GagaMan

(Pasting from the thank you art in case you missed it)

Thanks for all the support over the years here on DeviantArt. It's been great!
I have a lot of memories of DA in the 14 years I had used it and made a lot of friends (it's where I first met my fiancée online even) but I guess it's time to move on.
I've stored everything away and I'm going to leave this account dormant for now, simply because I need to cut down how many places I post at. I don't want to deactivate it as I would lose all the awesome comments I got on my art from you guys over the years.

You can find me elsewhere at the following:

My main website/Tumblr - This site has a complete archive of all of my animation and art going back to 2005 (when Tea N Crumpets launched) so explore the tags to see my older stuff again!

Instagram - This has become my main place to post lately. Plenty of WIP previews pop up on here as well via stories.

Twitter - Art is posted here along with other chatting nonsense.

Facebook Page - Pretty quiet here but I still post my main art to it.

Ko-Fi - If you really love what I do maybe consider chipping a couple quid my way? I have plans to set up this for commissions at some point.

You can also find my email via Facebook if you wanna contact me directly.

Cheers!

Season 6 is here!

Me and have started a weekly series where we play through weird and hilarious video games. There will be an episode on Lucky Hit every Friday!

Please subscribe to Lucky Hit for more, and share these videos about! Any support is really appreciated!

I am giving away a goodie bag provided by SEGA Europe containing a Steam key for Sonic Lost World, a Sonic hat, a Sega lanyard and Sonic 1 for the Master System and Mega Drive! All you have to do is share this video on Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr!

On Twitter, please copy paste this into your tweet: #soniclostworld is out now on Steam! Check out this video! @LuckyHitSeries sega_Europe youtu.be/dojyNbtzRSM

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The contest closes on Thursday 12th of November, with the results revealed on Saturday the 14th. Sorry but residents of Europe only please.

Ubisoft are holding a Rayman 20th anniversary fan video contest so and I worked on a video for it called 'Thinking About Rayman' in which Stacey goes into her history as a fan of the series including her collection, art and cosplay. I did the editing and filming on this and am really pleased with how it turned out, especially the cosplay part. I had to learn a few new tricks to pull of some of the effects. It was certainly good greenscreen practice, the set up we have of which we haven't used much yet!

Random little facts about he making of the video:
- Every second of Stacey's dog Jessie on screen were the only seconds in a row we could get her to sit still, one frame later she is jumping up and down for her treat again!
- The shot of Stacey jumping from one costume to the next took the longest to get shot, as Stacey had to change costume and make up for each one!
- The intro shot includes a unfinished animation Stacey was once making that is a parody of the Smooooch! Beatmania animation.
- You may of noticed it but when Stacey is playing Rayman 1 we are using a password to play those specific levels, hence why Rayman has 90-odd lives!
- The backgrounds for the greenscreen scenes were captured from Rayman Revolution using a Playstation 2 emulator.

Oh by the way I have added subtitles to the video if you click the subtitles/CC option too.

The grand prize is a trip to the Ubisoft Montpellier Studio to meet Michel Ancel, so wish us luck! Entries close on the 30th and we should know the results early November.

The contest page is here, check out some of the other videos too! rayman.ubi.com/20thContest
If you have a Ubisoft UPlay account, please consider giving us a vote! It's only an optional thing as a panel of judges will be picking winners, so no worries if you don't have UPlay.

Last Saturday night to Sunday morning was one of the greatest gaming experiences in my life so far. All of us at Lucky Hit did a 12-hour marathon livestream at our local arcade Astro City with the hopes of raising awareness of the charity SpecialEffect. They level the playing field by creating custom gaming controllers for individual cases of people with disabilities so they can enjoy video games again or for the first time. Check out their website here:www.specialeffect.org.uk/

To say the night was a success is an understatement, I am just blown away but the amazing support we got for the event from sponsors GAME, Insert Coin Clothing and Streetpass Southend, as well as everyone that watched live and stayed till the early hours of the morning, and donated money to our justgiving page as well as prizes for our raffle. We had a modest aim to raise £100 during the event, and we blasted past that before the event even begun, and in the end we raised over triple what we had anticipated (a total of £360), which is nothing short of incredible for the first time we've ever done something like this.

The night was also incredibly fun, with highlights including the 8-player Bomberman tournament, breaking the laws of time and space in Guardian Heroes with coughing old men, FlattheYoungers incredible Alex Kidd speedrun which included a surprise glitched ending which as far as I know might be a new discovery, and he intense matches of Smash Bros and the hilarious Micro Machines '360 no sponge' stage.

In case anyone missed it, the entire event is now up on YouTube separated by game:

- Multi-player block -
Mario Kart 8 - 4 Players
Micro Machines Turbo Tournament '96 - 4 players
Super Smash Bros for Wii U - 8 players
Saturn Bomberman - 8 players
Rayman Legends Kung Foot - 4 players
Guardian Heroes - 6 players
Sonic 2 versus - 4 player tournament

- Speed run/Nippy run block -
Castlevania Symphony of the Night
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Mega Man 9
Sonic 2
The Revenge of Shinobi

- Wrapping up/for fun block -
Spelunky
Shenmue II Collection
Golden Axe
Raffle Prize Draw

We hope to do another one of these events sometime early next year, so I'll keep you posted closer to the time! Please check out Lucky Hit's YouTube channel, Facebook page and Twitter, as we have far more on the way this year including full coverage of the Eurogamer EGX event in Birmingham. Any sharing of our channel is really appreciated.