RedNeck Shopping Finnished

We'll I just uploaded our newest side Cartoon. RSN is about the Character seen in the BoB Fat Asains episode. The is the disgusting girl that works at McDonalds, that Cody falls for.

And this is what she imagines at work.

Small for a Jewish Offspring

Remember the movie Thor, well Joshua is Lokie.

Why Cody hates Travis.

This comic strip explains the back story of Cody and Travis, as friends.

The Redneck Shopping Network

     I just finished animating a small side cartoon that I might experiment with further. "The Redneck Shopping Network". It is the same style as "Beans on the Block" and is in the same universe. It is a show hosted  by Darleen, who is shown in the latest "BoB" episode (Ep. 3 Fat Asian; Self Help). But I'll let the video explain more. It will upload it next week on 8/9.

Making a Render Farm.

With the creation of the “Third episode of Beans on the Block” and the problems with rendering it, I will be creating my own render farm to slave over our Beans on the Block episodes and future projects.
I decided I wanted to do this after a very horrible predicament. As I talked about in the last blog, the third episode had a new element to it. There was a fully 3D scene that took place in a McDonalds like restaurant. There are a lot of reflective surfaces, transparent glass, complex lighting, and ambient occlusion. And this one scene was 2610 frames with playback of 24 frames a second.
Now when I was finished with all the animation and audio, I began to render. And with Blender’s slow internal renderer, it was rendering for 30 plus hours. And this entire time my quadcore computer was at 100% CPU. To make it worse, My computer decided to do maintenance work and reboot while I was sleeping, corrupting the file, leaving me with nada.
And so I think I have come to a rational decision to steal all my friends computer towers and make them unwilling slaves to do my bidding.

Right now as I gather computers, I am rendering the episode, in very small portions, so it should be up soon. And from now on, 3D scenes will be saved for special occasions.

Self Help Books are Crap

Self Help

    Within a few days we will have the new Beans on the Block Episode up on our YouTube Channel. Basically, in this episode, Malena gives Joshua a “Self Help” book so that he might calm his ways and treat people with a little more respect. However I don’t want to give away anything.
    What I want to talk about is a new artistic element that we are implementing. Typically Joshua goes out into the neighborhood and city of Anniston in order to take Panorama photos and use them as a background. However, one particular scene takes place in a fast food restaurant. We can’t use any photos of the insides of any fast food restaurants because of copyright issues.
    To work around this, we created a full 3D scene in the likeness of McDonald's. With this scene we are breaking the traditional style that we intended for Beans on the Block. However there are more possibilities and potential capabilities with having a full 3D scene. There can be more interaction between the characters and their environment. But we shall see how people like it, and how it fits into our plans with this cartoon.

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Top Five Unfinished Zelda Fan Games

The Legend of Zelda has always been such an inspiring game. People marvel over its perfections of its changing art style, game play, but most importantly, story.
       Everyone would like to have an input in the Legends of Hyrule. Especially since Nintendo was dumb enough to make Spirit Tracks, that thing was terrible. But Phantom Hour Glass, now that was a great one.
There are often people who do get the chance to hold some of that glory, or failing, by making their own fan game. And then, there are those who come so close, but are cut down.

       These people and their projects are what I am going to be talking about. These people with great ideas and intention, just become overwhelmed by the awesomeness of Legend of Zelda. This is in dedication to them.


ShadowGazer 5th 

ShadowGazer was a cute, but very serious, game with an art style based around “Minish Cap.” It’s not a sequel to any game so you play as an entirely new link in the Saga. Your ultimate goal is to save Hyrule from its parallel, nightmarish realm.

It has a three day rotating would schedule. However the game does not end after this time, the people and ships and events just reset themselves; the story continues.
Something really unique about this fan game is the face that there is horseback riding and combat, which have yet to be seen in any 2D LoZ title.


Wind Waker Fan Game 4th 

The LOZ WW Fan Game was something I followed in 2008. There never really was much to the game. It was a guy recreating the graphics and programming of Wind Waker. There wasn’t much told about the story or  any plans about its future. However is was fun to watch him as he progressed. Slowly getting better at detail and learning new things. The creater also wound up doing the same thing with Twilight Princess, and dropping that as well.

The Ballad of the Wind Fish 3rd

Now this was a game that I really wish I could have seen finished. It was a 3D remake of the old 2D Zelda game, “Link’s Awakening.” The render shots that the creator posted on his blog made me so excited. It had nice lighting and great design. It seemed like it was the perfect translation from 2D over to 3D. He also has a demo available on his blog with you in the first village which showed so much potential. But all good things come to an end.


OoT Beta Restoration Project 2nd 

Even through OoT was great on its own, hands down, the clips and photos that we saw at E3 that year left us with such a great mystery about some of those places. The lost woods with open spaces filled with trees instead of tunnels, a huge Lon Lon Ranch, a true 3D Castle Town Market, and ,of course, the infamous Unicorn Fountain. This project was going along smoothly at first and then seems to just stop. So it seems that those sweet fantasies will have to stay in our dreams for now.

Zelda World 1st

Packer's Remakes Version

Forewarning, this may be ranked with a little bias. At First “Zelda World” was under the control of Packers Remakes. His plan was to create the worlds from Oot and MM and create online play. He eventually stopped. Then we decided to pick it up. We decided to make a completely new Hyrule at a time before Oot. During the Legendary Civil War of Hyrule. You were able to choose as any race of Hyrule and were placed in a constant, team "turf war" over Hyrule.

TakeThisStudios Version

Seeing as how this is on the list of “Dropped” Fan Games, we ended it as well. Hopefully, someone decides to contact us and pick it back up. We will give any content to who ever would like it.

 I hope you enjoyed this little countdown of the best unfinished Zelda Fan Games. Make sure you stay up to date with our Blog and our Youtube Channel.

We are Take This Studios

We are "Take This Studios." We make several different things. One of those things is this Blog. We will be blogging on this blog, for your blogging entertainment. We shall also be blogging about other things we do.

I wanted to start off this blog by telling you a few things about us and what we plan to do with this blog. We dabble around with 3D CG art, which we integrate into our videos. We shoot short comedic videos.  right now our baby is our cartoon "Beans on the Block."

"Beans on the Block" is a funny little cartoon that's characters are based on every person here at "Take This Studios " The story of the cartoon is based around a group of friends who do the bidding of their Jewish friend who uses them in order to become famous on YouTube. And in their quest for fame, they end up in very bad situations.

Here on this blog, we plan to talk to you about our projects on our YouTube Channel, our cartoons and our videos.. and display other type of entertaining content, such as stories and comic strips.


Beans on the Block vlog talking about new methods and the blog.