Slap files

Thanks to Baas and his never say die love for How I met your mother (HIMYM) my entire social circle turned oval. "Awesome" became the new word to say every sentence and Barney quotes. Its almost like social branding. Dont get me wrong I love the show but its like all the people I know have new girlfriends thats changing them. Originality, out the window. One good thing that came from all this is the Slap Bet and soon I will be having a new site up and running dedicated to all the lost Slap Bets lost out there in the world. The spark for this was born 17 August 2008 20:46. Enjoy.

The Bet:
River Phoenix stared in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

The Slap:

Digital Manga on Cell Phones

Just another one of those fillers I found on the internetz.



More and more, cell phones are serving as a medium for reading Japanese comics. There are several reasons for this. The experience is arguably richer because manga artists are incorporating handset vibration and sound functions in their storytelling. It is cheap, too, at just 30-50 yen per episode.

And with the ability to click the story along one panel at a time or zoom in on a particular character, readers might feel more immersed as well. read more...

Klankgrens Bacground

After the break up of OB it was destiny that a better band form. The new band is still in the process of working on new songs and networking like hell. I have to admit the new band shows promise. I jumped in to try and work on a look and feel. This was my first attempt at a new theme for the band. PS. The "Blood" is wax and they dont sing Deathmetal. ^_^ It has more of a rock feel to. Nothing is official yet.

Logo and image is part of the Virtualabuse ©

Backgrounds

From today I will start to upload backgrounds again.

Starting this week with the old Chibikoma group shot. I did not have time to photoshop it today but I will upload the photoshop'd one later this week and hopefully the new short story as well. ^_^

Cell Shaded Tachikoma

First cell shaded look for "Chibikoma" ^_^

Car Paint Tachikoma ^_^

Back in the day just when I started to play around with 3D Max, I put pen to paper, paper to polygons and made my first 3D chibi Tachikoma. ^_^ Back then car paint and skylight still rocked my world. :P

Some more Tachikoma general info:
Tachikoma are as large as an average sedan, are painted blue and have four "eyes" fitted on the surface of their bodies. Three are on the "head" and one is beneath the abdomen. Each eye has three pinholes, possibly for triangulation. These eyes sometimes become expressive in the typical anime style. Tachikoma are controlled by individual AIs, are capable of speech and generally exhibit a childish, curious, joyful and active personality, although they are consummate professionals in the field. They normally operate as independent units and receive orders from human agents, but they can also be directly piloted from a cockpit in their abdomen.

Tachikoma have four legs and two arms. They can move by walking, or they can drive at high speed by using the wheeled footpads on each of their four legs. They are apparently street-legal (presuming no legal exemption for Section 9). Each wheel appears to be angled and omnidirectional, allowing the Tachikomas to move in any direction with their holonomic drive system. Other abilities of the Tachikoma include jumping great distances, sticking to vertical or inverted surfaces, engaging a thermoptic camouflage mechanism, and grappling/rappelling using their adhesive string launchers. Tachikoma maintain control of their legs while using wheels to drive down a road, and shift their weight around turns. They can also roll briefly on to two legs while driving to avoid an obstacle or pass through a narrow space. To make balance easier, they can move their heavy abdomens with a ball joint. Their movements when walking and jumping were modelled on a jumping spider. Almost all of the Tachikomas' physical abilities are showcased in Episode 2 of Stand Alone Complex, "Runaway Evidence - Testation".

Standard Tachikoma equipment includes a 7.62x51mm light machine gun mounted in the right arm, a secondary weapon hardpoint in the "snout" (usually a 50mm grenade launcher, capable of launching both explosive and gas grenades, but which can be replaced by a six-barrelled 12.7x99mm Gatling gun), a universal cybernetic connector on an extensible, prehensile cable in the left arm, and a built-in thermoptic camouflage system.

Info from: wikipedia.org

The first old Tachikoma Background

The first of many to come. Made this back in the day when I started to play around with the cell shading look. ^_^





Just a few general Tachikoma stats:
Though they possess individual artificial intelligence, every night they are synchronised, so they start the next day with identical consciousnesses that are each the sum of their total collective experience and development. This leads to identity confusion, since each Tachikoma has the same memories.

A notable paradox arises from this synchronization, however. Though the Tachikoma have identical memories, their personalities and opinions are distinct. During the Stand Alone Complex series, an episode is entirely devoted to discussions among them.

It is explained in the last episode of the first season that it is their curiosity that lets them be different from each other. It is curiosity that saves a personality from dying when linked with others.

These separate personalities reveal three 'main' Tachikoma. The first one considers itself Batou's personal Tachikoma, which has a personality of a hyperactive child. It is curious, inquisitive, and tends to get many 'bright' ideas. It is special, given that Batou pampers it with natural oil and refuses to operate any other while on assignments. The second major Tachikoma (possibly favored by Major Kusanagi) is more logical, acting as the straight man to the first. The third Tachikoma appears somewhat slower than the others, and at times has difficulty keeping up with the other Tachikomas when discussing such in-depth topics as what it means to be "alive". There is also a fourth Tachikoma with a distinctive personality, who is a bookworm and an intellectual. Its body was taken apart during the experimentation incident, but its AI has presumably been saved for further analysis.

At one point in the series, while all but three of the Tachikomas are either locked away in a lab for study or dismantled for study, three surviving Tachikoma units abandon their civilian posts to assist the Major and Batou. This is the only time in the series where the Tachikoma vary in appearance, as a few units have been disarmed for either study or to be sold off to civilian contracts. Batou's unit remained unchanged, although it was given a set of decals to represent its new ownership. The other two have been more extensively repainted and or modified, with the remaining laboratory unit's cockpit having been replaced by a much smaller diagnostic module, and the other contracted unit now bearing a construction color scheme.

Info from: wikipedia.org