If you're familiar with my gallery you're probably familiar with Aphelion. Lunatic Studios is currently building an RPG using XNA and is deep into production. We are currently looking for a character animator as well as a tile/sprite/environmental artist.

Character Animator:
-Able to animate combat and emotions using a simple rig.
-Familiar with Maya or willing to learn Maya.
-Knowledge of sprite/pixel art is a plus.

Environmental Tile Artist:
-Able to create detailed environmental pieces within small areas. Ex: Walls, trees, computers, etc.
-General knowledge of pixel art.



If you are interested in either position, send samples of your work to AphelionRPG at hotmail dot com

If you have any questions feel free to send us an email. Please do not send me a note on DA.

Pay is negotiable, and is based upon your level of skill/experience. We are hiring from anywhere in the world, our team is international. Being able to speak English or German however is a requirement of our continued communication.

Aphelion Status
We've started up an Aphelion blog about the development and process of the video game our studio is making for XBox Live.

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Check it out. We'll be posting 3D models, some music by our composer, concepts and illustrations exclusive to the Aphelion blog and information on the overall status and process.




Puppy Status
Our puppy Boomer is on her way to recovery! I appreciate the positive words last week, it was a lot to deal with all at once.

Really the best word to describe the past week or two is chaos.

Aphelion deadlines + Planning a wedding + Having a very sick puppy all at once.

About two weeks ago we decided to get another dog, we regularly checked various pounds and shelters. We eventually found a German shepherd puppy, which was rare in itself as shelters just about never have puppies around here.

We decided to get her, she was already spayed, and had been returned by her owner at some point. We got her checked up at our vet and it turned out that she was only about 2 months old, and being spayed that young is potentially fatal in itself. She also has a tattoo on her stomach for some reason, so it was needless to say she had already had a tough life. After the check-up we were told she had kennel cough (nothing really serious, but it's very contagious) as well as hookworms and tapeworms. We got her fixed up and on the way to recovery but after about 5 days her symptoms weren't getting any better.

Monday night we decided to take her to the emergency vet, as she was having a lot of trouble breathing. The emergency vets eventually told us that she most likely had distemper, which was heartbreaking as distemper is incredibly fatal, and the small chance that she would live through it she would likely have terrible neurological problems after 2-3 months of recovery.

That night was horrible. The day after we transferred her to our normal vet, where luckily he said that she likely had pneumonia and not distemper. Pneumonia in dogs is still pretty serious, especially for a puppy, but the fatality rate is around 5% or so... instead of 80%+. She seemed to be recovering quickly, over a few days we were able to take her back home, and all was good.

It turns out the strain of pneumonia going around is especially resistant however... and her symptoms are fluctuating and as Im writing this I'm preparing to go see our vet again.

Today, I got my second Daily Deviation, on Celcia Nova.







It's extra awesome because both of my Daily Deviations are Aphelion characters.