all hallows eve

30th of Oct, 2003ce* in: diary

Had a party to go to, was very entertaining if a little short. Then we hit the town in force, cramming our bodies into pubs. I wore some small horns made for me by my sister. Lots of freaks out, including someone from work dressed as hanibal… very disturbing.

Mario Kart Double Dash

29th of Oct, 2003ce* in: diary

A long drive later and we are in East London for Nintendoes launch party for the the new gamecube game: Mario Kart: Double Dash
All the usual faces there, makes me wonder if its just the same bunch of press, developers and freeloaders at all the same gigs. (Luckily I fall into the developers category, I think.)

Met a few wierdoes, a guy who had similar eye lids to me (its a very rare and slight condition), and a guy who works for my old boss at Kleber many many years ago, Dorian. However both too dry to have a fun conversation, hey thats London for you, everyones up thier own arses 50% of the time. Glad I live in a nice down-to-earth place like Brighton.

Got a free copy of the game, 15 days before official launch! (got a mug too, both will probably go on ebay when I get a chance)

antiporn mirror

23rd of Oct, 2003ce* in: diary

omg, I thought this was dead but it looks like its back as a mirror.
if you you’ve never seen antiporns site before (it was live some years ago) do go check it out here

On a side note, while I’m posting link’s in my diary and not actually talking about me, check out the usual friday fun at b3ta. Damn I’m cheap.

one more time!

22nd of Oct, 2003ce* in: diary

Last night I went to Departure Lounge here in brighton, a monthly Japanese culture night with j-pop & anime.
In the line up was The Ghibili’s which was a mix of sketchy artwork and 3d graphics, blended in the most beautiful way, however the best was yet to come, daft punk’s Interstella 5555!

Fucking amazing. However there seems to be a hole in the translation, 5 = go in Japanese so the title really means Interstella go go go go, I suppose this is a pun, you read it here first! ;)
The animation is fantastic and is filled humourous and interesting links to Daft Punk, its a constant joy. It’s also well timed to the Daft Punk album, featuring the single one more time. The animation is directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi & Leiji Matsumoto, so its super retro! (think Ulysses 31, battle of the planets etc)

Go pick up the DVD, its out tomorrow.

Atari Homepage Pitch1

21st of Oct, 2003ce* in: babelmedia, websites

Wow! Lot’s of work put into this classy looking website pitch. It looked like myself and Tom Jackson had hit the nail in the head with loving smiles and emails of joy from Atari Europe.

“tumbleweed rolls by”

We finally found out that the project had been put on hold and they didn’t want a website just yet. (we were later to re-pitch with another website design that fucking rocked! Which the American division of Atari stole and still use to this day, nice!)

Bus Me

19th of Oct, 2003ce* in: diary

While walking back from the local Tesco’s, I was crossing the road with my bag full of munchies.
Look right, Look left, Look right again.
Cross
FUCK!!
A great big bus in my face driving on the WRONG side of the road, choc full of passengers hurlting toward me! Needless to say, I Peter Panned it out of the way with mere milimeters to spare…
Also needless to say, I shaked my Tictacs at that fucker.
Ho hum, dicing with death. Thats me, living on the edge and all that.

Tetris

10th of Oct, 2003ce* in: 3D, illustration

The game was for Interactive TV on SateliteTV, the client also wanted ideas for a TV commercial.
The client wanted a huge monolith constructed from Tetris peices, in different materials. Took a fair while to work in the modelling program. Soon after this, the client I was working with wanted the blocks smaller. “make them a 1/3rd smaller”

Super Mario 3 advance vip items

9th of Oct, 2003ce* in: babelmedia, downloads

Possibly, if not definitely, my best wallpaper ever. So good in fact that I’m going to save you the trouble of trawling though my downloads website and link it right here for maximum effect!!
The wallpaper depicts a map of Europe in the SMB3 universe.

1:
1280×1024
1024×768
800×600

2:
1280×1024
1024×768
800×600

T-hurts

7th of Oct, 2003ce* in: diary

Working long hours on graphics tends do strange things to ones mind. I worked from 9am till 10pm, any normal soul would have gone home straight to bed… not me!
I went home and made some T-Shirts! Check them out!