May 5, 2007

The first’s for the dog have kind of tapered off. Nokes has developed a habit of peeing on the stairs, and pooping in the basement if we don’t watch him, and keep the gate closed. He has also gotten more crazy, started biting, jumping, growling and running at full sprints around the house. He is still really clumsy and even though he can jump higher, he just falls that much further and much more spectacularly.

Detailed photos of Agent X robots

Last night I got photos from Richard of the robots, as requested. Today I started, and got a good distance, finishing probably 80% of one robot. The robots all look the same, so I shoud be able to just repeat it on the front to take care of each one, and just scale them accordingly. However, the antennas and the mouth area are a little fuzzy, so I emailed Richard to see if he can get yet closer up photos of those two areas to make sure

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Weird looking Mr. Do! Pasta Guys finished

Got three more close up photos from Rob tonight that I didn’t have. One of the ice cream, one of the dopey mustache head guy, and one of the pasta smiley guys. I took today to get started on those, and did the pasta ravioli looking Mr. Do enemy guys, since they seemed fairly easy.

I doubt I will be working on the other two this weekend, the ice cream in particular looks like it will take some time, but …

Got hi-res image of Cloak and Dagger marquee

Have made some contacts with some Mame guys who trace for archival purposes, all sorts of old classic arcade artwork. They also had access to the “Joymonkey” website, a site put together by a bunch of guys who bought a copy of Arcade Graphix artwork when they went under. Today via email, I got two pieces I requested, one of which was the Cloak and Dagger marquee which has the robots in it.

It is a hi-res scan, but I still think some small details of the robots are missing.

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May 26, 2007

Memorial day weekend was an exciting one for Nokes, and a curious one for us. We went up to Michigan to introduce him to the rest of the family. He did really good at my parents house, barking maybe once. They were impressed with him that he was so well behaved and quiet. I think it was nostalgic for them to have a dog in the house again, and it made all of us happy.

Then he met Hunter. We kept him on a leash for most of the meeting period, …

Apple and Clown finished for Mr. Do! Bezel

Well, it was a lot more work than I thought. The clown took a good amount of work to not only look correct, but to make sure it prints correctly and at a larger size. But I did finish both the apple and the clown for my Mr. Do sideart, check out some small images of them.

Starting the Agent X kickplate

Knowing that Richard is looking to have the Agent X kickplate artwork reproduced first, I shifted gears and started to trace that instead of the sideart. I was able to finish the rays, clouds, and the agent himself. However, I need to get some close up high resolution photos of the robots, which will also help me figure out the shape that borders the artwork in many different spots. It looks like a rectangle with indented circles, but I won’t be able to tell until I get …