Pokemon Comic Sketches

I mentioned, not so long ago, that I wanted to do a Pokemon comic. I started by doing some sketches first, of course. It was pretty fun!

I sort of want to do a small story about why Pokemon Trainer Red vanished to Mt. Silver, and his showdown with Gold. I loved this final battle in the game, I had no idea I was going to fight him! Pleasant surprise.

And I also want to enter a contest soon... wish me luck there!

(Wow, this post was boring!)

Chile vs Argentina 2011

Hey, remember the last time Chile faced Argentina? When we had a world class manager, and a great colective football style, and everything?

Well, disregard that, because today we sucked hard.

I just... needed to vent for a while. Damn. We used to be a good team, we beat Uruguay right after they won 4th place in the World Cup, for crying out loud. Why Borghi? Why couldn't we get a World Class manager?

Sorry for the rant, specially if you're from the US* and don't care about football.

Also, today's drawing is a feeble attempt at trying to emulate Johnny Wander, one of my favourite webcomics. Check 'em out!

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Spanish version for those who speak the most wonderful language in the universe. En unos años más los gringos van a terminar hablando español de todos modos, ja.

*You probably are, if I am to believe my blog statistics

My Pokemon Memories

When I was 11, my Christmas present was a Gameboy Color with Pokémon Gold.
It was in english, so I had to learn a whole language from scratch in order to understand it! But it was completely worth it. It was an incredible game. I've played the DS remakes, and while good, they just dont have the same magic to me.

This is actually my most vivid memory of the game. The first time an egg hatched. Togepi was insanely weak, but the feeling of mistery and excitement is something I'll probably never forget.

Do you have any Poké-memories? Or videogame memories in general? I would love to hear them!

I was thinking of doing a small pokemon comic--would anyone be interested on that?

The Late Steve Jobs

I don't think it's necessary to link you to a news site, because everybody with a passing interest in technology and a working internet connection already knows: Steve Jobs died today.

It's just so strange to me. I can't quite wrap the concept-- one of the most influential men in the history of computers just passed away.

I don't really like Apple products, despite being a graphic designer by trade. They work very well, but the pricing is way too excessive for me. But at least it all has a solid foundation, a unified vision: Make something that's easy to use, does what it's supposed to do and it's intuitive for those who never used something like it before.

He was an innovator, a person that constantly tried to make a lot of disciplines interwine on the computer business (like visual design, marketing...) and most importantly, he let the experts on those disciplines do what they tought was better. Remember that he was one of the earliest inversionists of Pixar, one of the few that actually believed that a bunch of ex-Disney employees could do a completely original CGI film and make it a success. And he basically handed the money and said "go ahead, do your thing". We need more people like him on the entertainment industry! Or hell, ANY industry. People who trust on others and strive to make good products.

This is nothing but a small tribute to such a great man. Rest in Peace, Steve, you earned it. My condolences to his family and friends.

Hope they have 3G on Heaven! Otherwise I'm pretty sure he's alradey setting up a router...