D_Rogue Game Art Project

A t the start of the new year, I downloaded the latest update for Adobe Photoshop CC,  Photoshop 2020 . Unfortunately, due to Quixel Suite (a texturing plug-in for Photoshop) now being discontinued, the software is no longer supported in this latest version of  Photoshop. In addition to this,  Quixel Suite  wasn't running well at the best of times within Photoshop. A long with numerous other problems that kept arising, this forced me to look into new software options. I checked out the latest tools for texturing and eventually decided on the Substance  Suite . What is great about  Substance , is it is now an Adobe product, and so the tools will be kept up to date as well as the huge benefit of software bridging (transferring files from one and opening them in another; for example, Substance Painter over to Photoshop). So, one door closes, another one opens. The positives increase with this change of gear, as is it allows me to learn new software, while keeping up to

O n the night of October 25th 1977, the Aleutian Islands in the Bering Sea, witnessed one of the most powerful storms ever to hit Alaska. With a low pressure of 926, wind speeds reached up to 130mph, ocean waves averaged a height of 30 to 48 feet, and  swells lasted  12 consecutive hours.  This  record  colossal extra-tropical category 4 storm, 43 years ago, was only  recently surpassed by the 2014 Bering Sea bomb cyclone. Upon learning about this storm, my questions (let alone my imagination) went into overdrive. What would it feel like to be out at sea in those conditions? What would horrendous gales, giant waves, combined with temperatures below -10 °C feel like? Well, hell I imagine. Mother nature unleashing the impossible, fascinates me to the core. As a kid, I had a book called 100 Disasters That Shook The World by Nigel Cawthorne. There was a section on the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa.  I must have read that part over a dozen times.  The loudest and one of t