Smoke Break

OMFG didn't know this was a real thing.

Probably the best New Year meme ever.

(The flags in the garland make a phrase Говно с дымом, shit with smoke, which is an anagram of С новым годом, Happy New Year).

I made this cutscene for Unstable Scientific! It's a bit sketchy in some places, but mostly finished!

This is a WIP opening cutscene for Unstable Scientific!  I got a bit too ambitious and made FMV animation for some of it, but other parts are still just in sketch mode.  But you can see the characters and the backstory exposition dump! Original music by the Supermarcato Brothers! Funny story, I needed to make the wireframe physics diagrams but for the life of me couldn’t figure out Blender.  I ended up just screenshotting the wireframe model view and sticking that back into Photoshop!  

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

Wait, can this actually be happening? Ms. Burke insists she is just holding a folder though.

Holy moly

Concept art for V’ger by Syd Mead. From Star Trek The Motion Picture Inside The Art & Visual Effects. Brilliant new book by Jeff Bond & Gene Kozicki

Took a couple of evenings to get this CQC combo animation done.  I felt pretty bad for the guard the entire time I was drawing this.  Can’t say I really enjoyed making this animation, even though Snake was looking pretty fierce.  But one of the things that I liked about PW and especially TPP is that the enemy soldiers are just human beings who get scared and show concern for each other, unlike faceless enemies in other games.  It’s definitely a quality we’ll have in Peace Day as well. 

“There are other forces at work in this world besides the will of evil.”

Major Tom would probably get this as a gag gift for Snake! "Look, we finally got you that gun I told you about! "

Snake Pistol (from 1938 Johnson Smith & Company novelty catalogue)

OMG it’s the insulid phasmid from Disco Elysium!

the term "phasmid," meaning "stick insect," comes from a latin word meaning "apparition" or "phantom," due to the creatures' ability to hide in plain sight, and then move around and scare people.

the largest phasmids likely remain undiscovered; the longest insect known to science was a phasmid from a species that remains formally unnamed and undescribed, even since being captured for the first time in china in 2014.

a female specimen of the quasi-mythical australian species of gargantuan stick insect was sought by a curator of museum victoria for three years before he encountered one, also in 2014. upon realizing what it was, he says, “I started screaming."