United Kingdom

[Quicksilver]

Cause that seems to have been the generic time all us non londoners have been forced to make it into central before :P
I dunno guys, depends how much of the day you want, and when y'all gotta leave.

Mum
Damn straight. Fran and I was up from 4am-1am last time. ¬_¬;;

I don't mind when we meet up as the station's pretty close to me anyway.

[Dirty C]

well what's the plan from the station? wanna decide the next port of call, badger? then, if nothing else, those arriving late can find directions there.

[Midnight]

I'm not going to be able to make this meet, unfortunately.

Mid.

[sketchling]

Help...am entering a matte painting competition :D tryin for an imac :D Crits very welcome:

www.sketchling.com/artwork/2006/lake_wip.jpg

from :
http://www.pluginz.com/images/loch.jpg?

3 hours so far...got a load more work to do. Anyone got any crits/ideas?

[[void]]

Hey was just wondering where the other londoners are leaving from etc so that we could catch the same train on the way down if thats cool?

[james]

I think badger's plan was to go straight to the comic convention. i had a ganders at the website and from what i could see it's split accross two locations, the ramada hotel (which is apparently fully booked) and the brittish empire and commmonwealth museum thing which is literally right next door to temple meads train station (and down the road from me and badge).

He's at uni though. wonder what he plans.

J

[Dirty C]

right, well how about we work on the assumption that everyonewill go straight to the empire museum thing and everyone else can make their way there via mobile kommunikation?

[Hybridstar]

James, the ramada hotel is fully booked not the convention itself. Look forward to seeing you guys there.

[james]

My mistake. thanks for the correction.

J

[Badger]

Yeah I went to travelling man (comic shop) found out what was going on cause i was uber confused.
It's next door to the station, so, basically meet you guys at 12? whenever really, I'll be about at 10. You've got my number. See you sunday.
-B-

[koshime]

kim > very cool ambience, I like the overall darkness to it, but maybe its perhaps too dark at the moment

[Quicksilver]

Help...am entering a matte painting competition :D tryin for an imac :D Crits very welcome:

www.sketchling.com/artwork/2006/lake_wip.jpg

from :
http://www.pluginz.com/images/loch.jpg?

3 hours so far...got a load more work to do. Anyone got any crits/ideas?
Nice!! The only thing that's bugging me is that the water doesn't quite look like it's falling in the smaller waterfall. Any way of adding weight to it? Otherwise it's looking great. Good luck in the compo~

Sooo we're meeting up between 10am-12pm at the Bristol Temple Meads train station on Sunday 14th?

[lefran]

sketchling: lush work, but i was wondering, why is the water so bright when everything else is so dark? i couldnt see a moon, theres probably something im missing

[sketchling]

the water flowing out of the space ship is mixing with fuel...radioactive glowing stuff, once its better painted it will be clear that somethings mixin with the water in the lake... :D

edit: Yeah...front waterfall is a placeholder. havent done any work on it yet. gonna be epic when its done.
As for the darness...yeah. its this bloomin screen of mine!!! gonna have to change it a bit for normal screens!

[koshime]

can u help me do a few space scenes/mattes?

[Dirty C]

Kim, don't make that goo stuff pure grey, cast some moonlight on the whole scene that's grey, i reckon. make it more complex, less straight forward. ie: better ;)

[DannySketch]

i cant make the F%$KING meet!im pissed as feck!and not even in the good ole' had one too many way', in the pooeyer 'angry' way.
i get paid EMA £30 a week for, well basically for going to school (:dad: ive heard all the 'well thats not how they did it in my day' already, but come on i aint gonna turn it down if its offered me!) which i admit is one hell of a lazy way to get money, but ive come to be reilant on it, so ive purposely left my bank account alone for three weeks thinking ah well i'll have a nice tidy sum of £90 to get to bristol with, check my balance today and ive got the grand total of £2.52:$
unless sum angel flys out of my ass with a wad full of cash then im gonna have to skip the meet guys:(
i cant really express how angry i am in words right now so instead i'll headbutt the keyboard...

fhn bfc,mwf
0[WI

...ah thats better.

P.S wish i could help out sketchling but im clueless, looking good so far thou

[Molly]

DC, sorry I missed your text yesterday, but I was at school drawing, and I had no money to get into town....:( Lifes gonna be like this for me for a long while, so please forgive me if I am not online enuff or more 'net' sociable...


Mollyx

[lefran]

DannySketch- i get EMA too, how late did you hand the forms in? at the end of each one or just before the last week? coz it takes about 2 weeks to be payed into ur account. maybe theres just a glitch or a problem with your forms, go see them in ur EMA office and they should be able to tell you why if u do it quick then maybe you'll get money for sunday

[lefran]

So how many people are going on sunday???

[Quicksilver]

So how many people are going on sunday???
From what I know:

lefran
Quicksilver
Badger
Eriboss
dirty_c
sketchling
james
Fai
Hybridstar
Cartoonfox
Asguardian
yAdam?

A pretty big group so far! :) I'll let ma or pa post the official meeting date/times/place blah blah since they're head of it all.

Y'all have fun in the sun~~

[james]

badge seems to have died. in his and dc's absence shall we say that we meet at the commonwealth and empire museum (which is really right next door to temple meads, you head out the exit and down the car park and its on your right) at 11?

J

[Dirty C]

I second that!

[Eriboss]

y'arrr

[sleep]

yo, erm, i'd love to come and all but i live in london and have no idea how to get there, or how to get back or whatever... is there a chance i could meet any bristol bound londoners somewhere?

[Dirty C]

I'll be taking the 9.27am train to bristol from paddington.

i'm going to buy my f*cking ticket there, cause the sodding website (http://www.thetrainline.com) won't let me NOT accept a mail delivery. So I'm just gonna get them there, though it'll be more expensive.

ASDFUASYDHFIASK^$&*(^!"*()%£$

[DannySketch]

I'll be taking the 9.27am train to bristol from paddington.

i'm going to buy my f*cking ticket there, cause the sodding website (http://www.thetrainline.com) won't let me NOT accept a mail delivery. So I'm just gonna get them there, though it'll be more expensive.

ASDFUASYDHFIASK^$&*(^!"*()%£$

head butting the keyboard hey?

erm there might be a slim chance that i can scrape together enough money if i get my EMA through today, if i do ive gotta take that train also, u mind if i tag along with u dirty C?after all a 3 hour train jounry to bristol wouldnt quite be complete without a rather over excited art student prodding through ur sketchbook, exclaiming every now and again 'oooo well that ones quite pretty isnt it?!'

i'll post later on today whether the moneys come through or not

EDIT: Oh and cheers Fran i chatted to them about it and they decided to introduce a new rule stating that if ur late more than twice a week then u dont get paid, only decided to keep it secret untill every1 was broke....yay!

[sketchling]

YAAAAY. After 3 days of of solid slog work I have entered the matte competition :) IwannagetaniMac! http://www.pluginz.com/contest/gallery
Mine is the volcanic one.... :D I restarted on the last day cause it was all pants before. :( pressure baby...yeah.

[Dirty C]

Yeah, whoever wants to tag alogn, just bring the requisite beer money and we should be fine ;)

Kim, nice one. But the other one wasn't pants :)

[Eriboss]

yer nice work Kim, i do prefer this one but the other had real potential :)

[Kian]

Thats pretty damn awesome Kim. Nice one mate.

[sketchling]

yeah, Ill be joinin ya at the station DC :) Yeah...the other one wasnt a bad painting, but was a bit too much painting to be made realistic in time. I also realised when I looked at some of the entries again that my sub-concious had partly ripped somone elses entry... it was just too similar to post!! :(

[yAdam]

Great work as usual kim :)

I'll definately try and make it sunday...Been feeling pretty ill since yesterday so i'll see how I feel.....

[DannySketch]

incredibly badass sketchling,well done man
ok so i can go but by the skin of my teeth, i'll have to go by coach as its cheaper and im gonna be sumwhat late, as im supposed to be dropped off at Marlborough St Bus Station at 10.30 and then from there i have to figure a way of getting to temple meads, and then figure out where u lot are, any of the bristol lot know if a bus runs to temple meads from where im getting dropped off?

cheers

[james]

there's no need to catch a bus. it would take longer on a bus than it would to walk due to bristol's convoluted one way systems. its easy to get to temple meads from the bus station, but quite difficult to describe. if you ask at the bus station they can probs give you a mini map or something, or at least a more in depth route than i can be bothered to type. but its really easy man. dont worry about it.

J

[Alcian]

can't make the bristol meet :(, shame - not that far away from bristol but have an exam on tue.:vodka2:

[DannySketch]

there's no need to catch a bus. it would take longer on a bus than it would to walk due to bristol's convoluted one way systems. its easy to get to temple meads from the bus station, but quite difficult to describe. if you ask at the bus station they can probs give you a mini map or something, or at least a more in depth route than i can be bothered to type. but its really easy man. dont worry about it.

J


thanks alot man

can't make the bristol meet , shame - not that far away from bristol but have an exam on tue.

I have an exam on Monday, but its art so I am calling this trip technically a day of revision:tihi:

[Quicksilver]

I have an exam on Thursday (English). Er, guess I'm undedicated. o_O

[Alcian]

Everyone has exams at the moment, good luck!
Mine's biochem, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

[Kian]

Have fun tomoz peeps! I know I'll be missin out. So take loadsa photos yeah.

[Badger]

exams... what are those?
-B-

[james]

heh, yeah... thing of the past...
ahem. but good luck to those that do have them...

J

[lefran]

right just to double check, where and when is everyone meeting up. im staying over naomis tonight (sleepover woo! ^_^ we'll braid each others hair) and neither of us are sure!

[james]

at the british commonwealth and empire museum, right next door to temple meads railway station at 11 o clock. am. :teeth:

J

[Hybridstar]

This will be my first meet. How do they normally pan out?. I'm planning on hitting the convention for a coupla hours and checking out the rebellion panel at noon. What are everyone elses plans? Definitely would like to meet the crowd and put faces to the names. Think i'll recognise a few folks so shoudnt have any trouble finding ya'll. :yayca:

[Quicksilver]

at the british commonwealth and empire museum, right next door to temple meads railway station at 11 o clock. am. :teeth:

J
Righto~

Oooookay, we managed ot make a bag of banh bao for you guys, lol. You don't have to eat them - though y'all free to try 'em out ^_^ Fran says if yours falls apart she's sorry, lol.

See you tomorrow!!

~~Naomi & Fran xx

[koshime]

awwww. wish i had time to come but am busy ...drawing/working

[Hybridstar]

Awesome first meet guys, hangin out and chattin was wicked. Great to finally meet everyone in person. Wish i'd brought a sketchbook and we had more time but work beckoned as always. Apologies to the girls but i never got round to having my banh bao, and i really wanted one badly!!!!!. Is the recipe a secret or can i get it of you? Great to flick through other sketchbooks, some really nice work knocking about from all. I've promised to get a sketch thread up as soon as ive finished the project im working on. Peace uk massive and thanks again for making a great day even better.:teeth:

[Badger]

Ha ha ha!!! This (http://www.badgertracks.net/random/uk-group.jpg) groups shot is the best/worst ever!! it's amazing. Wtf, doesn't even look like me, half of us look wasted, the others look asleep or road kill.

Great meet guys, thoroughly enjoyed it, hope you all get home safe and sound.
Cool to meet you finally hybridstar! glad you had a good day.

I'll upload a zip of the photos in a bit, when eri isn't stealing all my bandwidth with this file transfer.

-B-

[yAdam]

Haha!! thats a quality photo :) Looking forward to the rest.

[Quicksilver]

Classic photo, Josh!! I'll print that one out and frame it, hahaha.

Here's mine and Fran's lot: Bristol meet - wheee~ (http://www.sweetsunset.co.uk/photos/ca/bristol/)

[WARHEAD]

Where was the blood !!!??? Where was the gore !!?!?!?
it ain't a proper meet if there's no ambulances in sight ! :P

haha, hope you guys had a good one. Coudn't make it this weekend. see you guys around soon......still haven't seen the michelangelo exhbition yet !! :nohope:

hehe just found a dirty c smiley !!! :eyeloss:

[Dirty C]

HAHAHA how sweet is that??


:eyeloss: :eyeloss: :eyeloss:

Wonder who did it..

Yeah, excellent photo Josh, will look through the others later ;)

[james]

damnit, i had to leave early. was gutted. but while i was there 'twas awesome. what happened after i left? where did you end up going? and naomi's photo of me looks really weird. i either have a tiny head or massive body. and some odd shorts arrangement going on. AAND im not in any of the group photos. see what happens when you leave early?!
Damn

J

[DannySketch]

yer cheers guys, just wish i hadnt had to leave so early, just as i was starting to get sum cool advice i had to bugger off!ur all a really talented and cool bunch of mofos hopefuly cya soon

[Dirty C]

Eri, any chance I can get that high res scan off you? Gutted I had to give that one away :)

[Kian]

top photos :)

[Dirty C]

Do I really do Paul Daniels Hands when I'm talking??

http://www.sweetsunset.co.uk/photos/ca/bristol/christian_chris.jpg

[Eriboss]

hehe yer dood i scanned it yesterday but it cut a bit off so il do it again in a min, hehe you haddddd to give it away cause you drew it in MY sketchbook heehehe
scan my one too you lazy barstool

Was great fun everyone else, awesome meeting yall!

Cheers

Eri

[lefran]

Great meet! so much fun! im still chuffed i got into the convention for free mwahah :D

arrange another!!!

Kim- your environments using random shapes inspired naomi and i to try it out for ourselves, i just posted in my SB, its a cool way to think of it!

[Lorenzo!]

Hey guys! Okay, so I met a load of you very cool folks at the Bristol con this weekend, where you were good enough to keep me busy with bizarre sketch ideas and amusing banter! You were also all good enough to go in and post on a Blink thread here at concept, but guys, you resurrected the old thread! Hoho! The real thread, which I post on every few days is RIGHT HERE! (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65724). Hope to see you in there, folks!

Good luck with your art school stuff, and come into the Blink thread and let me know when you post new work up! Love to see it all!

Cool!

Lorenzo!

[Eriboss]

oh yer Kim... what was the name of that cool weird monstery animationy thing you were tellin me about on Sunday? I totally forgot :\
Also, don't forget to scan my crappy page from your book hehe

Cheers

Eri

[sketchling]

It was UNKLE's 'eye for an eye' music video.... It is so incredibly you its not funny. great song too. have a look here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRbrJHUrIqk&search=eye%20for%20an%20eye

[james]

i've seen that. had to study it for graphic design. its totally wierd. and mildy scary.

J

[Kian]

eye for an eye is an awesome video. But my favourite video of all time is Rabbit in your headlights by Unkle. Its just pure power

[lefran]

aah look what i had done today
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/mohawk3.jpg
:D

[james]

very nice. moody..?

[lefran]

haha yeah i do look slightly moody, oh well

[koshime]

>Kian3001 - congrats on appearance on IFX mag! rising star indeed!

[Kian]

>Kian3001 - congrats on appearance on IFX mag! rising star indeed!

:bashful: Thanks brother :yayca:. Is it out already?

[sketchling]

lefran: Wicked! Love the hair :D That photo's got attitude.

Kian : Congrats...though I havent seen it! :) Will look out for it.

[Quicksilver]

Congrats, Jon! :cheerleader: If I see the mag around I'll grab it.

Kim, that brush pen you gave me ish cooleh~ I can get way sharpe lines with it than my other one. :) Still trying to figure out how to draw bamboo though, lol.

[Eriboss]

that unkle video was sweet Kim, nice and fucked up juss the way I like it hehe. And yer can see the "me" in there too. Cheers for that dood :)
(oo ooo scan my sketch hehee) :evilmustache:

[koshime]

Jon - yes, got it 3 days ago. Its towards the middlish back!

Kim - time for you to get a mention in a few mags mate!

[sketchling]

funny you should mention it :) Keep yer eye on here: http://www.2dartistmag.com/ Im in the next one. Have a look at this edition though...we are all there cause there are a ton of Prague CA photos!

[Kian]

Nice one Kim. The UK massive will soon be taking over!!!! :D

Cheers Naomi, Koshime, Kim. My mates were well impressed. One of em thought I'd printed a mock one out at home, and just stuck in the mag lol.

[lefran]

Kim, you suggested for this one that i darken in the grooves and put little bits of light on it. Is this looking better?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/art/70.jpg

oh and does anyone have a good music taste lol
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68138

[koshime]

Right, i guess i better get my act together so i can approach 2D mags...lol

[sketchling]

yeah, its lookin way better. the best source to learn from is always life though...check these out http://a-s.clayton.edu/biology/biol3650l/misc_verts/frog.htm

check how hard those highlights are. stuff like this makes great studies if ya gave the stomach for it.

[lefran]

eeew- but thanks hehe

[Dirty C]

we lost. shit.

[Quicksilver]

Myooooooo, updated my SB~ http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58597&page=2

/spam

Aaahh yes, if anyone's coming to the Anime Con next week (27th-28th), shout out! So far here's the list:

Quicksilver
Saimon
Molly
Cartoonfox?
dirty_c?

I'll be off to see Phantom of the Opera after the con (round 7-9pm) so I won't be around to hang out - should be fine afterwards though.

[cartoonfox]

Nope, I won't be going to the con. It was just an idea I had, but I don't have any time or money for it : [
Oh well, have funs guys.


peace

[sketchling]

bugger. Ill be in amsterdam. Would be good, but im meetin up with my mum as she goes home to SA via there....I dont think im cancellin that one :D

:) Enjoy!

[james]

dammit kian, just had a flick through my mates imagineFX, you look sooo good in it... talking about the work obviously. the pic of you is faaaar too small to make any critical comment of that sort. but from experience you look good too. not that i'm gay. oh shut up you fool...


J

[koshime]

Not sure if I am working. But i'll prob be free some evenings or working on my two main projects now. The infinity space MMO (http://fl-tw.com) and the CGi production book of five rings film JJs Book of Five Rings (www.theBookofFiveRings.com)

[DannySketch]

dammit kian, just had a flick through my mates imagineFX, you look sooo good in it... talking about the work obviously. the pic of you is faaaar too small to make any critical comment of that sort. but from experience you look good too. not that i'm gay. oh shut up you fool...


J

awwww ive been waiting for a UK romance<3

well after the last meet im £30 in debt and without a job so even thou im smack right by it i wont be able to go>:{ have fun thou guys and gals, and well done to kian, sketchling and indeed koshime for magazine appearances.

[Hybridstar]

Where is the con folks?, pretty busy but may be able to make it.

[koshime]

at the london aquarium. you cant miss it . its all over advertised in cheesy manga *hehehehe*

[Quicksilver]

at the london aquarium. you cant miss it . its all over advertised in cheesy manga *hehehehe*
:P

It's at the Custom House, Excel (if you're catching the tube then you hop on the DLR - it's riiiight at the end, round the dockland area).

http://www.londonexpo.com/animevillage.shtml

Think I'll only go on the Saturday though. No cosplaying from me as a.) I don't know who to dress up as, b.) No time to make a cossie, and c.) No money to buy fabric for cossie. :rolleyes:

[Kian]

dammit kian, just had a flick through my mates imagineFX, you look sooo good in it... talking about the work obviously. the pic of you is faaaar too small to make any critical comment of that sort. but from experience you look good too. not that i'm gay. oh shut up you fool...


J

.......thanks man, but I have a girlfriend bro. :wink:

and thanks Danny

edit: Finally sorted out the whole 300002324241 thing. Its now just "Kian" :)

[Quicksilver]

edit: Finally sorted out the whole 300002324241 thing. Its now just "Kian" :)
Lol, yeah, what was up with that? :P

[Kian]

lol. It was driving me crazy. it was a name i thought was cool back in high school. Made me look like a kid. Now, I can really pretend to be grown up :P

[Quicksilver]

I seeee. Hehe. My nickname in High School was Ninomi/Nunomi (however you're supposed to spell it. 'nuh-no-mee'). :) Online I'm CheeB or CB (from CherryBlossom).

Anyone else have nicknames~?

[Dirty C]

"Curse."

[james]

curse? wtf? is that cos you seem to be hurting yourself regularly and thus you have one or that you impose one on other people? also, i would be worried with a nickname like that.
the closest i ever came to having a nickname was jimmy b. original huh.


J

[koshime]

cracked skull be safer. no?

[glynn james]

lol. It was driving me crazy. it was a name i thought was cool back in high school. Made me look like a kid. Now, I can really pretend to be grown up :P
Kian: how did you edit your name?

[seethruyou]

hi ,
I was told to come on this site by a friend of a friend who's fucking brilliant artist ,he said this place would be gd for me..im sort of alien to the concept though, any way he said tell you lot who he is-so his user name is dirty_c...
...and ummm..so hello..and what do i do now???
:er: ...x

[seethruyou]

hi ,
I was told to come on this site by a friend of a friend who's fucking brilliant artist ,he said this place would be gd for me..im sort of alien to the concept though, any way he said tell you lot who he is-so his user name is dirty_c...
...and ummm..so hello..and what do i do now???
:er: ...xx

[DannySketch]

hi ,
I was told to come on this site by a friend of a friend who's fucking brilliant artist ,he said this place would be gd for me..im sort of alien to the concept though, any way he said tell you lot who he is-so his user name is dirty_c...
...and ummm..so hello..and what do i do now???
:er: ...x

oh god ur kidding me not that dirty c bloke again?
i mean bless him, he TRIES to be good and everything but i think sum people just need to learn when to throw in the towel you know:D

welcome to the madness mate!post some art!

EDIT:oh an naomi my highschool nickname was fish, for reasons i would prefer not to go into....

[guggemmaneuver]

Any of you kids around london--->
i may be flying over there for work next week. would love to hang out and DRAW LIKE A FIEND with some cool-actin tinactin UKCA kids. especially mr. hotness himself dirty C

more information forthcoming as it becomes available to me.

[Dirty C]

Yeah, we be in london, homes. Whenyou be here?

[Dirty C]

Ahaaaa. Hello there seethruyou - I introduced you a few pages back, but you hadn't shown yet. Welcome, welcome :)

Everyone, be nice. Even though she clearly thinks I'm a lot better than I am :)

[guggemmaneuver]

hey hey dirty c--> looks like later next week if at all...I'm still not sure if it's going to happen. I will keep you posted via PM though. DOOOOOOM!!!!

[Dirty C]

Doom, brother. Doom.

Now for everyone else. Imery mentioned there was an email from the site about some jobs at blizzard and shit. i don't seem to have it. anyone wanna forward it?

tchia
the C.

[Quicksilver]

Doom, brother. Doom.

Now for everyone else. Imery mentioned there was an email from the site about some jobs at blizzard and shit. i don't seem to have it. anyone wanna forward it?

tchia
the C.
Sure thang:

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Blizzard Entertainment is looking for an exceptionally skilled Concept Artist to
work on the award winning game, World of Warcraft. The ideal candidate has
experience concept drawing and illustrating a diverse visual range of
characters, creatures, weapons, architecture and environments. The concept
artist must have a strong understanding of, and a desire to design, assets that
fit the visual art style of World of Warcraft.


More info can be found here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67124



3.Next Level Games seeks Concept Artist:

Video Game Concept Artist Opportunity at Next Level Games Inc.

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Next Level Games is a young, progressive and dynamic company based in beautiful
Vancouver, Canada. We are committed to individual professional growth and
balance of life. We actively embody the belief that work is only one component
of a balanced lifestyle and that creative minds work more effectively when they
are rested.


More info can be found here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67296


4. Rockstar London is seeking Artists for their new studio!

ROCKSTAR LONDON - Concept Artist & 3D Modeller

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ROCKSTAR LONDON, the European publishing headquarters of Rockstar Games, is
setting up a new development studio in the heart of London. We are looking for
passionate, creative and self motivated people to form the core of this new
studio.


More info can be found here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=66637



5. Concept Artists Needed - NCsoft

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NCSoft is seeking both Senior Concept Artists and Concept Artists to join its
seasoned team of industry professionals led by key contributors of award winning
massively multiplayer games. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a highly
creative environment at either NCsoft’s Visual Arts Studio in Santa Monica, CA
or at its headquarters in Austin, Texas.


more info can be found here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=66302


6. Sr. Concept Artist - Lucas Arts

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LucasArts is a leading publisher and developer of interactive entertainment
software for video game consoles and personal computers. Newly based in San
Francisco, California, LucasArts was founded by George Lucas to provide an
interactive element to his vision of a state-of-the-art, multi-faceted
entertainment company. In addition to its gaming division, motion-picture and
television production operations, the company's global activities include
Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound, serving the digital needs of the
entertainment industry for visual-effects and audio post-production. Check out
our new offices in SF on the web! http://www.lucasfilm.com/inside/letterman/

More info can be found here:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65935


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On a fun note, The All Girls Thunderdome has reached it's conclusion. There
were a handful of fantastic pieces submitted and ten winners recieved tuition
passes to the upcoming Montreal Workshop June 9-12. Shelly Wan, concept artist
at Rockstar Games is the winner by community vote. Green Topaz, Bluefooted, and
Yumiko rounded out the top four spots. Please check the stuff out. The ladies
will easily stand up to the guys in the next thunderdome. We are proud of
everyone who competed. Thank you!!

Here are the entries and the winners:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=66547


There is a lot more cool stuff happening on ConceptArt.Org. Please stop by the
site and spend some time with us!!


Happy springtime!



Conceptart.org
You may have to check your spam box to make sure it didn't fall in there. Poor thing.

seethruyou: Welcome to the nuthouse! Hope to see you in future meets. :)

Delayed reaction:
Hybrid: (Sorry, I forgot yours and your gf's names! Eep.) Aye, no worries. I could get the recipe to you, but I have a feeling you might have a hard time finding the types of flour :S I'll ask my mum anyway when she comes home. Otherwise we could make some more for the next meet if people want me to.
Sunil: Mew :( Hope you can make it to the next meet~ The Michelangelo exhibition's going on 'til June, isn't it?
Lorenzo: Nice meetin' ya too! Cheers for the panda sketch :) Still need to scan that in.
Cai: Aaahhh bummer. Okies, see ya another time, mate.
Kim: Aww k, it's a very valid reason, m'dear! Have fun in Amsterdam!
Christian: I seeeeeeee. dirty_curse. Now it all makes sense!! ;)

Dan: Fair enough, fishy.
guggen: Myo, I'll be in London on the 27th-28th (Sat/Sun), though I probably wouldn't be able to hang out much as I'm going to 2 events on Sat then maaaaybe to the cinema on Sun.

We should so do a Wales (http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk/pg/gl/gl.html) meet. (click on the link - the pics could be of some good use as refs)
http://www.castlewales.com/welsh_flag.gif
Raaaaawr

[james]

hey seethruyou, nice to have you around. if dirty_c told you about this site it prolly means he thinks your work is the biz, so get scanning it and start a CA online sketchbook.

hope to see it soon...

Edit: also, naomi wales meet is a good idea, 's long as its south wales and really really close to bristol. cardiff would be tops. not loving travel at the moment. selfish? qui moi?

J

[koshime]

Narf Wales!

[Kian]

i second that koshime. North by a long way. I'm so far away from every location you guys come up with. Im a broke ass student dont forget. *start sad music*

[Hybridstar]

LOL, no worries, think i can only remember around 60% of peoples names from the meet. It's Sean and my girlfriends Alison. I can't wait for the next meet then, my mouths watering already.:^^: Let me know when youre all next in Bristol, might even be able to make a london meet if its a full day sometime. Cheers all.

[RES]

I'm calling you out Dirty c it time for a showdown, you may have got the better of a collection box with just your face but I’m going to kick your ass:dead: ..........if you haven’t already seen its me, luxen and yourself are together in the first round of last man standing 2. I'm glad ive got some one like you to give my work a push……anyway enough of the niceties back to the trash talk. I’m still going to kick you as or a least give it a good spanking.:P

[Dirty C]

Nice bunny, Ryan. That your girlfriend?

[DannySketch]

ooooo BEEF!yer by the way best of luck to all you last man standing geezers and gals, do the flag proud dammit!:canadapatriot:

.....


while your at it design a frickin british flag salute>:|

[Alcian]

Omg, the gugg in coming to London.
This can not be missed, haha.

[cartoonfox]

Hey gug, cool you're coming to London ey?!

Just make sure someone lets me know (I don't check this thread much) and I'll be sure to drop down to draw with you man!

peace

[Dirty C]

Well, I haven't been to Cardiff, and wouldn't mind going. Having said that, North Wales is truly beautiful. And truly far away..

[Eriboss]

yer cardeef is cool, theres a nice big art shop there and loads of cool clothes shops oo and pubs, and its only 35 mins from me.
Although yes, norf wales is pretty, and yes far, far away.

There i'm glad I have been helpful and this post wasnt just a cornucopia of incescent babblings.

[Quicksilver]

Hehehe. So are we all swell with Cardiff? The Pen & Paper has a great supply of Art stuff (it's the only damn place near me which does coloured lead for mech pencils) and as Eri said there are loads of funky clothes shops too. :) There's an Art gallery there too, though I've never actually been in there. Ooohh, and those cute little stores round it too which sells ranom and sometimes cute stuff.

But I mainly go there to buy Millie's Cookies. ^__^

[yAdam]

I'm up for a trek to cardiff! Been a while since i've been to wales... I rekon i've only been twice actually. Once in sixth form to swansea uni, and once in year 10 to kilvrough manor...both times I had to endure getting shown around factories!!:dead: ..Hoping this time will be more fun :)

Also, good luck to everyone in thunderdome!!!

[Dirty C]

If you guys wanna go for it, go ahead. I've just realised I can't make anything like that till the 8th of July - I have a huge project on this week and weekend, then I've got a full weekend after that (mate's bday, plus the Rugby Sevens at Twickenham) and then ME AND CARTOONFOX AND SPUDDING ARE GOING TO MONTREAL!!!

And then I'm in the states until the 25th. And then on the 1st, I'm moving flat.

So, yeah, I'd love to do it, and maybe stay at Eri's castle the night before, but if you guys wanna do it without me, then go ahead :'(

[cartoonfox]

Aw man I'd love to go down to Cardiff with you lot, show you all the cool places to hang out (both of them!) but I've got no money, spent it all on the workshop and 7up.
Have fun, Cardiff is small but it's pretty cool. Oh and remember that Pen & Paper doesn't open on a sunday... at least not since I was living in Cardiff.

peace

[lefran]

aw doesnt sound like many of the regulars are going

[james]

what about kim?

[Hybridstar]

Whats going down in cardiff?, forgive me for not reading earlier posts. Figure drawing workshop went well guys, full compliment of 15 peeps. Got a little awry when the model rang to say she'd broken down!!!! Ali drove about an hour there and back to get her. According to the model she was about 20 mins away. Still went well, lots of happy punters i think, need a break before i consider the next one. Hope a few of you ca homies will be able to make the next or maybe molly can arrange a day sesh in london so i can get a good days drawing in. Either way be a good day.
:rendered:

[koshime]

forget cardiff. lets go to Betwys-y-coed

[Quicksilver]

forget cardiff. lets go to Betwys-y-coed
How? Most of us don't drive or have money ¬_¬;

Eep, lots of peeps can't make it for Cardiff. :( Well, me and Fran are still fine with it, so give us a shout if you are too so I can start a list.

I think it would be good if we posted the date's we'd be busy so future meets can be arranged around them to fit everyone (okay, most people, to be realistic). Christian's already posted his for this summer.

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~Quicksilver~
May
23rd, English exam :nohope:
27th-28th, London (Sat: Anime Con/Phantom; Sun: Nothing planned as of yet)

Works: Fri-Sat (sometimes Sun)
Will be taking driving lessons after exams. Should be funny, hehe.

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Am I crazy in thinking people will follow to help be a bit more organised? ¬_¬;;

EDIT: Oh, if you've got a spare second, would you mind checking out the design for my new site? http://www.cheeb.co.uk/cheeb/mockup.html
Tis still a WIP - wanna get the overall design/layout/sodding template sorted before adding links. Firefox doesn't like it much (there's a gap between the links and gallery) but it works fine on IE. [sigh]
Chaaaars in advance! :yayca:

[lefran]

that tree looks sooo much better like that!

[james]

hmmm dates. well. not so good at planning in advance, but here's what i do know:

im probs in bristol with mostly free weekends till the 20th june (except the next one when i will be working my arse off for assessment) then im going surfing in biarritz till the 26th then probs working either as an intern for an advertising agency or as an in-house graphic designer for most weekdays during the summer back in oxford. then the last week and a bit of july and the first week of august im on hols with ma famille en france. again.

other than that i couldn't tell you.

gonna be an awesome summer though.

also, the website looks lush naomi.

J

[guggemmaneuver]

unfortunately my work trip to london basically fell through...will see dirty c, cartoon fox, and spud at the workshop however though :) ... maybe sometime soon alcian & quiksilver :( i was just starting to really get excited about the trip and hanging with you all.

bummer bummer
joel

[Quicksilver]

Fran & James: Cheers~ Will do more tomorrow - gotta revise for English :(

guggen: Aww :sadcheerleader: Maybe another time, mate.

[lefran]

revise? bah!

ill leave that til the lesson tomorrow haha

[Saimon]

Hey, Im gonna be at the London Expo too. Most of you probs wont recognise me. Im more of a lurker at the moment, (too busy to contribute much to the site etc etc) but i kinda know Quicksilver from another forum.

Just wanted to know what time you lot are gonna be getting there for.

Cheers

[lefran]

hey anyone offer any help?
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=68505

I wanted to try a more unusual pose, but dont know if its right

[Quicksilver]

Posted in your thread last night, Fran. :)

And where the feck is everybody? Eh? [watches tumbleweed pass by]

http://www.cheeb.co.uk

If you have a spare moment, mind hitting me with C&C?


.....I need food. -_-

[Aly Fell]

Kian - John, just caught your work in ImagineFX. Congratulations on the spread! Nice work sir! I'm over in Huddersfield quite a lot, up Paddock way; we'll have to say hello!

[Quicksilver]

Nice to see ya post, Poshspice :) We haven't met yet, but I checked out your site last week. Cool stuff!

***ATTENTIOOOOOON***
Hey guys, if you're up for a trip to Snowdonia for the day, my sis's fiance said he could hire a minibus for 17 of us to hop on. Think it costs about £80-90 to hire it so if we could all chip in it'll be about £5.30 each. He wants to get back into drawing and wants to do some landscapes. :) There's bound to be some neutral meet up place or route to pick everyone up at.

Let me know what ya think~

Also, if anyone's going/cares, I'll be in London around 8am this Saturday for the Anime Con, and will be leaving around 9pm on Sunday.

The Cardiff meet seems to be a bit iffy atm. If anyone wants to go anyway for a small meet then wait for a bigger one when people are free/have money, then I'm cool with that. :D It's only 15 mins away from my by train.

WOOT, no college! Now to draw...

[Badger]

Quicksilver no one has met aly, he is a mysterious cloaked memeber of the UK crew that appears when we most need him. Fighting along side us in thunderdomes with the other memebers of that un holy concept art trinity, dixon and duddlebug, beware their roar, i hear it parallysises even the stoutest vole.

I might be able to do a trip, when ever term finally finishes here, i would probably drive my own car, i get travel sick pretty easily...

Right, i better get back to lurking and drawing.

Hi saimon and seethruyou

-B-

[Aly Fell]

Gurrrr...

[koshime]

let me know when you plan to snow donia, i could try to do a weekend day trip thing - by car that is

[WARHEAD]

Hi y'all, long time no..... speak....

Naomi I'm up for Snowdonia...if i a kind hearted anaesthetist ninja artist is up for lifts from london.... :) ps nice website munchkin :wink:

Kim,Chee give me a heads up when you're next doodlin - have to meet up....and i can return some dvd's !

[Quicksilver]

Hi y'all, long time no..... speak....

Naomi I'm up for Snowdonia...if i a kind hearted anaesthetist ninja artist is up for lifts from london.... :) ps nice website munchkin :wink:

Kim,Chee give me a heads up when you're next doodlin - have to meet up....and i can return some dvd's !
Hehe, once there's enough interest flying about I'll ask him about places to pick people up and try to arrange a date which is okay for everyone. :) Cheers, mewmin! ;)

Josh and Aly: xD [quivers in a corner from the rawr]

[koshime]

war > probably next week or the week after...as Kim is away in amsterdam (dodgy assignment?) this week/next

[sketchling]

war > probably next week or the week after...as Kim is away in amsterdam (dodgy assignment?) this week/next

oooi! Im meetin me MUM!!! (on her way back to south africa via amsterdam before I get any whats-yer-mum-doing-in-amsterdam-...-working-jokes.) Havent seen her in like a year and a half. Silly how that happens.

Anywys, Im super keen for a snowdonia trip! Im guessing its more slushdonia right now though with this weather. Warhead : Yeah, will tell ya when we do em. Just havent had a chance recently.

yay! Amsterdam. in 9 hours I think. (goes to check flight details) Im gettin like you chris....didnt even know I was flyin with easyjet till this afternoon. I BOUGHT the damn tickets.

[bradley]

hey all been here for a fucking year and never said hey to you other uk members. any other members from N.Ire? would love to join you guys on your meets but sadly to far.

[james]

kim, where is your mum coming from?

how is amsterdam on the way back to south africa from anywhere? my geography is properly rubbish so i expect to be corrected very quickly.

also, hi bradley, good to see you've popped by.

J

[lefran]

yeah would be fun! i suggested a place to naomi a while back called nantgwrtheyrn which is north wales, i know its not snowdonia, but i still think it would be a cool place to have a meet
- i stayed there on a welsh trip- its really beautiful, out of the way and secluded, really pretty landcape on the way there and when your there, its right by the sea, and to get there you have to go down a really steep hill on the side of a cliff with a hair pin bend :S but it was like £50 to stay there for....3 nights? which was awesome
it has like little houses in terraces which sleep from 4-8 people- i dont think its necessary for you to speak welsh? if not there are a few hostels in the area

heres a link to the website- http://nantgwrtheyrn.org/

aaand a few pics of the areas around there-
landscapes:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60013.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60015.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60017.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60107.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60111.jpg

Place i stayed:
this really doesnt convey how steep and scary it was to go down! ( we were in a minibus!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60026.jpg
this was on top of the cliff looking down from the road we were driving down ( theres a sheer drop on the side!)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60027.jpg
more views from the mini bus
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60048.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60051.jpg
this was the mountainy cliff thing we went down!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60140.jpg
yeah it looks a bit dangerous but its a really pretty area!

oh and i had to get this one in-
llanfairpwllgwyngellgogerwchwhyndrobwchllantasilio gogogoch (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v315/pink_fairy_princess5/welsh/STA60058.jpg) and i probably just spelt that wrong

[koshime]

LORDI halleluyah!

A narf Wales assault will hopefully be attempted....minibusses are scary *( you get to see the sights but could take all daaaaay in every backwater of narf wales)

[Dirty C]

Im gettin like you chris....didnt even know I was flyin with easyjet till this afternoon. I BOUGHT the damn tickets.

Yeah, didn't realise I was flying air canada to montreal until cai asked me last night hehe

[Molly]

Hey

are any of you folks still going to the Manga thing this weekend at the exel center?

Im going on Sunday, as I gotta wedding to go to on Saturday(urgh)

anyhoo, man, you guys been busy chatting in 'ere!

Mollyx

[Dirty C]

Nah, I'm painting Virginia Woolfe's house all weekend.

*whistles nonchalantly*

[james]

Just watched X-3 (veeeery good). now i've seen it can you tell me what you were doing on it kim?? obv not here cos that might spoil it. pm me or something. would interest me greatly.

aawesome film.

[Quicksilver]

Hey

are any of you folks still going to the Manga thing this weekend at the exel center?

Im going on Sunday, as I gotta wedding to go to on Saturday(urgh)

anyhoo, man, you guys been busy chatting in 'ere!

Mollyx
Yeah, but I'll be going on Saturday, not Sunday! Could chill out with us when youre done though if you like. :)

Is anyone else free to come out on Sunday?

Christian: Show off :P

Man, I really hope I can go to the Italy workshop....

[lefran]

i love the xmen films! i cant wait to go see the new one!
kim- will you PM what you did to it as well please? ill be excited in the cinema like omg i know the dude who did that!

[Crane]

Thought i'd pop in a see how my fellow artist are doing. not been on CA for a bit, been busy with college and work, finally got a job in B&Q, i'm a cusomer adviser/signwriter, the signwriting gig seems alot more complex than i 1st thought, apparantly i need 8 weeks training for it... hu?
but hey, its a job ya. so if anyone wants to come shop at my B&Q its in gillingham business park in kent/ medway... please come i'm so lonely.. sniff..
everyone is either from london, cardiff or mars these days.. IS ANYONE PASSING BY MEDWAY AT ALL??
College is nearly over, i think i'm gunna pass with a merit, hopefully , would be nice, i'm re doing this course because i had to quit a few years back because of some personal problems :( but alls good now and i'm gunna do the national diploma next hopefully, then onto KIAD/UCCD after that :) wish me luck!.
HAven't had much time to come on here :( so hi to all the old gang, Molly, Kim, josh-in-pink hehe, rebecca, koshime, dc and all the others i forgot.
Wish i could go to the anime con, but nooo i have to work, both days i think. how fun, but its half term next week so i'll be able to have time off so if anyones thinking of arranging a meet or by some miracle comes down to kent, drop me a PM, Miss hanging out with you guys, need to be with my own kind! gah!.
Hi and welcome to all the new people turning up. tis be the right place to dock, savvy!. Love to all. :bashful:

[Dirty C]

The word I've heard from the people who've seen X3 is that even if you didn't like the first two, it's awesome. So I'm trying not to lift my hopes too high for a famke janssen/halle berry jelly wrestling match, but please god please let it be so!!!

[james]

that would be awesome would it not. loved it so much yesterday that i'm going to see it again now. not a geek... but it blatently is the best of the three. so much mutant fightingness that really geeky geeks have died in wreathes of pleasure watching it.

amaazing

also, not to spoil your famke janssen love dc, but did you know she's 41?! she looks damn hot for that old. although she's 5'11" (taller than me) and has size 11 feet. massive.

J

[Dirty C]

Dude I don't care.

I just don't.


:D

[Saimon]

IS ANYONE PASSING BY MEDWAY AT ALL??
College is nearly over, i think i'm gunna pass with a merit, hopefully , would be nice, i'm re doing this course because i had to quit a few years back because of some personal problems :( but alls good now and i'm gunna do the national diploma next hopefully, then onto KIAD/UCCD after that :) wish me luck!.
:

Hey, talk about small world, i used to study at Chatham Grammar School for Boys, must be about 10mins walk from KIAD. Still live just outside of Gillingham.

Good luck with your course n stuff ^_^

[lefran]

hey guys- ive booked the 17th june off because my 17th birthday is on the monday which is the 12th so i could go shopping or something on the saturday if i wanted, but! is that too inconveniant for a meet?

[sketchling]

Elloha all. Just a quick shout out from the hamsterdam massive. :P Lots of life drawing possibilites going on here...with a decidedly red hue. Never seen so many rubber penises hanging out of every window display. Mad. Especially when yer walkin through it all with yer mum. Surreal.

Oh, and did you know you cant make a cupppachino with long life milk? They dont seem to know this here.

Oh, and I went to a van gogh, carravagio and rembrant exhimition...all my favs pretty much under one roof. So inspiring. Van gogh was a jap-art lover!!! makes manga all the more understandibly interesting really!

Peace
K

[Molly]

Hey People,

Quicksilver - Im sooo sorry I missed your call on Sunday. Saturday we went to a wedding, and well, Tom and I got absolutely trashed, stole a coffee cake, dunked our faces in it, then chucked it in a bush; we also stole a bottle of gin and an huge inflatable skittle...
Sunday, we couldnt get up. So I missed the Manga con.:( WE are so bad....
But we got to see Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind...awesome man, awesome...

ITs Toms 30th Birthday this week, and we're celebrating on Sat June 3rd at the Live Bar in Deptford. Nearest station is either New Cross on the overland train or via underground on the East London Line or Deptford Bridge DLR stn, which is opposite the bar.
For those who know Tom, it would be good to see you there. The bar is open from early till 2am. Then we might go into to SoHo to a greek resturant open till 5am, dunno.

Directions (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/Tekura/LiveBar_directions.jpg)

Mx

[Quicksilver]

Hey People,

Quicksilver - Im sooo sorry I missed your call on Sunday. Saturday we went to a wedding, and well, Tom and I got absolutely trashed, stole a coffee cake, dunked our faces in it, then chucked it in a bush; we also stole a bottle of gin and an huge inflatable skittle...
Sunday, we couldnt get up. So I missed the Manga con.:( WE are so bad....
But we got to see Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind...awesome man, awesome...
Aaahhh okay then. I didn't go to the con on Sunday - had one hell of an unfortunate day on Satrday, bar the con, so me and my bro were pretty damn shattered by the end of the night. Instead we hung out at Trocodero(sp?) last night watching some crazy ass mofos do their thing on DDR. Man do I feel unfit! Hahaha.

Fran: What do you want to do on Saturday 17th?

Kim: Sounds mad. Glad you enjoyed yourselves. Van Gogh + Manga??? Iiiiiiinteresting ¬_¬

[koshime]

Just been gardening and doing night on calls..Bank holiday..decided to renovate and plant the back garden with some decorative lawn seeds....ah..now to wait for it to someday sprout and bloom1

[lefran]

Naomi: Organise another meet? just saying i have the 17th off work

[Quicksilver]

Chee: Aww cute~ I love flowers ^_^ What ones did you plant?

Fran: Cool, hopefully people are free to meet up then :)

[Dirty C]

Saturday we went to a wedding, and well, Tom and I got absolutely trashed, stole a coffee cake, dunked our faces in it, then chucked it in a bush; we also stole a bottle of gin and an huge inflatable skittle...
Sunday, we couldnt get up.

AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!

[sketchling]

Mad molly...mad. Now that you have seen it Chris, James, the*********************************************** ***************** ...I painted the ********* on the*****that made ** look *****. Big ******* I know, but at least I can say I worked on Xmen* :*

[Kian]

Kim, thats awesome man! I fukin loved X-Men 3. I'm sure i'll go see it again.

[lefran]

ooh, ill watch out for that bit then ^__^

[james]

nice. that scene was amazing. the first time i watched it i didnt stay till the end of the credits. But second time round i stayed (to try and see kim's name in the credits) and for those of you who didn't stay till right to the end, there is a massive revelation. i nearly wet myself.

J

[sketchling]

unfortunatly they had already done the creds by the time I was brought on... I was kinda a last minute oh crap we need to fix this heeeeeeelp. guy. Yes, I saved xmen. :P hahaha. not. (I can dream?)

now I gotta go see it myself! :D

[sketchling]

Hey gutys... THis is an AWSOME tutorial on Photoshop's tricks for texturing. Its useful for everything to do with painting though. very well laid out. download, print, read, refer!!! (if ya wanna get into photoshop that is) http://www.onona3d.com/pdf/PhotoshopTips.pdf

[Quicksilver]

Haha, aww wow. I'll defo look out for that bit, Kim (and stay after the credits.....does something funny happen??)

[DannySketch]

nice. that scene was amazing. the first time i watched it i didnt stay till the end of the credits. But second time round i stayed (to try and see kim's name in the credits) and for those of you who didn't stay till right to the end, there is a massive revelation. i nearly wet myself.

J

wat?!?DAM U MAN!!!
now im gonna have to scronge sum more money together so i can see it again!the film rocks and well done sketchling for working on that scene, the whole film was pretty visually stunning.

[Kian]

Kim, thnks for that tutorial

[Crane]

Hey, talk about small world, i used to study at Chatham Grammar School for Boys, must be about 10mins walk from KIAD. Still live just outside of Gillingham.

Good luck with your course n stuff ^_^

hey, no way! get the fuck outta here!, it seems to unreal that there would be anyone in MEDWAY when they can be in LONDON....whooa...but wait... there might just be some hope... so wat do ya do now? go to college or anything? i know you must have half a brain more than most people down gill and chat seeing as you spelt everything correctly and not like your some retarded text monkey..phew hahaha :D we should hang out some time and try and rival the london group.. ha we're rising up biatches! drop me a letter at makocarter@yahoo.co.uk ya, kool. i can pick it up on thur, since i have to use libary and its not open tomoz.

[Dirty C]

i'm Not Going To Read Any Of This Thread As I Would Like To See The X-men Before Kim Tells Me Everything That Happens.

Thank You.

[sketchling]

pleasure. Wouldnt mind seein it either. wanna go this week? :D K

[james]

make sure you stay to the end. also, i didnt almost wet myself from humour but surprise.

[lefran]

How about arranging another meet? if we start discussing it now we should have a date decided by october ;)

also only naomi noticed i mentioned the 17th june- yay? nay?

[james]

nay; will be getting ready to go surfing. sorry. course im not the ONLY person who counts. just the main one. obv.

Ha.

Also, the thing i downloaded from your link is in jibberish kim. any idea why?
edit: i found out was wrong. sorry for slandering its good reputation.

J

[sketchling]

haha, ya PDFool! :P

[Molly]

i'm Not Going To Read Any Of This Thread As I Would Like To See The X-men Before Kim Tells Me Everything That Happens.

Thank You.

AMEN. ;)

Mx

[sketchling]

well people, when ya wanna go? I aint seen it either, except as crap before cg, shot footage.Funniest was seeing an easily identified, animated stickman with claws. hehe. thats a sign of great character design!\

this weekend anyone?

[Dirty C]

In fact, I read enough of that post before looking away that it did spoil a rather important part of the film. Any chance of deleting that, Kim?

I saw it last night, and it was truly awesome. I might be keen to see it again though :)

[sketchling]

** (I tried to be vague. I didnt say who "he" was...and you already knew there was a pheonix. Sorry though. didnt mean to spoil anything :( )

[james]

did you stay till the end?

[Dirty C]

Oh, the end of the credits? Nope. Was worth it, was it? Thought they did a great job on Phoenix - cause that story was utterly different to the comic version (which involved most of the action happening on the moon for a start).

And yeah, Kim, wasn't vague enough. Figured out what you meant as soon as that shot started :)

[lefran]

im going tonight !

[james]

even after i told you about it? it was ver' important. or at least fairly.

[lefran]

is there going to be a 4th one then?

[james]

there's a wolverine in the making and a magneto according to imdb, but i can't say for sure
the ending sort of suggests it i think.

[Kian]

Well, I loved it, and am going again as soon as poss.

[yAdam]

Seems like I havent come into the Uk thread for ages, but its probably only been a week. I havent been at my computer much recently..After constantly looking at it for months and months I decided to take it easy 'cause my eyes were about to explode......I dont know if I read all the recent posts, but what I caught was some talk about a wales trip? Or just another random meet sometime....Any more news about that?

Also, I've heard mixed things about xmen...I've never read any of the comics, so I wouldnt know if they've kept it true or whatever.... Thought the first two were pretty cool though.

[lefran]

i loved it!! but theres a whole thread in the music etc thread in the lounge with people saying they hated it!!!!!
Kim- looked good to me! but it moved too fast to see it properly

[Dirty C]

Really? Hm. Well, as an old school x-men reader, I have to say that I feel the way they did everything was good. Except that they didn't treat Cyclops very well, and he really is the core character in most of the X-Men's history. Obviously the changes in the way they treated other characters were pretty significant, but come on, it's a movie! And I thought the changes to Phoenix's back story were brilliant, and there's no way in hell they were going to invoke all the sci-fi alien stuff they did in the comics. That was, after all, the late 70s, early 80s, when everything had a spacey tinge, so it's to eb expected they'd write that out. This way stays more true to the concept of how mutants are treated as well.

And c'mon, KITTY PRIDE!

Someone wanna give me the link cause I'm too lazy to look?

[james]

is that a link to a pic of kitty pride (http://www.x-menthelaststand.com/EN/X3wallpapers/wallpaper15/1280_1024.jpg) you want?

J

[DavidCousens]

You didn't see the ending Chris? Tut-tut! ;)

PM me if you still don't know what happens and I'll let you know. I won't post it here because I'd hate to spoil it for anyone!

Incidentally, my faince and I liked X3 apart from Vinnie Jones. They should've just got a WWE wrestler for the part (I'm thinking Batista, because you could believe him running through a wall!). Every time you see Vinnie Jones, you just think of Vinnie Jones.

PS. Hi again, everyone, long-time-no-see! Hope you're all doing well! :D

[Kian]

i loved it!! but theres a whole thread in the music etc thread in the lounge with people saying they hated it!!!!!
Kim- looked good to me! but it moved too fast to see it properly

I believe this is down to bias. I believe however the movie would have come out these people would have hated it. Every single fan of the X-Men have their own favourite bits and pieces. Instead of appreciating what the movie I think has achieved (making a highly successful transistion from comic to live action), its cooler to say the movie's crap, and "I'd have done it this way" , "why'd they leave so and so out". All that bollocks. Forgetting the movie makers have two hours to fit the entire franchise into. Really pisses me off. Not to mention the sheep who just regurgitate and repeat the person with the stongest opinions, who has to verbally attack anything creative to make up for their own LACK of it.
True fans, I believe, will appreciate that the movie was made in the first place.

Sorry about my rant. Needed to voice some opinions. And Dave, I agree completely with you on Vinnie. He's just a twat.

:nintendo:

[sketchling]

hehe... yeah. Found that on starwars. everyone hated it...films werent the best storywise in the world, but I still loved them. I even liked Jaja, despite him being annoying. would happily have put a lance through anakins left eye though.

[koshime]

Well, my two piece is X3 was watchable although they could have made the demise of certain characters more heroic. Whereas with regards to the starwars franchise - the original three produced had cheesy lines, but great design and god actors who could pull of that cheesiness to make star wars their own. The recent three prequels unfortuantely had lacklustre acting, poor to moderate designs (a case of form over ruling function or believability) made more apparent by the digital only process (my feeling is that good ole detailed maquettes + blended digital is still the most believable) and poor direction (more action, less story, less plausible character involvement) produced a less desirable franchise.

Stick JJ abramhams in the helm, star wars woudl have been better than great! Look at what he did to the MI 3 series!

[[void]]

Christ I still havnt seen the damn thing! Ive been avoiding this thread like the plague in case i read something that regret.

As for the designs on the SW prequels, i felt everything felt really foriegn to the originals. If you compare them they feel like completely different films, I know they went more that way in the end but the link up felt poorly done. I think i would have been more tempted to put Peter Jackson in control of that one to be honest, I thought what he did with LOTR was amazing.

[Quicksilver]

On the side topic of Star Wars:

Store Wars (http://www.storewars.org)

Raaaaawr.

Edit: It's so sunny today~~ <3 We had a French market in town today - lots of different types of food. I got some sort of potato dish (already eaten it so no piccie :P). Twas luuuush

Edit#2: Hello Dave! Don't think we've met before. I'm Naomi :)

[WARHEAD]

AAAAHHHHH !!!!!! Didn't get the scholarship to do my masters in ID :sadcheerleader: :sadcheerleader:
I think it's because I already got on the course part-time and considering I'm an architect they didn't think I needed the money ! :nohope: anyway I'll just have to do it part time and stay in London - yay ! I start soon.......

......Unless anyone knows any single, twenty year old female millionaire ??? hehe

Saw X-men a few weeks ago - but didn't stay to the end credits ! damn still don't know what happened ! I have to say IMO it was the best one 'so far'.

[lefran]

warhead- ill pm you with what happened :)

[Dirty C]

Sunil, you can do it part time from London? I realise it's gonna be too late for me to talk to them now, but if you can stay in london and do it, that might be the kind of thing I'm into..

And Kim, sorry man, Star Wars is NOT THE SAME hahaha

[DavidCousens]

Kian: Glad you agree! :)

Koshime: Couldn't agree more mate, models with digital always works best.

Naomi: Hi there :) Which part of the uk are you from?

Chris: Have you been told about the ending yet?

[looky]

damn my computor whent down befor i left im ive been in edingburg sins tursday im off tommorow wodde hade been fun meeting someone if they been in the neberhood

[Quicksilver]

Naomi: Hi there :) Which part of the uk are you from?
I'm from Newport, South Wales (near Cardiff). :)

What's with all the new emoticons? :nintendo: :360_old: :sony: :xbox: Mweheh, they replaced Mario for the Revolution controller.

[WARHEAD]

Sunil, you can do it part time from London? I realise it's gonna be too late for me to talk to them now, but if you can stay in london and do it, that might be the kind of thing I'm into..

And Kim, sorry man, Star Wars is NOT THE SAME hahaha

Hi Chris, Yeah I can. I spoke to the course director before applying to see if I could work full time and do the course. I can do it because I use 3d CAD at work and have a model workshop aswell so hopefully I don't have to go up too often. I will have to take holidays for study though, I'm goin to try and do it in 2, but you can do it up to 4 years. Full time is only one year if you want to bite the bullet and not work for a year ! I would if I got the scholarship, but don't want to be a poor full time student again !!

Lefran - cheers for the PM ! ;)

ps anyone meeting up soon ????

[lefran]

warhead- well ive suggested a date and only naomi and i think it was danny sketch noticed!!!!!!!


It was June the 17th i suggested!!!!!! but now its getting closer and closer!! if someone else had noticed and started to discuss.....meh. I have the day off work then on the saturday. Otherwise im free every week day apart from the 8th June

[Saimon]

I noticed, but forgot to say anything ^_^'
but yeah, iv always wanted to go to one of these meets and im free pretty much every day this summer....except the 17th... :(

[DavidCousens]

I'm from Newport, South Wales (near Cardiff). :)


Hehe, I know where Newport is, my Mum lives there. Is Newport still big on violent crime? About 10 years ago it was the most violent town in Britain according to police reports!

[Quicksilver]

Hehe, I know where Newport is, my Mum lives there. Is Newport still big on violent crime? About 10 years ago it was the most violent town in Britain according to police reports!
Lol! I think it came second or third the last time I heard (about 3-4 years ago?). Hahaha. I live in an area with quite the reputation for that stuff too (Pill >_< - last year there were two deaths just down my street and where I used to work, and a couple of knife/gun incidents from what I know of), buuuuut I *think* it's improving, or at least the council is chucking in big cash to bring it up anyway (gotta new footbridge near the Riverfront and they're building a big shopping centre in town. Fudge knows what they're doing about the crime though). All I can say is thank god I don't have the accent!!

Sooooo is anything happening on June 17th?

The weather's been luuuuush lately~ Might go to the beach tomorrow (Gower, Swansea).

[lefran]

if no one's up for the 17th im gonna go shopping and spend my birthday money in cardiff :)

maybe a weekday would be better?

[Quicksilver]

...maybe a weekday would be better?
Aye, 'cause I defo won't be working then (kinda need the money).

[Summer Pudding]

just dropping by to say howdy. Aint been round these parts for a while. Big luv to u all.

PS: Kim, Jaja's my middle name. Dunno what it means in Kalabari (my Nigerian folks' language) No shit! Aint I exotic? :)

Pete

[DavidCousens]

All I can say is thank god I don't have the accent!!

Hehe, nice one! :D

[Saimon]

Speaking of local problems this is my university city....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3158560.stm

I chose to study here v_v"

I woke up one morning looked out my window...and there was a huge pool of blood outside, about 2 metres wide...next to a cash machine. We didn't leave our flat for a good coupla days...

[lefran]

o_0 ok glad i dont live there, i guess small towns have their advantages in some ways then...

[Hybridstar]

Whens the next major meet guys? Lets get a proper day of drawing in:P

[Dirty C]

Wait, Spud, you're a tall mostly-AfroCarribean but definitely quite exotic looking in the entertainment industry and your middle name is Jaja.

My word.

I don't think there'll be any major meets planned till everyone's back from Montreal, guys. Obviously that's for a given value of major, but I think that anything not involving me with a hangover and cartoonfox apologising for not talking to anyone IS CLEARLY NOT WORTH HAVING!!!

His Arrogance,
D to the C.

[Kian]

Its prob best DC. But I intend to get drunk with our Josh these hols.

[DannySketch]

Its prob best DC. But I intend to get drunk with our Josh these hols.
meh your funeral
http://www.badgertracks.net/nav/IMG_0418.jpg
:tihi:

[Kian]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha...classic

[Badger]

Yooou bastards....

And Yes Kian, i shall drive up in the red baron!
-B-

[james]

red baron?? more like the red, er...old metro? or something cleverer and more insulting...?

[[void]]

http://www.badgertracks.net/nav/IMG_0418.jpg
:tihi:

:x OH MY GOD! That is .............. there are no words.






At last cai has a buddy to dress up with he wont bug me all the time about it. :teeth:

[Kian]

Yooou bastards....

And Yes Kian, i shall drive up in the red baron!
-B-

Good man :yayca:

[lefran]

hahahhahaha ive seen that before but its still funny everytime

cartoonfox apologising for not talking to anyone
aah thats not true we had a nice convo about how crap wrestling is its almost good ^__^

[Quicksilver]

Lol, classic photo, Josh.....-ina? :D

Wheeeee pics from the beach~

http://www.cheeb.co.uk/photos/beach/

Went to the Gower first but the tide was too high for my parents to catch razor fish so we went to Llanelli to catch cockles (my sis and I sunbathed instead ^_^)

[Hybridstar]

Who's heading to montreal?, half thinking about going myself.

[Saimon]

Didnt know it could get that sunny in Wales...my lasting memories of my family holidays there was copious amounts of rain

[koshime]

I've heard that tale as well, although all my trips to North and south wales have normally been sun shiny 90% of the time :). What does rain look like down there?

[DannySketch]

Who's heading to montreal?, half thinking about going myself.

i do believe the cut off date for registering has been and gone mate, i think its DC, Cartoon Fox and erm thats it?!?going but i think the last chance to register was june 1st, checkout the workshop part though its worth a try

[Quicksilver]

...What does rain look like down there?
Lol, what??

It's been sunny all week :^^:

Anyone planning on going to the Italy workshop? I'm not allowed to go unless someone my parents know comes with me. -_- And my siblings won't let me stay in a hostel.

[sketchling]

ill be there. 90% likley. if they get round to planning the damn thing cause im gonna be SOOO busy. As for not stayin in a hostel, thats silly. Its such a cool vibe in the hostels... we take over the rooms wholesale and draw till silly hours. Definitly a must do! On yer own in a hostel would suck, but that wont happen :)

[Badger]

I'm not allowed to go unless someone my parents know comes with me. -_- And my siblings won't let me stay in a hostel.

God dammit you are 17!! rebel! ignore them, tell them you are mature enough. Tell them where to go! Life's too short!! Well, that's what i would have done...
Brief rant over...
Oh and Sketchling is right - you'd be more secure in a hostel, surrounded by CA'ers who would watch your back and protect you with their life, there is a weird bonding that occurs one the first night when you sit around and draw, now everyone just feels like extended family ^_^

Danny sketch - aaannnd summer pudding and the brave i think.

james Mate the real red baron wasn't actual baron's handstitched together to form a flying machine... Besides my beaut is about that old.

Kian I'll pack my stilletoes, though i can't drive in them, tried, failed.

Right kids, last deadline monday then i'm cool for doing some 'crazy' stuff.

Howz the last man standing dome going lads?

-B-

[Eriboss]

ello doods.

I juss came back from a weekend in Wales with the girl, we went up to a crazy hotel in a place called llandrindod wells, ate some awesome food then got totally wasted and woke up the next day and went to the Elan valley dams. was tooootally tootally cool, the whole area is brimming with outstanding natural beauty and the weather was just super hehe.

here are some crappy phone pics:

http://www.reelfilms.co.uk/images/metropole.jpg
http://www.reelfilms.co.uk/images/dam2.jpg
http://www.reelfilms.co.uk/images/dam1.jpg
http://www.reelfilms.co.uk/images/bridge.jpg
http://www.reelfilms.co.uk/images/dam2drive.jpg

also, for those who havent seen yet, I have wrapped up a new 3 minute animation i have been doing recently called "monsterz" - you can watch it here (http://www.reelfilms.co.uk/images/animation/monsterz_640.mov)

Cheers

Eri

[yAdam]

I'm up for anything too....been too long since the last meet, for me at least.

I am definately going to the euro workshop. Was kind of thinking about montreal a few weeks ago. Just checking out the plan for the four days got me excited about it.:^^:

and my thunderdome is just a few thumbnails right now...Planning on starting it properly this week..

and yeah, Naomi I agree with Josh... Be a rebel :)

edit: It works now!! I thought it was great! Really funny:)

[Saimon]

What does rain look like down there?

Kinda like this....

http://www.sophie.org.uk/Wales/PICT9150.jpg

[Dirty C]

If you wanna go, Hybrid, I'm sure you'll get in. Can't believe you're thinking about it right now, but it's totally worth it. They're always great.

LESS THAN 24 HOURS TO GOOO!!!!!

[Quicksilver]

God dammit you are 17!! rebel! ignore them, tell them you are mature enough. Tell them where to go! Life's too short!! Well, that's what i would have done...
Brief rant over...
Oh and Sketchling is right - you'd be more secure in a hostel, surrounded by CA'ers who would watch your back and protect you with their life, there is a weird bonding that occurs one the first night when you sit around and draw, now everyone just feels like extended family ^_^
Yeah.....:^^;: And I'll be 18 by the time the workshop comes up too. It would suck so badly to miss out drawing with you guys by staying in a hotel on my own (and cost more). When do you think they'll arrange specific details for it?

[Hybridstar]

Will check and see, if not this one the next for sure. Is "the brave", christian bravery? havent seen hide nor hair of him for ages. Dang this workshop sounds cool, mainly coz of the uk crowd going.

[Alcian]

I was going to go on the Florence trip, might put the money towards life drawing instead - or uni accomodation :S, that would be an idea. Also, its hassel to get direct flights to florence.
And the idea of meeting people off the net is a little strange to me. Which doesn't mean people off the net are strange... something like that.

[Saimon]

Ooh i didnt know the Italy trip was to Florence. S'my fave Italian city *checks savings*

[Dirty C]

Well we meet quite regularly, dude, so the net is really just an organising structure. It's not like anybody's getting married :)

[Eriboss]

awww *me puts ring away*

[DannySketch]

hahaha eriboss i just cant get over that animation dude *slaps ur dam face for being darn cool*

dont trust them alican there all really weird, dam near ate me alive at bristol, hell Lefrans still munching on the bigger part of me toe from what i hear.

and Florence is a DEFINATE for me, i dont give a dam where i have to find the money, i'll sell my own kidney dammit, i aint missing another fecking workshop!Naomi get ur 'kevin' hat on cause ur going...

...oh come on early 90's sitcom humour flys right by you?kevin?harry enfield?oh forget it!