Fountain Pen Island

I found it! “The making of Trois Petits Points”

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:51:20 -0400

I found it! “The making of Trois Petits Points”

Trois Petits Points - another Gobelins Film done in TVP...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:49:51 -0400

Trois Petits Points - another Gobelins Film done in TVP Animation Pro

Ah, Gobelins L’ecole de L’image you guys never fail...

Thu, 16 May 2013 12:44:00 -0400

Ah, Gobelins L’ecole de L’image you guys never fail to impress.

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Sun, 12 May 2013 22:56:00 -0400

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Sat, 11 May 2013 00:50:44 -0400

capygames: Hey folks! If you’re in Toronto for TCAF aka Toronto...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:06:01 -0400

capygames:

Hey folks! If you’re in Toronto for TCAF aka Toronto Comics Arts Festival, make sure to stop by Bento Miso HQ to check out the Comics VS Games 2: Bit Bazaar, featuring a playable demo of SUPER TIME FORCE + amazing original work by CAPY artists Vic Nguyen, Mike Nguyen and Sylvain Coutouly!

Comics VS. Games 2: Bit Bazaar

May 11th - 12pm - 8pm

862 Richmond St West

Oh gawd, cowceda’s pixel perfect porn.

@eecummings: Abandon the search for something valuable within...

Fri, 10 May 2013 18:30:00 -0400

@eecummings:

Abandon the search for something valuable within yourself and instead, seek for a way to be valuable. Waiting for someone to come along and tell you what your worth is, is not spontaneous. Disregard the disapproval of others. Stop seeking permission.

Just do as much as you can do before sleep takes you for the night, sickness takes you for who knows how long and death takes you for the certainty of eternity.

We are born helpless, worthless and dependent on others. We are born with an individual struggle to overturn our own weakness, to become capable of doing something worthwhile, perhaps so that our children may depend on us long enough to find their own ways and begin the cycle anew.

MARK FUCKING CHONG

http://i.imgur.com/XspYnVI.png

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:01:00 -0400

http://i.imgur.com/XspYnVI.png

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Wed, 08 May 2013 07:03:13 -0400

Gravitron HD...

Wed, 08 May 2013 05:31:51 -0400

Gravitron HD gameplay

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxIWTr9WUhiBaTFQOGR1Z0dQUEU/edit?usp=sharing

Here’s a game I made in 3 days during the TOJam 2013 indie...

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:26:00 -0400

Here’s a game I made in 3 days during the TOJam 2013 indie game jam.

It’s called Gravitron and it’s meant to be played with 3 players (you need XBOX controllers to play). I guess if I had to describe it, it would be like 3-player Asteroids deathmatch with remotely-guided, remotely detonatable rockets.

The controls are pretty simple but it takes skill to be able to control your ship well enough not to crash into things, and things get really crazy when you have to dodge and shoot and guide missiles and manage your afterburner fuel reserves all at the same time.

But then again, I don’t like making games that are easy to master because then there’s no more reason to play them after you get good at them.

Anyways tomorrow I think I’ll take a stab at adding online multiplayer, and then resume work on Akimbo.

mikikoponczeck: Thanks for being so patient! For more...

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:44:51 -0400

mikikoponczeck:

Thanks for being so patient! For more info, here’s the orignal post on my DA (links and written tips) :>

sractheninja: Andrew Loomis can be quite the sassy fellow.

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:30:11 -0400

sractheninja:

Andrew Loomis can be quite the sassy fellow.

art-src: By Zac Gorman. For Wind Waker concepts, go here:...

Fri, 03 May 2013 01:32:23 -0400

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By Zac Gorman. For Wind Waker concepts, go here: http://www.characterdesignpage.com/1/post/2013/04/the-legend-of-zelda-wind-waker.html

He’ll be fine after he smashes a few clay pots

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Thu, 02 May 2013 14:45:00 -0400

If you ever intend to depict a gunfight in bullet-time, this...

Thu, 02 May 2013 12:03:00 -0400

If you ever intend to depict a gunfight in bullet-time, this video might be of use to you.

It’s kind of cool how the relative fluidity of metal at room temperature becomes apparent at high speeds and strong forces. Jacketed bullets peel apart like bananas, dense lead splatters and gushes like raindrops or gets pulverised into a fine dust upon impact.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics: Supercomputing has been an enormous boon...

Thu, 02 May 2013 11:48:00 -0400

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

Supercomputing has been an enormous boon to fluid dynamics over the past few decades. Many problems, like the interaction between a supersonic shock wave and a bubble, are too complicated for analytical solutions and difficult to measure experimentally. Numerical simulation of the problem, combined with visualization of key variables, adds invaluable understanding. Here a shock wave strikes a helium bubble at Mach 3, and the subsequent interactions in terms of density and vorticity are shown. This situation is relevant to a number of applications, such as supersonic combustion and shockwave lithotripsy—a medical technique in which kidney stones are broken up inside the body using shock waves. After impact, an air jet forms and penetrates the center of the structure while the outer regions mix and form a persistent vortex ring. (Video credit: B. Hejazialhosseini et al.; via Physics Buzz)

Just think, one day supercomputing will just be called computing.

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Wed, 01 May 2013 15:09:23 -0400

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Wed, 01 May 2013 04:26:57 -0400

Animation is performed in multiple stages. At first, all I care...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:46:18 -0400

Animation is performed in multiple stages.

At first, all I care about is the walk cycle. You might have noticed how during the inbetweens, the points of the straightened supporting feet/legs move in a sort of downward arc, similar to a pendulum swing, rather than moving in a straight line.

This is a trick I employ to maintain the length of each leg. If you look at the last gif, I’ve panned the image during the inbetweens to correct for the foot position, which also causes the rest of the body to bob up and down like it should. Doing things this way also makes it sooo much easier to deal with tracing some of the upper body frames to ensure some consistency.

Also, at this stage I’m concentrating on the motion of the bell of the tuba as air gusts through it, to get it to sync up with the feet.

Afterwards I started animating the head. I started just animating the mouth, trying to get the breath/blast timing right. Later I wound up changing the tuba bell’s timing to correspond to the breath/blast, and using squiggly lines to convey the blatting resonation of the tuba bell. It’s just a little bit of visual language to garnish the animation.

Lastly, I drew in the rest of the tuba, which was mostly just tracing, and then adding in the body bob to correct for foot placement.