Gravel is fun
Made for this months loopdeloop.
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Spider spider spider ~ This guy is a new thing I’m working on.
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Assembling Lego ~ Made this little animation on a lazy hungover Sunday. It was all because I wanted to remember how to build him. It was fun.
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A game ~ Not by me, but contains my music. Fae is the name of a new quick-reflex 2D platformer that features a number of tracks from Slow Gravity. Game created by podbot. Play it here.
Also have a recent remix I did of a Nebulo song, so a kind of spacey downtempo synth-driven psybient electro-bastard remix of a minimal dark ambient-ish experimental additive-wave bonanza original.
Genres. Ugh.
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Album art illustrations ~ These are the nine illustrations that were drawn and digitally coloured to match each song on my recent album, excluding the main cover art. These images are embedded in the MP3 and FLAC files for the album, and iPhones and other clever devices will show each song’s illustration instead of the normal cover art while being played.
Someone album review’d me
The music blog Repeat Button has posted an awesome review of Slow Gravity - check it out! Their blog has good taste in general.
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Slow Gravity released today ~ It’s out! The first song on my new album is above, listen to the entire album on this youtube playlist, or go to Soundcloud.
If you’d like to download it, head over to Bandcamp and click ‘Buy now - name your price’ button. Enter zero if you want it for free, or you can throw me a few coins, your choice. I’ll have more free download options up soon.
All the songs on this album are under a Creative Commons licence, so you can use these songs, as is, for non-commercial purposes as long as you credit them.
Hope you enjoy it, thanks for listening.
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Finished my album art ~ This is the front cover, many more drawn to go with it. Album is out extremely soon, like in the next few days!
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I’m in a book ~ Miniclip.com made a kids book about games, and that’s me made of preselected Miniclip avatar part things, talking about making games. Yeah!
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Skategame development: IK legs ~ “IK” stands for “inverse kinematics”, which is a commonly used method to position limbs in games. Basically, if you know the positions of a characters hip and foot, it’ll work out where the knee must be. All the rest of the animation on the robot guy is using forward kinematics (FK), which is the normal way where you choose the angle of your joints and it’ll work out what position the limb is. Like posing a mannequin.
I needed this for grind tricks - if he lands in a grind I can set his feet position to be in the right places on the board, and then choose his body position, and his knees will work themselves out. Great for making it look like he’s absorbing an impact or leaning back on a downrail. In 2D it’s pretty simple, you get the choice of putting the knee forward or backward. In 3D, you get a whole 360 degree choice of where his knee could be (including bow-legged, knock-kneed and backward chicken legs), so I had to give each leg an “IK handle” to control which way his knees point.
Haven’t touched this game in quite a while due to other things, so when I finally get to the next step, I’ll be posing him in those 15 different grind positions.
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Robot! ~ We made a Lego robot, I made the the body and Mel made the face. And that’s how it went.
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#5 out of 9 ~ Just ink so far. Too tired to even think of a colour scheme right now.
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Potential album art time ~ Drawing lots of geometric landscapes to match my upcoming album. 3 down, 6 to go.
Secheron Peak - Everywhere Like Everything
New B-side track uploaded for my Secheron Peak music project!
As much as I love a couple of parts of this song, the whole thing ended up just being incoherent and not produced well enough to include with the rest of the upcoming album, so it’s been released as an early B side track. Hopefully you might enjoy some (if not all?) of this experiment.
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