Pew Pew Squirt
Summer is all up on us, which means it’s squirt gun season again! Personally, I like to keep a few of these around because summer is also “that goddamned cat in the window won’t stop meowing because he wants to go outside” season. Now you can tell your cat to shut the hell up in retro-futuristic style! ORDER A CUSTOM PAINTED POSITRONIC PUSS PACIFIER TODAY!
Brink might be a flawed game that few people will play, but I”m at least going to be checking it out for the art direction:
Kotaku has a decent article about it, with a link to the Brink Developer’s Diary. I personally like to use IGN’s websites for doing artwork research, they seem to archive every piece of concept art and official screenshot in a high resolution. Here’s Brink’s gallery on IGN.
Brink’s intro:
If you’re designing a floorplan or layout for futuristic cities, or multiple family underground vaults, or self-sufficient outposts, or spaceship crew cabins, The Cube Project is definitely a site you’ll want to check out. It’s a 3x3x3 meter cube dwelling designed to be as compact and energy efficient as possible. The first thing I thought of when I saw this was “oh hey, these would have been fun rooms to have on the Firefly, skip the common mess hall and kitchen, and use that room in the blueprints for something else”. Also, filming something like this would be pretty fun if you’re shooting a Fallout fanfilm or a sci-fi Serenity style show where you need crew cabins, or like a Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner environment where you have 10000+ room mega skyscrapers of low income housing. Building the set interior wouldn’t be too hard, it’s all right angles and a maximum of 3x3x3 meters.
As far as the practicality of it….you ever rode in a car that someone’s been sleeping in for months? People are greasy and stinky, this cube would be full of ramen farts and Sriracha stains in no time. Also, do you have to toilet train your cat? Where would you put the litter box? That’d get pretty stinky too.
Last month I finished building my Pip Boy 3000 for a party we went to. I started reworking it and improving on some of the details and I have pictures and write-ups of the original build as well as some of the improvements in my DeviantArt gallery folder. I’ll see if I can’t go back and rewrite a build/progress entry, but for now, here’s a photobucket slideshow: