Posts by Vinny Testaverde

haha me and my friends used to do this affliate program, we would put the money upfont and sign you guys up and party poker would pay us money for the people we signed up

worked out well until they started freezing our accounts etc...

they are crooks, the games are rigged (yes they are, the rig the hands so the pots are bigger, which means they get more rake)

we did make some decent money from the whole thing, but its was a lot of calling india and dealing with indians to try and get our money back.

be careful if you do the affliate progam, you can make a lot of money, but its not as easy as it looks...

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=art

I think video games would fit?

Hideo Kojima (Metal Gear Solid) says they aren't

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?optio ... 8&Itemid=2

For me I think they are a unique form of art, they combine many aspects of whats makes art art... and more over allow for the user to interact with them

You have visuals, stories, acting, etc and you get to interact with them... Not all video games are good art, but some are I think, like final fantasy and half life perhaps? (Ive never played final fantasy but the screenshots look breathtaking)

Art doesnt have to be from just one person...

In the future I think the traditional art world will start to accept digital art more and more and video games are a part of it... The computer can allow for anything the mind can think of to be translated into visuals or audio, or stories or whatever the hell you want

Anyways if movies are art, then so are video games, if movies are not art then I agree with Mr. Kojima...

Whats your take?

well the meaning behind the name mindfuck comes from the obvious part that the brain would be in the same area as the part that you would fuck... but also mindfuck is something that boggles your mind... like a vagina for a face... and also I see the vagina giving off a confused expression... so thats why I choose to use mindfuck as the title... I can always change it.. open minded or something sounds good... I'll think of somin

thanks for the feedback

btw I'll sell it if anyone wants to buy it

Canon PowerShot A620

Some I worked on in photoshop with levels/contrast etc.. some I didnt do anything to...

I got this for christmas and this is some of the stuff I did with it so far....

[Blocked Image: http://www.jonmdesign.net/work/photo/berry.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://www.jonmdesign.net/work/photo/angel.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://www.jonmdesign.net/work/photo/christmas.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://www.jonmdesign.net/work/photo/moon.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://www.jonmdesign.net/work/photo/redbranches.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://www.jonmdesign.net/work/photo/latern.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://www.jonmdesign.net/work/photo/scaryface.jpg]

Please critique

thats sweet dude... color it

sweet thanks for that links

It was an academic scholarship and if I maintain over 3.0 they pay half my tuition

Quote from Bic-B@ll

nice, i think the biggest problem is that the bridge is perfect, the curves are exacty rounded, it just looks fake. that and everything that's tan is exactly the same colorbtw, where do you go to school?

I see what you mean, the bridge will need to be re-done

I go to NYIT... fine arts/comp graphics major They gave me a good scholarship and had the comp graphics major so I decided to go here

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3dsmax 6 - sky, boats, flora, etc added in photoshop

This was for a school project... Thanks to Thomas Cole (19th century landscape painter) for the inspiration

I am not happy with it, I will do another one with a different camera angle and position and time of day, but this shot of it is done I guess...

Let me know if you have some ideas as to how to change the perspective etc, your ideas will help alot...

... maybe some day this would make a sick game level :wink:

agreed. I will make one without flash 8 needed and redirected it to there if they dont have it

it will tell if you if you dont have flash 8 now and direct you to download it

you guys don't have flash 8, I need to add in a detector...

http://www.jonmdesign.net/design/newcity/

Im thinking its done... what do you guys think?

Quote from Bic-B@ll

...does it work?

No, its quite rough and unflexible, and despite having a hole, only those unlukcy few would be able to do anything with it.

Its called Mindfuck and it was for a school project.

Carved from one piece of billet foam and painted. Metal wire used for the hair/pubes.

[Blocked Image: http://jonmdesign.net/work/traditional/mindfuck01.jpg]

(yes its what you think it is)

Well I'll finish it to put it in my portfolio, but I just dont think it would make a good homepage

Maxwell is looking pretty sweet.... great render

how many polies is this btw?

http://jonmdesign.net/design/new/site.html

Well this was that, I felt it wasnt coming out well and was going to be too high in filesize

http://www.jonmdesign.net/design/newcity/

Updated it a little.... still more to come

I will redo all the fonts today so it should be clear and everything

Quote from ReNo

Very lovely to look at and a nice piece of design, but after reading that article that was linked to here on making practical portfolio sites, this breaks just about every rule in the book Really needs larger content areas and a much larger font - I do use an overly large resolution for my monitor, but I've never really had any trouble reading anything on it until now. Cool work though man

well this is a site for web design work and suhc more than game design, so the site would need to be flashy