Saturday 27 February 2010

Triceratops sketch


That massive pile of bones at the Natural History Museum. Apparently they structured it incorrectly... Random fact for you.

Wednesday 24 February 2010

Sonic the Hedgehog 4


Right, well, here's the 'badnik' concept art design I did for Sonic 4. Being a long time fan off the series (well, until Adventure, that is) I thought it'd be cool to see this guy from Sonic CD in the game.

I'm actually really glad that Sega's decided to go back to the 2D games, call it Sonic 4, and totally FORGET the rest of the Sonic games they've been churning out for over a decade now.

Though it makes me wonder why now? Sonic 4 is the game that should have been released on the Sega Saturn back in 1995. Nintendo probably has something to do with it, since they released the New Super Mario Bros game, and I guess that got Sega thinking. Not that I'm complaining of course. I'm glad they're finally seeing some sense (or so it seems for the moment).

Sonic & Knuckles was the last GOOD Sonic game in my opinion. Even though Sonic Adventure was Sonic's first venture into the 3D world, and I was happy when it finally came out... I kind of knew in my heart, that this game sucked balls a little. Bad controls, stupid characters like Big the Cat and "E-whatshisface-Gamma"... Amy and her bastard hammer.. Knuckles' totally bollocks treasure-hunting levels. Bad music. Argh! I just wanted to run around as Sonic through some lush environments, jump on bad guys' heads and collect Chaos Emeralds in the Special stages before having an epic showdown with Dr Robotnik and his latest creation.
Unfortunately all the good stuff was to be replaced by an over-crowded cast who you're forced to play with and take pretty much all emphasis off of Sonic as the hero and main character of the franchise. And teaming up with Robotnik at the end of practically every game since SA1 is just... ugh.
Anyway, we'll see if this new instalment is any good. It doesn't seem to be that different from Sonic 1, which in my opinion isn't such a great thing.. but hey. I will give it a chance.
JUST... PLEASE DON'T BURN MY HEART AGAIN, SEGA.


Monday 15 February 2010

How depressing....

Okay, I'm looking at a tutorial on youtube for embedding uploaded videos onto your website, and the person talking sounds like he is about 12 years old (at best). A child is telling me how to customise & add html code into my website.

A CHILD.

Sunday 14 February 2010

This time it was me who broke

Good grief, one thing after another. Suddenly got massively ill a couple of weeks ago and was totally out for the count. Couldn't do a thing and got behind on all my stuff. Past week's been alright, bar a few spew-moments. But I'm ACTUALLY over it now - all good!

I was doing a little Sonic the Hedgehog thing right before I got sick actually... a "badnik concept design" challenge thing Sega had set up right before the announcement of Sonic 4, but I couldn't complete it because of my terrible illness!! :O
So I'll probably just post it up here instead!