I'll be moving across the US soon for a new job! Sorry of for the lack of updates, I should be back to it as soon as I get settled in. :D

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Feel free to add me! :D

First off, sorry for the lack of art lately. The Fractal Crew and I have been hard at work putting the final touches on our next game that will be officially announced sometime next week! Which means for the past month I've had my hands full with art audits, planing community content, building the new website, managing the closed beta, lots of testing, and the April Destiny update ate up a fair chunk of my free time... >_<

Once it's officially announced I'll be able to post art and stuff that I worked on in the game. Plus I'll have time to get back into personal art and streaming!

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/FractalFox
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/#!/FractalFox
Webzone: http://www.fractalfox.com

Till then, cheers!

I've got a couple more simple animals to draw, a badger and a roach. So once I'm done with those, what should I draw!?

Straw poll
http://www.strawpoll.me/6756118

Been reflecting with some friends about what drives us creatively and I wondered about you all! So if you'd like, share bellow what creative works inspires you! What creative works have driven your own art, career, education, or life choices!

Some of mine.

- Comic: Cucumber Quest (http://cucumber.gigidigi.com)
- Film: The works of Satoshi Kon
- Music: MIKA
- World locations: All of New Zealand. Both Islands and all their fat birds.

Now that the holidays are over it's time to start making art again!!! I'd like to bang out a few more simple animals such as the following,

Example 1 : http://po-art.tumblr.com/post/131300757306
Example 2: http://po-art.tumblr.com/post/131356132581
Example 3: http://po-art.tumblr.com/image/131630107316

And I'd like to ask, what critters would you guys like to see me draw?

I'm slowly uploading my old art there. I definitely prefer Weasyl's layout and design to FA's.

Does anyone else use Weasyl? What are your opinions of the site vs FA?

https://www.weasyl.com/~foxdarcy

http://makinggames.design

Got the new game dev blog up an running! I'll be posting to this quite regularly with "How-To" and "Getting started" posts. This is also
going to be a place were I can post the research I do that I can publicly share.

Other coworkers will be posting to the blog as well as other industry friends. In addition to the nice little queue of articles started up we're also looking froward to any questions people may have!

So if your interested in game design/development, go give it a look!

Thanks!

http://makinggames.design

Sorry for the lack of updates, was in Seattle visiting a friend! I've got some art queued up and posts should resume tomorrow!

Hey everyone, I've got quite a few copies of Brain and Zombie for iOS! If you'd like a free copy of the game just shout out bellow and I'll send you the code in a note.

I acted as producer on the game and also helped out with the art and game design a little. (This is my night job.) You can find out details about the game here.

www.brainandzombie.com

I'd love to hear all of you guy's thoughts on the game!

I apologize for my absence. Having two full time jobs can be a little crazy. Expect updates to be a little slow and I'll try to have all the requests done by April 18 (this year.)

Slot 1:  chiaroscuroMonster -Complete-

Slot 2:  LilithFray -Complete-

Slot 3:  wolf-mutt -Complete-

Supa Slot 4:  Kyorg7 -Complete-

Supa Slot 5  Tenkikun -Complete-

Supa Slot 6:  Cutzie_Doll -Complete-

Supa Slot 7:  Caravanheart -In Progress-

Supa Slot 8:  DarkStar825 -Pending-

Learned a lot had some awesome team bonding and got inspired. Time to get back to making games, and doing what I can to design better experiences for us in our everyday lives; and most importantly, back to drawing your ponies!


(BTW Seeing Ze Frank talk as the closing keynote was wonderful.)

Pony Requests

Slot 1:  chiaroscuroMonster -Complete-

Slot 2:  LilithFray -Complete-

Slot 3:  wolf-mutt -Complete-

Supa Slot 4:  Kyorg7 -Complete-

Supa Slot 5  Tenkikun -Complete-

Supa Slot 6:  Cutzie_Doll -In Progress-

Supa Slot 7:  Caravanheart -Pending-

Supa Slot 8:  DarkStar825 -Pending-

Flying out to UX week tomorrow and will be back Friday! Stay cool kids and I'll see you all in a week!

Pony Requests

Slot 1:  chiaroscuroMonster -Complete-

Slot 2:  LilithFray -Complete-

Slot 3:  wolf-mutt -In Progress-

Supa Slot 4:  Kyorg7 -Pending-

Supa Slot 5  Tenkikun -Pending-

Supa Slot 6:  Cutzie_Doll -Pending-

Supa Slot 7:  Caravanheart -Pending-

Supa Slot 8:  DarkStar825 -Pending-

This just seemed like a fun thing to do.

I'm opening up three** slots for making or drawing some Pony OCs for you guys. First come first serve and my standard "free art rules"* apply.

The pieces would be similar to this: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11256251/

Just your OC in a pose with a simple background. First come first serve!

Slot 1:  chiaroscuroMonster -Complete-

Slot 2:  LilithFray -Complete-

Slot 3:  wolf-mutt -In Progress-

Supa Slot 4:  Kyorg7 -Pending-

Supa Slot 5  Tenkikun -Pending-

Supa Slot 6:  Cutzie_Doll -Pending-

Supa Slot 7:  Caravanheart -Pending-

Supa Slot 8:  DarkStar825 -Pending-

*Keep it clean and if I don't feel comfortable for whatever reason with the request I have the right to reject it and or ask for an alternative.

** Never mind, I'm doing one for everyone who requested one since you all asked at once. :3

*Note my two favorite ponies are Applejack and Rarity*

I was sitting on the couch glaring at my dog for abandoning me when my brother came by and offered lunch, here is the exchange.

Me: "Where are you heading?"

BBBF: "McDonalds."

Me: "just the drive through or are you wanting to eat in?"

BBBF: "Sit down inside."

Me: "Ok, mind if I go shower" *I don't line going out in public not being 100% at my best*

BBBF: "...It's McDonalds. Combing your hair will suffice."

Me: *glares* "But, I don't like going out when... What would rarity do!"

BBBF: *pause* "Applejack."


Checkmate.

SGC was great!

So now that that is all taken care of, I will be back to posting ze magics ... I think I'll start with drawing up my Animal Crossing villagers.

In the middle of getting everything in order for out booth at SGC! I just inventoried all our swag, ordered the parts to build iPad kiosks, and that leaves putting together press kits. Hopefully I'll be back to posting some art soon but I wanted to let you all know what I was up to.

If you're going to SGC stop by the Fractal Fox booth and say hello, Id love to meet some of you guys! We'll also be giving out free swag and will have all our games playable for you to try out as well.

http://www.sgconvention.com

See you all soon! Cheers!

Good day everyone, I've been super busy with work the past few weeks and I am getting really excited about showing you all what the team and I have been working on since both games (Yes 2 games!) we've been working on seem like something you all would enjoy, especially if you are a fan of my art.

But now for why I've gathered you all here.

I'm going to be at A-kon 2013, May 31-June 2, in Dallas!

I'll be talking, discussing, and answering questions at the following panels.

Friday
Mobile Game Production - 9:15PM

Saturday
Breaking into the Video Game Business - 9:00PM

Sunday
Game Design 101 - 12:30PM
Mobile Game Design - 3:30PM

Please come by and say hello if you are attending, I can't wait for this year's convention!

Sorry for the delay, I had to take care of some job hunting stuff...and complete Heart of the Swarm. >< So now that everything has been taken care of I'll be starting on the requests tomorrow!

1.)  StevenRoy (Complete)
2.)  tails230 (Complete)
3.)  RolandVoidheart (Complete)
4.)  Nuclear_Fusion (Complete)

Well I was going to choose 3 winner,s but since only four people entered I don't have the heart to turn one of them away. So like a poorly written children's show, You're all winners! Yaaaaaaay!!!

1.)  tails230
2.) StevenRoy
3.) RolandVoidheart
4.) Nuclear_Fusion

Please let me know what you'd like for me to make ya.

Ok, time for a request raffle!

Everyone who wants in, just say so in the comments bellow!

I'll be assigning everyone a number based on when they enter the queue and will use a random number generator to choose the three winners. (I'll post a screen grab temporarily in my scraps)

I am claiming the right to turn down any requests that are outside my comfort zone. In other words keep 'em clean.

I will choose the 3 winners at 11:30pm CST Saturday

Best of luck everyone!

When asking a company questions in your job interview be sure to ask, "Is your company involved in any litigation that can result in the loss of revenue or assets?"

So ya, the owner dropped that lovely surprise on us yesterday and the whole studio got shut down. Everyone lost their jobs with no warning or sign it was coming.

Good news though... I'm back! :D

Expect some art stuffs soon; I'm thinking about doing some requests as well since I now have A LOT more time on my hands.

Here is the opening to Brain and Zombie. This was about two weeks of on and off work, I did the animation, along with the Prof. Brawn and Toady character puppets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVbScIWQj18

I'll be back soon. Still getting used to my new job and I really really really miss doing art here.

Well it's finally out! I'll be talking more about it tomorrow and will be posting some art as well!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bra.....?ls=1&mt=8

PS: I'm enjoying my new job. :)