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1. Blizzard Entertainment
2. Infinity Ward
3. Treyarch
4. Crystal Dynamics
5. Neversoft

Need a new preferably AAA internship/job...

]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/21408239/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/21408239/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:14:19 PST So yeah I really want Left 4 Dead, and Fable 2. So that's roughly a hundred dollars alone. There really are too many good games coming out at this time, I already got my collectors edition of Wrath of the Lich king too. But besides those games I think I wanna get Tomb Raider: Underworld. I just finished the demo and I thought it was one hell of a fun and engaging game. I've never played a Tomb Raider game before and this just blew me away. Your not running around blasting things left and right its more of level puzzles and I love the way you have to navigate the levels and climb and jump off ledges. To me it's really fun and I'd wish I'd played a Tomb Raider game earlier. What is this like the 10th Tomb Raider game?

Also I'd never played Fable but Fable 2 seems really good as well and I wanna try that out and see how it goes. I love those moral rpgs where choose your path etc etc.

Then there is left 4 Dead not a time sink like Tomb Raider or Fable are but seems really fun to co-op just pick up and play.

As for other games I'll just have to pass on them.

So yeah I may only get two games this month though so one of em might have to wait a while. If any of you have suggests or opinions on whats good or even of other titles I didn't mention please feel free to tell me.

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]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/20656354/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/20656354/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:33:06 PDT All of this is 100% created by our team.

I was co-creator with 2 others,lead artist, and helped direct the gameplay video.
Though it may not seem like much the gameplay video took a good 13+ hours to make and a lot of directing and coordinating went into it, and it was just great teamwork on the select Wizards who chose to spend their Saturday to work on it. After directing it I feel much more confident in leading the cinematic team next quarter.

gameplay trailer
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screenshots
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]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/19907190/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/19907190/ Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:06:50 PDT And the thing is I don't think I'm really good at either. So I need to spent the next year really becoming badass at whatever it may be.I really enjoy making characters even though I'm not good at it, it's always fun to do. Environments are 'easy' but they're a pain to do, sure it is generally fun but it's more work than fun in my opinion. Also being a member of such forums as gameartisans and cgsociety everyone on those forums are great character artists and I feel like if you cant make awesome chars then your not a cg artist.You can be an awesome environmental artist but who really cares? it's never the thing that's impressive. And so I've been thinking and still don't know what to focus on.....
I feel that characters are the coolest and most fun thing to do. But Job wise is very hard to get into. Environment you have a much higher chance of getting into a AAA studio/developer but I feel it's not as rewarding, it's not like when the game comes out you can be proud to say you made that wall texture or you made that building. And I say that because environment, more so to props(tables chairs walls buildings etc) are not really artsy or creative, it's just something that's expected in the game/movie. But you see a vehicle, cool gun, or character that's creative and artsy.
As an intern artist at Isopod Labs I make environment assets for xbox live games. And it just doesn't feel too creative or rewarding. Sure it's cool to see something you made in a game but it's not filling the artsy/creative side of it. I see plenty of awesome environmental art from friends or just on the web but like I said it's never that impressive. yes it is a tremendous amount of work, yes the artist is skilled but it just doesn't feel creative...I don't really know where I'm going with this so yeah, bottom line is still dunno what to focus on...
unto other things, watched Starship Troopers 3. It's not as good as the first but a million times better than the second. In this one Johnny Rico is back. For this film they upped the satire like 300%. But that is what SST is about satire and parody of real world stuff. I found it entertaining for what it was. The visual effects weren't bad for a straight to dvd low budget film. Though I really wondered why the warrior bugs were animated so weird. They was they moved and ran/walk wasn't like the last two. I'd assume they'd have access to the original models and rigs of the first. Cause the walk animations were very stiff and didn't have that bug like walk to it. So anyway if you're a fan of the series it's like 7/10 in my opinion. If you were never a fan of SST you can skip it.

]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/17597470/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/17597470/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:12:56 PDT Woulda been cool if Morgan Webb or Adam Sessler were actually there though...
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]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/17417201/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/17417201/ Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:25:51 PDT So yeah after this week it'll be a one week break. In that time I plan to finish up my Dominance war character and maybe model n texture one more before School starts again.

]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/17107323/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/17107323/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:04:11 PST
I am in no way a well known artist, nor does my page get any traffic on it. But I just recently stumbled upon a person who took some of my line art, colored, removed my signature and replaced it with their own. I have never, nor will I ever set my deviations to creative license. What does this mean? It means no one is allowed to modify,edit, or use it for commercial use. Removing my signature and replacing it with your own, that's modifying it. Coloring my work that's editing it.
Now If the said person would have asked to color my work I would of let them do it...Though they do give info on where they found my work they removed my signature and put their own. I don't care if you still say you gave credit, thats copyright infringement and now you're taking my work as your own.

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]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/14993114/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/14993114/ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:13:48 PDT Last week (first day of class) I thought he was alright, he taught really fast, but showed the class some school stuff. Though he taught as if everyone knew the basics of texturing and unwrapping. Which was not true, I’d say probably 90% of the class was struggling with things that to him are common sense. By the end of class he seemed frustrated and angry at the fact that most of the class wasn’t clear on what he wanted or how to do the assignment. Is it the student’s fault that they don’t know half the shit he’s talking about? No. It’s his job to make things clear and actually do something called teaching. He left the first assignment with: “I don’t care how you do it, just get it done and make it look good.” Yeah…that works for an advanced/production type class, but not for an introductory/beginning level class.
Week 2 comes along, and everyone who did the assignment turns it in. The next two hours of class were probably the worst two hours of my entire stay at AI. For the handful of people who really understood the assignment and how to do it, I’d say the teacher only liked 1 maybe 2. The rest he pretty much tore apart and insulted the student. Now I’m alright if a teacher tears up a students work, it’s how one gets better. The problem I have with this guy is that with everyone he took it to the next level by personally insulting them. And to me that crosses the line. Many times questioning student’s intelligence and common sense in a very sarcastic way. None of these such insults were directed to me and one other guy in class, but hearing him tear up everyone and personally insult them insulted and hurt me tremendously. They weren’t even directed at me and I felt extremely insulted I can only imagine how my peers felt. I mean have you ever seen/heard your teacher insult/tear up a student to the point it hurt you badly? I think that takes a lot. I think when you feel their pain that's when you know the teacher is wrong or crossed the line.
Looking around at my classmates around me, I could see the shock and anger in them. I felt that everyone in the class was feeling what I was feeling. Finally Damon gets through all but the assignments felt and decides that he needs a break. We all go down to the lounge and all of us express our shock and anger towards him. We’re all okay with the fact that he tears up peoples work in a brutally honest and sarcastic way, but taking it to the level of personally attacking students crossed the line for ever single person in the class. For an industry professional I think he showed little profession. We all decided that one of us would write up a note and petition to get him fired. This is well within the student’s power as it was done a few quarters ago with Mr. Lac. We’ll see how things go from here…Though as stated by one of my peers we’re probably the most tightly knit game modeling class ever. Damons treatment of us has made us all band together.

]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/13532215/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/13532215/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:08:34 PDT
now on to teh movizz0rs review.


Watched Dead or Alive the Movie.

So I just finished watching Dead or Alive the Movie.
Now when watching one of these films, you gotta keep in mind that
1. DOA is over the top
2. lots of video game movies are cheesy
3. it's like a B film so...
4. wasn't made by Americans
Okay now here's a pic of the movie poster, then the one below is a pic of the latest game title.
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I read some reviews on this before 'acquiring' a 'free preview' version of this film.
And many reviewers stated that the story sucked and nothing made sense.
Upon finishing the film, I thought it's an average action flick story, but to me it all made sense and was put together alright.
Corey Yuen, the director did a good job on the fight scenes, since that guy's a martial artist and has done fight choreography for many films. He also graduated from the same opera academy as Jackie Chan.
As for casting, there were some good ones and some really horrible ones. The actor/actresses they choose for Tina the wrestler chick was pretty good, as well as Bass her father. Zack looked like the character as well. Gen Fu the old dude was spot on. Then the really bad ones her like Kasumi, they coulda tried to at least get the right hair color, and didnt have the body for the role. Hayabusa looked lame, and Helena iono just didnt quite match. For certain characters like Ayane and Christie who has unnatural hair color it'll always look funny. Ayane had the purple hair and obviously looked funny, but I suppose it works, and the actress for Christie has like platinum blond hair so it worked as well. But for what some of the characters lacked in how they looked compared to the game character they made up for in costume design. The costumes were pretty true to the game. So at least to me, if they didn't quite look like the character the costume made up for it.
Acting wise some were okay and some were bad, Devon Aoki was probably the worste actress of the bunch, not in acting movement but in the lines. But then again given the script all of the actors have to work with, sometimes it's hard to make it believable.
I think even if I purchased this dvd I don't think it would of been a total waste. Once you set aside some of the fact that it's a video game movie, it's pretty good. There was not a single part in the movie where I was bored. It's action packed has funny moments and I just thought it was fun to watch. I'd actually recommend this movie if there's nothing else to watch, just don't take it too seriously.
I never really played much Dead or Alive but watching the movie sure brings the DOA world to life, in my opinion it was believable and didn't feel outta place/ stupid like such movies as Street Fighter, and the Charlie Angels movies. On top of that when you compare fight scenes from like mortal combat or street fighter, the things they lack are different fighting styles. And in this you can see each fighter's individual style.
All in all I'd say a 3 maybe 3 and half stars out of 5.
And Holly Valance, the chick who plays Christie is fucking hot as hell.

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]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/12387221/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/12387221/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:23:11 PDT spring breaks been okay got to hang out w/ visiting friends n all doin some modeling, reading books, playing wow....

]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/10123500/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/10123500/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:15:56 PDT
::UPDATE::

well yeah just got outta color theory class. It was awesome all our mandala's were great. And she liked them all so much she decided to bypass the test we had to take. She said basically that we owned all the other color theory classes...yeah my class rocked... ]]> ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/9965992/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/9965992/ Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:33:07 PDT ~S0id3 http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/9595667/ http://S0id3.deviantart.com/journal/9595667/ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:22:00 PDT If you get a sketch you have to post this in your journal and do 5 free sketches as well...so yeah ill try my best....

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man got back from AX06. It was seriously one of the best times I've ever had, it was jst so much fun. Goiong to AX w/ my best friends...and seeing Jen,Josh,Connie,Derek and Alex, also met some new ppl too, Marco was a kool guy. so yea, went to events,took pics,hung out, raved! man raving is soo fun i gotta learn more moves lol. Yeah i jst did a lot, ill post pics(prolly just gonna be posts of the hot girls) when i have time...as for the rest of today, might go to seaside to watch fireworks...

::EDIT:decided to go into more detail)
prereg-
ate at Tiffiys(horrible place, and a rip off the ppl looked like the belong in movies)
waited in line
went to the worst Carls Jr. EVER(literally)
Looked at hot girls and too pics
Hung out w/ Anime club and slept in their room(prolly the worst night, cuz it was very cold and the ground hurt a lot)

Day 1 -
Took pics of cosplayers
Hung out
found out Graeme was a fucking duetch bag
...sorta pissed me off b/c for the rest of AX he was an ass and josh took his side...
josh is kewl and all but i cant believe he'd support an online friend over his real friends

bought food, ate went to popshock masqerade
Went to the Dance(only for like 15 min though)

Talked to our room and got lost for an hour.

Day 2 -
Ate free breakfast
watched AX idol
took more pics
Watched Akai Sky...man that bass players hot lol.
did stuff...
Went raving, this time we stayed for an hour or two, and just raved and had fun.

Day 3 -
Ate free breakfast
took pics'watched the band Artbeat, they sucked the singer sounded like a drunk
just wondered around taking pics and looking around.
went to the artist ally..o wait, on my way to the artist ally saw a hot gothic rei and asuka n took their pics
when i was at the artist ally i hesistated in buying this pic of a succubus that was really kool and then it got sold out...
Stayed in the standby line for masquerade and aric talked to jen, since they had tickets and she said one of us could have the extra, then josh just goes andgive it to Greame instead of his real friends...so we ended up have to buy a ticket(there free, but ppl were selling their) and just scappleda round, me and justin bought two reds whicfh were the best possible but traded our two for 3 blues the worst possible so we could be w/ friends, and the masquerade sucks, except for the half time w/ the crazy martial artists
Then after that we went raving again, i really wantedto dance w/ a girl but couldnt find one, but it was fun none the less.

Day 4
went in line for the autograph thingy right wen i was gonna get in they closed it off and i was pissed bout that. after that just hung out and took more pics.
and bought a hat
yeah...not really detailed im still missing a shitload of stuff that happened but o well. ]]> ~S0id3