The Artist's Café

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Originally posted by Mad King James

"Let's put the whole cafe on the wall!"

silly rabbit, all the drinks would fall to the floor then.

anyway, more in depth questions as promised to our readers, starting with mkj:

you mentioned game design/modification as a hobby, but did you also say that this is what you were studying in school? what are your future plans? ...to work for a game design studio, open your own? what's the salary and future like in this field? are you also into computer animation? our readers have to know!

more on moi -

my most disgusting habit (that i'm aware of): i eat campbell's red label wonton soup right out of the can

steph

 

[Mad King James]

I'm actually studying game development at the Center for Digital Imaging and Sound in Burnaby BC

www.artschool.com

And yes, I'm a 3D modeller of some small talent

My future plans are to gain Shigeru Miyamoto sized fame and fortune by making the Next Big Thing

 

[Languish]

Re: national eu graphica on assignment

1. Probably naked table-top dancing.

2. Vinland, Iceland, Greenland, Castile and the USA.

3. Pizza.

4. History, Reading, French Hip-hop, Well Produced or Classic DVD's (The Thing, Ghost Dog, Any Jackie Chan, etc), X-Box...

5. I could name several but i will go with a relatively safe option. I was driving to work one day when i saw a friend of mine driving their car up ahead. I vigorously flashed, tooted and waved at them until i drove past them as they turned off at a roundabout only to discover it was not them but a very angry and irrate woman waving her clenched fist at me. Ooops!

6. You are probably going to slap me when i say i havent yet bought the DVD. I am planning to buy it though.

7. Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, UT, Age of Empires, Starcraft and Warcraft (all), and many many others.

8. It has to be 7.

9. Right now... my laptop that i use to communicate to the world.

10. Prince, i hate him with a vengeance... the sooner i can dice him into small pieces and bury him in travel luggage under 6 ft of gravel the better.

 

[Mad King James]

Ok new quiz:

1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?

2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)

3: Who's work do you admire the most?

4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?

 

[Mad King James]

1: I started making graphics because I didn't like the 'placeholder' graphics for the Muslim countries, who all had crescent and star flags and shields. So I did a little research and whipped together a little mod, and like a disease I couldn't stop

2: The very first thing I did was the flag of Kazan, which I fiddled with for hours to get the flapping right in 3ds max.

3: I most admire Korath, who's work is extremely neat and careful, as opposed to my "throw it together in 50 seconds if it takes more than a minute it's taking too long" style

4: Most emphatically I accuse Panama of this dubious honor, this flag clashes with my eyeballs

 

[Languish]

1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?
A combination, disatisfaction with the pace and unity of the scenario forum combined with an admiration of the work done by Jarl Birger, Korath, MKJ and countless others. I wanted to be a part of that.

2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)
One for the basque region. It wasnt too bad.

3: Who's work do you admire the most?
Thats a really, really tough question. If it boils down to admiration i would say it would have to be Jarl Birger. A combination of the website, his attention to detail and his heraldric knowledge probably does it for me. However he pips it only by 1% over MKJ and Korath. I also have an equally high level of respect for the work of Stephanos, Txini, Fate, Leprechaun, LPL2e_Retour. I know i have forgotten some.

4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?
Thats actually very tough. Some of the independant states in the former soviet union have some pretty awful flags.

 

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1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?
AoN had a quite long list of stuff that needed making, and no one working on it.

2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)

AoN's Zanzibar flag. Tough one, eh?

3: Who's work do you admire the most?
Stephanos', for the meticulous attention to detail both in research and execution.

4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?
I've always disliked the American flag - there's way too much going on.
On the other hand, at least it isn't a self-clashing inducer of blindness like

Basque Country or

Bukhara.

 

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Originally posted by Languish
Glancing around Languish spies no fae elves, despite the suspiciously gaunt appearance of stephenos...

...but i am elvish "well bless my soul, what's a wrong with me..."

1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?
all of you couldn't make them fast enough i started out with no ambition to, but then after downloading a few 24-bit shields i saw how grainy the originals were in comparison; hadn't noticed until then. i wanted to contribute, then i wanted to have some friendly competition on the side - and i'm really enjoying the camaraderie that's come out of it.

2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)
one out of the first batch i sent to leprechaun; the one for romania. i wanted a shield for a "fantasy" romanian union, whether they did it for themselves or another country did it for them. at the time i really thought it was the arms, but it is in reality a royal flag dated a decade or so after the kingdom first came into being. (ah, my younger years, when i didn't know the difference between a flag and a blason )

3: Who's work do you admire the most?
i thought of you, birger, and korath as the "big three". in all fairness though, i think we've all gotten a lot better than when we started. overall, i'd have to say korath - his "burgundy" raised the bar.

4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?
talking about in-game flags, probably the "champa" that came with the game. it's the fugliest thing i've ever seen. isn't it really the modern flag of malaysia or another nearby country?

steph

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?

I like making mods and one thing I loved most was adding more rebels to EU. I thought that if I make shields myself, it's easier for me. Then I got involved.

2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)

Shield set for scientist city of Puschino-na-Oke. I like its arms, and I've spent a month there. As a matter of fact it was much better than many shields afterwards, and as it looked good, I actually decided I CAN make decent shields. Now I'm not so sure.

http://www.geocities.com/whawkwood/shield_pus.BMP

3: Who's work do you admire the most?

McGuinn! He was making shields since EU1, and who knows how many of us would have been here, be it not him!

4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?

Default Russia. That chicken doesn't hit the spot. It's too underfed. Actually, green for background is also nonsense.

 

[Walter Hawkwood]

Originally posted by Languish
4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?
Thats actually very tough. Some of the independant states in the former soviet union have some pretty awful flags.

Which ones do you mean? Oh and by the way how do you distinguish one from other?

 

[Birger]

1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?

Because I couldn't stand those 8-bit incorrect and flag based shields.

2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)

My own custom avatar, made that one without the shield template.

3: Who's work do you admire the most?

Jerry McQuinn, nothing beats the original, but besides him I think that all of us is doinge a ace job. Things got a lot easier thanks to MKJ's flag and shield templates.

4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?

Tricky question, but I have to say present day Georgia.
I don't like the colors or the layout of the flag.

 

[Archeolooginspe]

Enters very shily the Café, looks around and orders a coffee. a little nervous newby has arrived.

he murmles to nobody in particular a neat "Hello" and starts filling in one of those personality tests of female magazins

1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?
Because I couldn't find some shield and flags and I like being a bit creative.
2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)
A Flag of the Belgian revolters in 1790. I just changed the colours with paint, not really a very fine Design, I still have to master the tiny details which make from an ordinary wallpainter into a Rembrandt.
3:Who's work do you admire the most?
I mostly admire the work of Korath, especially because I find the flags the hardest to do and it's especially that I want to make.
4:What's the ugliest flag in the world?
The flag of Gelre that Black Yellow and blue. I don't really like it. But Siena is a close second with the black and yellow.

The strange fellow reads further and after he finishes his coffee, he got up and almost unnoticed the student of art leaves. And looks a minute behind his shoulders to the masters to whom he once wants to belong, but it will take a long tilme he knows before this wil happen if it ever happens. And so he leaves the man witbh the glasses with a heavy wind in his facein the cold outside.

 

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I am fairly new at making shields but hey I'll answer the quetionarrie

1. Why I start Making EU graphics
Well mainly for the 1420's RPG, I did not want to make to many demands for shields that I could easily do my self

2. What was the First Thing I made,
The Light of Judea Shield, Made without a template, to bad I lost Judea in the RPG so it'll be little use to me

3. Whos work do I admire
Yougurt's mainly because he mad a bunch for me in theEU RPG

4. Which Flag Do I Disgust
Uzbec Kahnate or Kazan, they are too different and don't fit in also they are very lound I do not like them

 

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1: Why did you start making EU Graphics?

Because I was working on a new scenario and needed new graphic.

2: What was the very first thing you made? (EU graphics)

I think it was a set for the mongols, supposed to look like 9 horsetails on a stick.

3: Who's work do you admire the most?

Thats a tuff one, plenty of very good graphic makers out there. I say MKJ cause Im using his template and Khorat cause I have downloaded most from him.

4: What is the ugliest flag in the world?

Another tuff one.... I say... hmm... dont know (reserve the right to edit later)

 

[Mad King James]

If you could design a new national flag for your country, what would it be?

Here's my new Canadian flag

 

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Thumbs up I like but I will not even try to beat that Canadian flag

 

[Languish]

Why change the union jack... it kicks butt

 

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Originally posted by Mad King James

Here's my new Canadian flag

here's george bush's

 

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for shame

 

[Mad King James]

Here's a good one *sips a mocha with vanilla*

What do you like better, the HoI flags and shields, or the EU2 ones? I have to say, I like the HoI ones better, it's hard to appreciate a flag or CoA when it's crammed in a little shield like that