Sonuva part XXXXV

Alas, many moons have passed since my last true update... And odds are many more may pass as well. In case anybody is really all that interested, I recently got myself a new apartment and I've been rather busy cleaning it up to move into... Yeah, the last tenants were filthy... they also had a very odd obsession with "Finding Nemo", I keep finding Nemo stickers in odd places.

Anyway, I finished up Gazael's second special attack... She throws her halo, it slices, it dices... but I guess this demo doesn't show the slicing/dicing aspect of it... It just shows her throwing it. It's pretty cool nonetheless. Almost finished! Standing block, crouching block, throw and finisher to go... Next week I plan to get cracking on this game a little more intently and get back to regular updates... But we'll see.

Here's the latest animation...

http://www.6amcomics.com/sonuva/gazael/updateV

And yeah, here's a fun lil' pic... Nothing all that new though, you've seen others like it...


Movin' on up,
~ Mark


Sonuva by Mark Marianelli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Mboy

Yeah, I haven't posted in a while... And to make it worse, I have nothing "art-related" to show you... I was in Texas, being a true cowboy... i.e. Eating Cajun food which gave me the runs and buying cowboy hats and belt buckles with big M's on them...

... What's that? You want proof?

Very well.


I'm not a cowboy... I'm an M-Boy! Yeah, I'll bet you never saw a thug country boy... Oh wait... that's what the "Derrty Souf" is, isn't it? ... Whatever.

My words of advice are radio edit,
~ Mark

Something Quick...

I'm going to be leaving for a few days to visit my bro down in Texas with ma'lady... Sadly I have nothing new to show you before I depart... So I dug and dug through as many old files as I could on my macBook and discovered this little gem... Go on, click it...



You might recognize the guy in the lower left (mainly because it's yours truly). I used this little ditty to create my personal portfolio site. What you didn't know was that I created that as an older concept for the 6amcomics website... I ended up going in another direction and these lil' guys were ultimately lost in the archives of my cluttered macBook Pro... But thanks to my laziness, they may now see the light of day!

If you haven't figured it out, these are cartoon representations of the Six AM Boys, i.e. Dan, Kevin and myself. I went with certain themes for each of us based off of our various passions in life... I love movies, hence I got a Star Wars, Rocky and Bad Boys II... Dan got Zelda, God of War and Half-Life, cause he loves him some video games... Kevin's got a thing for superheros, so he got Green Lantern, Deadpool, and The Comedian.

Anyway, that's what I got for ya, sorry I couldn't bust out something awesome for the 4th... Maybe something belated, yes?

TODAY! WE CELEBRATE! OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY!
~ Mark

Abundant Life Redo Part 3

Not much to say in the way of Abundant Life... These are the remaining panels that I've worked on to date...

Thought I'd have something interesting to say about this, did ya? Yeah... I got nothin'... Enjoy!



What epic story telling!!!
~ Mark

Sonuva part XXXXIV

Sonuva part 44... Commence.

This update isn't all that exciting... But it definitely doesn't suck either.

... Or maybe that's just my opinion.

Anyway, I've finished about 75% of Gazael's animations... The major animation that came out of tonight however is her movement animation... Some characters walk, others float... This is one of the floaty ones. I'm a fan of these... because they're easy to animate. This is very similar to the way Azriel walks, only the wings actually flap for Gazael rather than flicker. I hope to finish all her animations in addition to the remaining two animations for Jack (I keep putting that guy off...).

Click the link below to view Gazael's updated animations...

http://www.6amcomics.com/sonuva/gazael/updateIV

You'll also notice some of the movements have been tweaked a little to make them appear more fluid... But you'll only notice that if you have a habit of paying extra close attention to the other recent animations...

I dozed off a little while writing this... I need sleep.

Hope I didn't write something dirty,
~ Mark



Sonuva by Mark Marianelli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Sonuva part XXXXIII

Gazael... She's pretty darn cool. I've finished up her two jumping attacks... Her first being similar in nature to her basic standing attack where she summons a giant glowing fist from her hand and (in theory) devastates her opponent... The other jumping attack is a flying kick, much like Sadis-Jyn's jumping attack... Can you tell how creative I am tonight? ... I literally had to download the Rocky IV soundtrack tonight to get motivated enough to work on this... If you're a dude, you know the songs I'm talkin' bout... I'm talkin' about "Training Montage" baby! Oh man, if there was snow outside right now, I'd be SO running in it.

You know the routine:

http://www.6amcomics.com/sonuva/gazael/updateIII/

Seriously, how awesome were the 80's?

Not that I remember them that well,
~ Mark



Sonuva by Mark Marianelli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Sonuva part XXXXII

I finished up a few more animations for Gazael... There's only a few animations remaining and then a finisher... She now has a crouching animation complete with two crouched attacks... I'm hoping to have all of her basic fighting animations finished before the weekend, then I can take some time this weekend and develop a finisher for her... Which I'm a little lost on at the moment. I may need a reason to get angry this weekend so I can get in the right frame of mind... What would agitate me the most... I don't like carrots. I suppose I could eat a bag of baby carrots and be annoyed at how horrible they taste... Or I could dwell on the fact that I actually just wrote the words "I suppose I could eat a bag of baby..." That's more unsettling than aggravating though... Which could work I guess? ... Nah.

Honestly, I'm so tired right now that I don't really know what the heck I'm talking about at this point... Something about babies.

Check out Gazael's updated animations here:

http://www.6amcomics.com/sonuva/gazael/updateII

Gettin' there,
~ Mark



Sonuva by Mark Marianelli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.