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Wednesday, May 15, 2024
What is Toys for Bob planning..?
Monday, May 13, 2024
A followup birthday post???
So a package arrived late for my birthday, lo and behold, the Power Blue Splatter Splasher! Still with its box too! (Ignore the staples... it came like that)
As for the Scarlet Ninjini, I managed to snatch that up on my own thanks to some wild circumstances.
So our school held its annual art show in April, and a kid that I faintly knew was interested in buying some art from me, and I knew this kid had Skylanders before due to a conversation I somehow remembered from many months prior. So I instantly, instead of taking money, I asked for a Skylander, and bam, I give him my art and a few days later I come home with another Skylander in my collection!
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Roberto Moreno | Prop Design
Roberto Moreno is an environment / prop artist that worked on Imaginators and Trap Team (I can't find info regarding if they have or haven't worked on Superchargers). He did a majority of prop models and designs for the games, such as the various gold that you find laying around, or the breakable objects that you don't even truly spare a glance. If you want to check out some more concepts I have excluded, here is his site!
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Christian De Pedro | Skylanders Academy prop design
Alright these are probably the coolest concepts I have seen for the show which I uh, have never really talked about here... Even though I have binged it- lets see... A few too many times to count?
I suppose I should also make a tag for the show now.
Real quick before we delve into these amazing works we have Christian's art page right here if you want to check out more! Let's kick off with a few environments: The full link
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Skylanders Superchargers and how the models work
To all the potential tech and 3D model nerds scrolling my page, or if you've stumbled upon my Skylanders rips online, (which haven't been approved to The Models Resource yet at the time of writing this) I've decided to make a post explaining Skylanders Superchargers models and how to properly set up the nodes in Blender! This probably works for the models from other games but I haven't gotten around to ripping those apart yet.
And the Shading tab in the top of the screen is where most of our work will be carried out.
Now for the normals which are the most important texture, even if you don't want the other textures, I would recommend adding the normal map. Skylanders has a strange problem with normals where the red channel is inverted, but luckily Blender can fix it no problem with one extra step! To fix the normals add a RGB Color Curve node and plug in the normal, flip the red channel in a straight line.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
My Birthday!
Hi! It's April 27th, and you know what that means? My birthday! This year I just asked for Skylanders and uh, didn't get any, again... But that's okay cause I finally got a Cricut machine to help me make stickers! And with making stickers I can hopefully make some of my own money to buy Skylanders with!
Thanks for sticking around!
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Bill Tiller | Environment Concepts
Bill Tiller worked as a senor concept artist as Toys for Bob on Imaginators, primarily working on props and environment designs.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Anthony Avvento | Skylanders Swap Force 3Ds and Count Moneybone
Anthony Avvento designed a ton for Skylanders Swap Force 3Ds including making Count Moneybone's design.
There's a more concepts on Anthony's site such as for Moneybone's robotic monstrosities, please support the artists!
(Fun fact, Count Moneybone was actually introduced in Swap Force 3Ds and not Superchargers)
Saturday, March 30, 2024
Toys for Bob is going indie, and what does this mean for Skylanders?
So last month Toys for Bob announced that they're going to become an indie studi0, they shut down their physical headquarters in California since it was too expensive to keep up, and people almost worried that TFB were going to be shutting down for good. TFB have stated that they are still in a partnership with Microsoft too, so what does this mean for any future Skylanders games?
In my personal opinion, I don't think this actually changes much for the future of Skylanders. Since Microsoft is still partnered with them they can still use IPs such as Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.
I still hold onto some hope that a remaster is a possibility in the future, but I do doubt that there will be anything relating to Skylanders being released for years to come.
Addressing some claims going about from their post: (Note that I am not an employee of TFB and that these are just what I have inferred from research)
Skylanders is not cancelled forever but the chances of a new game are still slim
No, the fact that 'horns' are mentioned here does not confirm a new Skylanders game like some people are saying (what logic is that???)
Toys for Bob mentioning Skylanders (once) in the post also does not confirm a new game
So in the end, what does this mean? Nothing too much really in terms of Skylanders.
The chances of getting a new game is the same as before, still miniscule. But this doesn't mean that the series is done for good.
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Happy Birthday to my Blog! And a small update-
So I went on an accidental hiatus for a bit, whoops! I didn't post anything all Feburary, and I haven't been making much progress on my comic for a bit. (Sorry!) It's weird to think this blog is already a year old now, my first post was about me saving up to buy the land trophy for Superchargers, I still haven't actually brought it.
I haven't been doing much related to Skylanders in general for a small while, I have been doing a lot of other stuff, juggling working on multiple games, such as my own project, two Yo-Kai Watch fan projects, and working on an entirely original game as an animator and modeller. I'm a highschool student too, which also cuts down my time to work on projects by a lot.
Also I haven't had my Skylanders hyperfixation come back swinging in a while, don't get me wrong I still adore Skylanders but I've ended up gravitating towards other games for the past while. Though I still enjoy drawing Skylanders from time to time.
I was going to say that nobody really visits this blog but I went and checked my website statistics and it seems I get a small amount regular viewers which honestly surprised me! A very pleasant surprise, I wish I could shout them out here but I can't view usernames which is honestly for the best.
Either way thank you to any readers that visit, it means a lot to me! I'm sorry about my lack of recent posts, I hope to get back to my regular posting schedule of once at least every week. I'm also going to be back on doing regular renovations and working on polishing some pages while making some new ones, as you can see by the Fanart and Collection buttons I've made that take you to an empty page...