Thursday, 17 September 2009

A new form of animation to explore

Well my video capture card arived a few days ago and I've spent a few days toying with it and finding all the ins and outs of its OS. Later today I'll begin finding out wether or not I'll be able to make Machinima with this thing or at least recorded it. If it is indeed possible the my scope for the next year of university will have expanded somewhat. Although saying that I'll only be able to record in Halo 3 thanks to its handy theatre mode. Although eventualy this might be for my own amusment rather then for any uni projects.

we'll just have to see.


Other than that my recent activity has been in the fleshing out of some new characters, which popped into my head about 3 days ago. One being in the form of a Murderous psychotic lunatic and the other being in the form of a summoner. Today I'll be talking about the lunatic.

The character revolves around two things killing stuff with his head and being creepy while doing it. And by killing stuff with his head I don't mean psychic powers. No no no no no, I mean as in head butting his opponents/pray to death. The character is an Oni. An ogre which has been sealed away is a cell for the past 1000 years in the vain hope that it will starve to death. It is highly cannibalistic and feeds on the flesh of humans (they're rather easy to catch) To aid in its starvation its imprisons crafted a metal helm which leaves it both blind and without the use of it's mouth. To stop him destroying the helm they also bound his arms behind him and too him. Over the centuries his arms have withered away but in doing so he has learned how to live with his head and his legs only. It is entirely silent and extremely powerful and fast.

Taking the form of a thin long limbed man in some sort of straight jacket and an head encompassing metal helm, this Oni strikes without warning smashing aside all resistance with bone pulping force. It moves like an insect scuttling along walls and wandering along streets until it detects something to kill, at which point it attacks without warning.

It is extremely bendy and supple, using its head as a third limb to perform stunning feats of agility and stamina. Where it to ever damage its helm enough to break the mouth open the world would truly be doomed as once it begins its feeding frenzy again their will be no stopping it. And the earth shall run red once more.





(I'll try and post some pictures soon to give you some idea of how it looks, if I can remember how to post pictures that is)

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