The Project Zomboid site is now live! Click on the pretty logo below to get the whole scoop on the game: defending yourself against zombies, crafting items, and generally surviving in a nightmare apocalypse.
Why am I posting about this, you ask? ;) Friends and Indie Stone cohorts Lemmy101, CaptainBinky, and Nickenstein are the braaaaains behind it. I am not a full-time member on this, but have kicked in a few art assets. Those inventory icons in the screenshots? Mine ;)
Take a look! Pre-order and you’ll get free updates for life, but for the more fiscally cautious a demo is due out at the end of this month :) http://projectzomboid.com/blog/
21st April, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments
Sun, palm trees, and little coconut huts. What more could a tree frog want? :D
Done for a small school project with the theme “trees protecting the city” (it’s a frog city ;) ). I tried a new style, and did this entirely with a brush. Couldn’t quite control the ink in places with my shaky hands, but it was nice to attempt. I also think I need to invest in a smaller brush ;)
20th April, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 1 Comment
It’s nearing the end of my first semester in my illustration program, and so I should have a small slew of things to post when I get some time. For now, here’s a painting I did in which we were to reinterpret the Mona Lisa in the style of a different illustrator. I chose the fantastic Sophie Griotto, whose lovely website you can visit here. I couldn’t really capture her style, as I just couldn’t mimic the loose spontaneity of her work… it’s more of a weird hybrid between her art and my usual style. If you ignore the point of the exercise, I think it turned out okay in itself ;)
Btw, I’m going to be erasing all my book reviews, as I highly doubt anyone really cares about my opinion on books, and I update my reviews so sporadically it just ruins the flow of the blog ;)
15th April, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
You can do it, Mr. Beaverton! Just believe!
I re-jigged this painting from one I did a few years ago. Seeing the change is pretty neat–the original looked more like a falling groundhog than a flying beaver :D
29th March, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments
Well, just some news that we have just switched servers and so this site was down for a while. But we’re back now, with a faster, better(?) blog ;) The reason for the switch? HostGator couldn’t handle the traffic for the IndieStone when Lemmy & Binky (now with Nick) announced Project Zomboids, and when we relied on them the most they could not deliver the service (and not only pulled down and locked the site, but displayed a 404 error which made it look as though the site was not legit, a HUGE problem when money is involved). HostGator can serve basic needs, but if you want your site to have any level of popularity, I cannot recommend them anymore. Hence the server change.
But enough about that!
I was cleaning up some of my files on the server and came across some sprites that I made a good while back for the TIGSource Assembly competition, in which artists/musicians made assets that were used by programmers to make games. I thought I’d put them up here, so anyone can download them. Yup–they are free for use in any game projects requiring a violent mushroom (although credit should be given, and a link to my site is highly appreciated), no need to ask permission :)
Animations and a tile demo up here, and the spritesheet and tilesheets are after the break for your downloading needs :)
24th March, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 6 Comments
I feel there should be some evidence of me going to art school on this blog somewhere, so here are the good ol’ standbys… hands.
You can tell these aren’t my hands because my stubby fingers don’t follow the rule of 2/3 ;)
18th March, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments
Yes, what I had long suspected has now become official: PAWS is cancelled.
It’s sad that it will never be released, as it was a fun game and with more time put into I think it would have made quite a spiffy game; however time is a resource that is in scarce supply. To find out more about what happened you can read Lemmy101′s blog entry about it (it’s more to do with his and CaptainBinky’s experience with another project, but it does go into why PAWS is not possible).
On a more positive note, I did learn quite a bit from the experience (my first runcycles, tiles, and more), enjoyed working on it, and I’m hoping to use the sprites I worked on in another project so it won’t be a complete loss :) I may release some more art later on, but for now here are two character portraits from the selection screen of Mr. Spiffo, the sly raccoon, and Pancake, the cheerful hedgehog:
11th March, 2011 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments
I’ve been a bit lazy about drawing lately, but finally took the plunge again a couple of days ago :)
It’s a sad state of affairs that overprotective/fussy fairy owners make their pet frogs miss out on the chance of playing in the rain because they don’t want them getting wet ;) Click on the pick for a bigger version!
17th December, 2010 - Posted by MashPotato - 5 Comments
