Artificial - ChillTrip

Well its been a little while, but here is a new downtempo set by me :)

This one is a little shorter than the last two and has a more triphop feel to it.

Hope you enjoy :D

ChillTrip by Artificial on Mixcloud

My Skydive!

Okay well as some of you know i did a skydive a while back. Just got the video of it in the post today, and with some fancy hocus pocus i have edited together this for your enjoyment:

FlashCircles Experiment (+Source)

I was in the pub yesterday with Toni and some friends and we saw a painting on the wall that was compleately made up of circles of various sizes with varying borders and none of the circles overlapped.

More Ronnie and Worms News!

Well it looks like both the games are still doing very well in the charts. This report on gamasutra says that Worms is currently second highest selling game in the UK and Ronnie O'Sullivan's Snooker is currently 6th. Not bad for my first two commercial games ever :)

Old flash tutorial

This is an old piece of flash from an age ago. Its kinda a 2-parter, the first part is a sig i made for the forums over at my clans website. The second part is a tutorial i did shortly after making the sig. I got a couple of requests of how i made such a thing so i decided to write a very basic flash tutorial. Remember this is quite old so the flash version is a little out of date.

MyPhotos

Ronnie o'Sulivans Snooker

Ronnie o'Sulivans Snooker is a game that i worked on at rockpool games. It was infact one of my very first games at Rockpool and subsequently one of my very first Java games. I started off only doing the menu system for the game, but in the end i worked on virtually every part of the game including the 3D graphics engine which was written from scratch with no built in 3D API's to assist with rendering.

The game was a great learning experience and didnt do too badly in the rating achieving about a 7/10.

Polynate

I made this one last night while i was messing around. Its a duel-screen piece and took me about 2 hours to complete. I think its need a little more work but it looks okay on my desktop at the moment ;)

Used: Photoshop
Download: 2864x1024

Flash Whiteboard

The flash whiteboard is a little experiment i cooked up in a couple of days. It basically allows the user to 'hand write' a message which is then saved on the server. Once done you can then view the list of messages. The whiteboard was written in flash and php was used to communicate with the server.




Or if you dont want to leave a message you can just view the messages left by others.

Cannyshammy Everquest Goodbye

This little flash movie was created for my old everquest guild when i left the game. Its more of a montage of my time in everquest and is presented as a kinda slideshow. I played the game for 3 years and i still have many fond memories of my time in the game.

Link: Peeky Peeky

Dead Cows Strike Back (DCSB)

Well this was a fun little flash movie i made for a gaming clan i was a part of a coupple of years back. It was all done in 3ds max then vectored'n'imported into flash.

Link: Take a peek!

Artificial Studios 2 - Intro

Well this is the intro for the second version of this website. I went for a much more minimalist approach with this one as apposed to the massively complicated intro of the previous version. Let me know what u think ;)

Link: Take a peek!

Artificial Studios 1 - Intro

Well i thought i would post these intros separate from my old website as its quite a nice demonstration of some of the things i have done in flash over the years. This one is my old intro from my very first website so bear with the unpolished graphics.

Link: Take a look at it

Artificial-Studios 3

And so version 3 was born. Now in blog from thanks to wordpress it was much easyier to add new content and to maintain.

Link: www.artificial-studios.co.uk

Artificial-Studios 2

And then there was the second incarnation of Artificial-Studios. Although it was far more manageable than version 1.0 but it was still too complicated to add new content.

Link: www.artificial-studios.co.uk/ArtificialStudios2/

Artificial-Studios 1

In the beginning there was flash and flash was great, but flash soon betrayed its creator and became hard to maintain.

Link: www.artificial-studios.co.uk/ArtificialStudios1/Index.html

Martin-Kaye Case Tracker

This is my first commercial Rich Internet App written in flash. It was written for the legal firm Martin-Kaye as a front end for thier extensive database.

It allows clients to login and view thier currently active case's and view a myriad of infomation about each case. It also allows the client to add "activities" to individual cases for the firm to view.

It was written in flash 8 and uses amfphp to communicate with an MSSQL backend. It was designed to be used on multiple sites for multiple brokers so has been split into modules allowing for easy skinning accross multiple websites.

You can view it in action in several places:

Martin-Kaye Tracker
PMC Tracker
BespokeHip Tracker

Username: 1001, Password: 1001

Ball Collisions

Here is a little experiment i used in a game during my time at Rockpool.

Artificial Harmonics ( part 2 )

Artist: Artificial Genre: downtempo / chillout / pop

Well its a long time in the coming but here it is, the second part of my Harmonics series. I started this thing about four months ago and only now have i found the time to complete it. Its a little shorter than the previous version mainly because i ran out of tracks that fit the flow of the set. Im extremely happy with the first half but the second half, im not entirely sure, give it a listen and leave me a comment of what u think :)

This one has alot more production work on it with clips from two movies and editing of tracks and effects added here and there. Also there are alot of tracks on there from free music producers, to hear more music from groups such as LEGO and Try^D check out Jamendo.

Tracklist:

01. Ulrich Schnauss

02. LEGO - Mal de tete

03. Try^d - The Final Rewind (extended intro)

04. Overseer - Meteorology (extended intro)

05. Lamb - Gabriel

06. Inklein Quartet - Lonely Whale Song

07. Squarepusher - Iambic Poetry

08. Radiohead - Meeting in the Aisle

09. Tang Kai - Further Away (intro)

10. Hybrid - Altitude (Red Square Reprise)

11. Playme - Hygiene

12. Hooverphonic - Battersea

13. Portishead - Numb

14. Blue Foundation - End of Day

15. Sigur Ros - Mea Bloansir

Harmonics (Part 2) by Artificial on Mixcloud

Partice Font

This is the second of my experimments into flash particles, i wanted to do a whole load more of these but ran out of time. Perhaps ill pick it up again this summer.

Particle Explosion

Well here is some flash i did a couple of months back now. I had planned to do a whole series of these and upload the source for others to use on their site, but other projects came up that required my attention more. Perhaps I will get time to do them this summer :)

Worms 2

Worms two was the third project I undertook during my stay at Rockpool Games and was certainly the one i got most excited about. It was a tough project with extremely tough deadlines.

There were two coders, one being myself, and an artist on the project. It was coded in J2ME and ported to multiple handsets. I enjoyed parts of the project, such as the random level generation algorithm and the particle system, however the majority of the time was spent wrestling with bugs that only appeared on one or two handsets
Despite this it was phenominally successfull scoring game of the month as Orange Mobile and getting a perfect 10/10 score from the Total Mobile Magazine


Worms_Total Mobile.pdf

Does it Offend You - Weird Science

Was just going thru my juice auto-download folder from knobtweakers when i came accross this little gem, good morning wake up music, enjoy!

Does it Offend You - Weird Science

Artificial-Studios v3.0

Yup thats right a new version of Artificial-Studios... again!

This new shiney reincarnation is a blog powerd by the very fancy Wordpress!

The reason for this new version? Well lets just take a quick look at the previous reincarnations...


First there was Artificial Studios V1 (nointro) pretty as it was, done compleately in flash 6, it was increadibly hard to maintain with much effort for each new thing i wanted to add.



Then there was Artificial Studios V2 again, designed from scratch it was kinda pretty and it was certainly easyier to maintain than the first version, however it was still a nightmare to maintain.

So that leads us to this current version, which is extremely easy to maintain, perhaps its a ltitle less personal as the design is just a template by Fredrik Fahlstad but I think it still looks good!

Let me know which is your favourite!

Trance and Bass

Artist: John B
Genre: trance and bass

This is one of my favourite albums of all time and infact came free on the cover of mixmag a very long time ago. Despite that i think think this album never got the praise it desereved and hence the niche genre never flourished as it should of!

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Artificial Harmonics ( part 1 )

Artist: Artificial Genre: downtempo / chillout

Its been a coupple of months in the making but its FINALLY compleate, my first purely digital mix! Its taken me a long time and it was re-started on numerous occasions, but im finally happy with it. I have named it part 1 because there were that many good tunes i wanted to put in, in the end i had to reside to putting in only the tunes that fit the mood of the mix and leaving the others for a second part

Tracklisting is below:

01 - Kronos Quartet - Summer Overture

02 - Frou Frou - Let Go (artificial extended)

03 - Ulrich Schnauss - Suddenly The Trees Are Giving Away

04 - Finley Quaye - Dice

05 - Japanese Seizure Robots - Alone in A Crowded Room (Extended Version)

06 - Massive Attack - What Your Soul Sings

07 - Sinestetici And Kilowatts - Ideal Chameleon

08 - Fifth Element - Techno Opera

09 - Portishead - Roads

10 - The Chemical Brothers - One Too Many Mornings

11 - Conjure One - Sleep (Serenity Remix)

12 - Hybrid - Blackout

13 - Telepopmusik - Mathematics

14 - Sia - Breathe Me (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)

15 - Telepopmusik - Breathe

16 - Snow Patrol - How To Be Dead

Harmonics (Part 1) by Artificial on Mixcloud

Rubicon-Purple

This image was created for my ex, its basically a purple version of the blue rubicon above, because she likes purple Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7 Download: 3072x1152

Rubicon

This one took some time to create, i had a basic idea in my head of how i wanted it to look but it took some jigging to get Bryce to to what i wanted. The bubble i didnt envisage but i think it looks kinda cool so i kept it in! Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7 Download: 3072x1152

SunsFalling

This image was created while i was realy bored waiting to go out, but despite that i think it has turned out realy nice. This is also the first one i have made for duel-screen too! Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768 Download: 2048x768

skyworld

This image is still alot of peoples favourite. I personally think its "okay" very simple and easy to make Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

archisland

Archisland is one of my most reccent additions and was done in Bryce. Took alot of tinkering to get it looking like this, even though it isnt perfect im happy with it Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

VerdantGardens

Verdant Gardens is my first image i have done with bryce, pretty aint it? Expect more large open scenery, this is an awsome program! Used: Bryce 5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

warpfactor

This is one of my more reccent images and is as allways and experiment. I was experimenting with the types of effects you can get with particles in lightwave. After i created that the whole image seemed to pan out into this thing. I think i envisioned a series of rings that may create a "warp tunnel" effect. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

wall

This image was made realy fast but i tihnk it turned out quite nice. Thanks go to my good friend "cat" for the quote, cheers kitty! Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

sword

This is one of my very first images and hence you can tell by the cartoony feel too it. Only reason its up here becuse i like the effect with the three lines on the right hand side Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

squaresquare

This image i think i saw on a site somewhere and wanted a go at creating it myself. it looks okay but could be ALOT better. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

spherering

Its some crazy collection of reflective spheres with rings around them, i dont know what i was going for when i created this Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

sphere-two

This is a heavily modified version of "sphere" and in my opinion its superior Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

sphere

After watching the film "shpere" i decided to try and create an image simmilar to the sphere in the film.. however mine has some modifications see sphere-two for what i think is a better version Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

spacevirus

This is one of my very early images and is still one of my favourite ones. It has been my background countless times Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

puzzlesphere

I saw a logo simmilar to this when i went skiing a few months back. I decided to see if i could recreate it in lightwave Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

planet

This image was created as a splash screen for a web-based game i was going to create, however i never realy got round to creating the game and ended up with this image instead Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

oddball

I personally dont like this image and feel like it could be done alot better but people have told me they like it so im posting it here anyways Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

matrix-cells

This is still one of my personal favourites, i love the green effect of the hypervoxels and the way it goes with the background so well. You could almost imagine that if there was a matrix and the code looks like the background then perhaps the machines are made up of cells that look like these Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

match

I personally hate this image, however others have told me they like it so im putting it up here. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

mass

This has to be one of my fastest creations (about 30mins) while i was waiting to go out I think it creates a nice effect but its abit rushed, so i will probably re-visit this and see what i can do a second time around Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

llamp

Llamp (lava lamp) was created as an experiment with hypervoxels, however when it rendered i found it to be quite boring so i decided to "liven" it up abit in photoshop Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

llamp2

Llamp2 uses the same image created by lightwave however i applied different effects to it photoshop. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

implosion

Implosion is one of my favourite images because of the variety of colours in it. Also it has got "depth" to it. By that i mean it takes a close look at it before you understand what is meant to be going on with it. Download it, see for yourself Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

Gyroalien

This image took me a relatively long time to make because of the modeling involved in creating it. Im not sure exactly what i was envisiging when i started out creating this but it ended up as some half organic teleporting device for one occupant. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

gems

This was created (like most of my images) as an experiment, this time it was into using radioisty lighting. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

enterwarpfactor

Enterwarpfactor is a different view of the image "warpfactor", from this perspective you can see how the vortex swirls into the nebulea in the background. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

daydream

Daydream was inspired by my good friend Joy Scott and that is her in the picture Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

cybrain

Cyber Brain (cybrain) was created from some image i think i saw somewhere with a brain in a glass container. I dont know if it was a dream or if i actually saw it , but anyways here is the result of my mental imagery Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

chains

Chains was created in one of my more "dark" moments I wanted to get more volumetric shadowing on it but by the time it finished rendering i was no-longer in my dark mood so decided to leave it Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

alien2

Alien2 was one of my very early pieces of work. I wanted to create the impression the alien was coming through a misty doorway with light streaming behind him. However at the time i didnt have the technical know-how to achieve this effect and so had to make do with the effect above. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768

abduction

Abduction was on of my early experiments with volumetric lighting, using the same alien charachter as before i was attempting to create a steriotypical abduction image. Used: Lightwave 7.5, Photoshop 7 Download: 1024x768