Need More Work

For the past few months after having my first baby, I’ve been trying to find the time and patience for 3D modeling. I’m back here because I want to start writing on here again. As some of you may know, I started another blog over a year ago called, “Baby and the Geek”. It’s more on my experiences in life with being a wife, new mom, and geek.

Lately, though, I’ve been yearning for some artistic stimulation. I’m going to take this slow and just work when I can. Model when I can. Collect reference when I can.

I’m still getting used to taking care of a now 10 month old baby, so things are drastically different for me than ever before. The importance of maintaining my own happiness and identity separate from motherhood is very high, as I am currently a stay at home mom.

I hope that someone out there starts reading and commenting as I’m sure I will have lots of questions and run into a lot of issues. I’ll be also trying to post my progress on Polycount. My username there is LadyDustBunny. I feel like a newbie all over again because I haven’t really done a lot of art in a while.

So here’s hoping for more posts here, more discussion, and more art!

 

What am I doing?!

I’ve been working on a number of things lately! I’m currently working on my YouTube channel. I’ve recently created and updated the channel background and put up a new video, with the next one being put up tomorrow. I’m playing through games for y’all! I’m starting off with “Enslaved: Odyssey to the West”. I’m working on making a better setup for my intros and working on better more professional graphics and such for my videos. I want to create better, higher quality videos.

I’m still deciding on my next game to play through, so please send me your suggests: dustbunny777 (at) gmail (dot) com.

Check out my videos here!

Personal Stuff Right Here

Hey! Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about you guys! As part of my newly re-enthused need to blog, I’ve created a secondary blog for personal stuff. This includes memories from my past, random dreams, some odd musings, and other things. Best part? A lot of it is illustrated! Go check it out to learn more about me and then come back here for some more gaming talk!

My personal and illustrated blog -> Spaghetti and a Meatball

THAAAANKS!

I’m Back, for reals, yo!

So I’m determined to get back to this blog after a, what, like year or two hiatus? I had started a new blog, just to get myself a fresh start, but I have to say that I truly miss this blog! Feels like home! So much has changed, yet I’ve just noticed that so much is the same. For example, I just started this post with the word “So”. I do that a lot. That’s actually something that NEEDS to change. Anyway, a lot about me has changed quite a bit, including becoming a game tester for EA. Not only that, but I got married this past May. What else? Oh, I have another surprise, but I have to wait to tell anyone about that! (That seems rather cruel that I’d tease you guys like that.)

Well, I hope you are all excited about be coming back!! I have soooo much to say and so much to tell you guys about! I hope this finds all of you well and gaming!

xoxo
LadyDustBunny aka Elle

Speed Gamers Again!

The Speed Gamers are playing through the Mother series (Earthbound). As usual, they are also raising money for a charity, I believe that this time it is for Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer (for a cure). Go check it out, participate, and donate! http://www.thespeedgamers.com/

This is box art!

On a side note, I got my first ticket (car related) yesterday, and I wanted to cry! It was a parking ticket because the meter expired…fail. Not only that, but I was inside a store buying the WRONG intuos pen, which the sales woman led me on to believe it was the right onw (she cannot read apparently), then I spend all day trying to find an intuos3 pen at stores and that turns up nothing, my best friend was driving me nuts by just being uber happy, and not caring at all how I felt, then I just wanted to sit down for the evening and play CoD5 with the boys and my Xbox refused to join a party or a game with them because our game versions are incompatible and sometimes because there are network isues (which there never were and we don’t have different game versions!!!). I was then so frustrated!! And just to top it all off, my roommate forgot to buy toilet paper, so we have none! AHHHH! It was  bad day yesterday. A very bad day.   -_-

Anyway, if anyone wants to buy a intuos2 Pen, never used, let me know before I got return it.

Catching Up on Podcasts

Catching up on podcasts is kind of weird. I haven’t gotten the chance to listen to all of my podcasts lately. It’s back logged to the beginning of April. I enjoy them a lot, but some of them are talking about games that aren’t out yet or something and by the time I listen to them, the game has been out and reviewed like crazy. Ahhhh…

I’m very busy and excited for the Speed Gamers marathon this weekend. It’ll be nice to have that going on in the background while I work. AND I will be ordering a new graphics card today for my desktop in hopes that I can use my desktop this weekend. I feel like it would make me have a more productive work flow.

Also, I will be drinking Red Bull for the first time today! Wish me luck! haha

Missing out?

So I recently became saddened by the realization that I have not seen any of the movies I’ve wanted to see. I didn’t get to go see Dragonball: Evolution, I haven’t seen Wolverine: Origins yet, and I didn’t see Star Trek. Oh well, I guess that’s what you get for being a recluse…hahaha, no I’ve been so just ummm, this quarter I’ve like kidnapped myself and today I realized that I need to let myself go a little otherwise I’ll make myself go insane. BUT ANYWAY!

I recently popped Zelda Wind Waker into my Wii and I was pleasantly surprised by it. I’m only about maybe a half-hour into it and I love the humor and the art style. Playing Twilight Princess gave me small heart attacks which caused me to not finish it. TJ is awesome (sorry, my buddy TJ wanted me to give him a shoutout randomly, so there it is). Anyway, back to TP. I just got overwhelmed by TP and the darkness of it. Maybe it was just not something I was in the mood for at the time, but the idea of spending 60+ hours on such a game was just not appealing. Now I don’t know how long Wind Waker is, but I wouldn’t mind spending 60+ hours in this brightly colored, fantastically humored world.

I am so excited about the newest Speed Gamers marathon in like 4 days! Starting on May 15th, the Speed Gamers will be running a marathon using the Mother or Earthbound series. You know, there is something about working, listening to music loudly, and having a video feed of someone playing a video game is just so inspiring and it makes me so happy. I often wish that there were a channel wether on TV or the internet that constantly had games being playing and it just showed the gameplay footage. Someone set that up, okay?

You know, I almost want to take a picture of my bedroom right now because it’s just gotten THAT disgusting. Seriously, I cannot remember the last time I let this closet-sized room get this bad. I’m afraid that while I’m cleaning today I might find some undiscovered creatures…..ew….

Wow Have I Been Busy

Well now that I’m officially a senior, that means I get to do senior things! And no, I don’t mean playing chess with an old comrade why a nurse tries to feed me applesauce kind of senior….although now I am compelled to draw that….hmmmm

I’ve been in a very sketchy mood, like, I’m drawing a lot lately, which is a good thing. I’ve been getting into pushing my art towards a more Americanized style instead of that manga stuff, which I can’t help doing, but I’ve been really trying to push myself. I’ve also been designing machines. Mostly for the environment I’ve been working on, but yeah, I have a lot of sketches in random notebooks….for…other…classes (:: looks to check that her other professors don’t read her blog). Yeah!

Studio I class is my first senior class in Game Development and it’s been a lot of hard work so far, but I predict that these next few weeks will truly be working non-stop. I played a lot of Left 4 Dead and poker this weekend, which was like “Really, Elle?! You have time for this?!”  And so yeah, yesterday in my Psychology and Renaissance Art class I was reminded of the huge research papers I have to write within the next week, or actually within the next few days (insert small panic attack here). So this weekend I will be probably at the library working on my Ren Art paper….oh man, that’s gonna be a rough one. And I’m going to be kicking it into even MORE overdrive, which frightens me, on my Studio I environment.

Seriously, I’ve been staying up all night for like the past…..week and a half. I sleep in nap-lengths during the day time. It’s weird, because I feel like I haven’t really been outside in a month…e_e…you know, I’m not sure when I last went outside to just enjoy walking around outside….oh the end of the quarter will be welcomed heartily with promises of warm sunlight, cool swimming pools, and maybe even some sand….but no ocean…there are creatures in there……<_<….

Okay this is getting too long and rambling, so I will leave you with a major WIP for my current project:

I sketched this up during my Renaissance Art class

GDC ’09

Hey guys! Long time, no update!! I’m at GDC right now as a CA again! I’m having a blast and meeting a lot of people! My PC got fried in a thunderstorm two weeks ago, so I’ll be getting that into the repair shop next week. It’s still early in the week, but GDC is busy and a lot of fun! I’m so excited to go to the keynotes tomorrow and to work at the Brutual Art or Brutual Legend! Oh! And I’ll be working at the Illustrative Renderig of the Prince of Persia! Eeeek! Exciting!

For one of the keyotes, we’ll be having Iwata from Nintendo (President). I’m wondering what he will be talking about. Maybe more info on the Wii motion plus? I overheard someone today say that they are probably going to start re-releasing Wii games, but now with the Wii Motion Plus function, haha! I want to see more on the DSi.

Speaking of Nintendo, the newest Pokemon game came out this past Sunday – Pokemon Platinum! I want to get it, but I still haven’t finished Diamond yet! I’ve been playing Chrono Trigger, but have been playing Diamond to take a lil’ break from it. Anyway, I have to be jetting off now! I’ll try to update later this week!