Our tiny game MiniDoom is finally ready! It shouldn’t take you more than 15 minutes to play through. You can download it at my gamedev site: Here is the launch trailer: Some screenshots: We made this game as a demo for a video game developer course (in spanish) my brother is giving, so if you would like to learn how to make this game, visit his online course over HERE. Slutations everyone!
Medieval DOOM
I wanted to make a lot more pages for today (since its the release of DOOM 4), but alas, I was busy with my own game release that I hope will post here later today… In any case, here is the first page of my new project (and the first book I make that is completely original). I was thinking that the the demonic invasion that happens on DOOM could have happened before, in other planets, such as earth in the dark ages so I inventing the diary of the sole survivor of that invasion (MEDIEVAL DOOM). Here are the only two pages I managed to more-or-less finish for today. A part of the entry on CACODEMONS (one of the coolest enemies of all videogames). Ill be uploading my progress as soon as its ready. (No downloads yet, I´m actually planing on putting actual text and a story)
Tiny DOOM
(NON-prop related post!) UPDATE!: MiniDOOM is ready to play! Doom 4 will be released very soon, and it was a very influential game in my childhood (a million years ago) so my brother and I are making a parody game as a tribute. It will be doom as it was an old school platformer. I’m in charge of making all the graphics, animations and backgrounds while my brother does the programing. Here is a screenshot: Some of the sprites i made: For more silliness go to my illustration blog over HERE (PD, I’m also making an occult book about doom… more updates as soon as I actually start that…)
Me, at the Replica Prop Forum
If you’re into props and replicas and haven’t visited the RPF yet, please do, it’s a magical place. And in case your also a member, here is my profile: JCPORCEL
The Black Zodiac Page Set
Back in December 2015, I randomly saw a post on Facebook about the “Black Zodiac”, the occult book shown on the movie Thirteen Ghost, I thought the illustrations were really cool so I obviously wanted a prop of my own but turns out these particular pages are basically impossible to find in a respectable resolution for print (at least back in 2015). Thus (also obviously), I decided to make my own super hi res versions and learn a bit of illustrator in the process since there´s quite a bit of gears and mechanical parts on some of the pages. I think the result was pretty decent, I even created a font file to fill in all the text (which is giberish right now but who cares…). I also replicated the paper texture that was rather unique or at least it looked interesting on the images on the internet. In any case, here are some of the pages I replicated, you can as always download everything for free and hi-res on the new download section for this book! Cheers! Here are a couple of example pages: Download all pages over HERE
My illustration blog!
I decided to make a blog for my drawings, illustrations and non-prop stuff. Just head over to my new blog at http://jcporcel.tumblr.com/ I finally decided to open a blog for my non-prop stuff. Since facebook is crap for visibility on the internet and everybody has basically forgotten about the existence of deviantart, look like a blog is the way to go. Thus, here is mine for anyone who wants to see my drawings and paintings, or rather my attempts at doing that… I hope to start doing tutorials and stuff just like in this blog. Cheers! DO IT —–> http://jcporcel.tumblr.com/
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – Extra Pages
Here are some of the pages I invented to add to my Journal 3 replica. You can download them all on the downloads page! You can download them all on the Gravity Falls download page!
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – download all pages
So, when I started this project one of the main objectives was to re-create hi-resolution version of all the pages to share with the internet since I wasn’t able to find any while creating my replica and I bet theres a couple crazy people out there that also want to make their own journals. Once I finished all the canon pages I realized there were many awesome creatures and artifacts that never show up on the book within the show so I re-watched the series another 4 times and created new pages for every episode that was missing in the book. Here I leave you a ZIP file on my download section where you can download them all. There are landscape pages Folio size in 300dpi. Download here! Download here! As always It´s all for free, use them as you like, if you put a link back to this page, that´d be really nice, if not, its ok too. Enjoy! And I will tell everyone yet again, if you have not watched this series, please do, it’s amazing.
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – Part 8: last details
And finally, the last details are added, which are the photos, maps and other schematics that go glued or attached with tape to the book: Done! And yes… there should be a lot of red parts… but since I made photocopies so the coffee wouldn’t wash away the ink while aging the paper… everything had to be black =(. Color photocopies are rather expensive.. and there were a lot of pages to copy… so there, convenience won this time… If you want to download all the pages in hi-res including the ones i invented, head over to the download page (its all for free!) Keep it mysterious! And watch Gravity Falls if you have not, it’s a masterpiece of animation, storytelling, character design, narrative, coloring, etc, etc, etc.
Gravity Falls Journal 3 – Part 7: final assembly
To fix the hand to the cover I just went with screws. It is very strong, and I think it look cool and medieval. I made holes in the copper with this tool: Here is the hand with holes in the copper sheet ready, and the number “3″ painted with black nail polish: Here are the are the corner parts: If you want to know how I made and painted these, here is a post I made about the process in more detail. Its very important to make small holes before putting in the screws so that the wood, trupan or other material you are using wont split once the screws go in. This is the only pieces that i bought, some cool metal corners: Here is the cover with the hand and corner pieces all screwed in place: But since the book is actually red, I used cherry colored acrylic paint to give the leather a red-ish hue. Also a couple of gold painted straps for the side. And the book is almost done. To be continued!