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So much has happened since my last journal entry, but we now have (almost) all the art for the game I've been working on!
YES!
More info on the game can be found here - aethericworlds.com/projects/ne… - but I never in a million years thought I'd be doing as much of the art for NEXUS as I have! A bit of Photoshop here and there to put art in the card frames, maybe, but this?! Nope!
And yet here it is!
I am so stoked, I can't even begin to explain. The game's set to launch in January; it's in beta testing now, and our testers really seem to enjoy it. It's been a tremendously positive experience (although not without its frustrations and setbacks) all the way around.
YES!
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I wish I had the time to search dA for the artists I need, but I don't. So I'm hoping that the power of "word of mouth" will help. So...

Attention artists!

I am part of a gaming-related project that needs art. Our vision has a specific style of art, and we are currently looking for approximately 10-20 contract artists, each of whom will create multiple pieces. While I am not able to provide extensive details until an initial handshake NDA is agreed upon, I can provide some information here:

  • We have a very specific art style in mind for this project. Clean, distinct, with an austere elegance. The art style we are looking for is best exemplified by the late, great MAGIC: THE GATHERING artist, Quinton Hoover. Another example is the amazing SceithAlim of deviantArt. If you can create in this style, you may be one of the artists we're looking for.
  • We are looking for artists who can portray the human figure and face; we are also looking for artists who can portray objects (both real and fantasy). You do not need to be good at both. We are, however, looking for work in color - this is not a black-and-white project.
  • We hope to launch our project in early December. This means finished art NO LATER than early November. If your schedule is too busy to accommodate this, you may not be the artist for us. We understand.

If you are interested in joining this project, you can reply to this post or send me a Note - please be sure to include a link to your portfolio, your email address or a link to your contact page on your website/portfolio, and especially important, your rates.

Most importantly, please reblog this or retweet this. This is a project that I am TREMENDOUSLY excited to be part of, and I am very much hoping to find the artists that can bring this particular vision to life.

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So I had this huge list of videos I wanted to make for COH. Which, of course, got put on indefinite hiatus thanks to the f***ers over at NCsoft shutting down the game. Five months later, I'm still bitter, I'm still angry, and I'm still sad, because there were over FIFTY videos on that list, damn it.

*sigh*

Fine. New roster of stuff to make. The problem is, as gorgeous as both LotRO and RIFT are... I haven't had any amazing ideas for them like I did for COH. I'm not sure why that is - I love the characters I've created in both games, they have whole stories and personalities and whatnot, but... the creative urge just isn't there.

On the flipside... since discovering the website ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com, I've really started getting into the videos there, and so I might start taking a crack at those. (Not as being a reviewer, Christ no, I don't nave nearly a thick enough skin.)

So new list starts now!

1. "Save Me: A Tribute to the Nostalgia Critic" - Ha, done already! Yep, it's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mC1lD… (yes, this one is Ko in total fangirl mode - I can't draw worth s***, so I did what I do best - made a video)
2. Spoony video (possibly to Stabbing Westward's "Haunting Me")
3. Linkara video
4. Benzaie video (I think I know what song I want to use for this one, too...)
5. Nostalgia Chick video

This list will be added to as time goes on. I hope. And please, for the love of God, don't let the Channel Awesome website go down. Or I will be a sad Ko.
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People don't usually believe me when I tell them just how many video ideas I have on my plate at any given time. So I'm going to put the list here... and as I finish them, I'll cross them out (and add new ones to the bottom of the list for "eventually"). This is a mostly-rough order of completion... and with me still trying to finish two books in the process.

I really need to win the lottery.

1. FanART Battle Video (trailer for Darth_Delicious's contest winning art)
2. Beat Up the Scum (music video for Eben Brooks)
3. Personal Archvillain (music video for Eben Brooks)
4. CoVIDEOHELL Vol 1 (parody)
5. The Wretch Strike Force (parody courtesy of Steelclaw)
6. The Course of Superhero Romance (commercial)
7. The War Witch TF trailer (commercial)
8. Locking Up the Sun (Star Patrol music video)
9. Praetorian Uprising (music video)
10. Breaking Me Down (Synapse music video)
11. Blood Red Skies (Maelstrom music video)
12. Overcome (Blake music video)
13. The Day the Whole World Went Away (Dark Astoria music video)
14. That's All I've Got to Say (Posi and Tava music video)
15. The Most Interesting Man in Praetoria (parody with Leandro as the voice of TMIMIP)
16. Accidentally in Love (Jo and Leo music video)
17. American Heartbeat (Hero music video)
18. And So It Goes (Posi and Tava music video)
19. Believe (Sister Psyche music video)
20. Faint (Manticore music video)
21. Game On (music video starring Posi, Tava, Blake, Synapse and the gang)
22. Hello (Blake music video)
23. Hey a Movie (videographers music video)
24. Holding the Line Against the Night (Rikti War music video)
25. Homeward Bound (Dawn Patrol music video)
26. Run This Town (CoH PVP zone music video)
27. The World is Not Enough (villain couples music video - GW/Scirocco, Neuron/Dominatrix/Anti-Matter, Master Midnight/Diabolique)
28. They Won't Go When I Go (Statesman music video)
29. Turbo Lover (Synapse and anyone music video)
30. Whispers in the Dark (Soulcatcher music video)
31. You Know My Name (Star Patrol vs Longbow music video)
32. CoVIDEOHELL - The Musical (parody)
33. CoVIDEOHELL Vol 2 (parody)
34. CoVIDEOHELL Vol 3 (parody)
35. Fusionette's "My Energy" video (parody)
36. Ghostbusters (parody)
37. James Bond (CoH set to Bond music parody)
38. The PUG video (parody)
39. City of Oz (parody)
40. Ghost Story (commercial for the next Harry Dresden book) (Inception music)
41. Jade Magistrates commercial (commercial) (Katana)
42. Nexus (commercial for AE arc "Cause and Effect")
43. Star Patrol commercial (commercial)
44. The "Meet the X" series (commercials)
45. Worlds of Wonder ad for COH (commercial)
46. I Will Survive (BAB vs Phalanx music video)
47. Lay Me to Sleep (Anti-Matter/Dominatrix music video)
48. The Issue 22 Trailer (DEATH INCARNATE) DONE - March 4th, 2012!
49. Beauty Underneath (yet another Blake video)
50. Just a Woman (Posi and Tava music video) DONE - March 22nd, 2012!
51. Save the World Tonight (heroes set to the Swedish House Mafia song)
52. True Self (Nasami video)
53. Time to Start Redux version (music video)
54. Moonlight Shadows (Aceso video)
55. The Device Has Been Modified (Soulsteel music video)
56. It's the Fear (Blake/Soulcatcher music video)

And I'm sure I'm forgetting some...

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And those are JUST the videos shot in CITY OF HEROES! Never mind the AMVs, RIFT, and AION videos I still want to make. I'll have to add those on here too so you can see just how insane my life is.

Where can you find these once they're done, you ask? They'll be on my YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/samuraiko (and don't forget to subscribe)!
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OMG OMG OMG.

Check out the Favorites section to the left to see what I got!

"After the Storm" by :iconaentheartist: - he did an absolutely FANTASTIC rendition of Sorina and Posi... my God, for a geek he looks remarkably bada**!!  (And no, it doesn't reference any particular scene... yet. Book III has yet to be written...) And Aen even showed me how he does colors by LiveStreaming the coloring process. Fascinating experience, and such an amazing job. (I call the picture "Down Time", though.)

"Oops" by :iconimagesbyalex: - he is unreal. I just laughed and laughed when I saw the finished version of "Oops." I can practically HEAR Synapse thinking, "You SCHMUCK..." as he stands there facepalming in the doorway.  (We actually toned down the picture - it was gonna be a bit more risque at first, but since Matt Miller would probably have had a heart attack if we'd gone with it, this was the end result.)

I would so work with these guys again. Totally bang-on jobs by both guys, and the finished results were EVERYTHING I'd hoped for and more. Commission from them - they are both artists and gentlemen, as it were, and worth every dollar.
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