brian


>>Be about others, and you will never be bored.<<