ArtCtrl

Currently in Wainui. Here’s a quick digital drawing I did last night. Started as a portrait and moved into a landscape.

Found my tablet pen, and got my laptop working. I’ve been focused on 3d and Python lately. Need to get back into some regular digital painting. Here’s something I worked on tonight:

Hello. As you can see this site has been used for bbc news spam. This was a python script that i created. Basically what the script did was fetch json object with the module requests - and convert it to a dict with the module json.

This was written inside ipython notebook. Each request made choose a random number - between 0 and 13. This decided on which category to choose from - world, uk, tech, education and so on. Something to add to this would be for it not to choose the same option twice, but instead cycle through all 13 choices.

After this the data is then sorted and saved - as a file containing html.  This file had the title, summery , and image.

The data wasn’t alot, ideally i would like to work with the whole article content - not just the summery.

View the ipython notebook - bbcnews.

In my next post ill post the script that uploads this file as a blog post

The following images are renders of 3d models i created inside maya. I’ve always used Blender over Maya but recently decided to give Maya a go. Like Blender, Maya also uses Python as a scripting language. I’ve got modeling sorted, still have to learn rigging and animation. These are simple inside Blender, but i struggle with Maya.

Several weeks ago i was involved with a game jam - redditbaconjam06. Since this is my art site i felt the need to upload several digital painting i did during the jam. Sadly, this was not used. Enjoy.

My laptop is currently out of action. I do however have my phones which ive been getting back into since the laptop charger breaking.

This is a digital painting produced in sketchbook pro on the device. The original art was a water color painting - created by my friend Cathern.

This is some concept art for the game Cafrin 2: episode one.

The first game was created with python for the gameboy jam.

Over the weekend I worked on a game for Asylum Jam.

I had signed up to a list of people that were looking for groups. A group emailed me asking for a 2d Artist and bonus if they had 3d modeling skills. I added them to Skype and joined the group.

Their idea was based on this video:

They sent me some 3d models to textures. These were machine like for the crushing machine. I had a go at texturing these. Problem I ran into was the fact that my tablet is broken and only responds if I draw with the eraser end. This works fine in GIMP where I bind it to paint - in Blender however I can’t seem to switch this to paint - only erase. This meant I had to export the texture pattern to GIMP to paint. I don’t usually worry so much about detailing textures - often just creating an abstract pattern for them. Animating this texture also gives good effects. I suggested the pattern animation for the group but it was never followed though.

The group was using Unity3d for the project. Sadly I still only have a Linux system so was unable to help with the game design - something that I usually really enjoy.

The group asked me to create ghost like shapes for the characters. It was their project and they were telling me how to paint. This seemed fine at the time but really I should have just painting my usual style as it was distracted and unproductive. I sent them many paintings to use in the project but only one of my paintings was used in the project. This was somewhat disappointing after the project was finished and handed in as they had used stock images to fill the space. This is why it’s best that I lead groups - similar to my setup with Melonie for Suburb Nightmare