'bold merchant

Here it is finally, the other part of my idea.  In Kobold society, there is a huge working class, some of which are dungeon merchants.  After all, how else do you top off potions and stack up on spells in the middle of a run?

These blue collars scrape a living by putting themselves in terrible danger by showing up in random dungeons to offer their goods.  Their only defence from their "customers" roughing them up is to call on the mercenaries for protection.

This guy in particular is looking a little rough.  What's his story?
Hope he doesn't have a tear jerker and a little girl to provide for.

'blins and 'bolds

It all started with a drawing.  My buddy called it a goblin.  I insisted it is a kobold.
"No, it's a goblin"
"Wrong!  Kobold"
He left shaking his head.  What was the difference between what I drew and what he saw?  I had to spell it out.

On a sticky note.

Eventually, my stubbornness won.  Or he stopped caring.  We both finally agreed I was drawing a kobold.  It was my kobold, by my hand, from my head, in my universe.  We cleared that issue quickly enough (Unlike Edmonton City Council and Katz Group on completely trivial matters)
Then he asked me a question.  What's the difference between a wizard and a sorcerer?

Indeed.  Great question, great thought exercise.  I gave him a totally lame reply before he gave me his answer. A wizard learned and studied his magic, while a sorcerer naturally has ability to do magic so long as he has enough will power.

"Kinda like  Iron Man and Green Lantern?" I asked
"Uh, yeah sorta.  Ok, Yeah."

Moving on.  I started thinking quietly to myself.  What is the difference between:

Summoner and Warlock
Blademaster and Samurai
Priest and Cleric
Rogue and Thief
Fighter and Warrior
Shadow Knight and Dark Paladin
Ring Wraith and Dementor
Lich King and Witch King

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Flashback

On the World of Warcraft general chat, I once posed the question  "What is a female warlock called?"
"Hmmm, Warlick?"  HAHAHAHA.  LOL.  Yeah...
The correct answer is, a witch.

Of course you'll have to make sure she floats like wood.
Or really small pebbles.  And weighs as much as a duck.

Therefore...


A WITCH!!!

Heading out of Clouds

So here it is.  My final big push to get a sweet 1 pixel hypervoxel cloud looking decent (enough).  Notice I threw in a ground plane to get a better sense of scale.

So what have I learned?

I'm not very patient playing with hypervoxels.  So I quit.

I quit because I was fast approaching the point of hating playing with particle systems for, like, ever.  What now?  I'm going to take what's good and use this towards something.

One last roto pan

...Something I'm working on.  OK, thanks!

That's 3, THREE lockouts,

AH AH AH !!!

*Sincerest apologies to the late Count Von Count who is resting in vampire heaven now. ='(

From the Edmonton Oilers number NINETY-THREE

Ryan Nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugent-HOPkins!!
The latest addition to my office toys.  Standing next to Darth Maul and Ales Hemsky.

Notice they packed a right handed stick for a left handed shot?  FAIL!

IoR

Index of refraction.  The amount light rays are bent through transparent objects such as lenses, plastics, water, etc.  Vacuum is 1.0, for no bend, and glass for example is between 1.5(ish) to 1.7(ish).

I've been meaning to do a study render like this forever.  What happens when you animate an IoR from a little over 0 to 2-ish?

Glass bells with silver nugget and gold ring

Glass bells with glass nugget and glass ring

Cool.  Its kinda like a Predator.
1 point Hypervoxel clouds test render coming up.

I'm Out

Big shout out to all those who texted, called and thought of me when I was in the hospital.  Here I was thinking if I quietly disappeared, I'd fade silently into the shadows like Batman.

Speaking of which, have you seen it yet?

This started as an on the phone sketch

WOW!!  Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle is stunning.  She totally pulled it off.  Nothing of the princess from some diary.  You can sometimes tell when they used a stunt double on the Batbike cause its was like,  nice legs, nice legs, manly BUTT with a wig, KABOOM!!

Also started off as an on the phone sketch

Plus the best moment was after the movie.  When I found out who played Bane.

You're kidding me

It was the exact same feeling when I found out the dude from Lord of the Rings was in Star Trek.

Also found out after the movie

It's almost like those guys were trying to pretend to be different people.  In front of 2 different cameras.  Sweet.