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Was bored so started doodling.]]>The cake thing in the last past was the background for an animation I did for my brother's student film. It was actually the dvd menu animation and one of his buddies liked it so much he asked me to do one for him. He wanted the guy's hand to be tapping a pen onto the desk on a loop. But this is just the background and I animated that ontop in flash.
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I keep meaning to post here more often, but I've started spending more time on PvC than on what I would refer to as my 'proper' website. I intend to rectify this in the near future just by posting more. And if anyone out there wants to do something together in the new year, let me know by either leaving a comment or by dropping me an email at pilot13 AT gmail DOT com.
]]>I always wanted to keep PvC seperate from here, which is why you won't really see it on here (although there are a handful of pages in the portfolio section) as it's an opportunity for me to just draw without trying to push the boat out too much.
It does seem now to take up more of my time than the regular sort of one off images that get posted here do. So er, go read the comic.
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Anyway, what's up with me? Well aside from the aforementioned Christmas job I have been trying to work through Dragon Age. I'm playing it on 360 and it seems really easy. I don't think I've ever had a single proper game over (where all my party died) except maybe in the Fade when I could only control my main character. The plot of the game is pretty generic fantasy stuff but it's pretty engaging nonetheless.
I've also finished the campaign for Modern Warfare 2 (which was pretty short) and tried it online (where I got my arse handed to me many times). The press are obviously jumping through the regular hoops claiming it's the worst thing to happen to humanity since that last video game that was the worst thing to happen to humanity. Modern Warfare 2 is a violent game but it's no worse than any other shooter you could pick up off the shelf (airport level aside of course but I believe Soldier of Fortune might have done that first anyway). It's just because it's such a high profile title that it's getting a lot of coverage.
It doesn't help that a lot of what the public it told is complete misinformation. I had one customer in today telling her friend that it apparently had excessive drug taking in it. As far as I can recall there isn't any drug taking let alone excessive. It's just a bit gory.
But it's not the press' fault really. Parents just don't really understand the ratings system. Most of them think that they're 'suggested' rather than 'legal' and mostly just suggestions on the difficulty of the game. If that is true, why does Forza 3, the complicated driving simulation, have 3+ rating from PEGI? Most of the parents that come in asking for 'That new modern welfare game' wouldn't let their kids watch an 18 film, but would buy them an 18 game.
What we need is better education for parents rather than calls from the tabloid press to tighten the law.
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