Mage Faire Online

Since returning to the US I have been working for an indie game studio called Mage Faire Studios.  I helped out a LOT with the website..... so yeah check that out!  I'll post occasionally about it when I can.  Right now I can't unless something has been officially released.  This is one of those things! :D

www.magefaireonline.com

More Sketches and Another Steampunk Creature

I saw that a lot of people were coming to my blog to look for steampunk drawings so I thought I'd throw another one up with a couple other sketches.  I love sketching and I'm glad that I can share my sketches with other people who come to visit my blog, even if it is just in passing.   Behold! O_o

 This guy is based off of a very disturbing break in that happened a while back.  This is my mental interpretation of the criminal.

 This is based off of a cool picture that I saw in 3D World magazine.  I took the basic form and added all kinds of creepy stuff. (unfinished) (It says To Babysan: my infinite inspiration)

 This one came from my mind when I was studying art nouveau and wanted to put my own spin on it.

This was something that was inspired by Brian Despain, my favorite artist.

Here is the steampunk degu.  If you don't know what a Degu is, I recommend that looking them up.  We had 2 of them in Budapest and they were the sweetest little rodents EVER! (Not Legal in California, just FYI)

So that's it. Hope you enjoyed it :)

Dragoncon or the Best Weekend of the Year

Oh Dragoncon.  What an amazing event.  Held over labor day weekend, it is by far the greatest weekend of the year.  The thing I love about this particular convention is that it isn't big enough to force you to wait in line for ridiculous amounts of time, unless you want to, and it's also big enough that there is plenty to do!  To give you an idea of how much there is to do, we would get up at 8, eat breakfast, head to the convention at 9:30, and then get home at 3:30..... in the morning O_o.  Crazy stuff!

This year there were at least 52,000 people! If that's not enticing enough, it is considered to have the BEST cosplay costumes.  There are also many workshops for people who are interested in learning about making their own costumes or doing cool things themselves, such as writing for videogames.

Now,without further ado, here's some pictures!

For more information here's the website dragoncon.org

Long time between posts

I have not posted in a long time.  I had a lot of issues with depression the last couple of months in Hungary and couldn't get up the energy to post ANYTHING.  However I'm ready to go again.  I hope at least one person is still reading this.  Since my last post I have left Hungary, gotten a new job working on a video game, and felt a lot happier.

I think that Hungary was an amazing time and I really hope that everyone will feel inclined to visit Budapest at some point in their lives, but I think my time there was over.  I will miss it a lot but on to new things!

For my first post back I would like to post a few picture of a vinyl figure that I made and that's it.  Enjoy!

A Trip to Turkey

Bwah. THis is my first blog post in 2 months. Talk about slacking! Anyways here's some videos!

The first batch is from Istanbul.

First Night in Istanbul

A Cool Cafe in Istanbul.

The Aya Sofya. It was SO amazing!

This place that we went to had the BEST baklava ever! It was amazing!

The Entrance to the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul.

Inside the Grand Bazaar.... after the power went out and everyone had to use generators.

We went to Bosnia last year and first heard the call to prayer there, at sunset. I think this is one of the most amazing things I've ever heard.

A beautiful view of the harbor.

The most amazing fish sandwich that I've ever had in MY LIFE!!!! They actually caught the fish about 20 feet from where we ate it!

Jake and I decided to get a haircut in Turkey. Here's Jake getting a Turkish style haircut. It was quite an experience!

Bwah! I have no idea what this was about but it was cool!

The haircutter also used an old style razor! It was pretty cool! It was pretty smooth too!

Then it was my turn for the fire!

This was the final result of an almost 2 hour search for these amazing sweet treats. It was well worth the time that it took. It turns out that they were an old style treat in Turkey, which meant that they were almost impossible to find!

Next up.... Pamukkale

Nothing to really say here. I think the videos speak for themselves. You can really see how beautiful of a place this was. The water was so warm and clear. IT was a truly amazing experience!

Cappadocia.....

This was, by far, the most difficult part of the trip. It all started with a series of troublesome, and expensive bus rides. Each person we asked along the way insisted that finding a bus to our destination would be easy. However, we ended taking many buses out of our way and paying out the nose for said bus rides. It was a nightmare even trying to find a bus that would take us to a place near Cappadocia. However, afterwards the time that we spent there was quite enjoyable. I even got a chance to try doing some Yoga, which was actually pretty amazing!!

This is how our bus trip started out after we were basically stranded by the bus company.

However, things chilled out and started going a lot better.... kinda....

Here were some amazing trees that we found on the side of the road.

Goreme

Goreme again

And finally, on the way out of Cappadocia we saw this mountainside village.

This was our trip to Turkey. Hope you enjoyed the videos!

Remembering 9/11

So, I'm sitting in bed and looking at pictures of the terrorist attacks from 9/11. I still get choked up seeing them. I hate to think that anyone is even capable of doing a thing like that. However, I'm also happy to see how everyone has united to remember the people that died. I think this is a day I will always remember for the rest of my life, as if it happened yesterday.

It's strange that here they can talk about it so casually. I don't think that they really truly understand how, as an American, that I feel about this. I hope that they never have to know either.

Phhhheeewww...... ok here we go

Time to catch up on this blog. I have been seriously busy but I finally made some time to get this done.

First up....

First up is one of my new CGI projects. It's a cat shaman. It's pretty much done and I'm happy with how it turned out.

This one is a demon for a scene that I'm going to make. I still have a lot of work to do on the scene but yeah....

Well, I guess that's probably it since I can't seem to find any of my videos so I'll have to look for my camera... : /