Baron Reginald PalMcCoy Zbrush!

I've finally watched enough intro videos of Zbrush to get a loose grasp on the basics. Learning Sculptris helps, but only a bit. When each brush has three layers of presets, things tend to get too difficult for me. So here's what I've got so far! This is one night of work. Actually, it's two hours of work. I sculpted this during The Big Bang Theory, and an episode of The Walking Dead. Not too bad. But far far far from being done. As you can see, I've decided my first z-brush project will be our blogs' fearless namesake, Baron Reginald PalMcCoy. It's a bit eerie looking right now. He also lacks eyes.

Terrorist Cow.

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one person to draw the political cartoons which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, what a cow might be like if it were indeed a terrorist, the political cartoon to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect, or a whimsied 'meh' to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the political cartoon.

These are those causes: I wanted to contribute to this blog. I started to draw a cow. I thought a cow would look funny with a turban. 

The above .gif is therefore the logical outcome of those causes. Set forth today for you!

- Brian Matthew Stuckey

My Life in Games - Secret of Mana (SNES)

I've decided to start a personal project where I make small illustrations for all the video games I loved as a kid. My most vivid memories of childhood usually related to video game in some way.

To start, here's Secret of Mana. It was the summer of '94. My best friend and I were both going to day camp at a nearby tennis/golf club. We would talk about the game at camp and start playing as soon as we got home. It was everything I loved about RPGs and adventure games put together.

This illustration shows Spikey Tiger, one of the early bosses in the game. This guy was a HUGE pain in the ass for me (and I don't think I was alone). I can't remember how many days it took me, but GOD did it feel good to kill him.

Even though I call this one of my all-time favorite games, I never actually beat it. The final part of the game involves a long, painful slog through the hardest enemies in the game, followed by the last boss. Now, to stand a chance against the boss, you have to cast a special enchantment on the hero's sword, buuuut I had already used up all of my magic just to get that far. All I could do was stand there and wait for death. Frustrated, I put the game away for a while and just never picked it back up...

The Baron