Friday, February 28, 2014

Cat cast images

Okay,

EDIT: I got the reformatted PIRATES BANE back from Goodlifeguide.com. I uploaded it yesterday, version 3 to both BN and AMAZON. So, hopefully the formatting issues are resolved for that one.
I'm going to send Princess Rescue Inc later this week.

I did these two weeks ago after buying:
http://www.daz3d.com/cat-world-regenesis-hd-bundle

I combined it with other stuff I've bought lately, and did these. They are far from perfect, so consider them the 1.0 versions. Some are good, some need a bit of work. They were all rendered in DAZ3D. Oh, and before you ask, yes the whiskers were done in post. lol
 
Kiara:
Kovu:
Letanga:
The Matriarch:
Mwvekii:

Sergei:
 
EDIT: I did Sergeant Tony here but I didn't dress or pose him. Here he is:
 
Yup, I know Sergei seems... small. It's the limits of the engine. I can rescale him a bit in Cinema.
 
   I want to do Jethro eventually, as well as the Cheetah, but the Cheetah will be an issue, I'll have to make their skin and morph the bodies a lot from the Jaguar baseline. I also would like to do Hrriss and some of the other cats eventually.
 
   In other news, I still haven't heard back from Gord or Darion, but I sent Poon Jethro 3 anyway last night.
   Multiverse 1 is coming along, despite my trimming a couple stories from it. I'm past 275 pages and I've got 3 more stories left. (Including Fire and Light!)
 
It is raining cats and dogs here, I'm enjoying it while I wait the pizza guy! lol
 

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Afraid of the Dark

EDIT: 2/12/14: The book is OUT!
 

Nook should follow in a bit.
  EDIT: For Soren and others who were wondering:
     When a rogue comet exploded mankind was awed by the fireworks in space. But the awe turned to fear and terror as the comet's contents rained down across the globe. Billions of pods scattered across the planet, shattering civilization overnight.
     Earth was changed overnight as the planet was twisted and terraformed in a terrifying way. Shane and his family were determined to stay alive, to keep as many people alive as possible. They were willing to fight, to learn, and to adapt. But an alien species always has the upper hand against a native one who has no means of defense. Normally, that would be true, but they are determined to prove that wrong.
    They'll fight, and cling to what civilization they can as they try to rebuild. But they have a lot to deal with. And good reason to be...
Afraid of the Dark.
 
Oh, and I sent the cover of J3 out to the insiders to critique. :D

Just a quick update,
1 If you didn't see my comment in the previous post's comments, I've finished the first draft of J3. I'm going to be poking at it for the next week hemming and hawing before I finally relent and pass it on to the betas. :D
2 But, I've already started gathering the materials for the cover art. That keeps evolving though which is a pain.
3: For those of you into the superbowl, good luck. I bought stuff for the party at my sister's tomorrow, but I'm staying home to vegg. :D
4: Underworld Awakenings was... different. Let's put it that way. Not as good as the other movies though.
5: I just got my Disney Gargoyles DVD collection... only to find it wasn't what it was supposed to be. I got Final Fantasy VII the movie. I'm just a wee bit put out over that. GRRRR.
But, I did get Terranova and a few others.
6: Everette seems to be making some interesting progress with NUTZ. Small steps, but it's cool. Now that J3 is roughed out I can help him out a bit more with my end.

And finally:
7: Poon just sent me back AD, with only a couple minor corrections. I'm going to implement them over the weekend and then begin the tedious process of converting the manuscript and uploading it. It's a biggy though, 600 real pages. (Yes, I got repetitive in it, but there is a reason for that)
So, look for this cover sometime this week or next! IF NOT SOONER!

FINALLY! Two, no THREE years in the making. lol

No, no game with it darn it though darn it... I wanted the game bad, but the game engine tech isn't up to it at this date. Maybe in the future. Who knows what Unity 5 or Unreal 4-5 will bring?

I'll update the post with an edit later. You can look through my blog to find posts (with videos) of some of the concepts of the aliens in the book.

Edit: Well, I went a different route on the conversion since there has been so many issues. I'm trying http://www.goodlifeguide.com/
So, hopefully any issues will be nipped in the bud. But, they won't get the final product back to me until around Valentine's day the 14th. Bummer. So, look for the book then!

And if they work out I'll go through my catalog and have them redo all my books 1 by 1. :)

Covers and AI

 Sitrep: So, I finished a fourth book and it is in the hands of the first of the Betas. If anyone of the Betas wants to input anything on th...