Hunting ghosts

(B&W here.)

Hey, I got a free month for EVE from the EVE buddy program \o/. Thanks, you know who you are.

I've slept a lot, though badly and still not enough. Been a few especially rough weeks for me.
I feel like I wanna draw, paint, model and animate my brains out, but I can't find the strength to do so. When I get home nowdays I just sleep, shoot zombies/mine ice and fall asleep again. Then it's off to school again.

Guess this modeling fever has something to do with Avatar too, finally did see it and even though the script stubbornly refused to surprise anyone in any way with shallow characters having locked alignments like straight out of a bad D&D game, the special effects were pretty damn neat. First 3D movie for me, even.
Also, this is probably a spoiler, but I lol'd how it was neatly implied that a betrayed tribe is won to your favor again just by having the coolest car/pterodactyl/something in the neighbourhood :D. That's how life works, kids.
Too bad love stories make me twitch still, they all remind me of all the wrong things. Still, I have to say that I liked watching the movie, no matter how strictly it was done by-the-book. A solid performance, if nothing else.

And all in all, I did manage to start a little project a few days ago:



Inspired by the Smokette being done by the dude(s) over l4dmods.com, I wanted to do something with the hunter. Work in progress, she still lacks rig, any kind of materials and I thought I'd do morphs for the face, even though the hunter in L4D doesn't have any facial animations. Just to refresh my memory on morphs. We'll see where this goes, at least I could refine a hi-poly huntress out of this, if not a model for the game.

Also, there's this thing about System Shock 2.

Should've turned left at Albuquerque

Some days ago, after getting the ~28,000,000.00 ISK for Hurricane battlecruiser, I got gateganked randomly at Tama while passing through. I got to sit/float in my new Hurricane for some hours only. They even podded me - my first time, that - lost a bunch of implants there, a fistful of millions to the solar winds. Goddamn, if you ever run into people from Involuntary Confinement, do steal their underwear.



Yes, I realized afterwards that the system I got killed in was indeed the very same that Hitler "got podded every time" :D. (The youtube-video in my previous entry.) I should've remembered just why it sounded familiar, before jumping into 0.3.



But hey, at least these are pretty sweet.

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Also haha, I just noted that I've been receiving some traffic from Rule34 website. Okay, after pondering about it for a while I guessed it; seems that my female Smoker and Hunter & Zoey have somehow found their way up there -- and directed from there, I found out about this little project :D. Awesome.

Icy business

Anenae trying her hands on used ship sales. Surely she's better at selling refined ore, but you gotta try different things once in a while.
I'm glad, finally some artsy stuff around here, hopefully I'll be pushing out some more EVE related art soon.
Her suit is just something whipped from my head, at least below the official chestplate-thingy. I dunno, just something that comes off quickly when entering the pod and something that looks distantly like ah-ever-so-sexy overalls :D.

Also, watched Starship Troopers once again a few days back after bumping on the soundtrack on Spotify. Made me wish Dust 514 would come out soon and come out successfully. Not that I'd be getting a console just to play Dust, but I'd be eager to contract some console-grunts to work for me on planets.

"The fleet does the flying, the infantry does the dying."

Though *many fingers* probably needs to grow a bit still for that kind of business. And join some huge alliance, or something, to fight for sovereignty. And I'm still a bit unsure how that would work out.




Speaking of growing, we've recruited new members and done some general wrecking, this time in Amarr space. Still only drones, but a bit more dangerous kind this time. It's fun, though not that profitable.




Aaand speaking of profit, I also decided to take a shot at ice harvesting and hey, it seems pretty healthy for my wallet at first glance.
The ice fields seem to be relatively rare and as I finally found one, it looked even more peculiar; filled with CONCORD police. Well, no harm in extra security I guess. I spent some four million ISK on a nice pair of Ice Harvesters and went on breaking the ice, so to speak.


Everything seemed to work out peacefully until some miserable little bastard warped next to me and opened fire with a destroyer. Too bad for him it is still a high sec system and the ice field indeed is full of CONCORD to begin with, and I actually noticed his attempt at blasting me to bits only at the moment he was already a pretty ball of fire and twisted metal himself. He had some backup too, though his friend just floated near me with a lock-on, not doing a thing. Nice going there.
Of course, this has all to do with Hulkageddon going on at the moment. Drives all the lunatics out in the fields, damnit, I haven't seen this many pods and exploding ships during my entire time with EVE yet.


Also earlier, with our science team of one, we probed out a wormhole in one of the nearby solar systems, though as the bravest one of us ventured forth to recon with a small frigate, he soon noticed that there were apparently some heavy duty pvp-equipment waiting on the other side with scramblers and deathbeams. So we, on a second thought, decided it was a silly place and didn't go there.

And in case you're that kind of reader who doesn't constantly hover his/her mouse over the pictures; yes, do click them to see everything there is. The screenshots in this blog tend to be just small crops of the actual shots :).

Also, this.