VidGameDude's art Reviews on Newgrounds

[Wallurd]

Looking at this and then thinking about the max and maya classes i've taken is making a lot more sense. low polys but bad arse bump map, light, and texturing makes the trick that fools the eye.
using that mindset, my robotic angel which was 36,000 polys, now reduced to 15,000 and virtually no difference visual wise.
i can't wait to work with other 3d artists in the future if possible; nearing the course of bump mapping and soon human modeling ill be confident enough to start great things.

walrus looks rad; love the simple shapes yet the uv mapping makes so i can barely tell its unsmoothed, a shame though that the project only made partial way, would've loved to help with development.

anyways thanks to you, osuka and my teacher's, i learn more and love it a lot each moment i boot up autodesk.

cheers!

MindChamber responds:

sounds good, good luck with your projects

[Recession]

pfft

that's actually pretty damn legitimately hilarious.

ToonHole responds:

I've been illegally hilarious for a while, but I'm trying to go straight.

[The Elder Scrolls V: Skrim]

whelp

looks like someone didn't use stoneskin.

Chickenlump responds:

I'M NOT SOME SPELLCASTIN' FAGGOT LIKE YOU ARE.

[poorly thought out fanart]

i admire your use of lude hatred towards stupidity

Also, i remember when the creator of that stuff damn well near collapsed newgrounds with a certain flash file as well as on megaupload site. least he apologized to us.

nice anatomy, the color scheme is pretty good, nothing racey to break my vision.

Lintire responds:

i mostly just guessed the colour scheme from the original sprites, so it was already balanced.

and yeah, that whole crashing business over a 20mb file was hilarious.

[YOU DUN]

...

This was it, the final hour
The collapse had fallen, and the skies cleared whilst the sun pierced through heavens false darkened gates; my mask thrown towards the rubble and my shotgun in my arms...
Neoprak was finished along with the traitor who had done so...

I yelled out,
"Cry free!!. Roar loud!!. Let us be heard!!
Our lives. Our Wills. Perceptions. And thoughts...
Humanity no more bound by force!!
Taste the air we so deserve!!
See the skies we have earned!!
Feel the wind, hear the birds, breath the atmosphere once more!!"

"This is how we know we are human, Neokprak had none of these whatsoever...
We are triumph because we have souls!"

as crowds of others formed after the fallen debris cleared, they too lifted their mask and gathered around me. i stood atop what had oppressed us for so long.

cheers and bouts of laughter streamed throughout the city as salt poured from my eyes. i wasn't crying because of our victory, but for the man who gave his life for our achievement...

nobody knew his name.
no one bothered to ask why.
not a single person cared to know about him.
but everyone nodded to his agreement in the path self destruction.

it was a damn shame, they think i'm the hero, it's pathetic because a true hero is like pissing yourself in dark pants, no one knows you did it, but you're the only one who realized it happened.

i lied about no one knowing his name and i lied about being at a h.u.b just at the very moment. it was planned out from the moment he gave me his dog tag.

His name was Jack Tremere, my brother.

Rhunyc responds:

Yet another really interesting story to my art. Really cool! Thanks. :)

[Android]

honestly

i would have been more impressed if you used any other program other than zbrush.
the program itself requires little effort after a 3 week course, after that, you seem professional with everything you submit, i should know, me and a couple of other friends did it and we felt ashamed we could sculpt beauty with simplicity in less than a month that would have taken others years. so we all dropped the program and switched to autodesk applications; hell, even oney on newgrounds took the same time frame course and can sculpt organics like a god.

ill give you credit cause it somewhat resembles a futuristic cyber Venus de Milo.
please try not to take too much offense to this review, but to be honest, in my eyes, people who only rely on tools to get by quicker and greater their whole career are not working hard enough to expand the vast horizons of artistic trials and tribulations.

again i apologize if i have insulted you, some artists out here appreciate the toughness and hard work of low grade tools is all and im quite sure it's a damned mix of selfish pride and stubbornness towards today's pro tools.

the piece itself looks wonderful and you have done a fine job as long as passion was put forth then i give it a 9/10...

tlishman responds:

Honestly, what you say is true. Within a month of ZBrush you can sculpt organic objects efficiently. But in reality what this does is open up your creative horizons even more than restrictive programs like 3DSMax. We are talking about digital sketching, doodling and creative exploration. Why do i rely on ZBrush? Because it enables freedom.

Have i learned how to use 3DSMax? Yes, i have been doing it for years. But when it comes down to creativity, ZBrush wins every time. Its a platform for creativity and creation but with also the ability to create professional standard high quality models for further pipeline work in other toolkits.

In regards to the actual piece, its not my best. Far from it, it lacks composition, better lighting, details and actual believability.

But what ZBrush doesn't teach you is anatomy, composition and form. Those things take months to learn, so don't bash ZBrush as a simple tool. There is so much depth to it.

[A Touching Story]

hmm

his conversation is quite valid.

Chickenlump responds:

VIDEO GAMES.

[Coded Destiny]

a powerful statement here folks.

the reliance of far grade technology could prove disastrous to those who lose necessity of old ways and instincts of common sense as well as survivability.

great piece, though i would have like to see only one of these squares with just the skull. they others feel like spam, junky, uneeded, repetition just chewing up space for even greater possibility. i was a bit disappointed that its only one of the squares but oh well.

the message sends fairly alright.

waxpersons responds:

My original print was only the skull square,
But I figured the crosses would add a more controversial human connection, to almost stress the human sense of fear, like religion does.
Also our technology has advanced to a point in our lives where we cant live without out it, even social disorders have developed front the amount of technology we use. The computers aren't becoming human, they're changing humanity, but change is one of humans natural fears.
The faces in the code represent us humans in our fast paced developing technological world, and the crosses represent religions connections with human emotion and fear and the conservatism of the old ways.
The contrast of religion and technology can seem literally black and white to most people, but the skull represents that were only human and neither diety nor technology will stop us from inevitable death.
When I first made this i sorta felt sickened to look at it.
submitted this print for a gallery showing with a theme of 2012 predictions.
Its like the last human generations facebook, and by facebook, i mean,
Origin:
1980-85; facebook, college student directory with personal photos and basic information.

[Commission - Matty Lewis]

...

NeoPrak rule continued after the ditch attempt at collapse had failed. we had, for the next month, knew failure was imminent from the start; the lone soldier who volunteered and fought through told us before he left that his intention wasn't to succeed, it was to make a statement, showing human capability, trying to prove to them we could. He knew that he couldn't fight creatures of reality bending magnitude and of omniscient pathos intent. The collapse (their home) kept spewing out the ashes of our brothers; as it choked the skies, the blood of our sisters washed the streets, paving both mental and physical nausea, reminding us who's who; the obedient living, or the resisting dead. personally i'd rather be a corpse than a slave, but the soldier gave me a letter specifically to me and only to be kept within my shoe sole. funny thing is this letter wasn't paper, digital imprinting of thin nano cell plistering revealed that this was sent an hour into his ascent of the collapse. instructions of floor plans never seen by humans until then and now me. Why did he send it to me? well i happened to be at a h.u.b at the time when i received the call and knew who it was. sent the letter via tanser and got out quick.

this whole time his true goal, which he hid from us until now revealed to me, was to understand the ins and outs of the collapse and how to bring it down. he figured, if five hundred millions tons of pure rock and metal couldn't crush them, at least the air would be breathable within a week before they up and kill the whole planet out of anger.

his mission was a suicidal ring around the rosie, my mission was now the same, this time, they all fall down.

Rhunyc responds:

Very neat backstory!! Thanks for sharing, yo! :3

[Custom Snowboard]

wicked shit bro

how much for you to do a custom on a blank bought board?

Vonschlippe responds:

Hey, I'm glad you like it!

Unfortunately, I'm not accepting any commission work for now as I am too busy with projects of my own. Sorry! Usual rate is 35$ an hour, and I would expect a board to be anywhere between 3 and 20 hours, depending on the design and complexity.