Well it's not Christmas yet, but still... Merry Christmas :D :D :D
The piece of art below is something i made today. I'll upload it to the Art Portal later this week. Or next week. If I don't forget to.

I'm working on it now, I'm currently as far as in the image, and I started this afternoon.
I use Maya 2009, the software package I use at my Game Design study.

I might make a small game with it when I have way more characters, animations, environments and a programmer at my school crazy enough to assist me.
For the game I'll have to convert the nurbs to polygons, ergo from nice and smooth to more blocky and triangulated, but I'll try to maintain as much detail with as less tris as possible...

I'll update it when I've more, I know it's not much yet but I just wanted to share what I had so fart :D

By the way, if someone knows a simple way to use nurbs booleans to smash craters in the bandages around the eyes, your help would be very, very appreciated.

Finally I've achieved something in my life (sarcasm). Yet I'm pretty pissed I still don't have that "OVER 9000!!!" achievement.

EDIT: Motherfucking shitkebabs, I've been descouted again. And my Nocturnal Drive-by had a daily feature, my Bloodthirsty Smiley a daily third and my Creepy Puppeteer a daily fourth or fifth.
Damn you, NewGrounds Art Portal D:<

All my characters have a real name as well. I don't know why i wanted to do that, but I just did.
First I wanted to call Agent Orange "David Floriad", but that looked messed up.
So I called him David Florida.

Found this on Wikipedia:
Dr. C. David Florida was a Canadian pioneer in space research. He was director of the Canadian National Space Telecommunications Laboratory and manager of the International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies (ISIS) programme. He was made manager of the Hermes Communications Technology Satellite (CTS) programme just prior to his death in 1971.
The David Florida Laboratory bears his name.

Oops.
My David Florida has a laboratory as well, to run tests on humans. But at least he didn't die in 1971 already ;)

But hey, Stabby's real name is Alexander Kimble. And really, you don't wanna know how many Alexander Kimbles there are on this planet. Try Google and you'll find a lot already.

So now I'm going to give them all a second name as well.
It was Jake L. Tulper already, though I hadn't figured out yet what the "L." meant :D

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I have 4 submissions now on NewGrounds, from which I could actually two consider crap.
Still I animated them all with PowerPoint, because I simply could it and always have been too lazy to start learning how to animate with Flash.
I guess I'm going to start learning it from now on (I'm downloading the CS4 trial as I'm typing), because I - more than probably any other PowerPoint users - see the limitations in animating with it.
Wish me luck :Þ

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If you haven't seen them yet, check
- my MadnessDay 2009 submission "Revival & Revenge":
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
512342
- my latest piece of art:
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/raz orshader/jake-l-tulper

It approaches... And I´ve still a lot to do.

New screenie below.

Edit: Working on the final scene now, I still have more than 12 hours to finish it...

Edit 2: Finished... YES... Still about 12 hours left, but I'm having some conversion problems...

EDIT 3: IT'S ON NEWGROUNDS YAY:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/
512342

Latest Art Portal submission:
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/raz orshader/jake-l-tulper

As some of you might know, I use PowerPoint to animate, not Flash.

Since the day before yesterday I started experimenting with ppt 2007, which was on my new laptop.
And the 3d effects are AWESOME, so I decided to redo ALL of my sprites, which means I've a lot to do but I hope I have it done by this weekend, so I can start animate with them.
And this is probably the weirdest part of the story; because of the INcompatibility from importing 2007-stuff into a 2003-file, it's easier for me to animate in 2003 with the stuff I've drawn in 2007. If you don't get this never mind, but it's what I'm going to do. And you'd better like it >:Ð

This means I'm giving Jake the third restyle since Reprobabilitation, and I made that one right after MD08, so I had enough time to make a decent movie for MadnessDay 2009. But scratch that, I'm starting all over again with about 3-4 weeks to spend... Wish me luck

EDIT: Sorry for the blurry image, it's a jpeg -_-
O and his glowy eyes are just for the image, they won't glow on MD09 ;D

MAJOR EDIT:
I'm not going to do it. I faced too many small problems now already. Simple, non-shaded dudes. Maybe I'll do some art using these techniques, but no animation. I just got a little overexited.

I've been rescouted :D :D :D
Credits to FMlilgarfield, don't forget to check out his cool gangsterkitty-artwork.

MD09 is coming closer and closer, and I still have lots of stuff to do.
New picture with Jake and Stabby below.
Jup it's widescreen. Because this is my current wallpaper for my new widescreen laptop (YAY :D).

I have been de-scouted... >:O
I don't know why, but I have been scouted a while ago, but now I am 'not scouted yet'.
What happened? Damn you, NewGrounds :O

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BUT: there's also good news; a new piece of Shoop da Whoop art made by me:
http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/raz orshader/he-s-firing-his-lazor
Still, it won't show up in the art portal until I get de-de-scouted or rescouted... :§
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Jake pic I did a while ago;

Hello everyone, this is Steve.
He's a banana.
He's a banana with a glock.
A badass banana with a glock.
Won't find that a lot in your fruit basket, would you?

Yay.

About my madness project; I have drawn enough sprites, by which I mean weapons and character front, side, and halfside views. It's going to be great, I love what I made for now already... but all you'll have to wait untill MD09 before I'll post animated stuff from it. I suppose.
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Whahoo, first three thingies into the art portal;
Bloodthirsty smiley: http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/raz orshader/bloodthirsty-smiley
Creepy puppeteer: http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/raz orshader/creepy-puppeteer
Nocturnal drive-by: http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/raz orshader/nocturnal-drive-by
(Vote 5 :Þ)

I was bored, and after drawing some sideviews and frontviews from some minor characters I decided I wanted to make a new image. Here it is :P

From left to the right:
Alexander "Stabby" Kimble
Jake L. Tulper
David "Agent Orange" Florida
3 random Orange Agency agents

Also: 10th news post... yay :D