Lia (New Pathfinder Character)

Seeing to my good ol Swashbuckler died (partially jellied) it was (obviously) time to bring in my next character who is a Psionic Marksman Half Elf so I figured I should write the backstory ASAFP so here it is.

Lia was born a half elf in a marsh in the Human and Elf lands, her mother was an Elf and her father was a Human. Being raised in a marsh she had learned the basics and somewhat more about survival in them by her parents and they would occasionally take her hunting when she was old enough. By the age of 12 she had been taught how to use guns, bladed weapons, was pretty fit for her age and was more than capable to hunt on her own. One day while she was out exploring she came across an old wrecked rowing boat which looked as though it had been there for a long time, after scouting it out she assessed it was safe to approach. At the boat she found minimal belongings of someone’s which were all mostly useless due to how long it had been in the swampy water for along with being broken from whatever attacked the boat. She searched the area a little more then came across an almost fully decomposed crocodile body in front of what looked to be a human skeleton in robes, Lia examined the bodies and figured the crocodile had attacked the person and got killed while biting the man’s leg off from a dagger clean to the head. She searched the body and found a few books in the man’s bag and took them home to check out later. When she went to bed that night she decided to start reading the books which turned out to be on “Psionics” she was quite intrigued with the idea of it and decided to give it some practice. When she was 17 she had learned but not quite mastered psionics in secret due to the fear of being seen as a danger to the village, her parents always told her to never wander outside of the marshes or at least not too far saying that people on the outside were mostly full of greed and did nothing but hate each other, although this didn’t stop her from wanting to explore beyond the marshes behind her parent’s backs.

Maya Work

Havent been posting my progress in maya lately but I have thus far modeled up the first room for my animation (might still need a little work) along with a gas mask filter I proudly made (although there is WAY to much geometry in it so I cannot use it) and well I NEED to fix the problems in that last image cause WOOO no need to explain that. 

Surrealism (re-make)

So due to being confused with what classes I am in (has been sorted now though) I gotta re-do the surrealism post although I had made a mistake in it anyway so.

Surrealism is when there are strange events or scenery such as Spellbounds eyeball curtains, or an original form of something but also represents another meaning.

Personal Favourite:

Surrealism is greatly different from the regular Hollywood film due to instead of everything being explained and slapped in your face as it happens, Surreal films make you work out its meaning for yourself and has no specific storyline.

There is a large number of surreal animations (or at least considered) mostly because of the style, Courage the Cowardly Dog I feel is one of these along side Ed, Edd and Eddy

2D Storyboard References

So we are supposed to gather reference pictures for our storyboards although the trouble is that I don't feel like I need any references from the internet and such so what I am doing is using concept art for my 3D animation along with the animatic itself.

Surrealist Film - Spellbound

Spellbound was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and was made in 1945. Surrealist films are different from the usual Western film due to that it is all odd, mysterious and you just cant quite keep track of what is happening or why (something as up everything is upside down)

 Surrealism has become popular over the years featuring in many arts and films for example Dr. Seuss's art style is rather similar to surrealism

Best Work Yet?

Finished the picture I had posted the line work for and...

Well heres my new Pathfinder character (Psionic Marksman) and hell I feel like this is the best picture I've ever drawn.

Cameraman's Revenge

In class today we watched a few old animations/films and we are supposed to write on the one we liked the most so for mine I chose Cameraman's Revenge. Cameraman's Revenge I found pretty odd, funny and interesting just for the fact that it was a stop motion WITH BUGS and it was about "Mr Beetle" who went on a small trip to the city and cheated on his wife for a performing Dragonfly who he had beaten up a Grasshopper to get to. The Grasshopper films the Beetle and Dragonfly "doing things" and ends up hooking up "Mrs Beetle" but getting caught in the act, then after things cool down a bit Mr and Mrs Beetle go and see a movie (yea because bugs having affairs and using cameras wasnt weird enough right?) but the person manning the booth was the Grasshopper and he played the film of Mr Beetle and the Dragonfly which makes things pretty hectic from there onward.

got a good feeling

With Pathfinder being a frequent thing and the fact that I almost died about 2 or 3 times last session I figured I may as well make another character just in case my main one dies and by cripes I got a good feeling about this character AND the picture I am drawing of her. 

NEEEWWWWWYOOOOWWWW!!!

we made a plane in Maya... thats it, not a billion awesome characters or anything this may seem like one of those posts but... sorry mate

Silhouettes

So heres a few silhouettes.

HOMEWORK YAY!! :D

So in my animation I am planning on doing something that has a similar look to the game "Super Hot" where the world is mostly solid colours (mostly white) and the characters are completely un-textured the only difference I can think of between this and my animation in terms of looks will be that mine wont be as sparkly and my character(s) wont have hands or feet.

In regards to the fight scenes "Red Vs Blue" I feel will have quite an influence (looks pretty awesome but makes you chuckle here and there)

Did A Thing

After losing my first candlestick due to a crash another one was born from the ashes and textured!

Logline, Treatment and Title Yr2

So the next assessment if to make our treatment, logline and title for our animation so naturally... 

here you go 

Title: The Badasses Badass Guide To Being The Ultimate Badass

Logline: Badass fighting people with badass guide in the background.

Treatment: Diesel Kikurteethin Wilder is eating his breakfast one morning then a gang comes and ruins his breakfast by tipping the table. Through an uncontrollable (and badass rage) Diesel falls back on his training at the “Badass Academy For Badasses” and shows them who’s top dog. During the awesome brutality of spine breaking action and explosions there are specific rules popping up on the screen for all those eager to learn viewers 

Screen Arts Work

So for our Screen Arts class we had to start a whole new blog and name our most favorite movies with the directors names, the year they were made and what genre what we feel like it is BUT for some reason Blogger wont let me make a new blog so... y'know I'm posting here.

These are not going in any specific order, these are just movies I like off the top of my head.

1. Aliens, 1979, James Cameron - Sci-Fi/Action

2. Terminator, 1984, James Cameron - Sci-Fi/Action

3. Star Wars Force Awakens, 2015, J.J. Abrams - Sci-Fi/Adventure

4. District 9, 2009, Neill Blomkamp - Sci-Fi/Action

5. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, 2014, Peter Jackson - Adventure/Fantasy

6. Crank, 2006, Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor - Action/Comedy

7. Deadpool, 2016, Tim Miller - Action/Comedy

8. Star Wars Return Of The Jedi, 1983, Richard Marquand - Sci-Fi/Adventure

9. 28 Weeks Later, 2007, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - Action/Thriller

10. 28 Days Later, 2002, Danny Boyle - Action/Thriller

Dark Secrets - Chapter 1 - Part 1

So basically I'm gonna be writing the events of our Pathfinder campaign called "Dark Secrets" to not only keep track of whats happened but also just to put a bit more story behind it cause well why the hell not right?
In these I'm gonna be writing it as if I were my character Oliver Crowe however for comedic reasons ect I'm gonna be breaking the 4th wall every so often. So in saying that I hope any readers enjoy :P

The Heroes Guild

Alright now where to begin? welp I suppose I should start where things really got interesting. I was havin a stroll down the street to the tavern for a good ol drink seeing to my bottle was mostly finished so I thought why the hell not? I mean cripes that was good mead I'm more of a rum person but- wait no never mind I'm gettin off track ere anyway I was walking down the street and I saw a poster saying some gibberish bullshite I cant remember everythin considering I was off my chops at the time but I remember it sayin "pays well" and "new people wanted" oh and somethin like "killin shite" so I went and signed up for that along with two others who looked like they knew what they was doin and I ended up bein grouped with em.

One of em was some giant frog person I believe he was a sorcerer of some sort and the other was, I dunno the fuck he was but he had more scars than I did, was white as a bleedin ghost and he could take someones wounds onto himself so they didn't have to suffer them. I cant remember either of their names my memory of that time is a little hazy so for argument sake I'll name em Froggy and Casper for now, but we were given a quest list by some fine lass and we had a few jobs to choose. We could have investigated some grave robbers or some shite like that, done the "challenge of the fey", gone monster huntin or some other bullshite which I have no blasted clue what it was and couldn't really care much considerin it was at the bottom of the list yea? But anyway we chose to do the challenge of the fey and we set off.

When we finally arrived we came across two ugly as piss giant flies which I think we may or may not have pissed off by attacking them with magic and all sorts of missed bullets. One of the buggers managed to sting me right under the armpit but we'll get to that later shall we? After I got stung another came out of nowhere and got a good hit into Froggy but he was a tough bugger for a sorcerer and shrugged it off, I cant remember much from the fight but I know Casper and Froggy managed to kill two then another was pretty close to me so I though sod it and smacked the little prick with my handle of my pistol and shite that thing exploded, I mean cripes it was like taking a hammer to a bloody pie! Afterwards Casper checked me and Froggy in regards to the stings, he found the entry hole to my sting but he didn't find shite on Froggy, luckily I had a good ol fishhook so I gave that to Casper and he got out a fuckin egg those cheeky little buggers!

We were then greeted by a leprechaun of all things and gave us directions to these little areas where these riddles and all were so we set off... uh... shite... was it west? yea sod it lets just say west WE WENT WEST however we tried to go west then some vines from a big ugly plant thing started attackin us I believe Casper got hit first, however he found a pretty little rose before hand so he dropped it assuming he pissed off the forest or somethin like that but nup that plant was just hungry. I got a slap across the face and christ did that hurt then another cheeky little bugger wrapped around my ankle, Froggy shot some ice ball at the main part of this plant but it just bloody drank it! I cant remember what Casper was doin I think he chopped up one of them vines but I know he rushed over to help me around the time I swung at the vine around my ankle but shite was that thing quick, it bloody dodged my cutlass! or maybe it was the drink I had before hand... but nevermind that Casper healed me like a lad and the vine let me go, I cant remember what happened to that one I think I chopped it or some shite but I remember seeing Caspers scythe in the giant plant so I had to guess he chucked it up there but that bleedin thing was still alive somehow so I shot it... or at it anyway but it was Froggy that killed the cheeky bugger got em good with some acid spray or somethin like that.

We then came across a giant field and we saw about four feral dogs eatin something so we did what I am assuming anyone else would do and we attacked em, Froggy did that acid shite to one of em and killed the poor sod then I shot another one right in the head and yes... it died. One other came at me but the mutt tripped over, I shot the dumb arse in the head I even heard the bullet hit the ground on the way out, then the last one tried to bite me but get this shite, its nose was in the bleedin way so nup no scars for me! that poor sod got the same treatment as the other two I dealt with. Casper found a mangled up body with a few goodies on him one was a staff of some sort, a dagger which I swiped, two swords... which I think I also took I dont remember... I need to lay off the bleedin drink...... anyway there was also a bow with one arrow and some axe and we then set off to the next little area.

We were walking down some path and we heard rustling in the bushes beside us, Casper insisted we walk on the sides of the path and shoot the arrow down the pathway which I did but bow and arrow aint usually my thing so obviously the arrow went "off course" but then we went in the middle of the path and about 6 snake things jumped out of the bushes and two got me and Froggy on the arm and another almost got Froggy on the face and I swear the thing was sucking my blood or somethin but it was at this point that I WISH A CERTAIN BLOODY PALADIN WOULD HAVE JOINED US INSTEAD OF BEIN SICK AT HOME!! but around this time it all came to a close because Froggy had to leave to go home or somthin or rather.

Getting Back To It

With course coming back up I figured I may as well get back to drawing and thinking of stories. Recently I've gotten into Dungeons and Dragons along with Pathfinder, in making my character I figured I may as well do a back story especially considering the picture of him looks like he should have one (I will post a picture at some stage it is only on paper at the moment)


Oliver Crowe

As a child Oliver was kidnapped by a band of pirates called "The Blood Cutlass" Naturally being born into a rich family the leader "Dead Eye Archer" wanted to ransom Oliver however a number of the crew grew impatient, mostly Archer's second in command "Talon the Untamed" who led a raid against the Crowe's estate taking anything they wanted and killing anyone they found including Oliver's parents. Archer took pity on Oliver and took him under his wing despite Talon's disagreements and taught him how to fight and sail.

Over the years Oliver had learned to know the crew, become a more than capable sailor, grown fond of killing and thievery and earned the name "Mischievous Oliver" at the current age of 19. The crew had gains of its own, 5 years back they had taken another ship marking the beginning of the Blood Cutlass fleet naming Talon as the captain of the new ship.

During a harsh storm out at sea, a rival pirate band named "The Krakken" and the Blood Cutlass crossed paths breaking out into a viscous fight between 5 vessels, two belonging to the Cutlass and three to the Krakken. Halfway through the battle the Krakken had lost one ship and Talon became ambitious siding with the Krakken, taking a boarding party to the ship in which Oliver and Archer were on. Archer and Talon fought however Talon was much younger and had numerous tricks up his sleeve which helped him defeat Archer before Oliver could come to help. A viscous and bloody battle broke out between Talon and Oliver costing him his right hand pinky finger and a few cuts and bruises (a number of them on his face) In the end Oliver lunged his sword into Talon's chest and shot him in the forehead and overboard.

Despite losing their captain and a number of their men Oliver took command of the ship and successfully sunk Talons ship and another Krakken however it only took one more boarding party to capture Oliver and the rest of the crew. Oliver and the crew attempted an escape while rigging the ship to blow with gun powder however the only known survivor was Oliver who drifted off on a part of ship debris.