14/08/2011

I thought I’d make a note on this

By Seamus

For those of you who were following it each week, you may have also noted me saying that I can’t find the last chapter for Samurai 2020. I’ve rummaged everywhere, including through our oldest computers HD, and can’t locate it. Which means some time during the process of finishing it, then getting my laptop and moving over here, the copy of the novel that was on my External HDD, was not the updated version, and the completed version was left on the main computer. But that copy isn’t up to date either?

But since that comp’ has had many issues in the past, the old files have been lost, and re-backed up by my HDD and the files on it. That might be why the folder in there is no longer the complete.

But after finishing my novels, I tend to send them to some friends who offer to read my novels even though they are in their shoddy first draft stage, and right now I’m hoping that one of them still has the copy of the original, so for the sake of not having to go by my memory of the basics of what occurred in that last chapter, re-reading the book so far several times to get a full grasp of what I really wanted to happen, and then trying my best to mimic and pull things together again, I really, really hope she still has the original complete copy.

Samurai 2020 just wont be the same re-written without it.

Word of caution for people: Having 4 backups isn’t enough. Save and update them all when writing books and working on long projects. Seriously, I know a lot of people who don’t, and hitting Ctrl+S (cmd+s) every minute may seem annoying, especially when the file takes longer than a few seconds to save, but it pays off in the end every time.
Never, under any circumstance, rely on your digital hard copies. Rely on your own organisation and common sense.

~Shea

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11/08/2011

Finished Painting

By Seamus

yeah, the photo qualities shocking. I wish I had a better camera, or has the chance to take this to TAFE to make use of the camera’s there, but there’s not really much time, and I’d not risk my work getting damaged during the transit part of the travel.

But, despite lack of photo-quality, I promised I’d upload the painting I’d finally finished. There’s still something that I feel should be done. Maybe one day I’ll decide? Perhaps I just feel that way because it’s my own work and I’m my worst critic? In any case, it’s done for now, and I can focus on other work, and make a beginning on my next painting.

New Painting

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10/08/2011

Dont Ya Hate It?

By Seamus

Don’t you hate it when you sit down, tell yourself, “I am going to get this done, today!” Then suddenly your entire day’s gone, you stay up till 4, decide to take a short sleep, and wake up at 12 feeling like you’ve been hit with a sack of potatoes and then drugged?

Anyway, point is things have been busy. Which is why my little posts have not been as frequent as before, and that comic I said I was thinking of doing hasn’t even seen a start. But that’s alright. There’s still time left in the world (right?).

So what have I been doing to have no provided updates on project progression, or even new video’s? Well I’ve been doing just that. Working on those projects till coffee doesn’t have the same effect anymore. So to run things down, here’s a short list of what I’ve been doing, and how far off it is from being done.

I’m still looking to getting permission to upload parts of the graphics packages I did a month or so ago. Just need the details first. If I can upload it, I shall.

Tales Of Thyilos is… kinda at a stand still due to being busy with TAFE. However, a friend of ours might be joining in, which means another talented artist in the group. Also, our character artist informed me yesterday that he will have some sketches soon. (and I am stoked to see what he made from my vision).

There’s another game also, which recently has had a lot of attention. You may remember a post a week ago about “LucidFlame“. Though I am within right to make any statement, there has been lots of “behind the scenes” work, and it’s not related to ToT or KoT.

I’ve managed to crunch down on a flash promo’ ad. Though I can’t upload flash on here (with a pricey upgrade), I intend on uploading a render. That said, if the flash runs well, I’ll upload it on Newgrounds, or something.

Lastly, and this is one of the things that’s made me most pleased tonight; I got up. Grabbed my brush. Finished that painting I started little over a month ago. I’ve been staring at it and hoping my pirate hat will somehow influence inspiration, but I don’t know what I could actually add to it. So I think I’ll leave it and be happy with what I’ve done.
And then move immediately onto a new painting, which I might start tonight.
I will upload a photo of the painting I’ve finished tomorrow on my DeviantArt.

That’s all for me tonight, folks. More updates and stuff on a later day.
~Shea

PS: … does word press seem to be loading a little sllloooowwwly lately? Or is it just me?

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07/08/2011

Am I missing something?

By Seamus

This week seems like I’ve done nothing but wake up, head to TAFE, work in front of a computer all day with barely any break, then head home, take care of chores and return right to sitting in front my laptop to work. Sleep, rinse, repeat.

It could be madness setting in from getting 3-4 hours of sleep each night and then being coffee deprive… But I really do love my line of work.

oh, and I also forgot about Friday’s novel post.
https://studiowisp.com/content/novels/samurai-2020/s8-p3/
Sorry about that. >_<

Now, back to work I go!

~Shea

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03/08/2011

Lucidflame

By Seamus

Say wha?

Don’t worry, I’m about to explain.

Me and some friends got the crazy idea that we should make our own development team for when working on RPG Maker projects, but we figured we’d need a name, and also, may as well make a site of some sort so we can post about projects we’re al working on, and specific projects we as a team are working on. And we eventually blended a bunch of random words together and made Lucidflame. (and yes, we also found a meaning behind the words that makes sense so it’s not all entirely that random of a title after all).

Awesome or not? You may wonder.
Well on the upside, the games we post about in there are games we are working on that will be published to the net. And some are FREE.
Don’t like RPG’s? That’s okay, we understand. But if you have a friend who likes’em, please recommend the site. The more followers we can get on there, the more motivated we all become to work on our projects. Which means better quality games to be eventually played.

Games me and Studio Collaborative members are working on will continue to also be posted and updated on here as well as on Lucidflame.

Seeya later ^_^

~Shea

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29/07/2011

So 9 days later

By Seamus

Simply put, it’s been 9 days since I got around to making an update here, so I thought I better throw in something, once more, to prove I do not intend on forgetting about the site!

I’m uploading a video tonight. It’s really just a simple little project, but I figured it was upload worthy and it’s about time I added to my online portfolio. Also, it doesn’t seem I’ll get any audio from the TV Students, so I’ll hopefully get some time to upload a preview of the Graphics packages I did a around a month ago.

As for that rather stupid to be comic, I am still planning on doing it, but have yet to get around to it. TAFE has been unfortunately busy, which means less time to do other stuff. But I wont let that stop me from trying.

As a final note: There is now just over a month till the scheduled BETA demo. We’ve decided to do a closed BETA, however, so if you want to try it out and help provide valuable feedback, you know where to e-mail me. If you don’t my contact stuff is on the About page.

So long for now, readers, and have a great weekend.

~Shea

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20/07/2011

A little extra somthing

By Seamus

I’m thinking of adding a little extra to the site, so that there will be an interesting distribution of items available to view on the site.
I mean, so far I post up a chapter or section from my novels each week, the site host’s links to video’s and art-work I do myself, or as collaboration. There’s tutorials now on the YouTube Side of the site. Links to games, and eventually a full RPG. Artwork, and a page which links to people or things that I’ve found inspiring or useful. But I feel I can do more.

I’ve decided that during those random moments when something stupid or amusing comes to mind, I should note it, then make it into a quick comic strip. It’ll give me a chance to express what comes to mind, or I overhear or read, as well as work more on my illustration skills; hopefully both on paper, and on Illustrator and Photoshop. I’ll probably call the series “Another Bad Joke”… mostly because I don’t spend my time making jokes, and I have a feeling the first strips I do will involve bad puns. Or a wrinkled old man, with a massive beard and only one shoe… will have to wait and see.

For now, I have some rendering to do…

Till next time!

~Shea

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16/07/2011

Hypervoxels!

By Seamus

That’s it,t he fourth ones up, which fills the quota our client/teacher wanted to make use of.
Link

Of course, I’m still going to look into the other possible tutorials on making bones, as well as an overview of the different advanced controls in Layout. The layout one is more a must, since during a few tutorials I mention “Save this, and we’ll make use of it in a later tutorial”, which we shall by using them in a scene and making use of what tools we have available to set something nice up.
(and making a render which for me will possibly take 14 hours, and that’s a still… could be worse though. If I tried, I could make a render that takes a few days! OH WHAT FUN! I’m going to need a render farm one day).

Anyway, that’s all for now. The break is over, and thus I return back to my studies. Which hopefully means more work being put up. So till next time! Goodnight.

~Shea

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12/07/2011

Today… is Tuesday

By Seamus

And there’s not much to write. But I figured I should be keeping to posting updates, even if there’s very little to say, just so the readers know that I haven’t forgotten about the site and those who do read what’s on it.

Thankfully, there is a little to post on.
Firstly, the next Tutorial is scheduled to be ready over Thursday night, like the rest. But there’s some matters I’m needed to attend to tomorrow and the next, so if things don’t go to plan and I can’t get to my desk to upload the tutorial. It’ll be up sometime Friday night.

I also return to TAFE again next week, which means the various assignments I’ve been fussing over during the break are coming to a close. Which means there will be some new stuff on my personal YouTube to see. I may also upload the introduction animations for the TV Studio groups I did graphics for. (wont be any sound unfortunately, but if I can, I’ll see if I can get the theme music off them).

On a side note, I’ve been trying to do some paintings lately. So there will be something new up on my deviant art.

That’s about it. I’ll post a quick note here, Facebook, and Twitter when the next tutorial is up, and might also make a decision on whether to make an in depth look into Layout, or to teach myself how to animate with bones so I can make a tutorial on it.

Till next time!

~Shea

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08/07/2011

3rd Tutorial is up

By Seamus

It took nearly 16 hours of stuffing around, but finally the 3rd tutorial is up.
This one will show you how to do UV Mapping, which is a very useful technique!

Link!

Hope you can get something helpful out of it.

The next tutorial will be uploaded around a week from now, and will be showing you how to make use of Hypervoxels in Layout.

~Shea

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