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Zpixel, you're really getting the hang of this. Love ya latest interior pics.

Here's the 3D version of the protagonist of my web series. In the end everything will be cel shaded.

Software: Modo, Bodypaint, Photoshop, Softimage XSI, Lightwave.

May kelly:
@OMO IBO, nwando, grafikdon, Kashif
You all are something else. How could you people tell lie this length. anyway those who will tell them the truth are yet to post. Yoruba and hausa are the ones that marry at twenties and thrities. If an Igbo man say is age is 30 defintely he is beyond that, and when he said 34 surely he is beyond that as well/ or should i invite the hausas and the yorubas to help explain to you all.

Ndo. . . sorry . . . kpele . . . . Like you were advised, all you had to say was 'NO' to the 60(49) yr old Igbo suitor. . . not by force my sister.

nwando:
Igbo this Igbo that.
The average age of marriage amongst nigerian men nowadays is 34 or thereabout.
It cuts across.
We have a poster out to make a stupid and baseless point.
The topic said Igbo men marry at 45,50 60 and also she says the average is 43
let's hear her out.
I'm sure she has a father who by her estimation must be in his mid eighties to nineties.

If she has a 60 year old Igbo suitor all she needs to do is turn him down not make false generalization.
It's not by force to marry sef.

I wonder o. Could it be that somebody was approached by a 60 yr old Igbo 'bachelor' who was actually hunting for a second wife since Mama Augustina has gone all flabby? I think we can provide the right answer if the poster can tell us that hidden story. . . or at least 0.9% of the hidden story.

May kelly:
Yes your father married, what about you. Igbo do not have the least in divorce case, where did you get that statistics from?

So be it. exactly what we are talking about, so why should it be? is it right?

No, They don't marrry around 30 nor 35 but from 43 and above

I am not sure what else you'd like to hear/see, considering you've been given the most obvious/reasonable answers. Perhaps you want somebody to confirm your research, no? Unfortunately, there won't be such confirmation because the marriage age range for Igbo men that you want to push down our throats is not anywhere near the truth.

Lol. . . na wa for WAEC o. . . somebody is not telling us the full story She just goes gangtsa-chow-pow on anyone that truncates her 'impeccable' age range 'research'.

That was a false rumour. Can it folks.

Not that I will be shocked if some Anambra religious zealot suggests such a ridiculous measure. Actually I was shocked to the bone marrows the first time the rumour hit me. . . fortunately it was confirmed to be unfounded. Whew! That was too close for comfort.

ifele:
My name is Ifele I AM a super-nationalist. Cameroon is no probs. We can defeat them.
They have a military force of 25,000 we have 70,000+. I even beat up one of them on the street
a couple of years back. That oil belongs to Bakassi people and all of us tru black bloods. This is not
the time to pretend you are white. Yu aint white. White civilisation is about white women fucking dogs and horses.
White has no fucking moral superiority to tell us to leave Bakassi for fascist wannabe Cameroonians.

You are a super nationalist or super racist? Which one u dey, broda? You know, it's easy to make your point without puking on Cameroon, her military and her people. You just typed a billion lines of utter gibberish. And this white people bashing is even more ridiculous or should I remind you your black brothers have been caught time after time with their pee pee stuck in a camel or goat? Are we now all camel and goat 'humpers'? It disgusts me when some black people fail to see the ugly racist in them and believe that racism = white against black. Come see racism in its crude form. First you puked on Cameroon like you've met everyone of them, secondly you took another ugly turn and painted white women with one ugly brush.

For your safety, you better stop 'beating' soldiers or they will 'beat' you with bullets, Mr. Arnlone Rambowazzenegger.

Raymand88, you can tell a 'realistic' story with anime. It's been done successfully before (Tokyo Godfathers, Rumbling hearts etc). These are real people in everyday situation/conditions. No razzmatazz. If you are used to watching anime riddled with mech, armour clad girls with gargantuan boobs that weigh 1000 tons, slasher samurai , screeching demons etc it will be hard to believe a 'realistic' story could be told with anime.

Last but not the least; He's on the side of Chetanna, Abeni and co, and he is Osio 'The Stone Crusher'

Introducing one of the villains- - -

Osazuwa "The Scorpion Demon"- - - half man half scorpion. His body is like steel, save for one tiny winy fragile part (we shall figure it out as the series wraps up ) So good luck picking up a fight with him. Only Itangwa 'The Hound of Hell' can beat him to pulp in less than a second but hey, Itangwa 'The Hound of Hell' is supposed to me immortal- - -

And here is one of the warriors who trained the above Character (Chetanna). She is known as Abeni 'The Queen of the Wind' - - - more details about this bad azz warrior will pop up in the www near you

I know what you're thinking- - - no, she's doesn't pop out blades from her knuckles (Like Wolverine). When you're out of the reach of her razor sharp daggers, she throws poisoned darts (four at a time) and she DOESN'T MISS THE TARGET.

Good Job Fellas- - - let's keep 'em coming.

Here's a sketch of the protagonist of a web series - - - She doesn't look intimidating but she's more deadly than 30 blood thirsty warriors- - - trained by the Leopard King (name Withheld) the queen of the wind (name withheld) and the Spirit King (name whithheld)- - - Watch out for the kick butt wimpy looking little girl - - - Coming to the WWW- - - (Followed by those retarded Nollywood advert sound effects- - -)

This is no shock to me. I have seen far worse poisoning of young minds by the 'Soldiers of Al-l -ah'. God is definitely way too patient. I think he is the most insulted being yet, he gladly hands out lollipop to those who are not worthy to even be on this planet. . .

LMAO!!! Kanto, you should know that thresa8 is Dimka, Chief Okoroamadi, alias Pilas the harvest, aka Mohadana etc etc and he is not worth a second of your time. This is someone who sees RED and calls it WHITE. He'd sprinkle water on your cloth in the presence of 1000 witnesses and tell you it was Sani Abacha. See, when u ignore him and refuse to acknowledge his existence, he fades and comes back with names like Josephine or polycarp Polyokpu. Most of us know him as a lost cause so we don't bother with his thread or honor him with a reply.

Seun:
If we make great movies, we can export them and use the foreign exchange money to develop basic amenities.

That's the big picture which many of us fail to see. Very unfortunate.

mordz:
I don't personally like those kinds of industries with little or no real value (eg sports, acting, music etc. ) I think we nigeria, should concentrate on the hard sciences and technology. We have a zero manufacturing base. We can't even make bicycle. India is getting ready to launch a moon expedition. Look at the success of china, taiwan, hong kong, india, singapore, south korea etc. They concentrate on manufacturing and the sciences. Every thing else will come after you have solved your real problems. I am 40 years old and there has not been a day in benin that nepa has not taken light in 40 years. What a shame.! we can't even feed our selves and we are talking about acting / actors.

So what if a third world country decides to send men to the moon while majority of their people are living in perpetual poverty? So what if NEPA 'takes light' every 2 minutes? Should we now wait for the government to fix NEPA before we wake up and do something worthwhile? One sided development has been our bane in Naija. I personally do not see anything wrong with a vibrant entertainment indusrty or have you forgotten the magnitude of people (millions of Nigerians) gainfully employed in the entertainment sector? I guess we should abandon those years of sweat and send a man to the moon- - - or and we can also build a wheel barrow to show the world we have 'arrived'.

Perhaps if you do a little research, you'd know that we have been manufacturing stuff but that is out of the question. Sending a man to the moon should be the least of our worries, not when close to 70% of our people are living in abject, but should we become adamant and send men to the moon in our present situation, we deserve a shower of fire, brimstone, hell, thunder etc etc for diving nose deep into a pointless wild goose chase at the expense of the wretched masses.

I agree with you, we should concentrate of things like good roads, good NEPA, basic amenities and most importantly, jobs (the entertainment industry you so much despise is doing well in that department even with all the NEPA syndrome ). So my brother, cool temper. Sports and music have been the integral part of our culture or do you think oyibo man invented that too?

Live and let live. There is enough room for NEPA, 'hard scince' Moon adventure, acting, melecine, Babalawoism, Dibiaism, music and sports.

Germannig:
What has intelligence got to do with race? Is there yet any genetic basis for intelligence? If not (and I know none yet), then this topic is irrelevant.

It's more like comedy and very insignificant.

[quote author=cris-ngige link=topic=122790.msg2098365#msg2098365 date=1206637841]it is not to be contested: the igbos are the most intelligent people on earth. check out the brainsize.[/quote]So your brothers na coconut heads (Isi Akatamkpo)? Quantity no be quality o (Nollywood ). . . and coconut head is perfect for deadly head butt. . . ''Finish Him" - - - ''Head Buttality", . . Flawless Victory. . .

I have no preference, I love both for a lot of reasons and will never pick one over the other. I have more 2d DVDs though

Kobojunkie:
Black people racist?? Tufi akwa !!!!! a i ri ru e!!!

We are pretty much more racist since we see ourselves solely as the ones on the receiving end of racism. As a result we don't see the ugly racist lurking in the darkest corner of our mind. Look at Nairaland and the ridiculous 'tribal wars' where some people find it difficult to make their point without the insertion of inflammatory and derogatory lines against other 'tribes'. Some call it tribalism, I call it RACISM.

I thought that was another yahoo yahoo to milk people dry, didn't know it was for real But why? This is kinda racist, but black people probably won't see it that way.

Wow

Well, I have no idea the style they want to adopt but I have no doubt they will do a good job. Preacher is not something they can afford to mess with, perhaps they'd be able to get away with any ugly stunt (style) considering that majority of the audience wouldn't know anything about the real Preacher. . .

Whatever they do, I hope they don't screw up 'cause I will take it personal.



I am waiting for a Spawn movie. the first one. . . well, It didn't do it for me, I enjoyed the MTV animated series more (too bad they axed it). That's got to be one of the best animated shows out there (IMHO).

I didn't mean to take the thread down to Jerusalem, just couldn't resist.

Hahahaha!!!! It was an underground rumour but there has to be some truth to that. It will get the Sin City/ Sky Captain treatment, so I heard. Preacher is . . . I am not sure how to describe it. . . totally unconventional and mind blowing. It was a unique experiment that really paid off. I devoured everything like hot moi moi and akamu. . . I can't wait for more live action evidence to surface. . .

Ol boy, na Biafra war you wan start?

combrazor:
oh, i know CGI has been used effectively quite a lot . . . but in most of those cases, it is used (as you said) in combination with real elements, as well as distractions to keep the eye from lingering too long upon.

At least we agree on this one.

combrazor:
while that approach may have worked for 300, Sin City and Sky Captain, you'll notice that all of those movies were either based on or paid homage to comic books, and as such they benefited from having a slightly unreal, cartoonish, exaggerated reality.

if you're making such a film, then i guess it could work for you. but if you're doing something that involves even a semblance of realism, i think it's going to be a cheesefest.

That's exactly what I was driving at when I mentioned using CGI reasonably. Either you employ integration (CGI/live) with distractions or all out Cgi world with exaggerated reality (300, Sky Cap, Sin City, Preacher . . . etc)). Anything else will do little to prevent your eyes from lingering too long or from passing crude judgment. I guess we're saying the same thing in different tones.

@comrazor, I agree CGI is not a magic bullet but people have pulled it off successfully several times. In most cases they employ a lot of diversionary tactics to divert your total attention from the computer generated sequence. I can assure you that some of the shots you believe are the handiwork of stunt men are simply flawless live action/cgi integration. It becomes 'cheezy' when there is no diversion (speed/action/fast paced camera switch etc) or when there's a long establishing focus on the CGI elements. I observed you find CGI absolutely repulsive and have refused to acknowledge it has its uses (especially when applied in the right sense). I know people go overboard with Cgi (which I find despicable) but nevertheless, it is something you cannot rule out entirely, no matter your personal taste.



In my own case I will combine both; Use miniatures where they are most appropriate and Cg where it is most appropriate.

NO. Old wine in a new bottle = atrocious wine.

1. Saw a homeless oyibo man doing 'Babi All-ah' outside JFK what a morale 'booster'

2. While on a field trip to the Bronx zoo, a gorilla came close to the glass partition right in front of me and gaped at me for a few seconds. One of my oyibo classmates said (loud enough for people in Afghanistan to hear) the gorilla was thinking '' Hey (insert my name), what are ya doing out there? Come and join me, my brother''. To cut the long story short, I was called a monkey's brother.

3. I saw serious mounds of raw poop in the subway. . .

Chineke God of Saudi Arabia!!!! Na shock upon shock o- - - even 'area boys' for Manhattan fleeced the daylight out of me. They charged me $17.00 and put me in a yellow cab, telling me it was the fare to Queens. Little did I know they just played me for a sucker, because you don't pay no yellow cab in advance, you gotta pay what the meter reads at the end of ya journey. . .

Wow! That was pretty fast

Not bad for a rush job (yup, you came back like a lightening). Now JB, if you keep pushing the envelope, I predict you'd be there in just four months. So I say, keep pushing the envelope and don't stop, even when u think you're 'there'. This thing is like a school without end, the more you look, the more you see.

justbones:
its colorin time

O yeah!!!!! Bring it on!

Last but not the least. . .