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A series of workshops across all 3 days of Pickering’s Culture Shock festival, on the basics of drawing manga. All workshops last 50 minutes and take place at Pickering Showground.
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Three introductions to making manga characters, at libraries across the Rotherham area. The daytime sessions are for invited school groups, but the evening session is open to the public.
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The new site is almost ready to go live. Just a few bits and bobs left to do, and then I can put it up.

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“What are memories? Souls? Spirits? This is a world where memories can be turned into data and stored. Even if the body dies, its memories live on, and can be transferred to another body. Bad memories can be erased, and good ones downloaded. However, this is something only the privileged can do. In a world like this, our protagonist, Kaiba, is travelling in another body with no memories of his own.”

Kaiba is a 12 episode series that came out in Japan spring last year, from Masaaki Yuasa (MindGame, Cat Soup) and Madhouse, which won the Excellence Prize for animation 2008. After the first 3 episodes, I can see why. (more…)

Okay then, everyone is gearing up for NYE parties (myself included) so I guess that means it’s time to do that whole ‘year in review’ thing.

So, here we go. 2008 in not-especially-ordered list form.

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As people who talk to me a lot probably already know, I’m a bit of a fan of Pixel’s excellent freeware platformer, Cave Story (aka Doukutsu Monogatari). So when I heard that it was being ported to WiiWare by Nicalis, I was pretty excited even though I’m kinda still lacking in a Wii right now.

And got even MORE excited when this week, Nicalis contacted me asking to use some of my fanart for promotional work!

So, here it is on the Wii page of IGN, as a preview to the new gameplay videos. (Full size version of image here)

It’s great to see Pixel getting some money for his creation, and the guys at Nicalis seem to really love the game and are giving it the care and attention it deserves—I especially love that rather than using an interpolation algorithm to up the resolution, the sprites have been tweaked pixel by pixel, most of them by, uh, Pixel. And they’re looking fantastic, especially the hero. I can’t wait to see Curly Brace!

(And I was given the revelation that the hero’s scarf is actually green rather than the red 90% of fanart of him makes it. How about that.)

Okay, so not actually done today but due to my ISP being muppets I was lacking in internet for a while. Anyway, I thought I should start throwing up sketches again, so here’s some materials testing and playing with hands in prep for a comic thing I’m working on. Verdict: need to be better at hands.