Thursday 12 September 2013

Character animation...

   The character animation test using the "simple shapes method". It will be used in the upcoming demo of the game which title i shall not mention.


Tuesday 30 April 2013

I recently started a "Face a Day" painting series to mobilize myself. The project is going very well. This is the 11th picture i made so far:

Copy of “Portrait of a young lady” byCharles Ulrich.

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Face 012...

Next face drawn from scratch. No references.




Saturn wallpaper

Great storm. The new NASA photo "The Rose" inspired me to create a wallpaper dedicated for big screens. It has a random size but surely will look amazing.

Saturday 23 March 2013

Bli$$ard...

The thunderstorm came out of nowhere. Its lightnings overwhelmed me in an instant. "What is going on?" I asked. "Heart of The Swarm is coming out soon." I heard. 

The death of the Storm.

   This is actually a true story. I did not remember that HoTS will come out so fast. Actually I would have forgotten about SC2 completely if not Psy's youtube channel. Then, when I was reading the Kotaku site I realized that HoTS is coming out 7 days later.
   The inability to play with my real friends and lack of anything besides frustrating ladder matches forced me to delete SC2 content from my laptop. What is more, WoL failed to provide things that I loved from SC1 and SC:BW which are: great narration (talking portraits are still better than cutscenes with generic talk that tells you nothing important and only wastes your time) and hanging out with friends doing funny stuff. As WoL was a rather expensive game, almost no one who did not want to commit to SC2 bought it. That left me with only one friend that i know so even if the gameplay was actually well designed and i liked the fast pace of SC2 it vanished after i completed the campaign and associated achievements.
   Later I came back to SC2 like once a month but realized that I have to play ladder almost from the beginning (ah those stressfull placement matches) as those stupid seasons cancelled every progress you made. Funny that Bli$$ decided to give up their main feature of the game so easily.
   When I heard that HoTS is coming out, i decided to download the game once again to check tgose new units and stuff (I was sure that they will let me use the multiplayer features of the new expansion). But wait. When I tried to log in to my BN account it ordered me to change the password because it might be compromised. Ok. So i had to run for my copy of the game and write license number in the box to unlock the pass change. How suprised I was when the system ordered me to do this again the next day. Ok so the game downloaded fine. Next problem I encountered is that I can't choose zerg race even from the AI matches. Great Bli$$ard. I will never believe in you again.
   When a company focuses only on hardcore players that spend millions of hours on mastering their gameplay and APM and no support for a casual one... it will die. With the death of a storm.

Thursday 28 February 2013

New Wallpaper



Here is a new arrival. A wallpaper made as a thumbnail for my new short film created for a certain competition. The film can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xDTvpDuJKQ

Except the poor audio side (not music (link below)) it is a pseudo documentary about translation. I deeply appologize for the lack of english subs. I hope they will appear in a few days. There is also a second section of the film containing this wallpaper alone. I was unable to make a custom thumbnail on youtube so i imagined that I sould use the method of implementing it at the end. When I used trim feature to cut out this part, the thumbnail vanished (some youtubers said that it would stay there forever). It will be gone as soon as I will deal with that problem.

Iubar project - The Last One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhXCoTILQzM

Monday 13 August 2012

Mars Wallpaper...

Today I add a wallpaper made from a NASA photo of a new Curiosity lander on Mars. The photo itself was b/w so it needed to be redone. I wonder who will use this piece as a background. The lower part actually contains a piece of the machine itself. :) (but it will be not visible on the screen)

PS: wide format

Thursday 10 May 2012

New poster...


   This is the new version of the old poster about the horse riding competition in Woskrzenice. I am pleased to invite everyone.