User:Gaspard

Why PARPG?
At some point a year ago I had some free time on my hands and I decided to tackle a near-impossible goal of doing a mod for the original Fallout game all on my own. While going through various tutorials on various forums for modding and trying things out I pretty much accidentally stumbled on the PARPG project. It looked and sounded interesting and promising enough and I was looking forward to working with more original content than just on another fan-project, although self-initiated.

I've been trying to add my 2 cents here and there since then.

What kind of experience I have to offer

 * Zero prior experience with working on a team in this fashion. Learning on the way.
 * 2D art, digital (now that I got my tablet fixed) and in traditional mediums would be my forte.
 * 2D concept art
 * more polished pieces for in-game use and/or promotional art upon request

I also like to pipe in on the discussions over at the Mechanics and

What I can NOT offer

 * 3D modeling skills
 * any kind of programming (html doesn't count, right ? right ?)

Some personal remarks
I'm a foreign art student at the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in, well, St. Petersburg, Russia.

I originally hail from Estonia, the northernmost Baltic State. I've always been into cRPGs, mainly those because when I was growing up I didn't know anything about all the fancy table-top and pen-and-paper ones, though I'd gladly play 'em now if I had the time for it.

Of those cRPGs the original Fallout series is one of my all time favourites. I even learned my early English from that game ! Arcanum is worth mentioning, definitely. I dig the Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate series mainly for the art, but BG also for some of the story elements and character development. The old Deus Ex still makes me kick and I have a neverending love for the old SNES Final Fantasy 3 game - the story is so epic and the old pixel art makes me swoon !

I've been drawing forever. Fairy Tales and some stories of Mythology from my early childhood nurtured my later love for Fantasy and Sci-Fi and Horror literature. Most of my knowledge of English comes from reading hundreds of books in the language, because almost as a rule only the first books of any given series were translated into my native tongue, Estonian. And theeen I got into drawing the fantastic stuff I read about. After seeing the Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale character art and the inventory drawings I started having ambitions like taking part in a project like the PARPG one. Here we go now !

Only thing I regret is not having time to work on it full-time ;)