wolfmage75

Well, I've started a new animation for the first time in like a half-decade. Progress is slow, but its happening. I'll upload finished stuff here, but I have a project journal at wolfmage75.lovejournal.com in case anyone wants to check it out. Its a Star Wars animation set in the Old Republic era, and it'll probably take me most of the year to do...if not more.

First of all, RIP Arthur C. Clarke. One of the great geniuses of modern "hard" Sci-Fi and the last of the great mid 20th century authors which included the likes of Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. Of his works I've read the amazing Rendezvous with Rama and the damn creepy Childhood's End. He is perhaps best known for writting the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey and the companion novel(s). It is odd, but since there is so much of his work that I have yet to read, I can't really think of him as dead. I already was planning to name a character in his honor, and with his passing its now a sure thing. Great minds really do live on through the

I found out last night that Gary Gygax, perhaps the best known of the creators of Dungeons & Dragons, has died of natural causes. I can't say I know much about him as a person, but the games and ideas he helped create have certainly had an enormous effect on my artwork and my life. Before there was Final Fantasy, Mass Effect, or Oblivion, there was a little game called Dungeons and Dragons, and in many ways it was born in the basement of one Mr. Gary Gygax. Men like Robert E. Howard and JRR Tolkien created worlds. Thanks to Mr Gygax (and others), I've walked those worlds and many others. So thanks, Mr. Gygax. Rest in Peace. PS: Thanks to al