Check out Rays site and Facebook page, and maybe give something like the above a whirl! It's certainly not easy to sculpt a pumpkin like that but fun trying!
dfb
Thursday, 31 October 2013
All Hallows Eve is Upon Us!!! Muwahahahahaha
I always get excited over the Halloween period. The reason being, my all time favourite sculptor, Ray Villafane is at his busiest time of year, producing some of the most awesome pumpkins you will see. He puts on shows, demos, lessons and has books out and tool sets available for you to have a crack yourself. If you are near any of the events he has put on, I envy you! Check out his website and Facebook page. And in the meantime, sit back and check out some of his work below!!
Check out Rays site and Facebook page, and maybe give something like the above a whirl! It's certainly not easy to sculpt a pumpkin like that but fun trying!
dfb
Check out Rays site and Facebook page, and maybe give something like the above a whirl! It's certainly not easy to sculpt a pumpkin like that but fun trying!
dfb
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
Talisman Digital Edition Is Coming!
I am a MASSIVE fan of the boardgame Talisman. It's brilliant. Very much luck based but most definately a fun adventure where your fortunes go up and down and with a little bit of strategy you can help things a long. Most enjoyable when a crowd of 6 mates are enjoined around a table with beer and snacks and music blaring in the background!!!
Fantasy Flight games re-released the boardgame some years ago, after Games Workshop Black Industries sold the license. And a sterling job they have done, with many expansions- old and new released to date and more to come in the future.
The Talisman universe has recently expanded to include the Digital Realm and is now available to purchase on the Steam Platform for PC. It is currently Early Access, and everyone is helping to iron out bugs, put in their suggestions and getting ready for the imminent online update due over the course of the next couple of weeks. It has received a new update today that fixes some AI problems and adds in the Death mechanic from the Reaper expansion as a Halloween treat! The full Reaper expansion will be available properly from the day of official release.
With the arrival of Talisman Online Multiplayer games finally becoming an imminent reality Mr Jon New, webmaster of Talisman Island and No.1 Talisman fan in the world, and I have created a Facebook Community to create a more friendly envirmoment for chatting and arranging games. As time goes on and more expansions are released, inter continental games will become longer and more problematic. No worries, with our community just create a post, find some friends and arrange a time and date in a more gentlmanly manner. Most online games have some percentage of its users acting like children. We are aiming to eliminate all that. Of course, every good game has some small amount of trash talking etc. I love it personally, but everything is done in the spirit of fun. I hope we can achieve this aim. Perhaps even arrange some small tournaments. Click the banner link to head over to the Facebook community page, click like, post your Steam username and get ready to go online....
Fantasy Flight games re-released the boardgame some years ago, after Games Workshop Black Industries sold the license. And a sterling job they have done, with many expansions- old and new released to date and more to come in the future.
The Talisman universe has recently expanded to include the Digital Realm and is now available to purchase on the Steam Platform for PC. It is currently Early Access, and everyone is helping to iron out bugs, put in their suggestions and getting ready for the imminent online update due over the course of the next couple of weeks. It has received a new update today that fixes some AI problems and adds in the Death mechanic from the Reaper expansion as a Halloween treat! The full Reaper expansion will be available properly from the day of official release.
With the arrival of Talisman Online Multiplayer games finally becoming an imminent reality Mr Jon New, webmaster of Talisman Island and No.1 Talisman fan in the world, and I have created a Facebook Community to create a more friendly envirmoment for chatting and arranging games. As time goes on and more expansions are released, inter continental games will become longer and more problematic. No worries, with our community just create a post, find some friends and arrange a time and date in a more gentlmanly manner. Most online games have some percentage of its users acting like children. We are aiming to eliminate all that. Of course, every good game has some small amount of trash talking etc. I love it personally, but everything is done in the spirit of fun. I hope we can achieve this aim. Perhaps even arrange some small tournaments. Click the banner link to head over to the Facebook community page, click like, post your Steam username and get ready to go online....
Head on over to Steam and purchase Talisman Digital Edition by Nomad Games!
War In Heaven by Adrian Smith/Ricardo Pinto
Adrian Smith has done a collaborative motion comic book with author Ricardo Pinto. It uses Madefire technology to run and you can check out part of it for FREE, right at the link below..
http://content.madefire.com/s-2d7a1855cb704a65b04ba2ae32f2a635/index.html#
You can read a little about it on the authors blog page here....
http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/tag/war-in-heaven/
Enjoy!!
http://content.madefire.com/s-2d7a1855cb704a65b04ba2ae32f2a635/index.html#
You can read a little about it on the authors blog page here....
http://www.ricardopinto.com/blog/tag/war-in-heaven/
Enjoy!!
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Halloween Is Upon Us!!
Nearly time to celebrate the Day of the Dead or the Night of the Living Dead or All Hallows Evening, whichever your preference may be. The doors between worlds has definately started to widen and evil beasts have slipped through the gateway and disappeared into the night...I'm sure you will agree that these creations by Pumpkin King Mr Ray Villafane are most surely not of this world...
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| Mr Ray Villafane at work. |
Ray and his team of talented sculptors, who include the likes of Trevor Grove, Andy Bergholtz and Alfred Parades have got events and appearances planned throughout October, they have already done some shows during September, so I am a little late in posting this really. You can check out their studio website HERE to find out all the details of what they are up to.
They also have a Facebook page HERE. Head on over and hit the "Like" button if you are on it.