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Watching our chickens scritch-scratch inspired me to animate a raptor. But since I like to suffer, it ended up being a bit longer.

I forgot how time-consuming animating can be, and this is far from done, really. Still, it was nice to be animating traditionally again. Another bout of inspiration (insanity) and I may apply skin pattern and feathers someday.😭

Playing around with the galaxy note II.  I do believe I like this phone a lot.

Animated using FlipaClip app on the Google Play store!  Cool app!

I noticed my nephew liked to pretend he was excavating fossils (crayons and coins) from my play-sand so I baked some clay bones for him to discover hee hee. It was surprisingly fun to do but I apologize to paleontologists everywhere for the... freedoms I took hehe. Also, I may or may not bury a unicorn fossil in our backyard. >_>

Edit: Uh-oh. I think he liked it too much. He actually thinks that, somehow, a real fossil made it into my room. hehe.

There have been some requests for the octopus umbrella as a print.  Prim and proper ladies from the future, no doubt.  As I am a gentleman octopus, I have made this possible.

I can personally send away a print measuring 10 x 8 inches, with a white border filling up the 11 x 8.5 paper.  It will be on glossy premium photo paper by Kodak, so it's good stuff.  (see images)

Price: 

$15.00 (print only)

$30.00 (framed and matted.  I only have 3 frames available though)

Frame dimensions: 

15 ¾" x 11 ¾" (40x30 cm) Viewable image within that is 9 ½" x 7 ½" (24 x 19cm) (see images)

Shipping:  Priority Mail USPS:

$6.00 (print only)

$16.00 (framed)

If you live around South Pasadena, CA, then we can meet up for some boba tea, and waive shipping charges.  Except you buy me tea.  >_>

Larger prints are available in my zazzle store.  I set up a 20 x 10 for those interested.

Here:  http://www.zazzle.com/octopus_umbrella_poster_20_x_16_inches-228233153326865397

Payment:  Paypal accepted.  Send to mr.almeda@gmail.com

Color treat of the previous post.

This particular type of infected starts disintegrating and coalesces into a slime pool after its cycle.  Kind of like the inky cap mushrooms.  They get bloated though and are apt to explode when punctured. 

Maybe there will be a half dripping version that walks.  That'd be great to see I think.

One of the guy's interchangeable drill bit hands were taken off since it looked like forearm bones.  I still think it was cool that he chopped off his own hand for fear of infection.

08 - Just a foot.

Skeleton based on an emu, but I just gave it different type of scales.

Did you know that scientists have forced a chicken to grow feathers instead of scales on its feet by altering one gene?

We're just a bunch of scripts, switches, and sliders.

4th assignment for the zBrush class. Kudos to the oldies out there who know which 80s arcade game inspired this! Still lots of work/improvements to be done, but I had lots of fun making this one. I'm really loving zBrush... and there's still so much to learn. \( ° A °)/ For the next assignment, I think I'll just add more characters to the narrative, and slowly build on the story. Spoiler: Used to play this game called TwinBee in the arcades back in the late 80s, (6th grade?) and I remember​ always doodling them in class (specifically Ms. Javarta's science class). It was a really cool and simple game but with lots of personality. I liked that when your ship got damaged, he would lose his limbs. You'd then have to wait for a repair bot to give you new ones. Really great attention to detail and nuances that defined the better games back then. #twinbee #konami #zbrush

Just having fun making concept sketches for the world of The Last of Us.

A take on Anby doing what she loves to do best: borjor. (While cosplaying as Miyabi) She's still my favorite.

When your friend’s mom compliments you…

(I tend to rotate the 5 things in my closet based on friend-mom ratings, and/or octopus content)