When you post a video other people think is cool on youtube, you can expect 3 things to happen.

1. You will get a lot of views
2. Your video will be republished
3. Some of your republished videos will be rick roll bait

The Antipathy trailer was just such a video.  It received numerous awards for which I am eternally grateful and it was republished numerous times which is also fine with me so long as proper credit is given etc.  


So, when I saw this pole smokers republished Antipathy video not only claiming it was the Official Gears of War 3 trailer but then being ball-less enough to take credit for it to boot??  I had to take action – right up to the point I saw it had received like 100k views in just 30 days or something.  So the “view whore” in me took over and decided that exposure is exposure and just let it ride.  I did send him a few PM’s at first asking him to give us credit for the vid which he did not do.  The last correspondence I had with him was me calling him a various assortment of expletives.  That video has now surpassed one million views and I imagine will keep on keeping on unless someone reports it.


And that’s sort of the way it works with me.  I got my first million view video but it will be under false pretenses and not even on my channel. HA!  /grumble

Imagine my surprise when I got an email from Xbox World UK magazine asking me if they could put my movies on the DVD that accompanies their magazine. Well low and behold it has released and god damnit…WE’RE IN IT!! or on it whichever you prefer. In any case, hate to brag but I am just so full of awesome happiness right now that I just had to tell someone!! I guess the only bad news is that it’s from November 2009’s Issue. Weird, AMIRITE!


Movies that were included on the CD:

• DoubleKill – Chance of Rain
• DoubleKill – Jess
• UT3 vs Halo Dance Off (divX)
• Antipathy trailer

Huge thanks to Kimberly at Xbox world 360 magazine for contacting me.


This is the magazine’s DVD and Magazine cover art so if you have that – check the “extras” section on the DVD!

So I decided maybe concept modeling was more my speed. Tonight, I began to create what may be the homes the settlers will live in. Each dome will be modular and depending on how much money you had on the start of your trip will depend on how big a home you can buy. This would be an example of a fancier home. This week I will try out some different styles and hopefully come up with a good mix of designs.











One model may have a retractable roof with an observatory. Here it is retracted





And here it is closed.





This is an example of how the homes might be laid out. A group of 8 with a central water/sewage system.

Let me preface this post with…”I am a shitty drawer, or drawing artist, pretty much the opposite of a REAL artist” Which will be readily apparent in the sketches below.  In fact, up until a few years ago, I thought you spelled it “Scetch”…yeah, exactly.  That said, I did manage to whip up a decent looking cyborg, or at least the robotic portion of him on my trusty ol grid paper.  The rest of these sketches were done with my wacom tablet.

The Seed takes place in space on one of the first “modern” era space colonies.  So the idea is to create massive bio-dome like structures that contain the settlers of said space colony.  The plan is to make the settlers homes inside the dome structures to be designed as energy efficient as possible while at the same time try to make them as visually interesting as possible.  But hey, as I said this is a ‘modern’ corporate settlement where individuality is not discouraged therefore giving us  some creative freedoms in designing the architecture.  In any case, this is where I am at with the artwork.  While Jeremy continues to iron out parts of the story.

Huge thanks to Termi who sent me this link today


So, admittedly I was a HUGE fan of The Phantom Menace when it came out.  I think I was caught up in the hype.  I sure as hell hope I don’t feel the same way about this movie in a couple years. I highly doubt I will buuuuttt there is this evidence to which I say DON’T KILL MY AVATAR BUZZ HATERS!!.   Anyway, I am digressing.  Please watch the following series outlining the ‘minor’ flaws of The Phantom Menace.  It’s hilarious as well as very insightful for you film makers.