Are you a nerd, geek or dork

turns out 'm a pure nerd.

http://www.helloquizzy.com/results/the-nerd-geek-or-dork-test/?fromCGI=1&var_nerdiness=18&var_geekosity=11&var_dork%2bpoints=11

SUMO PAINT

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Just found out about Sumo Paint, a free image editing and painting software. It's amazing how yesterday's expensive applications are now available free on your browser. It can do most of photoshop's basic tools. Try out the symmetry tool you can come up with a lot of cool stuff.

ALIVE

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again after almost a year of not posting i might as well just revive this thing.
reading the last post i see how different things were. i'm not working for Renderdream anymore. anyways here's something we worked on, it's not a game it's just a demo to showcase our game art talents.


Forest Defender from Ian Aguas on Vimeo.

First Weeks as a Game Artist

Been two weeks at my new job at Render Dreams, and it's really going great. I look forward to work the next day. The people are nice and very inspiring. It's really different when you are surrounded with people who are so creative and love doing what they do... no, no slackers in this office. The amount of talent just pushes you to juice out more from yourself just to keep pace. You learn so much from everybody. And everybody's very nice to top off that. There are some things you wouldn't like about some people, but you have to learn to live with it I guess.

At first I thought I couldn't make the 9AM at Alabang from Quezon City, but after 2 weeks I only had 1 late attendance. It's not that bad at all. After all these years thinking I was not a morning person, here I am waking up at 4:30 in the morning to catch the early train. I used to be afraid to ba part of the clump of people I see every morning at the North Avenue MRT station filling up half the breadth of EDSA; I was telling myself, I will not work in Makati ever. I will not be a part of that mass of humans engaging in a slow penguin walk to the train cars, breathing each other's breaths, pushing and jostling. But it just looks worse than it really is. Also, my circadian rhythm is normal now, and I feel so full of energy in the morning. Completely the opposite of how I believed I was a month ago. Soren Kierkegaard slaps me in the face again. Probably its because I don't burn the night oil doing digital art anymore. I don't have to; I have so much of that at the office. Around 5PM I'm practically burnt out.

Another thing I realized when they started asking me is that I was the only one who didn't have DeviantArt account. LOL. I didn't in the past because there were a lot of mediocre work there that were getting the grandstand, and I hated the pretentious back-patting culture. Now it's a goldmine of talent and creativity! Of course the amount of professional advice and growth you can get from DA cannot compare with forums like conceptart.org, cgtalk and polycount where they shoot your work down to the pits of doom. You wouldn't get real professional crits at DA, only mandatory praising and back-patting, but it does a good job of social networking, and pimping yourself. Well I just had to get one.

http://levin3d.deviantart.com/

Mental note: Things aren't always what you assume.

The Wheel weaves as The Wheel wills...

Robert Jordan just passed away. A sad day for WOT fans out there; he will be remembered.

I'm just at book 9 tho. I wonder if he has enough material for someone to continue his gift to the world and let us see the ending.