What up?

 

Dude.

What the fuck? I think I got Fire in the Sky'd. I seem to be missing a serious chunk of my brain.

What's been happening here? I'm guessing same old same old and not much has happened or changed. Probs just the same old world I left behind in 2019. 

Whelp, maybe I'll post a bit more on here. Maybe not. 

Douglas "I've been probed" Williams.

Batman in Hell

Neill! What up? Here's a quick pic of the Joker, but a in hell version. A long time ago I had an idea for a Batman comic that had batman as a demon in hell. he was a thinking man's general kind of demon though. Questioning his fall and all that.

The he comes across this glowing blue fetus, (it's large) and somehow knows it's name is Dick Grayson and it doesn't belong. Then it's all about his trying to get the fetus out of hell.

The 90s and early 2000's were a special time for me idea wise. Of course...I never did anything with any of them.

Doug "all the ideas" Williams

Robo

Neill! What up, bro? I did some quick fun drawings over the weekend, so I'll have a few days worth of garbage to post here. Here's a quick picture from...The Terminator.

Just kidding, it's Robocop! I put a brain in Ed 209...like Cain in Robo 2. I love the simplicity of Ed 209.

Anyway, moar drawrings coming.

Your friend;

Doug 209 Williams

Pengu

"tekeli - li"

Neill, what up bro. When we getting beers? Maybe you don't drink.

Oh! We should go and get foot massages together. There's a surprising amount of foot massage shops around my area.

These are rando drawings from something I was going to pitch with a friend awhile ago. I was and am still pretty jazzed by it. It was cool. Probably never going to happen. Ever.

Bummer.

Oh wells. Hope all is well dude!

Doug "one out of a thousand" Williams

Flu Pig

oink. oink.

Neill! Captain my captain, how goes it?

I keep seeing rumors about Oats Volume 2, and I keep seeing things being posted that could be in or attached to Robocop on Social. It's on social. Thousands see it. IT'S NOT STALKING. Anywho...

Here's Flu Pig. I was had a crazy dream about something like this. I was looking outside the windows into my (not really the house was different-but dreams give no fucks) front yard and this feller' was out there. It was creepy and floating in the cone of light under the street light like it was underwater...but not. The dream was sort of rad, but legit scary. I woke up and felt like I had the flu. That's why I named it flu pig.

I didn't have the flu though. I was just tired and didn't want to go to work.

I think I have the flu like at least three times a week now.

Hope shit is well!

Doug Hot Flashes Williams

Robotoe

Neill, what up? This thing still on? Hello? Imma' gonna' pretend a person is still looking at this. Been awhile, right? Oats, a couple of hinted at movie projects and now Robocop! You've been a busy boy. I can only imagine how jazzed you must be. I have two simple requests. One; please no jet packs. Two; loose the toe.

I don't know why, but that toe on his foot always sort of bugged me. Maybe it it was actually articulated I'd be cool with it. Maybe this is the dumbest thing to complain about.

I always say I'm going to do more posts, but then life happens. Looks like I don't need my doubled up verification anymore though...so a little easier to pop on here. Lord knows I have plenty of arts.

Anywho, just popping on to say 'sup.

Douglas "mightsortofreturn" Williams.

SoD2

Dude bro, whut is up? How have things been?

Me? Well, this are bonkers, but good. We're finally releasing Sate of Decay 2. This project has been an ordeal. Like a wild time. Excited to get it out, but those last few moments...nerve wracking. Here's a vid. There's a story around it, but I can't say it...because I'll probably get in trouble.

It makes me think, shit must have been nuts for you. How did you guys and gals make so much content so quick at Oats? What was your pipeline line? The same for each, or wildly different per short? Did you hire wizards? I hate wizards. They think they're so cool.

I realized that I had some time to sketch more...so I can space it out and have more than one post in the next few weeks. Get ready!

Dugless Fresh

Cutting Room Floor

Dude, Neill, how goes it? I'm fucking loving the ADAM shorts you guys are doing with UNITY. I dug Unity, it was a fun engine to work with. It's what we made Moonrise in. I'm still bummed about that project. I feel like it still has some potential. Although, I have lots of projects that had potential, and never even got started.

These images were from a fun action adventure co-op game. I like my landscapes bleak and desolate. It actually got all the way to be in front of publishers, but withered there.

I still think, maybe someday something will happen with this, so I won't dig too deep into what it was. The world was cool, neat set up. I love finding stories in game world, ways to make you and every other player the 'hero', but still be you. I find open story design challenging.

It's just fun world building. When you set the mission structure right, the gamer hopefully doesn't feel like they're bread-crumbing, but instead in charge of their own decision and character progression.  Hopefully they find their own story in the crumbs you scattered on the floor. Shit like that is rad.

I can honestly say that out of a hundred or so of my game (or film, or story, or comic) pitches, only one was made. It did well. Made millions. Not me...but it made millions. I guess just keep pitching. I sure as shit am not going to stop. I have one game idea right now that features...well...maybe we wait a bit.

Long story longer, it makes me wonder what ideas of yours ended up in limbo, or in a 'someday' dreams folder. I'm guessing a chunk of Oats was born out of that, a place to at least partially realize those ideas. At any rate, I'm fucking loving them.

Keep on keeping on.

Doug "The Pitchlist" Williams

The Churn

"So...you head that way and take a left..."

Dude, yo...what is up? I just read this Rolling Stone article by Hideo Kojima. Which is crazy fucking cool that Hideo has reached that level of...uh...know-ability? Fuck, I don't know. I'm sure there's a word that sums that up.

At any rate, you be in it. Briefly mentioned, but in a good way.

The article is good, and heartbreaking, because it's a thousand percent true. I feel like the studio I'm at is a little island of creatives still trying to do something unique. It isn't perfect, but it's ours. I keep hearing stories from friends and others who have friends on thousand plus person teams. 

"What you doing there?"

"Gun sights."

"Oh right on! You always designed cool weaponr-"

"No.....just the sights."

These massive corporate multi studio assembly lines are a far cry from what this industry was in 1997. I know, I'm old, shit changes...but fuck. 

How can you really drive creativity and take chances when the recipe is always the same?  How can you really be something unique or express yourself when the safe choice is all the chance you're allowed? On the flip side, how can you gamble surviving on an indy salary with a family to support?

I don't have any real answers, but I know we're pushing against that tide. I think you and the Oats crew are too. I guess that's the only option. Do your best, and hope shit works.

What a bummer post. I don't post forever and this is the shit I spew? Cry me a river garbage? Fuck that. 

Butthole, nipples, chili-fresh, rat smells and shopping mall decor. Ahhhh. Ok, that feels more like the old me.

I shouldn't complain, I've had more chances than most, and continue to live the dream others would kill for. I'm selfish though, I want more.

Anyway, keep it up with Oats. I fucking love it, and not just because of the content. I love the idea.

Dugzilla

OATS STUDIOS

Some weird pupa thing...

Dude, Neill....I'm so sorry. It's been forever. I've been meaning to post, but life got busy. I know you look forward to each one of these blog posts, and I really dropped the ball. Now I've caused you to spend millions of dollars just to get my attention.

I'm talking about Oats Studios.

I imagine you came up with this plan for a studio that makes things catered almost specifically to me for more blog posts. Well, it worked. Here's the blog post, and I'm sure there will be more to come. I'm actually running out the door, but your teaser for Zygote made me finally sit and sign in to this dusty old blog.

Some sort of creepy mutant alien thing made of bodies in a sci-fi setting? Dude, you're better than this. It didn't have to be so transparent. You could have emailed, called or even started a blog yourself 'Hey Doug where have you gone', or 'Please post again Doug Williams'. So many different ways to reach out.

All this being said; Oats is fucking awesome. I've loved every short, and can't wait for more. So...it worked. You sly devil. It worked.

More to come! Also...maybe a tumblr...I need more boobs fro a tumblr though...

Doug "Always impressed" Williams

Old shit, but new shit...

Neill, whas up? I realized, I have a fuckton of art from a dead game I can post. It's not secret, people saw it, so should be good to go. Right? Right?

I'll start throwing some of this shit here from time to time. This was from a mobile game called Moonrise. I really loved working on it, and was digging the game. Never found the audience it needed to survive. Saddness.

But that's the shit right? So many things, disappear. Never release. I've worked on more things that have never come out that shit that's succeeded. I don't feel bad about it, always learning.

I'll be honest though, this one sort of sucked. Mainly because it was practically done. People played it, and enjoyed it. Shit this blog is supposed to be funny right?

Uh...here's an image of Sharlto loving on some soy chorizo.

My Heart Will Go On...

Woo. barely pulled out of that nosedive.

More to come!

Douglas 'feeling nostalgic' Williams

Tony

Neill, dude, sup?

Man, there was a period of time where I had these horrible dreams. Something was in my back yard, but I could never fully see it. Dream stories are boring, but it was all weird and dreamy and scary as shit.

So I drew this dude back then and named him Tony. 

It should have been Toni, or Tone, after my favorite band Tony! Toni! Tone!, which if played in conjunction with the film Tora Tora Tora link up like Wizard of Oz and  Pinkfloyd's Darkside of the Moon. I don't want it to look like I'm choosing a fav of the Ton...guys (It's you Tony).

Yes. I know I could have changed the file name, but I'm lazy and it would be a lie. I never lie, that's also a lie. Lies lies lies.

Dougochio Williams

Cerulean Valley

Neill, what's up bro? Do you like ghosts? I do. I think they're rad. I wish there more ghost things, but not always like Paranormal Activity flicks. I want more Poltergeist shit. I love that fucking film. Love it.

Anywho, I have an idea for Guillermo. You know he made that flick Crimson Peak? Well, it had red ghosts. So like, for a sequel, why not make Cerulean Valley? It's totes different. Not a peak, but a valley. Also, not crimson, but cerulean. So blue ghosts in a valley. Fucking gold. 

This is how smart I am. This is why you want to work with me.

Just saying.

Douglas del Williams

Big Frank

Neill. I know. It's been a long time. I know you sit by the computer, waiting and hoping for a new blog post. I know it. Every ding on your phone, every bloop on your iPad; hoping for me to continue my work. Continue my dream; our dream.

Well here it is.

Sup bro! Whatchyu' been up too? What secrets you got cooking? I wants dates and details!

Anywho, this is a quick photo-bash painted thing. I say this pic of that girl on Instagram and for some reason thought this would be cool. So I added some old school techy shit and a Frankenstein's monster thing. Yes, I know that by the time we can do this kind of shit it'll all be digital recording devices, and the VCR tracking shit might not fly, but it looks so fucking cool! And yes, I also know the Japanese doesn't match the chunky VCR type, but it looks like a model box from Japan and I dig that shit.

So it's an alternate timeline, somewhere in 'future eighties Japan' and this poor shy smart orphan girl is continuing her dead mothers work to re-start her dead fathers brain, but things go sideways. BOOM!

Anime is pretty easy to write.

Hope shit is real!

Your dear long lost friend;

Serial Experiments Douglas

Whispernut

Dude, Neill, what up mutha fucks? Here's a bitching concept from a game that will probably not be releasing anytime soon. Such a bummer. I fucking loved this thing. Such is life.

The original style was pretty surreal, but fun. Kind of dark, but not violent. I dug it. It lasted a few weeks. It still was pretty original, but not quite what it originally was.

So this dude was lovingly referred to as 'whispernut' in the office. It was someone else's name from before. So we could never use it, but it always cracked me up.

Anyway, not much to say. Just posting art and lamenting about projects that have died. At least I can share shit from this one!

Peace out!

Dougs

MOTHRA

NEILL! How's it going? I know you think I abandoned you, but I have not. I've just been ridiculously busy. Oddly enough, with work that I've gotten from this blog! People still visit this, and I appreciate all four of you.

I have some old arts that I'll start posting here, I realized I don't have to show new shit, just art. It's new to someone right?

Anywho, here's an older Mothra piece. Unsanctioned, never planned on by any studio. I fucking love Mothra, I honestly think there's legit potential there for a PG-13 sort of dark but still kind of family friendly flick. Like Willow.

So there's a bit when Mothra hatches, and isn't so much the mindless larvae that's destroying shit, when he takes off from Hong Kong to fight another kaiju beasty in Japan. So Mothra goes cruising past all the UN jets that were just firing on it as a larvae earlier, but it's so fucking fast that it leaves the jets behind. NO OF COURSE THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, BUT IT'S A GIANT FUCKING MOTH. It's also a good dude now because of the twins.

Of course they're in it! Stop asking dumb questions.

Anyway, more to come in the next few days. Lets get blogs popular again! Maybe I'll start a TUMBLR, or are they no longer cool?

Have a good one!

Douglas 'Sparkle Wings' Williams

Copley Visits Japan

Suuuup dood? I know, it's been forever. I think I'm like the last person who still uses a blog that is under 89.

This is an old five minute sketch. It's when Sharlto visited Japan. I kiiiid, we all know he's super short.

I used to have this idea, back when I was a kid, about this second world of monsters and shit. Like we inhabited the same space, but different versions, and in the mist you could see them better, but like only in the corner of your eye. Kids would be better at seeing them. If you turned quick enough you could catch glimpses of them.

The main deal though, they were as freaked out of us as we were of them. It was a more gentle kid friendly story. So like evil dudes are trying to rule over a bunch of shit and pulling these worlds together and a group of kids and monsters have to stop them.

I think I saw a early shitty dub of Yokai Monsters or something that made me want to make this. Anyway, I was looking at this pic of Japan, and stuck a quick giant in there.

That's a lot more typing that a five minute pic deserves.

Doug 'like to type' Williams

CHAPPiE

Dude, I fucking loved this movie. The thing is, not only did I love it, everyone I know did too. They at least liked it, and had a good time. These are no bullshit fella's and gals too, people who were more than happy to be harsh about anything else I worked on.

Anybody who is not Neill; go and see this film. It's a fun, gritty, insanely fun action film that has heart. So these pieces today were quick ideas for a different marketing campaign. Well for a different internet marketing campaign. I thought the print stuff was fantastic, but the internet and social media stuff was....off. All this: OBJECTIVE 000100 SAVE MANKIND 001001 Stuff was not the flick.

So I was fucking around with some of the bigger themes of the flick. Like family, nature vs nurture and the spiritual side of the film. Plus I wanted to bring in some of that ZEF wild action into the pieces. This flick had color, both in tone and on set style.

I have a hard time saying this, but I think I like CHAPPiE more than D-9. Maybe...it's neck and neck. I think it's easily more watchable.

So feel free to grab these posters, print them, re-tweet or blog them, put them in your portfolio; I don't care-just get them out everywhere.

All that being said; rad shit. I fucking loved it. To any one reading this...

GO AND SEE CHAPPIE.

If you hate it, Sharlto Copley will refund you money. Not really.

Doug

I was off...

By juuuuuuuust a little bit. Jeebus, I've been doing this blog a long time.

Man, this week! Holy fucking rad!

Doug 'so excited he's like a dog that has to pee' Williams

THIS WEEK.

Dude. I've been so fucking busy, and this is a huge week for you. I even had to scrounge and unfinished sketch to use as art...which use to be the norm...wait...is...the norm? Anyway, doesn't fucking matter.

Dude, three things this post, one; Elysium.

Dude, I heard you been saying shit about this flick. One of the few non-property based original sci-fi films to release in years; it was rad. The design work alone was worth it, but I thought it was a fun story too. 

Maybe people had to see it more than once. I loved it at first viewing, but enjoyed it more each time I saw it. Watched it recently in 4k. It's fucking glorious.

So, for the first, and probably last time; I'm disagreeing with you. Shit was rad.

Plus, Shirtless Copley grilling scene was fucking iconic. 

Thing number two; Chappie.

Dude, holy shits, I can't wait to see this. I fucking love everything I've seen. I've even watched the clips I'm so excited. I usually hide from those, but couldn't this time. I love the art direction of the gangsters lair. So fucking ZEF.

The above image has sort of become that iconic shot, but it's even better in motion.

Angels singing....Whaaaa...

Okay, now third is Powers.

Dude, I had no idea this was even coming out. Copley will be perfect for it. Man, see, this is how you pimp out your entertainment download service. Unique content that isn't already part of you catalog.  March 10th, fucking Copley is going to have an even wilder week than you. 

All my PLAMNB fans; pimp the shit out of Chappie and Powers. My thanks in advance to the 6 of you.

I'm not even touching the ALIEN shit until after Chappie, but congrats.

Doug "So proud of my lil' pumpkin' Williams