Sketchbook

Delicious grilled cheese sandwich.

You would think that I haven't been drawing much, but in fact that is the opposite of true. Instead of trying to post everything though, here are a few highlights.

Fish Post

About two months ago:


A few weeks ago:
My plant order finally came in! And boy did it. I definitely got extra plants. Many extra plants.... It is still a work in progress. Suddenly I have a jungle to deal with.

This is Oroboros (Oro) an orange/black copper betta plakat. Plakats have shorter fins and are hardier than their longer finned cousins. He is pretty when the light hits him, because he is kind of metallic, but he photographs badly.


Next time I promise arts.

Moss Genius.

Most of the tutorials for planting java moss seem to be:
Step 1: Get moss
Step 2: Tie moss to something
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Beautiful underwater moss plains.

But the stuff comes in a clump. How does it ever become lovely waving grass fronds? Well after some trial and error, I may have figured it out.

Would have taken pics but no camera currently. And this is more fun anyway, right?

Not pictured: Having a grid with tiny holes, and needing to jab them with a pair of scissors to make them big enough. But my persistence has been rewarded, and I have a very small and very lovely small grass-like test clump in my tank now.
Now all I need... is another hour or three of spare time to sit and stuff the rest of the moss through a plastic grid.

Unrelated!

I finally caved and bought the new fish tank I had been admiring at the local pet store....
It is a slick little six gallon, a rectangular glass box with the filter/lighting tucked away behind. Best of all? It's aspect ratio is kinda widescreen.


I decided almost immediately that I really wasn't comfortable having it on the desk. Box of water + electronics is a bad idea, and the location made it really awkward to get at. So I picked up a cheap little stand and found it a better home. Look, books!


Been very busy so the tank has been going up in stages.... Got some rocks for it today. Now, it is kind of hard to tell just how awesome these rocks are, but trust me... they are. Theyre black striped with white, I am going for a limited color palette with this.


The sand needs to settle again though. Sand does a LOT more settling than gravel does, let me tell you. And you need to do a lot more RINSING too.

Next step is cycling it, and then fun experiments with anchoring java moss! And by fun I probably mean that it will involve lots of swearing for awhile.

Balloon Ferret!

Animation demo:



BF is not the cleverest of inflatable creatures, but darn it, he's cute.

Global Game Jam 2010!

Make a videogame in 48 hours. How hard can that be? It's doable but... you better not expect to get a lot of sleep! The game our team made was called "Legend of Morph". I built and animated the various characters, and Rachel did the backgrounds. Here is a demo of my animations:



The most common comment about Morph is that... he is sort of like a little pink roasted chicken walking around. Which is very strange, but you know, I kinda think it works.