Fatal Rage of Conflict: Whaddaya Buyin’?

Hands up who recognises this guy!

Black & White comic exhibition

Tops poster from Pat Grant.  Come and see us at the NYWF this year!

Bad Jeeg Drawing

I really love my Steel Jeeg toy, so I drew a pic of it on some cardboard but I rushed it because I was excited.

The Untold Legend of Double Shakes McGraw – another peek…

Another page from this upcoming little tale which is part of the very slowly progressing You Stink & I Don’t #10.  This page doesn’t follow from the other page I posted!

I have decided this is to be the second installment in an epic Handshake trilogy – the first part being Shakey McShane from the second printing of You Stink & I Don’t #8.

A Thing of Sheer Beauty

Ian Marks, of Foffle magazine made me this lovely leather bound version of the Glenjamin collected book!

As you can see here the book has a leather cover with gold lettering, a ribbon, nice splattery bits on the edges of the pages, and a ri… I already said that, little gold corner bits on the cover and also ummmm… sort of coloured paper on the inside of the cover.

It looks so cool I kinda had to offset it by pulling ugly faces.

Fatal Rage – new background

This took about 6 hours!  it is meant to suggest the world of Fallout 3 which is a computer game which judging by the screenshots I used for reference is a shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world.  Gamers think the dumbest stuff is cool.  The Matrix was really, really popular.  But Good Game viewers are happy with us when we pander to them, so that’s what we do and it’s nice hearing them squeal with delight.

On my Sheezyart page once, I posted a Lesson Master episode and in one frame I drew the word Taito on the top of a building.  Taito are a computer game company.  Somebody responded with the message “Taito! ” like they were really happy that I wrote the word Taito.

Speaking of computer game companies, when I was in Japan on the way to Kyoto on a bullet train I looked out at these paddocks and rice fields in the middle of nowhere and saw a multi-story Namco building.  Just thought it was weird, that’s all.

Also i went to the Tokyo Game Show with Felicity and David (also a 2K Australia employee) and looked at all the student developers work.  I woulda thought they’d be the best, being Japanese but they were nowhere near as good as Australians.  One dude had tried to make a game for the WII about a bunny that jumped jerkily through bright green hills, shooting fireworks inaccuarately into the sky which was plain black.  It didn’t work properly and had no shading but I played for a few minutes to be polite even though i was frustrated after one second.  Japanese concepts are always ten times better though.  The Tokyo Game Show was mostly mobile phone games as well which was weird.  Also, even though we were with 2K we still had to pay to get in.  I mean, we’d just made Bioshock. They probably would have sent limousines driven by geishas to pick us up if we’d actually told ‘em we were coming.  At one point a journalist approached me to talk about games, just by chance, not knowing I was a developer.  Felicity is in marketing though, and I mumbled so much that she pretty much took over the interview.  I remember she tried to drop jargon like ‘motion capture’ into her speil which must be a marketing trick.  Afterwards I felt so lame that I’d been a game developer for eight years but had to get my girlfriend to talk for me about it even though she didn’t know what ‘motion capture’ really meant.

A few Tales frames…

I have been forgetting to post my Tales stuff, so here are a few selections from the past few weeks.

This one is about drinking kava:

This one is about crapping into a plastic bag in a rich person’s house.  A friend of mine had a similar experience.  Hands up if you’ve ever put poo in a plastic bag in a rich person’s house!

This one is about being stoned.  Stoners are so much better than drunks:

This one was about TV screens in pubs:

I have done 160 Tales now, which means I have been working for Picture for over three years!