I saw your ship

Days need to be longer, 24h is such a pffft.

If you're wondering about the rather present day (and not so outdoor'ish) outfit in a sci-fi setting, I was just letting out whatever lurked in my mind, apparently no rules there.
I see a bunch of things to improve but I'm le tired, punch me in the morning.

(There's also a super secret alternative fetish version.)

Boom

I couldn't be arsed to finish this ship's design properly, so I blew it up. Yay, explosions. Space explosions.

EVE-related, I've been trying to dig something up from my brain to make up a proper ship design, but apparently my tech-creative parts are feeling a bit frozen. Must be the lack of sleep, been doing lots of stuff in EVE. Uguuh.

But hey, even if I can't figure out anything awesome and cool, at least I can blow up my boring designs \o/.

Stranded

Last night I couldn't sleep until I squeezed something artsy out, some inspiration fallout stuck in my head, I guess.
Pretty quick work, but I tried to be a bit more concepty...conceptish... err, something, here.

And all credit to Ani for some of those sweet sweet brushes that helped this come alive!

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This is for Ani, she's awesome \o/.
Walter from Silent Hill: The Room playing around with firearms, apparently. I wanted to paint smoke and Colt 1911, derrrp.


Also, brain saying BEEP. I've been wanting to do "fanart" of this thing for so long now. Check out the original here.

Large world collider

Hurrr, got this idea after discovering God is an Astronaut from Spotify, quite atmospheric stuff. I slapped a few other pieces together also last night, but they need tuning still.

This particular song, Worlds in Collision, was the main mover for this. Spotify link

Uh, yeah. Trying to do and finish more stuff, I'm feeling inspired.

Tegaki E

Click it to see the story continue on comments.

So I somehow found my way back to Tegaki E. My last entry was some few years old, so you could say it was about time.

I've missed the nice feel of its sweet oekakiness and they even added an opacity control while I was away. Feels good man.

So, come say hello fellow tegaki persons, you o/.

Living dead girl

Sudden inspiration to paint stuff close to my heart: L4D zombies. Rule #63 of the Smoker again, to be precise.

This also reminds me, I need to arrange myself a day or two to finish the Huntress-model I started a while back, yes sir. Been figuring Hammer again out a bit, but still haven't tried out the Source rigging stuff or any means to replace the original Hunter with my own. So, yeah. What was I saying?



Also a very Helghasty G.H.O.S.T soldier. Derp.

Dem emoticons

Hurp, a little meme I randomly found from DA, once again, and thought it was useful for general, quick and never-ending practice. As you can see, if you look at the sauce below, the lower half is my personal extension.

Sauce here.

Also, been having this unexplainable urge to model noses. Feels weird, man :V.

Land ahoy

Spent some five days surrounded by water and friends before midsummer, recharged my batteries really nicely. Fed most of myself to the mosquitos there, some damn angry little things they were, but man, it's really good to get near the nature sometimes. With a little help from occasional gaming; we had all kinds of consoles there too. Yeah, I/we strongly believe that nature and technology can coexist. The midsummer itself went peacefully in my biological home, and I bumped into some really nice people during my short stay in Jyväskylä too. Yee-haw.


HIDDEN MOVEMENT. In your shower!

I've been drawing Sectoid/human mutants (spliced human and Sectoid DNA and whatever, with Sectoidish black eyes who were supposed to, plotwise, act as an alien infiltration unit during the first X-COM, but are recruitable in Apocalypse) as a result of playing X-COM: Apocalypse, but since my scanner is long since dead and I haven't acquired any replacement, I can't upload the pencil-stuff here.

So you'll get that digi-thing^, a bit lighter approach to the alien invasion. She's the Credit to the Team, miss Jane "Cockfag" Parker from X-COM: Apocalypse, with Heavy plasma, Personal armor and dead Chryssalid from X-COM: Enemy unknown (Ufo defense). Don't ask about the nickname, these things just happen while you play.

They do! I'm sorry!


Yes, back at the island, we gave a decent burial for our brother in arms, Lettuce. He fought bravely from the mainland to the island, only to be killed by the enemy while we were making salad.
Oh sweet and brave Lettuce, how me miss you. May your battles be glorious and victories countless during your stay in Valhalla.

So green and...lettuce'ish.

Meme tiem

Found the template over there, do it maggots! -> Yoink!

New dreams

Right, so I had my first experience of a false awakening, or double dream.

I woke up, at first I didn't notice a thing, then something little was odd.. I got the strangest feeling of misplacement, "did I leave that cup there..?" or "is there someone else in here..?" then I was back in bed, waking up again.
The misplaced details, about one per false awakening, included things like weird sounds outside, suddenly the time of day was way off like I'd slept for 10h instead of one, all windows wide open, odd lighting all around, different sofa in the living room with its top layer of cloth peeled right off, and one time my front door was slightly open.
As I went to see what the hell was going on with the door, there was an empty plastic bag just lying around with some, I don't know, remains of whatever liquid inside. Then my grandpa appeared from behind the door, looked very serious and tried to tell me something, I couldn't figure out what it was. I got a really damn creepy feeling, then I found myself back in bed, again.

After some five times of waking up it started to really bug me, always returning to the exactly same point in bed, as I started to gather some kind of understanding that perhaps this was indeed a dream.
I got up, tried to search for the clue of still being in a dream and thus achieving the blurry return to the start. It happened gradually faster, I could almost force myself just to "blur out" back to bed in the end. Still took about ten or eight awakenings after that before I finally turned on my back, stared at the ceiling and all the details around me, colors that had no weird post processing and the fact that I could sit in front of my computer and see that the internet was just the way I'd left it, making even less sense than in my dreams, convinced me that it was the real real.

It's funny, I'd left some music on, after all I was just having an hour nap (I actually even remember punching my alarm off, hmm), I kinda recall it playing during the whole dream and I usually don't remember any kind of sounds from my dreams.

Figures, music used to have a very strange role in my life for the last three or four years.

Jonne & Hiisi

Jonne & Hiisi - Hole in the wall from amrrr on Vimeo.

So here's something me and my classmates were working on starting from last Fall.

My school produced some 40 animations for Nelonen during the winter. Here's one that's animated by me. I also did the texturing/materials for Hiisi - that green, striped dude - and also the special effects in this one, namely that welding effect and smoke.

These animations can be seen on Nelonen now accompanying the announcements (I think) during the morning cartoons :).

Copypasta from video description.

Regarding the whole project I was also involved in the script team, textured a few additional props like the marshmallow and the bubble visible in some of the clips, and helped with few other animations. There's one where Hiisi eats Jonne's gun and barfs out lazors, for that I did some tuning for the animation at one point, then there's one short loop of skipping rope. Unfortunately I simply ran out of time with the ropeskipping, had to leave the fine tuning there.. the thought gnaws me through the nights. Try watching TV to spot those I mentioned :).

The sounds were also done by our very own team helped out by the staff at Werne studios in the dark woods of Espoo. A really comfy studio that is, and our brave dubbers did a wonderful job with Hiisi and Jonne :D.


Some interesting things also happened during the early process, like the skin mesh suddenly blarghing straight out from Hiisi's mouth to infinity. Bricks were shat.


Here's also one shot of the nearly done materials and textures for Hiisi. Some things changed for the finals, but it's 95% done in this shot. Please note that I didn't make the model itself.

There's gonna be an official website for this whole project with making-of photos and stuff like that, but as of now I'm not aware it being online yet.

Nil space

So Anenae is now a proud member of The Arrow Project, and as such, also a member of the Morsus Mihi alliance.


^ Over there. Click for an up to date influence map.

Been making myself comfortable in null sec and oh boy, this is one of the reasons to love EVE so much, everything feels so new and different all of the sudden. No Empire space creamy-ass conveniences, only the corp/alliance's own facilities to keep you safe, no CONCORD presence at all, big rats on stargates even, all kinds of stuff I haven't had the chance to get used to in highsec. Seemingly constant gatecamps. Pretty much every move counts during these unstable times, or you can kiss your ship and clone goodbye; seems that you gotta keep your eye on the intel channels all the time, or the next ship you see drops a bubble on you and soon the sky is full of fire, death and podgoo.



Speaking of podgoo, lost my second Hurricane, *dancing* Queen just the other day pretty much in that manner. Click for bigger - see that red in local? A few moments later it wasn't the only one, no sir. Stealthy bastards.

Can't wait to be part of some bigger fleet op soon.

Will goes OW!

I kicked up a blog for my upcoming webcomic/graphic novel, the Willow, that's been going on in my head for a looong time now. By this post I try to encourage/force myself to actually get it going after all these years of not getting it going. Wish me luck.

The Willow <-- see it right over there.

Also, check out mah twitter for random EVE-screenshots and other even more random things. Thought it'd be the place to get more of these little shots I keep taking out to the public without making whole blog posts about them.

Also also, I added a donate button over there to the right :D!
Pretty please, with sugar on the top, I'm so very poor!

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.