The Prussian Concussion

I have found it. The sole reason for why the rest of the world has a seething hatred for American's. The French don't hate us because of their own hypocritical, self-important view of the Iraq war. And no, the Germans don't hate us because of they actually believe enviro-facist propaganda about man-made global warming.
No, the rest of the world hates us because this is what they see of Americans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHi32mKjkSo
Yes this philanthropic philosopher actually believes that walking 1000 miles for absolutely no reason will change lives and bring about peace between different peoples. Just walking for peace. No one has pledged any money or donated anything to charity for this walk, it's just a walk for peace that no one knows about.
As you watch this interview note the eloquence with which this young and obviously well educated man speaks. Teachers, this would be a great video to teach your students the dangers of empty gestures, dropping out of school and drugs.
Probably the most profound and mind-altering statement in the whole interview is this little gem:
"Well she was a peace pilgrim...so...she was on a pilgrimage for peace...to spread her message of peace"
I hate hippies. They're all a bunch of lazy, mooching, un-bathed, morons who's brains have been forever chemically altered from that of a normal human being leading them to believe that they have some knowledge from beyond the universe that only they know and have to tell you all about when you tell them that no, your pizza is not there for the community unless said community has put in 5 bucks for their share so get your broke-ass patchouli smelling hands away from my pizza you son-of-a-bitch! They're like a junkie, a bum, and your creepy uncle Ernesto all rolled into one. They're not even good for firewood.

Wyrm Food

I was in a dragon drawin' mood and this is what came out and I spent way too much time on it. I always loved the way that the 3d Hydra was done in the animated Hercules movie by Disney and it appears to have seeped into my design a little.

Hot Damn

I love that phrase. I don't know why but, I do. And furthermore it has absolutely nothing to do with my drawing. Randomness is next to Godliness I say.

Attack of My Student Loans

Did this for a low-poly competition at 3dtotal.com. She's one of Count Dooku's apprentices and gives Anakin that scar across his eye.

Aerodrome

The Albatros DII was one of several models of fighting aeroplane prefered by Manfred Von Richthofen "The Red Baron" during WWI. Powered by a 160hp Mercedes DIII water-cooled inline six-cylinder engine and armed with two 7.92 mm Spandau machine guns, the Albatros helped secure Germany's domination of the European skies.

This particular model took a total of around 4 or 5 days to create and an additional 2 or 3 days to unwrap and texture. Along with the basic color/grime map I also created a normal map and specularity map all with a 1024x1024 resolution. I might post the maps up here later. I tried to keep it reletivily low poly but at 4850 triangles this is probably close to if not THE close-up hero model.

I didn't have to search too hard for reference material and I found a couple good orthographic layouts in no time at all. The REAL difficulty was choosing the aircraft. I didn't want to do the obvious yet, none the less iconic Fokker DR1 triplane. Clicking through webpages I was struck by the odd, somewhat fearsome bomb shaped fuselage and the extremely low upper wing of the Albatros. I also loved the horribly unaestetic engine cylinders with the way the cut into the profile of the nose and the large triangular radiator that sat on top of the cylinders.

After viewing hundreds of refernce pics for the DII I found that I liked bits and pieces of the different model's paint jobs and insignias. The texture that I created has is an amalgamation of the DII throught the later DV models. It was also VERY temping to give it Richthofen's signature red paint job.

Four Score and Six Feet Down...

The dead south will rise again!

Sleeponator Deluxe 5000 to the Groin!

I really thought I would have a lot more to say than this....but apparently not. Time flys when you're on your way up the ladder of life's high-dive. Everybody's waitin' for their turn to make a splash in front of the judges as if it's the three seconds of falling to the pool that get's you that perfect ten. But I know the secret and it's not whether you can do a swan dive or a belly flop. That's why I'm climbing the ladder naked!

Article 5 - Section "Kill"

Okay I basically plan on putting up three things on this page that no one is going to read:
Artwork, Politics and Pain! Haha okay maybe just two things. Anyway welcome to my little corner of the sesspool stew that we call the "Al Gore memorial Information Super Highway".

Congress is in session...here comes the pain!

I'm too damn tired to write anything interesting.