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About Me Member Pixel Artist Rory Joscelyne22/Male/United Kingdom Recent Activity Deviant for 5 Years
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My last completed pixel art, I am still working on Gimmick Mountain and I have a Roareye redesign underway but while that is being done enjoy this. Annoying part is this fit as a desktop bg on my old monitor, but now I've got a higher resolution one so I'm not sure I'll continue the series, or whether I should simply make the wallpapers bigger.

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Roareye Black is an artist who came online back in October 2000. He started doing sprite based colour editting as a small pointless aside and has quickly built his skills up into one of the leaders of the artform, even creating a free tutorial website called Sonic Showcase Network in which to teach the artform to others.

More recently he has been brushing up alot on his video game history, especially in the area of Sega Consoles, and is working for website SegaDriven to bring exclusive content about these machines to the internet.

A qualified Designer, Writer and Actor, he spends alot of time outside of the internet at work reconstructing the John Lewis (Upper/Middle Class Department Store) customer service training systems as a full time job, and acting in small plays in the local area, of which he's recieved notable accolades when performing in The Graduate's title role (Played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie).

Currently has a long-term relationship, is working with Sega and TSS towards the Summer Of Sonic 2009 event and cataloguing new consoles he buys on SegaDriven.

Pixel Art, Summer of Sonic and Syndicate Prime

Journal Entry: Sun Sep 6, 2009, 11:45 AM
Pixel Art;
I AM BACK! Roareye is back in the pixel art saddle and he's brought a brand new lighting technique with him. Currently in my dA gallery is the Gimmick Mountain BG I'm working on. Well keep your eyes peeled for a completed version of that. Current updates are a yellow light, a red light (Actually in the bg of the original level), purple rocks dissolving into the background blueness. Not only do these things exist, but they all work together to create the new lighting effect. The central pillar has been given dashes of yellow and red, the floor of the cylinder and the side wall have the light effect and I'm simply working on the surrounding rocks. There are already 15 rocks, but I'll have to roughly double that >.< However the new lighting effect has made a really sexiful wet rock texture.
I will be adding: Another light source to the top left, the dual-pillars on the front right with some more lighting and the bottom left will have either the tube-platforms (ewww >.<;) or I'll find something.

Syndicate Prime;
I've got the story for the fifth and final installment of the series (At least in it's current form, but I'm going to make 5 and then look into my other projects), and it's the most epic of all the stories. Which is good for a penultimate ending book :p
I've named all the novels already and also been adding more depth storylines to each book (Such as a courtroom drama side to Book 2, a deeper and darker relationship between SideWinder and McCalibre in Books 2 and 3 to name only two). Here's the naming list (The names mean something related to the story btw);
Book 1: Syphecode Alpha
Book 2: Symbiotic Psychosis
Book 3: Saint's Fall
Book 4: Beaten Philosophy
Book 5: Burnout Wreckshido

On the subject of other books that I'll write after Syndicate Prime, I have these;
Cosmic Latitude - previously called Power Cosmic, but renamed cos it sounded better. This is a Sci-Fi with a cool atmosphere which enables you to step back and judge humanity from a unique perspective.
Konsortium - A co-writing job with a real life friend of mine. Konsortium is a near-future sci-fi action book that's more cerebral than most. The main characters are basically chess pieces in a game between a long dead man and a computer.
Love Remembers - A romance novel with some subtle dark edges. After seeing The Notebook and several events occuring with me and my girlfriend, I felt in the mood to create a more romantic plotline. Another key to this is that Syndicate Prime originally included several relationships which are no longer shown (Some are referred to) or no longer occur as they were fluff and removed the extremely cold biting edge the novels. And yes, I missed writing romantic scenes >//_//<
Brothers In Arms (tentative title) - WWII novel, set around a small group of soldiers fighting for their lives in France near the tail end of the war. Another angle in this book is that it will also focus on the emotional and hard-working (to the detriment of their health usually) women of London who often got horrible diseases or died in the servitude of their husbands in the battlefield.

Summer of Sonic;
This event was awesome! We had a freaking fantastic time. Want to say that Helenbaby, Vger, H Hog, Hannah Echidna, Siriku, AAUK, Dread, Urtheart and the likely hoardes of others I've missed all ROCK. We had such a fantastic blast, and theevent itself, the nightclubbing with you guys, the next day in the pub... pure heaven. THAT, ladies and gentleman, is what Summer of Sonic is all about. Friends meeting, and spending time together having fun. If you came just for the guests, the games or the superficial stuff then you missed the point entirely and it's your loss. Summer of Sonic is an event for you guys to meet and greet, and hopefully you all enjoyed it ^_^

Roareye Black.

Close Friends
:heart: :iconsiriku: :icondarkspeeds: :iconcyberblade: :iconheaterhedgehog: :heart:

My Friends
:iconunny: :iconcakeprower: :icontimperthewolf: :icondementedpixie: :iconryuura: :iconvioletmoonie: :iconamethystfaerie: :iconhookshot:

Friends of Legend
:iconmattty: :iconhhog: :iconjamieswiftrunner: :iconserenakitty:

Concept Mobius Co-workers/Friends
:iconporidet:

Clubs
:icontikal-fan-club: :iconcake-fanatics: :iconcutn:
  • Mood: Sentimental
  • Listening to: It Just Comes Natural - George Strait
  • Reading: Drafts of Syndicate Prime
  • Watching: Batman Anthology (Blu-Ray)
  • Playing: Gears of War 2
  • Eating: Salads
  • Drinking: Apple Juice

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: England
  • Interests: Pixel Art, Acting, Storywriting, Designing
  • Favourite movie: The Last Samurai
  • Favourite band or musician: Hybrid, Chris Huelsbeck
  • Favourite genre of music: Rock, Techno, Country
  • Favourite artist: Charlotte Atkinson
  • Favourite poet or writer: Koji Suzuki
  • Favourite style of art: Pixel art
  • Operating System: Windows Vista
  • MP3 player of choice: iPod Classic 80Gb
  • Favourite game: New Zealand Story
  • Favourite gaming platform: Sega Saturn
  • Favourite cartoon character: Tiki the Kiwi
  • Personal Quote: No Man Should Fight Alone
  • Tools of the Trade: MicroSoft Paint (Fireworks MX for transparencies and gif saves)
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:iconhairymanlewis:
Alright you legend. We need to meet up for a SEGA-off at some point. It's been too long.

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Bollocks to the lot of ya.
:iconslightlychaotic:
Hey, Roareye. Reply to this when you're active. ;P

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- "When in Rome, make Romanade." ~"Wtf?"

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Fail hard, fail fast.
:iconroareye:
I am active, you ok?

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Founder of Sonic Showcase Network
Home of all forms of Sonic art.
(Previously Sonic Spriters Network)
:iconslightlychaotic:
Not too bad. Keeping busy, I'm sure?

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- "When in Rome, make Romanade." ~"Wtf?"

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Fail hard, fail fast.
:iconroareye:
Yeah very. Trying to get better money at my job via promotion, I'm on £11,000 a year atm and I'm doing loads of management work. If my application is successful, I'll be on £24,500 :D Muuuuch better pay.

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Founder of Sonic Showcase Network
Home of all forms of Sonic art.
(Previously Sonic Spriters Network)

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