Inspire Believe

Today's is an inspiration. It's a piece about believing. This chicken believes that he can fly and he won't hear a word that opposes that. As he goes through the clear blue he makes his decree. "Believe." After all if you don't believe in something then your whole world will be something that isn't worth bothering with. A dull life where you just have what is without believing in anything you'll just live in a dull existence. It doesn't matter what. Believe in god. Believe in heroes. Believe in a better tomorrow. Believe in fairy tales. Believe I met my 30 post this month goal. Believe in this flying chicken. It makes no difference as long as you believe.

Windows Whiner

I recently took a look at a picture that the author claimed was made in paint. I stared at it for a moment then declared the creator a traitor and a liar.(sorry Allie.) I then considered that I could be wrong and stupid. It was simply that the Windows 7 version changed some stuff up and had new features. I'm going to be straight with you... I am very angry that Microsoft keeps messing up their simple software. I tried to have some brand loyalty going on but No. I quite liked Internet Explorer until it got tabs and now they're making Paint into just another graphic program instead of THE simple one. I mean really. Is that sort of thing necessary at all. I mean maybe my personal preference is the stupid one(I mean I'm willing to admit that it has some things that I like in it, like defaulting to PNG when you save) but I liked having my basic program. Oh well. I wonder if the copy of paint I keep on my pen drive will run whenever I have to get Windows 7. I don't care for that either you know. I mean they brag about things that aren't good. Well, I did piss with a friends until it looked like my favorite windows so at least the aesthetic won't be too horrible. I liked 98, you see. It didn't try to mess with me. I'm using Vista now, which reminds me this one removed the old palette on the bottom so I guess I should have seen this coming. And now I realized I've been rambling about Windows Versions and the such when I don't even have a chicken to go with it. Maybe I should have done this to coincide with TRON Chicken. Well, I'll just put together a nice windows chicken.

Overwhelmed

Sometimes it seems that someone tried to do too much at once and in the end came out with something that sort of made sense. This piece, Overwhelmed, is a good example of that. There are several distinct elements. Starting from the most obvious it includes, the double outlines, the sprayed in coloration lined up with one of them, a distinct background(green), and the question mark that is shifted slightly to the side. It just feels like there's too much going on.

Also I have no idea when I made this... It looks like one of mine though so...

TRON Chicken

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Well, while I made this I realized two things. first off... I haven't seen TRON since I was like 6. I wanna see it again now but if I did it would probably ruin my nostalgia so I'm not sure if I should or not. Now, this wouldn't normally matter much but I did the lines on black before I did a Google search and by that point I was like, "eh..." That's what it's like in the sequel(that's supposed to be coming out at the end of 2010) anyways. I had to go with Magenta since Blue's the hero, Red's evil, Green was in Tron 2.0(the game) and Magenta seems like the next neon color, though that might have been better as yellow instead. My light cycle was more or less a custom job. It's kinda a cross between the original and new versions, since I wanted that laser windshield. Took me a few tries to get his glowing lines right but I like the end result. Oh, right. The second thing I realized is that there's a new Tron coming out at the end of the year.

So, dude looks ready to take on the evil red computer, yeah?

Jolt Punch!

This is the inexplicably named "Jolt Punch!" I honestly have no idea where the name came from in relation to the piece. Anyways I did him all angled-like because it seemed like it was time to do that. I more or less work in a cycle after all. I mean I do something irregular, like this. Then I do a bunch with stylish themes(Tron Chicken is next, by the way) then I fall into a series of plain chickens until I do something stylized like this again. I mean, at least that seems to be what's happening. I don't have it planned out to be like that or anything.

Dull to Illusion

Most people spend their lives behind in an illusion that they are interesting by hiding their dull existences behind the few interesting things they find. This chicken, which is given a dull coloration to denote the nature of its life, is just hiding behind the bright orange glasses that distort the reality and give an illusion of something interesting. Hiding behind the illusion the figure is blissfully unaware of the reality it is hiding from. The chicken gives an impression that it will probably never find anything real in life. While disillusioning himself he will never notice his real unique points, like his wide waddle, that may have le him be something special without any tricks.

Nice Things People Have Said

You know over these last months people have said some nice things about this site. I really appreciate all of the kind thoughts and figured I ought to keep some sort of listing of them. I also noticed that I have 10 pages to use for things. I mean if I have pages to use then I might as well use them, though it turned out to be rather awkward since the feature isn't fully implemented yet. Still, I put together my "Nice Things That Have Said" page, which will be linked on my sidebar shortly.

YGGTTOS: A Chicken Maker Game - Promo #2

Here we have my second Promo image for the game I'm making. As you get see I'm showing the title here, "You Gotta Get To The Other Side." The basic idea and driving force behind the game is that you're a chicken and you gotta get to the other side.

 It's of course based on the memorable and ancient childhood riddle. "Why did you Chicken cross the road?" Will this chicken have a reason? Probably. Will it be something clever or exciting? I don't know about clever but it will certainly be at least a bit exciting. It has some smooth stuff going for it so far.

Now, I'll be honest when I first considered it I said to myself, "Someone probably already made a game with that sort of thing." They had but the ones I found were awful. Mine, I said to myself, will be much better, and all the graphics MS Painted to compound the better-ness.

Corners

Okay, here we have my latest work. I call it corners, because two of the corners are given emphasis. The chicken is black and white to give the piece a relaxed yet formal feel. The corners help show the box he had built around himself. He is just hiding behind layers and walls and corners and doesn't want people to see the real him.

Ball Chicken

I have recently considered the possibility that chickens could be better if they were more ball-like. I actually think I already did one of these types of things before but I'm too lazy to actually check and this one is new at any rate so it counts. He's got all the key aspects besides body shape. He's even got feet. You know I'm lazy about foot-have.