June '09.2

School is out for a couple of weeks, so I'm trying to catch up on some personal projects while I have a bit of time. Today I finished and uploaded a picture on my Deviant Art site, and am debating on whether or not to put it on my Artician site. Originally, my Techno Girl was supposed to be Beat Girl, from the Shojo Beat magazine. A while back they had announced a contest asking people to draw their own version of Beat Girl, but they canceled the contest shortly after. I kept drawing, altering my original design a bit, and overall I'm happy. It took a little bit of time getting used to drawing with my tablet again, since my latest school assignments have been in graphite, charcoal, and conte.

I'm also taking the time to scope out some intern positions, now that I've finished my first year at Ai. I never heard back from Big Huge Games...I wasn't able to submit my resume and portfolio to them due to some e-mail error on their end, and when I wrote them to ask about it, they never replied. I wish I could have at least gotten some feedback from them about my work, just to see if they thought I had any talent, or what I should work on to improve my portfolio.

I did send in my resume to SilverTreeMedia, though. And have already heard back from them, as well. They told me they'd be in touch if they felt I would be able to contribute anything to one of their projects. I probably don't have anything too eye-catching in my portfolio as of yet (hopefully that will change as I progress through school and learn more), but I got excited when I found out that they made the Pixie Hollow game I've been poking around at for the last couple of months.

Anyway, I checked out Bionic Commando, and have been having fun playing that. By no means is it the greatest thing I've ever played, but it is fun. Aside from the odd controls and various impossible situations like your mechanical arm being more sensitive to radiation than your organic body, it's not bad. I've had some gripes with it (you can't have a robotic arm without the rest of your body having cybernetic implants...your arm would be so heavy it'd fall off!), but I know how to willingly suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy a video game.

I've been meaning to try the new Red Faction, as well, and I've been hearing good things about Ghostbusters. Until then, I'm content to play Gears of War 2 and Resident Evil 5 again, and I still need to beat Mass Effect. Jade Empire and Ar Tonelico have been put on the back burner, and I just bought Monster Hunter and created a character in that, but haven't done more than the first tutorial mission.

Argh. So many video games. ^_^