A Time of Conflict

Before we begin I'd like to take a moment to thank you two. Yeah, you two. I don't know who are you but you two aparently like the blog enought to follow it. Now I don't know your motives. Maybe you got here doing an image search of Amanda_Waller+Rule34. Maybe you are on some kind of race to subscribe to the most blogs. Or maybe you are just busy people who want a Blog they can follow, one that only updates every month and a half to remind people how gullible they are.  Whatever your reason, I thank you.

Now folks, most of you (two) don't know is that I'm trying to go through a bachaelor's degree in game design. It's kinda scary, because I'm afraid if I request any other job people will laught at me. On the other hand I've known for the longest time I want to make videogames, if possible for a living.  Sure, you don't NEED higher education to knock out a mario clone this days, the softaware, knoweledge and distribution methods are out there for any enterprenurial spirit to use. Not to brag, but even I knocked out a game. Remember Smallville, the N.E.S. game?

But on the other hand, it helps. I've been trying to crank out a fighting game for years. In fact, i've gone through two shelved projects already. Now me and my brother's Maya skills are finally ready to announce we're making progress on a third game. I call it "Project Margin".

Project Margin  is a culmination of two distinct desires of my past. I've wanted for some time now to make a fighting game  where historical and literary characters fight. Like Soul Calibur, but pandering heavily towards Public Domain fandom.


Killer Time Lineart by ~Batzarro on deviantART

Yes...I know now the guy on the left is not as much in the Public Domain as I'd want.

On the other hand, I always wanted to make a Party Fighter. You know, like Smash Bros. A game that eschewed the joystick twirling and the combo mania for just balls out  plata-fights. Now, this  two desires have combined into a single glorious amalgamation.

So I guess in tagline words it's "Soul Calibur Meets Smash Bros."

Who will be in it, ah, well, that'ss till being decided. Trust me, though, it will rock. Stay tuned for more, both of you.

Here's one for the road.

Gilles, Brothers, Sisters & I

this picture is starting to be everywhere
it will be part of an episode in an upcoming episode of the new season for "brother & sisters"



Gilles made me the honor to write the préface of my new book "CINQ". (available on www.amazon.com )




I had the chance to discover Gilles, when he was doing his military service, in Paris back in may 1994. Working with Gilles for more than 15 years has been a rare privilege.
I am thankful to my special friend for such a professional response and enthusiasm.
From day one, I knew that Gilles had everything to become a Star. Year after year, Gilles showed that he had all the required talent. Being also a perfectionist and a complete workaholic, while never giving up also helped. I am not surprised about his success and frankly he totally deserves it.

this picture is extracted from the Gilles marini 2010 calendar (Month of November) which was highly successful in the US (available on amazon.com)



ALL MY WORK, INCLUDING GILLES PICTURES, IS AVAILABLE FOR ART PRINTS

For more info and details (including rates), please contact me on fredgoudon@hotmail.com

M.O.D.O.K confirmed in MVC3!

I mean, I joked about it earlier, but damn!

Here's the evidence

Chris Sims is gonna have  a field day with this.

" CINQ "

CINQ is a most appropriate title for this, another very fine artistic collection of photographs by Fred Goudon presented in the high quality we have grown to expect from the publishing house of Bruno Gmünder Verlag. Not only is this Goudon's fifth books published over the last ten years (BEDTIME STORIES, AQUA, SUNDAY MORNING, VIRILITY and now CINQ), but it is also related the the fifth element - water, fire, earth, wind, LOVE! The book is published on the finest paper, is very large in dimensions making the photographs, both in black and white and in color, a size that one would expect to see on a gallery or museum wall. As is the trademark of Fred Goudon he has a cadre of some of the most beautiful male models before the camera today.

Interspersed throughout the pages of this book are notes to Goudon or about Goudon from his own models and each of the models writing these homage-like messages - words praising his talent and his friendship and his loyalty to both his art and his friends, the models. There is a brief INTRO, and the other messages are titled PASSION, RITUEL, TALENT, GIFT, SURPRISE, PLAISSIR, and ART: half are in French and half in English, reflecting the two homes of Goudon - Los Angeles and France. But on to the content.

Fred Goudon appears with each book to grow more sensitive to composition, to light, to communicating the inner feelings of the models with whom he works, and to finding more fascinating locations for filming. In CINQ (being in synch!) many of the images are very pensive, quiet moments of repose and Goudon is able to capture that whether it be on the bed, in the studio, or in fields or by water. He emphasizes portraits of these perfect specimens of the male species in many head and shoulder photographs, managing to let the faces - eyes, lips, facial muscles - offer as sensual an appeal as when he elects to frame the entire body, clothed or no. His use of color is vibrantly sunlit when the situation calls for that or muted, near pastel when the light from outside barely illuminates the room in which the model poses. He allows the elements of joy, of shyness, of vulnerability, and of pure animal sensuality to hover on the page in the artwork he has created in tandem with his models.

Leafing through this classy book one is struck by the lack of need to show complete frontal nudity - not usually the case in books of this genre. And at book's close it is apparent why Goudon elected to make this exception: these naturally handsome and virile men are all the more sensuous because of what is not said, what is not seen, what is left to the imagination. It is glowingly successful. Grady Harp Los Angeles







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