1) How many fingers do you use while typing?

2) What is your favorite color of food?

3) Your profile says you are in New Zealand. What happened to Old Zealand?

 

Well, never knew about this wee little thing but what the hell, I've got a question or two.

You're working on the game of yours. Twinsen I think it was called? I gotta admit I haven't gotten around to trying it. Promise I'll do that tomorrow! Anyways, on with the questions.

1. How long had you been thinking about the game idea BEFORE starting it?

2. How long ago did you start it?

Well, that takes care of anything topical. I guess I'll toss out a generic one for the hell of it.

3. What is your favourite game and why?

That one is just because I've missed plenty of good games and am always looking for more to add to my list of games to get around to.

 

Only one question from me..

When doing your fantastic pixel art, do you do everything on the pixel level, or do you work big, then scale down and correct?

 

1. is there a site for ur pixel art and do u do requests
2.south or north island
3.what do u mainly use ur flashcart 4(movies,music,homebrew,etc)

 

ohhhhh. i wanted like a spartan stabbing a elite(and the spartan look like a master chief combined with a greek spartan) and the elite looked an elite combined with a helot(spartan slave)

 

15) Have you ever dreamt of pixels?
not that I recall, I think Ive had a few dreams of my twinsen game, though nothing worth writing down

16) Have you made a pixel version of yourself?
I have two actually, this first one is around 18 months old:

and this ones about 6 months old:


17) Live 10 years longer (without aging physically) or owning a talking dog (multi language)?
I assume, which would I choose? I'd choose the dog I think, probably a decision I would regret once I get older, but at this point I look forward to the years ahead of me

18) If you were a gamesprite, which one would it be?
lol... I really have no idea

19) Horror or Sci Fi?
sci fi. Ive never really been a fan of horror, and Im still a little interested in LOST

 

20) Have you been to Australia before? (seeing as how we're neighbours )
Yah, I've been to Sydney a few years ago with my family, I wouldn't mind going again either

21) How many commissions do you normally get for your pixelart?
I normally get 1 or 2 offers each week, it can fluctuate a lot though

22) What's your favourite thing to do on a Sunday?
sleep in and walk the dog

 

23) What are some of the commissions you ahve done, any big things, Links?
http://zombiesmash.com/ (made some background layers for the game, and will probably do some sprites in the future) (currently down while he reads up on a new programming language)
http://www.maelstromwow.com/ (made most of the website graphics)
I did the tile work for a PDA game called 'gloop zero'
lots of small jobs for various indie games that I haven't really kept track of, and I don't think any of them have really amounted to anything yet
and at the moment I'm discussing a complete graphical overhaul for http://fantasaar.com/ 's mmorpgs

nothing big like square enix emailing me tho

24) how does one do pixel art, im interested, pixel by pixel in something like photoshop, maybe an explanition of the process?
well... first you need a program that allows you full control over each specific pixel, photoshop works pretty good for pixel art.
It's a bit hard to sum up the explanation, but its basically doing absolutely everything manually, no blur tools, you rarely even use the line tool.

25) I have been thinking about getting a GBAtemp crew together for a while to make a game (maybe homebrew) what are your thought about this, intertested in a DS collaboration?yah, it sounds good. There are very few quality homebrew games, and I think most Tempers know what it takes for a game to be good.
so yah, I am interested, just not sure if I could make a full commitment though.

26) Only 18 huh, are you studying or just living off freelance pixel art?
yeah, just living off freelance pixel art, I can't think of a better way to make money

27) On average how long would it take to make some of your work, lets say your avatar for example.
my avatar.. combining the tiles and sprites you can see, I'd say around 12 hours work
it varies a lot though for each piece... just about anything takes atleast 20-30 mins

thats about all, i really love your work man.
thanks

btw, Ive updated my WikiTemp page:
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/index.php/.TakaM
might answer a few questions

 

I've been wanting to have a full-body pixel version of myself for some time now.

Here's some questions though:
For a kinda-thin 4'11" girl;
28) How long would it take?
lol... maybe... a month or so

29) How much would it cost?
depends how good you look

 

30) What was the very, very, very first piece of pixel art you ever did (and do you still have it to show us? )
I've lost the first sprites I did (they were some RPG sprites of vash (they werent completely awful either)) I do however have the first pixel art I ever did though:

and a few months ago I was improving it out of boredom:

I didn't finish though

31) Are you sick of answering questions about pixel art yet?
not really

32) You said you don't drive, so train, bus, bike, fly or bum a lift off a friend?
I used to have a bike, and I used it quite a lot, until it got stolen. Now I actually walk quite a lot, pretty much every time I need to go anywhere by myself I'll just walk there, but I'll get a ride pretty much everytime I'm going to hang out with my friends or something