Stalked

Draco- it's (nearly) out!

Company: Schmidt Spiele
Price: 17,99 Euro
languages: German, French, Italian

more information in German language

As you can see the dragon is by Kerem Beyit. I got the pretty interesting open files to work with (actually chose 10 and worked with those) and could weave my ideas around the basic dragons. I wouldn't say my dragons are as cool as Beyits but I think the whole final thing looks damn good I'd say. And I think that's the most important thing.
Maike, who also does my homepage, was the other part of my brain when it came to actual layout and packaging/ guide conception.
I never made a board game, neither did she so this was thrilling, annyoing and awesome at the same time. I hope it won't be the last game. :)

I'll post some more pics when I get it. Man, so exciting!

What will we do 2011?

I actually started it with being sick and spend my New Year's Eve on the couch watching kitschy movies with Ty.
I hope the next weeks will be happy ones since I expect payout from three jobs I did last year and gosh, I'm so craving for the Cintiq Q_Q
I realized that it might be a chance to get one comic page done in two evening-sessions. At the moment I'm bloody slow and it makes everything a lot more complicated and exhausting than I thought.

My Christmas was a mixture of super-sad crying and happy being together. I happened to pick up my mum up at the nursing home (who works there) and saw my grandma (who lives there). It was so sad.
"Switch the lights on. Why is it so dark?"
"But granny, the lights ARE on. All of them."
My mum told me afterwards that my grandma lost her eye-sight. I know it happens every minute around the globe but it hurts alot when you have somebody close slowly fading away and you can't do anything about it.I'm not good handling those situations since I turn into a neverending emotional waterfall. I guess that's one of the many reasons why I skipped the "family-tradition" of becoming nurse number23452 in the family tree. Arf.

More happy news: Jan/Feb will be awesome, since the board game I worked on will be out. (German, French, Italian language... :D )
The rest.. oh well... next entry with pics again. I'm already late on so many things but at the moment the couch seems the best choice. With a huge pile of books and tea. Yay. o_o

Happy Easter! \(O_o)/

... since I'm in the middle of Easter Illustrations already. Arf...
Will show those when I have the first bunch finished. Bunch in my job means 30. So 23 more to do.

Merry Everything!

finally done

 now...

 

and than.... :) 

I like that my workplace is finished now... I think. There's still a black chalkboard missing but alas... details. The new lamps are finally up and it's so much better for the eyes. Lew, I hope you like it since you gonna spent there a lot of time as well.

For Miss Kirschvogel :)

I promised Frau Kirschvogel to make some more pics of the Art S. Buck mannekins and here we go. Actually those are still tricky since some parts are not as cooperaive as they should be but it's okay since they need to be stiff. You know if a pose works when the figurines stop falling ;)

I think the female one above shows it pretty much. I wasn't sure if she keeps from tumbling but the pose is static.

The -still very- cool part is that you can take pics of different perspectives. For me it's practically the best since it's always a bit annoying to get those correct and well... here they actually are. Click, done.

This is how far the back can be bend. If you add the legs as well it's pretty much. You just have to keep an eye on the different parts (like legs or arms) to sit in the correct position. Here it's not that problematic but the male leg gives away when you bend it without ckecing since it's so buff.

Super-hero picking something up.... with pretty shadows...

and Super-Hero picking something up from a different angle. And other pretty shadows...

Sitting works as well... especially on a Bodum cup *arf*

And surfing but still not tumbling around as well. They are really damn well balanced I have to say.

So much for new pics. I still wish the female had switchable shoulders as well. It makes a lot of sense with some poses.

Anne

And since 99% of the random people hitting this blog are searching for Art S.Buck mannekins: There you go

Sphinx Kitteh... loves the heater in winter. :)

Basement vs Ceiling

 Basement cat craves for the place where...

... Ceiling cat is.