Lordran Travels #2

Lordran Travels #2

-"A new friend invited me over to his place for lunch. He had two dogs, but I don't think they liked me very much."


Enjoy,

-GK

Lordran Travels #1

-“Though his accommodations were thoughtful, our hero decided to seize his opportunity to exit the premises.”



So not too long ago, I played through Dark Souls on ps3. I had a surprisingly good time, though much of it was spent experiencing unimaginable terrors. Well, I decided I’d sketch some memorable moments. This was when our hero first leaves his cell in the undead asylum. Hope you dig it!

Enjoy,

-GK


sidenote: I copied this from my tumblr ( http://tekkaxe.tumblr.com/ ), which I just made. I'll start being more active over there, but I'll likely keep this alive too. It depends on how it's received.

I Still Draw.

It's true. Haven't stopped. Won't stop. I hope to give you all a big update as to some of the stuff that I've got in the pipeline, but that'll have to wait a bit longer. Please hang in there, team.


Enjoy!
-GK

Gyroman, King of the skies! (Mega Man 5 Remix by Gerald Kaye, Tekkaxe)

Wow... so a lot has happened since my last update. Getting married really keeps you busy X_X. Heh, yeah. A lot of stuff has happened on the art front, and on the life front, with the biggest of which being that on june 18th, I got married to an amazing and lovely woman named Amber. Us two planning the event took up soooo much of our time and attention. But we had a blast and are now settling into life-life. I've been staying on top of my Drawing/Music game, but unfortunately wasn't able to get things posted like I'd have liked to. Back now though, and it's good to be.

So if you guys have been following me for any amount of time, I'm sure you may have heard me mention in some form that I'd like to tackle a Gyroman remix, from Mega Man 5: my FAVORITE mega man game. Yes, 2 and 3 are amazing. But 5's music, along with it's visual style and everything, are so much cooler to me (heh, disagree? please leave a comment, but try to keep the flame-levels to a 1, or 2). And my favorite song of the who shebang? Gyroman's.

So I finally was able to do a remix of his song that I am pleased with. It's quite a bit of a challenge, ya see. With some songs, they're so well done and the way they were executed is so appealing that you are almost left at a loss for what to do to possible add to the experience. Do you just slap a kick-drum on it and up the tempo, call it a day? Or do you just turn it into a slow jam? What elements should you pull out and highlight? How far should I stray from the original arrangement? Will I lose all of those things that I love about the original? It was quite the endeavor, but I managed to make something I was satisfied with, and I hope you enjoy it too.

Composed via piano-roll and step-sequencer in FL Studio 10, my DAW of choice, and mixed/mastered there as well. The lovely animation that accompanies it was done in flash CS4. I mashed them together using Adobe Premier Pro.

Enjoy!
-GK

Gravity (a gravityman remix by me)

Check it in HD if you can!

So the other weekend, I was hanging out with Gravity Man. He ate up all my bagels and then asked whose track i'd be remixing next. I told him that I was stuck trying to figure something out for Gyro Man, and so he seized that opportunity and coerced me into doing his theme song. I couldn't refuse ( I was already out of bagels...who knows what other sinister things he had in store for me). Then he made me shoot a music video for it.

Heh, so first off, THANK YOU all my supporters out there. It's been a while since i've uploaded, but i've definitely been busy, creating many songs since my last post. I know a lot of you get bored with still images, and so I wanted to make sure that whatever I uploaded next would be as fun to watch as it is to listen to. I wish I could've had the images perfectly synched with the music, but I had already completed the song, and the tempo was a number that didn't play well with the framerate I needed. Hopefully next time, the song and the music will fit better.


So this was done in FL10 over the course of a few weeks. I love Mega Man 5. As AMAZING as MM2 and 3 are, 5 is a personal favorite. My real goal is to do Gyro Man's song and then fly off into the clouds on a flock of seagulls, but until I can figure out what i'd like to do with it, I'll do other characters' songs to tide me over. Well, Enjoy!!!!!
-GK


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megaman © Capcom
remix © Gerald Kaye 2011

Up Next: I'm about 85% done with my remix of Revelation Song, as requested by youtuber "alyssacroacia".


PS: I'm thinking of posting both my music and my visual art here in the future. Does this bug anyone? Would you rather this stay drawing-only? Or do you dig both? Feel free to share!

Clan Skywhale Unit-05: Dragoon

So in celebration of me finally getting my computer back up and running (Battleship GK: Pride of the Geraldian fleet, who sadly was out of commission for almost 3 months), I did this piece....from some other computer X_X. Yeah, I wasn't at mine at the time, and so I had to make do. So this is the precursor to a few I want to do. FFTA is one of my all-time favorite games. Thus, I figure it'd be cool if I drew my squad. First I'll pump out these single-sketches, then cap it off with a group-shot.

The Bangaa Dragoon: so awesome. Unlike FFTactics on ps1/psp, the dragoon in FFTA was a beast. Dude was crazy useful (and no-charge jump command definitely rocked). And then on top of his utility, he looked awesome! Such a great unit.

*Sketched, cleaned and colored digitally using a Graphire 4 on Photoshop CS4.

Enjoy,
-GK

Next Up- Hint: ThisUnit+BloodPrice=walking death.

Complete Nonsense: Final Fantasy VII Odin

So me and Tim at work got into this discussion about Final Fantasy's Odin, and how he's got an insane horse with 6 legs... The problem here is that it has 4 legs in the front and 2 in the back X_X. Like, that's utter nonsense! So i figured, that it most be really front-heavy, yenno? Riding on a tilt. And then Tim jumps in that it's like he's in a constant state of doing a nosegrind....or a manual.

...And so here we are.

Expect a real post soon, lol.

Enjoy,
-GK