Back in action

by Gual on 7 July 2011 at 16:09

Art is surely super :) Why I started with that? All right, cause I’m remembering now that one of the things we meet at the con, was a group of programmers and developers that were participating in a “reto”; that’s challenge in spanish and it’s like a contest they do there. This one was about make a game in a short time. The people already had the concept programmed but the hero and the other creatures were squares of different sizes 8-). One of the members of the crew who happen to know us, told us about the situation. So we joined forces and begin to work together! It was very nice and fun to work in the develop of a game “scrap”. Multitalented teams, rocks. I think if people knew how to do that more often things will be better and easy everywhere… I’m sounding like a Christmas tale XD, but that’s what I think.

Here is a fragment of video of the early look of the game. I’m not telling you what’s the game about now :P

I don’t know why I don’t have one vid of any advance… but I think this sample looks very nice. The sprites of the hero were made by bro and I :)

Talking about other stuff, things are normalized this week. The week at Bogotá was nice but so will be continuing here, of course. If you noticed, one of the changes in the page are the new icons.

You like? If you do, let us know here and we will give one icon of some chara or even yourself in Doodling Around’s style. What do you think? 8-)

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Back to home

by Gual on 5 July 2011 at 9:32

The convention comes to an end. It was very good and we’re at home now. As you can se there are small and notorious changes in the page. You can notice some of them easily and others with a bit of observation. One thing I must say is that, when managing some sections I sorta screwed up a little and a couple of comments were erased :s. So, if you can’t see any of your comments it’s not that we delete them for something, just a mistake. If you want, you can comment again :P .

This week will be an update as normal, of course; there’s nothing in the way 8-).

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First day of Campus

by Chano on 29 June 2011 at 12:22
Left Handed Tyrant (green) and Right handed Tyrant (Red).

Yesterday was the first day of the Campus Party Convention and we’re very proud to say that the two conferences we assisted were imparted by colombian art teams.

The first conference was about the animation promoted in the web via blogs and similar tools. The crew was the one in charge of an animation with crictic content called: El Pequeño Tirano (The little Tyrant). The series main characters are “El Tirano Zurdo” (“The Left Handed Tyrant”) and “El Tirano Diestro” (“The Right Handed Tyrant”) two kids who represent two significant political movements but carried to their extreme (The extreme right or extreme capitalism and the extreme left or the extreme comunism) showing many of their worst aspects.

They talk about some important aspect in the conference: The ideal point between quality and content. We need to keep that in mind if we want to offer some quality product. If you spend so much time in the visual aspect, your work will have a slow rithm with big update intervals and your followers can lost interest cause that. They said, the most important thing is the content, yes, but if we, instead, concentrate the efforts too much in the content, we are forgotting that our work is about graphic content primarily.

Crew of El Pequeño Tirano

The second conference was given by the team creator of the feature film Pequeñas Voces (Little Voices). An award-winning film in several film festivals around the world. Yes, we were waiting for that since a while :) . An animated film about the point of view of children victims of the violence in the country. Their website: Link

Little Voices screenshot

They talked about the process of making an animated film, in their case, with sorta low budget. The movie was showed in several countries already. It’s ironic we’re still waiting for it’s premiere here in Colombia XD. The tips they give us were, in short, that if we have a project of a nice idea in mind and we want to do it, we must do it with the equipment we have at hand, if possible. Many people is still waiting to have the resources of Marvel or Pixar.

Some of the Little Voices crew

Both groups of lecturers remarked that you need to be concerned in your work and not be focused in the succes of others (and then, begin to ask why you aren’t that famous :P ). It’s for the best :)

Finally, the most important thing: We’re artists, not journalists, nor engineers.We are here to dream and get others to dream along with us. So, if you have an idea, it doesn’t need to be the sociopolitical marvel but a nice and interesting one. Just like that.

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Thanks guys!

by Gual on 23 June 2011 at 11:59

Just letting you now, we are very glad to see how many pics for the fanart section we received lately. Is good to see when your art is well received :) .

Tomorrow we’ll go to Bogotá city so, after today’s strip the next update will be in two weeks, don’t think the site it’s dead or something.

In the other hand, we are encouraging the visitors to sign up to the site. It’s nice to have some group of members, here ;).

Til next post, my friends.

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Campus Party Convention!

by Gual on 18 June 2011 at 15:21

So yes, here in Colombia the Campus party Event is about to begin! For those who want to know, that’s the major event of creativity and technology celebrated here in Colombia. It started in 1997 and actually there are several annual editions of this event in Valencia, Sao Paulo, Bogotá and Ciudad de México plus  Ecuador and Chile now in 2011. many interesting stuff about multimedia and animation will be shown there. So we will be there for see what can we found :) .

We’re particularly interested in one conference about one animation made in Colombia called “Pequeñas Voces”. Still haven’t seen it but it looks very nice :D

Check the trailer!

Cause that next week there will be no Doodling Around strip update. The convention lasts a week and is out of the city. But that doesn’t mean the following week will be the same case :) . Whish us good luck and I’ll be here in a week or so showing some good stuff from there!

Til next time!


 

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