Sonuva: Nark Animation Update

Did some more animation work on Nark... I gave him a special move which is more in line with his actual character and gave him more attacks which differ from Hunter.

Click the image below to view the animation.

More to come!
~ Mark




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My Life With Paul W.S. Anderson

The following is my experience growing up watching the movies of director Paul W.S. Anderson... Click the image to view...

Good times, good times...
~ Mark

Resident Evil Twitter Response

Last night I decided to watch all four Resident Evil movies... And write my thoughts on Twitter as I watched them.. @markmarianelli

--- RESIDENT EVIL ---

- Just bought Resident Evil: Afterlife... I think I'll watch the first one instead...

- Resident Evil. Awesome because she kungfu kicked a zombie-dog in the face... Awful because she KUNGFU KICKED A ZOMBIE-DOG IN THE FACE. HUH??

- Michelle Rodriguez has been bit 5 times and is still amongst the living... I like that in a woman. Wait, now she's blind... I like that too.

- Hate it when a character asks a question, and the reply is "It's a long story" We know! We've been watching your long story, answer the man!

- Paul W.S. Anderson really likes filming his wife naked...

--- RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE ---


- ResEvil:Apocalypse - Tooo mmuuuccchh slloowwww moottiiooonnn.

- ... And the acting is on par with a porno. ... Note to self: Make Zombie Porno.

- Apparently Zombies bite through Kevlar. Rotting zombie teeth are durable.

- NEMESIS... proof that the T-Virus can infect a big rubber suit.

- Yes Zombies eat people and bring forth apocalyptic dark ages. But let's remember the greatest villain of all... Powerful corporations.

- Sweet Buddha, am I seriously watching a Zombie martial arts showdown?

- At least they were right to rip-off the ending to 28 Days Later... You know the one... The Zombie movie that didn't suck.

- Aaaaaaand she's naked again. You're a sick man, Paul W.S. Anderson.

- Wait... Anderson didn't direct this one... Shame on you, Alexander Witt, that's somebody's wife!

--- RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION ---

- ResEvil:Extinction... Starting out exactly the way the first one did... More. Naked. People. Dub Tea Eff.

- Wait... This is the exact same intro as the first one... I hope that means we're ignoring the last one.

- Oh my good lord it's a pile of dead MIlla's!! ... No wonder the world is dying.

- Can you really electrocute a Zombie dog? ... Wouldn't that just make them more Zombie...ish?

- Ashanti? Really? ... The Zombies will never go hungry again.

- Oh my good Lord... Johnny Cage!! FINISH THEM! ... Linden Ashby, you are legend.

- Ashanti got eaten by birds... That's just embarrassing.


- If you're in a Zombie wasteland and a girl shows up who can kill zombies with her mind, Are you really gonna moan about how she scares you??

- Finally these movies have a little gore!!

- Having a hard time understanding... Somehow Umbrella Corps Zombies in blue jumpsuits are more... Zombier than the other zombies?

- Dangit... Johnny Cage got Fatality'd:/

- Er... Zombality'd.

- Gotta' be honest, ResEvil: Extinction was pretty freaking awesome. FINALLY. Let's hope Russell Mulcahy directs the next one too!

--- RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE ---

- ResEvil: Afterlife - Dangit... Paul W.S. Anderson is directing this one again. Fingers crossed... And ready to gouge my eyes out.

- Wow... 5 minutes in, about 20 something kills and not one of them chalked up to a zombie... wait... 21.

- Bad guys in sunglasses, clones that kill in slow motion, shootouts in lobbies, martial arts, Samurai swords n' gunplay. This is the Matrix.

- Haha... The guy from "Prison Break" is in a prison... Oh, sweet irony.

- This movie has faded to black 5 times now... Paul W.S. Anderson, mix it up, bra'... Powerpoint bar swipes are all the rage I hear...

- Pyramid Head is in this movie?!

- Aww, they're kissy zombies:)

- It's like a half hour long movie and they made it movie-length by shooting the whole thing in bullet time...

- BOSS FIGHT!!!!

- It really IS Agent Smith!!

- Excellent use of A Perfect Circle... poor use of... Movie making?

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I'd stick to the Living Dead series,
~ Mark

PERFECT PUMP!

KISS IT!

Though I'm the one who spent $40 for 3/4 tank of gas:/
~ Mark

Dannonport Skeletons

Here's a recent post I did for "Got Apocalypse?"about some unfriendly skeletons living in the fictional colony of Dannonport...

Oh, Boston...
~ Mark


There's a small colony near Dannonport that we generally try to avoid for a number of reasons... The obvious one being the flesh-eating bacteria running rampant in the area. The other reason, I suppose, is more of a byproduct of the first reason... Living Skeletons. I believe in the past they've been more regarded as cruel and heartless warriors... Truth is they're just really annoyed and kind of rude.

...
But then, when have you ever heard a skeleton say something nice?

Sonuva Updated Fighters

For all the work I've done on this game, it seems I'm always forgetting to complete each character's moves list... I focus too much on the finishers I think:/ I took some time today and did some updates. Included in the updates are a throw for Gazael, a jumping attack and special attack for Jack (yeah, yeah, it rhymes) and a throw and jumping attack for Legacy. In addition I redid some of Nark's moves so that he's not an exact duplicate of Hunter... Not sure if I'll change all of them, but it was fun reinventing some of his animations...

Click here to view the latest animations.

I've been trying to upload screenshots of the images for about 15 minutes now... Blogger needs to go back to the original way of uploading images... Ugh.

You don't need pictures anyway... You have an animation.
~ Mark




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Sabertooth Tigers...

Seriously though, what kid hasn't thought this growing up...

It was a long time ago...
~ Mark

Sonuva: Hunter Finisher Update

Was never really happy with how Hunter's finisher turned out, so I took some time this weekend and updated it a little. I think it's on par with some of the others, but I have a biased opinion... What dosth thou thinkith??


Click the image below to view the animation:

Burrrn baby burn!
~ Mark



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Bending over backwards...

THAT kinda' day...

Sonuva: Sonuva

Sonuva, Sonuva... What an odd name you have! So here's the title character of this glorious spectacle of fictional, non-existent (but soon to be?) video gaming... Sonuva (pronounced Sun-Ooo-Vah) is a very old wizard who became so powerful that time itself bent around her and she witnessed her own death... So in one final attempt to control her fate, she offered her very essence and power to whomever could defeat her in battle... So basically you get a reason to make a violent video game. Boo. Yah.

She's all purple n' pink because she's a female... No, I swear, that was a coincidence... It just fit.

I am not a sexist!
~ Mark



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Sonuva: Maith

More promotional art!!

We gots Maith up in this piece now, playa! I think I mentioned it in an earlier post, but all Maith is is a color swap of Azriel... Though he's one of my favorites in the character lineup.

So here he is... Climbing a wall... downward. Upon wing-shaped blood smears... Oh he's a bad one... Most people just craw drunk on the floor in wing-shaped pukes smears... And I'm not even sure they're wing-shaped. More like... spilled paint... But it's not paint... It's puke.

Yums.
~ Mark




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Sonuva: Gazael

Did some more promotional art for Son'Uva... This time featuring the lovely "Gazael"...

She's basically a fallen angel... Not in a demonic sense though... Cause she's modeled after my delicious fiance... That's right, I called her delicious.

Yada, yada, she's all glowly.

This picture depicts her hovering over a crater with feathers falling from the sky, representing her fall from heaven.


Feathers everywhere.
~ Mark



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Sonuva - Gazael Finisher

I'm on an animation roll! Finished up the last finisher for the Son'Uva lineup finally... Gazael. I wanted to do something a little less... bloody for her character. Bones are a nice substitute.

Click on the image below to view the animation:

Ba-Boom!
~ Mark




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Sonuva - Maith Finisher

Did some work on bonus character "Maith" this weekend... I may go back and make it a little longer, but I think it's an appropriate finisher for the fighter...

Click the image below to view the animation:

Like Blood-o-nade!
~ Mark



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Sonuva Background - The Cathedral

Been working on a new stage background for Son'Uva. This is where the showdown with Legacy will take place... As I've said in the past, Son'Uva is kind of my love letter to the original Mortal Kombat... This stage takes from the concept of "The Shrine", one of the stages from MK. It featured statues in the background of each of the MK Fighters... I always thought that was pretty awesome.

This new stage is called "The Cathedral"... For now at least. It's basically one giant alter made up of imagery of each fighter... e.g. Pipe Organ with engravings of Gazael and Maith, stained glass windows depicting Azriel and Archfiend, Hunter/Nark chandeliers (held up by Legacy's arms), etc...

Son'Uva herself is sitting upon the organ overseeing the fight (another little homage to the original MK).

There will be two versions of this stage, the other version will be for the final fight of the game w/ Son'Uva.

So yeah... Stage number... I wanna say 5?

Go to church!
~ Mark



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Sonuva Update... Who's counting?

Yup... I'm still working on this eternal project...

And loving it!

Since moving into my new place it's been hard finding a decent workspace to bust out ye olde Wacom Tablet and gets busy wit some gaming violence... Sadly I can't show everything I've been working on, but I can show off Legacy's finisher... It's subject to change, but enjoy!

Click the link to watch the animation...
http://www.6amcomics.com/sonuva/legacy/updateV

He's still got it!
~ Mark



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Video Game Tribute #17 - Mortal Kombat

If you know me, then you may be as puzzled as I am as to why I haven't given proper tribute to my all time favorite game in the history of all things pixelated... Mortal Kombat. I'm not going to go on any rants about mature video games and their affect on children, blah, blah... What I will say is that this game was the moment my brain switched from child to adult... I remember the first time I laid eyes on all of its rated-M goodness. I was in a pizza store with my Dad one evening waiting for our takeout when I glanced over and saw this arcade game in the darkest corner of the store... A light in the darkness, if you will. I had played Street Fighter II before, so I was no stranger to the fighting genre. I inserted my quarter and before I knew it, I was presented with 7 of the grittiest gaming characters I'd ever seen, not presented in any 2D anime appearance, but in video-captured realism. It blew my mind. It was like I was about to take control of a real person, their fate was in my hands... Oh man, I had NO idea what kind of responsibility that entailed.

Like most boys my age, I selected the Blue Ninja... Sub-Zero. Now despite what you may be thinking, my eyes were not about to be opened to the spine-rip (at my age, my head may very well have exploded had I witnessed that awesomeness). I was suddenly on a dark bridge, the moon behind me, facing... A girl in green spandex? Surely this was a joke! My ninja was OBVIOUSLY going to destroy her! Sadly, I was not experienced enough to unlock the secrets of ice which my character was so epically bestowed... No, no, I was but a child... A foolish, foolish child. Within seconds, I was leg swept, cartwheel kicked across the screen, assaulted with projectile glowing rings of furious brutality and completely and utterly humiliated by a machine... two rounds in a row... I was not worthy...

But the icing on the cake, the moment my eyes would be opened to the cruel reality of digital life, was about to hit me like a brick in the junk... The machine shouted "Finish Him!" ... Finish me?! What happened to K.O., Game Over, Continue?? Finish?! Then she uppercut me... Blood spouted out of my poor ninja like dynamite in tapioca pudding, he went flying a mile into the air... Then he fell... But he didn't land on the bridge... No, that would be too merciful... He fell... And fell... And fell a little more...

...

Then he landed. In a pit full of spikes. Impaled. Bleeding profusely. Game Over. Sonya Wins.

Everything after that was a blur, though I distinctly remember another kid there shouting: "HOLY ****!"... And Really, that sums up Mortal Kombat. Children screaming obscenities. Like eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. There was no more innocence. Only the Fatality. From here on out it was all about learning the correct sequence of buttons to execute a bloody, don't-let-your-parents-see, act of digital violence. Few people remember anything about the actual gameplay of Mortal Kombat, which oddly enough was pretty craptastic. But nobody cared. They just wanted to get through two rounds of poor controls to get to the good stuff. Spine Rips, heart-rips, decapitation, spike pits, incineration... There was NOTHING in the world like it.

Nowadays it's rather tame... With games like God of War and Grand Theft Auto, it's hard to be very controversial or shocking without getting offensive... Personally I think it's time to move in another direction... I say it's time to jump on board the LEGO train... Just think about it, it's not like you didn't spend your childhood dismantling Lego spacemen... At least it'd be controversial... Kids toys killing each other... Could be fun... ?

Flawless Entry!
~ Mark

Quick Mario Sketch

Been working on something a little bigger than my normal scope of projects, so all I really have to post today is this sketch I did of Mario which I quickly tried to colorize before work today... Humble, but whatever, I like it.

 

Marrrrio!

~ Mark

Nike... Keep running!

Nike was quite literally sitting on a gold-mine for advertising in the 80s... Oh well.

Keep running!
~ Mark