Lets see:
The biggest thing I worked on would be the Brandenburg Gate, took me about a week to make but was time well spent I think, I also started on a new (the third one) map of Berlin to put it on.
I redid the paved roads too, there not so dirty/pixelated now. I also made a new tile set that makes large horizontal/vertical roads possible & the ability to go from a say a 3 cell wide road to a 6 cell road etc, which is very handy for urban environments like Berlin.
I also made a (new) Bf-109, Sexton, Char2C & did some work on a few other voxels. I did some more voxels for Blitzkrieg too (A22, M26, Kv-1 & Is-2). It’s fun working freehand on smaller scale stuff again, the time needed for some of the D-day voxels can really wear me out sometimes.
In anime news: (Play.com had a sale
)Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobasi Vol.4
The last DVD in the series & it gets weirder every minute. The second to last episode is especially fecked up, it’s just one long piss take of Hollywood films with the characters acting out scenes from films one after another. For example the main characters teleport in like the Terminator at the beginning & leave in the car from Back to the Future at the end.
Fruits Basket Vol.1-4
Play was selling these really cheap so I got the whole series. It’s based on a top selling girl’s manga in Japan so it’s really mushy & emotional (my sort of thing then
). I won’t bore you with a long drawn out description of what it’s about...Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd Gig Vol.1
I was a bit disappointed with the end of the 1st Gig, seamed a bit like over kill to me (lots of big guns tho!). This new series looks very promising with a more antiterrorist edge to it instead of being about hackers & corrupt politicians, this is only the first volume tho so time will time.
Millennium actress
Satoshi Kon’s latest film & the best in my opinion. It’s a stunning masterpiece of animation that I’m kicking myself about not getting sooner. It’s the life story of actress Chiyoko Fujiwara shown threw the making of a documentary about her. I really like the reality or humanity to this film, it’s something that Satoshi Kon seams to be a genius at. He makes stuff that you get completely drawn into & cant help but feel the pain & joyfulness along with the characters as they stubble threw the often complex plot line.
I also got Amelie, Taxi & Taxi 2 my three favourite French films. Love Actually (fav British film) & Azumi (jap film based on a manga)
