Rant #016 Sunday, February 8, 2004

Page 59 done.

Aufdek is one nasty, mean looking place. :-P The 2214 Poster is coming along, though a bit slower than usual in the past week. I had a lot to do. Anyway, Malachi's almost finished, so Ravenna and Bus are the last two... and then the background.

I made this parody video of "Blue Seed", but it's still debateable as to whether or not I should post it on the site. Why? My humor is really..... random, and often food or digestion related for reasons that have yet to be understood.

Nothing else at the moment.

Rant #015 Saturday, January 31, 2004

Page 58 tonite!!!!

Things have been going well with the poster. I can say that putting more time into something produces better results. Actually, perhaps it's best expressed as:

(effort * time) + skill updgrades^2 = improvement :D

Well, the proof will be in the pudding, so to speak. One thing I do know for sure is that it's been a lot of fun, so far. Kinda soothing, like painting is. For those of you who are familiar with the late artistic genious Bob Ross, he shows us just how relaxing and enjoyable art can be when you just sit back, take your time, and have fun with being creative. That's kind of the exploration of this poster project.

In other news, LynxofCP is a programming genious. Why? Because Binary Vibrance is a feature-rich system that includes a ton of handy stuff for 2214 reader participation. If you haven't had a chance yet, it's that "BV" link at the top of the page. There's real time chat, community news postings, and Lynx is getting close to the public release of an all-new message board system. There are even plans of a community art / music / fiction gallery in the works.

2004 is getting off to a strong start so far.

I'd like to take some time to thank Piro and Seraphim at Megatokyo for providing such a great way to get the word out about this site. Without them, our traffic wouldn't be anywhere as near what it is today.

Oh, and Angel Moxie is back online! Dan got a new dedicated server and is offering hosting for other artists as well! If you're an artist and you need somewhere to post your art that doesn't have the restrictions that many of these "free" sites have, check it out. He's got details on his site.

Ok, so I'm going to get back to drawing. You want updates, eh? No worries, page 58 will be done tonight and the new 2214 Poster is due to be available by February 20.

That's all for now!

-Nitro

Rant #014 Sunday, January 25, 2004

Time for an update, eh?

Notice that I rushed this week's comic. Want to know why? It is because I'm working on the 2214 poster. You can see me dilligently at work on it Here .

So Virulyde and Saja are done now, and I've got Ravenna, Malachi, and School Bus left to do. Oh yeah, and the background art, which I have yet to even decide on what to do for it. But, yeah.

As for page 57, well, it's the rare stupid joke that every comic writer is entitled to make. It's a result of extreme laziness this weekend, and Saturday was the most non-productive day in all of 2214's history. I sat around and played Final Fantasy X-2 all day. Bleh. Hey, I'm allowed to take a break, too :-P

Remember that tomorrow is "Specktag", or bacon day. I think. That's all for now.

Rant #013 Saturday, January 17, 2004

Page 56 is done; and work is finally started on the new 2214 poster, which should be completed by 2214's first anniversary.

It was interesting trying to draw the characters in a more realistic fashion; so far I've completed Saja for the poster and have yet to create the finished versions of Virulyde, Malachi, and Ravenna. Whether or not I'll put more characters in the poster really depends on my rate of progress.

Drawing Saja (I actually used references for anatomy, proportions, clothing folds, etc) took around... 8 hours, including sketching, researching, and two stages of detailed line work. CG-ing took another 10 hours, and I learned quite a few things about digital painting as I went.

That's all for now.

Rant #012 Monday, January 12, 2004

Artists' Block

Page 55 almost wasn't. Chalk that up to overcoming a horrid case of artists' block. Actually, the most grueling one yet! But it subsided right at the last minute.

Omnitemporalis, rather than continuing to be a broken promise, is *officially* put on indefinite hiatus; since it's enough just to do 2214.

Rant #011 Thursday, January 1, 2004

Happy new year!

I plan on starting off 2004 strong with regular, on-schedule, and better 2214 updates. It's only 210 years from now until 2214. Also, Omnitemporalis should be updated again, probably on a slower schedule than 2214 is.

It was a busy time around the end of the year.... not to mention upgrading / repairing the computer "1337 B4WX", which is used as the workstation for 2214 (drawing, working on the site, FTP, etc). Rendering the Hovercrane in 3D shouldn't take quite so long, and with 2GB it'll take a whole lot more drawing before Photoshop runs out of RAM and crashes.

Last night I had to re-install everything on my file server, too, which I use for backups and mass storage of the music I listen to while drawing. Whew. It has all of the hardware that was removed from my main workstation when I upgraded.

So..... Chapter 4 of 2214 begins to start everything off for the year. The Fumacites are on the run from their prince, who is working with Zetsfir, and has enrolled School Bus, who isn't quite sure who he's really working for yet. Azurat has finally managed to arrive on Kaperth after tracking data from the Morgan's Gate records, and the whole Fumacine Empire's government is surely collapsing by now, since the Prince is working with Zetsfir, now. Ravenna still hasn't quite grasped the situation she's in yet!

So.... in other words, expect an exciting plot this year; and I'll try hard to get Omnitemporalis moving again.

Oh, and please.... if you have a chance at all, log on in the forums and breathe some life into that ghost town of a message board we have here!!!

Rant #010 Sunday, December 28, 2003

One more week....

2214 needs a little more work in the planning stages for the upcoming chapters.... the way things flow in the original script may not suit the current flow of the story, so I'm going to take some time to plan it out a little better over the next week.... plus I figured I'd wait until after the New Year's holiday before getting back into doing the updates.

Sorry about the long wait.... but 2214 will be much better once I've organized the story more.

As for Omnitemporalis, well.... there's not much to promise for it. Will it continue? Yes. When? I have no idea.

Rant #009 Sunday, December 21, 2003

I've decided to take a small break from 2214 over the holidays, since everything has been so busy lately.

Page 53 will be ready next week; and in the meantime I'll probably put up a special holiday art piece ^_^

Happy Holidays all!