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I'm supposed to type something in here.

Seven hours and seventy-seven minutes later... I still cannot remember.

Must Remember.

 
 

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It's been a while.

Yeah I know.

Been a while since I've done something GFX-related. That is, of course, if you don't include those LEGO art.

Sometimes the demons in this soul need release.

Too many of them these days.

I lost count when I noticed the nine inch fanged one with blue eyes.

With nose rings.

Art... always is a good outlet.

A good release.

Of demons and nurtured ewoks alike.

The luckier demons become works in progress.

Others... rough sketches on paper.

The unluckier ones are stuck in the mind. To be recycled into demons once again.

Stripped of their vanities.

Yet twice the demons they were before.

And fatter this time.

Those recycled demons.

Some though manifest their desires in dreams.

I desire a new blanket of dreams tonight.

Yes I know. It's been some time since I posted something in here.

But I'm always checking for spam contents.

Mee hee.

OUTPOST FORUM 1047

After the crash we're back.

It's a case of me trying to fix some cgi-bin files at the wrong time.

Had I opted to wait longer... things would have been solved faster.

I think my 'wait for the problem to go away' attitude got snagged somewhere last Thursday.

But then again if I opted for the easier path, you wouldn't be seeing this new interface... : )

And since my hands were already dirty, I decided to upgrade some 2 year old cgi/perl scripts.

I've been using some of these scripts for years now and I saw movements from their respective sites after a long time.

I'm talking about YaBB 2.2 (Two years in the making) / BoardMod 2.5.6 (Previous release was dated 06/10/2005) and GreyMatter 1.8.1 scripts (The one I was using for pixelnews prior to the update was still 1.2).

Also... while I was working on the new outpost interface, I found some easier ways to do things in Photoshop CS 3 which usually takes me 15++ minutes to do in the pre-CS version that I have.

(Time spent for cursing not included.)

I'll be sharing those things later... : )

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OUTPOST FORUM 1047 released.

Poser 7 / Adobe CS2 / PaintShop Pro 5.02
Daz3D's Stephanie Petite 3.0 / Irina 2.0

Rendered at 5AM after 9++ hours of coding.

CGSociety and 3D World released a list of Top 100 Greatest 3D Movies.

Also from the same site is a special feature on three of the top VFX films of 2007.

THE ANTI-REFLECTION / 1600x1200 / 803482 bytes
Adobe CS2 / Poser 7 / PaintShop Pro 5.02 / TY2 / Miscellaneous TY2 Freebies

Time-wise you can classify my artworks into two categories.

First... those that takes months (or years (and I'm not even kidding)) to finish containing 3 digit number of layers where the first digit is not 1 and is divided
into four to five 50+ MB PSD files.

Or the ones I create for three hours or less while waiting for something to finish.

The Anti-Reflection belongs to the second category.

I had fun anyway... : ]

"Sometimes when I look into the mirror, there's this stranger I see, who won't look back at me." ~qs

Daniel Simon's The Detonator Bike (via TheLair/protozoa)

Got to have one of those for my qs.

More aa-awesomeazing Daniel Simon artworks, concepts and illustrations can be found in his official site. (And of course an art site would not be complete without female illustrations... : )

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Merry Christmas everyone... : ]

Aliens... bacteria and creatures from the Hollow Earth included.

Daz3D's Aiko 3 / Xinxin / MIJ Bundle / Cool Fever
Rendered in Poser 6 (Poser 4 RenderENGINE)
Postwork in Adobe Photoshop CS / PSP 5.02
Background: Remixed Entrance Version III artwork

CGSociety.org posted an article on Beowulf Effects.

Interesting.

That... or I'm just finding an excuse to post Angelina Jolie pics.

Jolie, by the way, will also star in Wanted... an adaptation of Mark Millar's comic which Top Cow published.

To early to tell if this will be placed in the Comics-To-Movies Done Right list or the Hollywood-Butchers-Another-One bin.

I was reading Marvel's February 2008 solicitations at newsarama.

I buy comics for the art.

I read for the stories... but I can always DCP them somewhere or read them at wikipedia.org.

Or borrow from a friend.

(Read them I do before Hollywood butchers them.)

Nothing much has interested me art-wise except for this.

That's X-Force 1... digitally illustrated by Clayton Crain.

Clayton's style (3D-ish with digital airbrush) was impressive in both Ghost Rider limited series: The Road To Damnation and Trail of Tears.

He also illustrated this Spider-Man: Venom versus Carnage limited series prior to that Ghost Rider gig and some Sensational Spiderman covers and interiors.

(And Universe from Top Cow but his style was different then.)

Marvel also compiled some excellent Clayton Crain wallpapers. (There's a free registration process but it's worth it if you're into this kind of thing.)

X-Force would probably be released sometime January (or late December) but if you're looking for amazing artworks in comics this month... you'd definitely go for Ultimates 3.

Nice to see superstar JoeMad back... with Jeph Loeb nonetheless.

And Christian Lichtner!

That's Mr. Liquid to you.

Jeph Loeb is one of the most respected writers in comics who was also a part of the writing/production of Smallville... Lost and currently... Heroes.

Whether he's working for DC or Marvel, most of Loeb's arcs hit the number 1 spot in terms of sales (and quality).

Ultimates 1 and 2 under Mark Millar, although verymvery entertaining (and political) never hit slot.001 in their 3++ year run. (That is of course if my memory and sources are right... : )

Also of course there's that third and final issue of First Born from Top Cow which deserves a different post.

But here's the cover artwork for now. (And you can view more preview images in this link.)

To be fair to DC here's their February 2008 solicitations.

In the lighter side of things... LEIGH remixed one of my Terai Yuki 2 renders.

Nice funky effects.

Now being the demanding person that I am, I'll be asking 9 more remixes from her (or probably 7... I'll create and remix 2 myself) and do a pingpong collab with her which will be compiled into one mosaic.

Knowing how slow I work that would probably take 3 to 5 years to finish.

But I think it's worth the try.

What do you think, LEIGH..?

Another modified Terai Yuki 2 render.

Content Paradise's TY2 / modified TY2 Straight Jeans (Billy-T) / E-Frontier Poser 6 (using P4 Render Engine)

And of course the logo in her shirt is a VFPX project developer logo.

VFPX at CodePlex. Help spread the word.

VFPX.

Why we fight the UFO/ET information war.

Why indeed, when we can just use our PCs to hack the US military, Pentagon or NASA and search their databases for alien related documents..?

Like what Gary McKinnon did.

This setup (image below) should protect those information from hackers... hackers like Gary and my pet Ikia.

Though right now they (Yes 'they' (Inanimate objects have life (No not Gary and Ikia but those PS3s))) are being used to measure 'theoretical gravity waves - ripples in space-time that travel at the speed of light'. (Please don't tell me you need hyperlinks for that.)

(Photo in the left from Gaurav Khanna (via wired.com). Right is another Terai Yuki render... : )

Harumv!

Why bother with aliens when we can have mind readers... from Microsoft.

Start gathering the pitchforks!

Minor tweaks.