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Remember  Justin Nichol's amazing Portrait Kickstarter ? He's up to no good again: Horde of Cuteness! is an ongoing crowdfunded high resolution character icon collection and the indiegogo campaign will add 2 heroes, 5 monsters, and 3 boss monsters chosen by the backers. All the characters will be released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 license, and will be made available as .pngs with transparent backgrounds, and will have include .kra or .xcf source files for editing the characters yourself. All new images will be 2000px by 2000px.  There's a month left and only 590$ out of 1000$ missing. Back the icon collection on indiegogo .

Justin Nichol finished the Kickstarter-crowd-funded portrait marathon! The art has been uploaded here to OpenGameArt. Back in December 2010, the project was funded with USD 2,567 (of at least USD 1,500) to make 30 portraits. Now all 30 portraits of the backers that sent him model photos have been finished. The remaining five backers have been asked to get in contact with the artist. Best via Kickstarter. Kickstarter will take a fee of USD 128.35 (5%). Justin has a blog  you can follow.

New fantasy portraits by Justin Nichol [ more here ] Remember Justin  Nichol 's crowd-sourced  fantasy portrait commission? In  a recent announcement  the artists reports, that the collection of 35 portraits will be finished by February 2012, as they will be exhibited some day that month somewhere in California, USA.

The last version of Flare that Free Gamer took a look at was 0.11. The newest version is 0.14. Character customization in Flare Title and savegame loading screens now exist, adding to immersion. Character customization (gender, portrait and name) is now possible. (Note how much depth this part of starting a game can acchieve in some cases). The character portraits are a product of Justin Nichol's fantasy portrait marathon . Joystick support, conversations, vendors, quests, a new area and many more smaller additions included. It is now possible to configure keybindings and resolution, which leds to my first 720p HD video of Flare gameplay: Watch this video in 720p HD here Clint Bellanger, main developer of Flare, posted a  reflection  on game progress in Flare, which includes some simple but interesting statistics. You can show Flare some pocket love via Flattr .

Remember Justin Nichol's CC Portraits Marathon? There's an update [ kickstarter | justin's blog ]! I had an injury earlier in the year which kept me preoccupied, and then school started. The pace should be much quicker from this point on and I apologise for the delays. In any case, I have these 10 and about 23 others to complete (with 2 additional portraits of my choice to finish the 35 I guaranteed). I intend to complete the bulk over the next month and a half, and will try to post the fruits of my labor every Wednesday from this point forth, so if you don't see anything from me one wednesday, feel free to bug me.

Three more days, 688 more US Dollars pledged to the Portrait Marathon and we get art video tutorials (so spread a little word, why don'tcha? ;) ): Fantasy Portrait Marathon pledge progress OGA's presents There has been a *LOT* of giving on OGA lately, two fully rigged 3d character models for example. Another present: IOFORMS' (aka iosketch) first alpha release is being prepared. Please let us know in the comments if you notice are any special present-ish foss game releases. :)

The fantasy portrait marathon reached first base. I just wanted to let you know. Remember, that if it reaches $3000 ($9000!!!/3), we will get a massive instructional video!

Justin added new possible targets to his freely-licensed fantasy portraits project for OSARE and OGA : $1500 by December 28th 30 portraits $2000 by December 28th 35 portraits $3000 by December 28th 35 portraits + a full length instructional video showing the painting process for the collection I sure hope we can arrange this gift of Justin's video to ourselves.. You can spread the word on fsdaily and reddit . In other news: there's a 48h game jam STARTING TODAY! Here 's the IRC channel, here are the rules. I recommend github and love2d !

The style Open-art artist Justin Nichol intends to create 30 freely licensed portraits (or more) in the style you see above. I support his Fantasy Portrait Marathon for 3 purposes: Allow an open source enthusiast artist to continue his studies Provide portraits for  the excellent slash-and-hack OSARE Add a quality set of art to OpenGameArt for use in various games The cash $1500 , Dec 28 The target Targeted is a backing of $1500 until end of 2010. At time of posting, $580 (38.6%) have been already pledged (7 backers ). The artist Other works by Justin Justin Nichol is attending the Concept Design Academy in Pasadena, Ca. He contributed art to PARPG and OGA . He has a portfolio . The portraits GIMP will be used for drawing the portraits Backers will be able to determine the faces they pay for (check the right sidebar of the project page for details) The portraits will be CC-BY-SA/GPL dual-licensed for maximum copyleft compatibility I can only say: invest in this one! And spread t...