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Month: October 2011

Bobbing along

  • Post author By Carl
  • Post date October 27, 2011

Hi. So, how are you keeping? Around exchanging time for money, i’ve been doing these odds and ends.

One picture, based on a scene from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, was mothballed in 2009 after reasonable progress but unsatisfactory results. Now it’s being reworked – The characters have been re-drawn, while the background and border are next. Quick preview:

A Hungry Hungry Hippogriff.
A Hungry Hungry Hippogriff.

I also have a new typography piece based on Minecraft, uploaded to DeviantArt here. A black background looks fine but boring, whereas dark green makes it all a bit muddy. It currently lives in anticipation of a better solution being cooked up.

An ongoing thing has been the branding for games-and-comics news site Final Boss Fight. It turns out i’ve mentioned this before, but now the site’s running properly and i’ve made additional images. I even helped out with the camera work / logistics at the Manchester MCM Expo, which was nice.
The earlier examples have at last been added to the Illustrations page, along with a pic from my Puffin Digital Prize entry (see this post).

The Indie image is based on Commander Video, fact fans.
The Indie image is based on Commander Video, fact fans.

The second tick-over is again Minecraft-related (play it, it’s fun): A texture pack.

The textures default at 16×16, so it teaches pixel art & “economising” at the best of times. In addition, the pack i’ve been updating is in the style of the original Game Boy handheld: This means working in 4 colours. Some of the textures are taken from Game Boy games – some are modified from the defaults – some are completely new. Anywho, it is called CraftBoy, and this is where it lives.

This is the default texture pack…

Minecraft, Default Textures

…and this is what CraftBoy does.

Minecraft, CraftBoy Textures

Finally, this site’s seen a slight header update, code fixes and item shuffling, as always.

That’s it for now. In case I don’t see ya…!

  • Tags branding, final boss fight, illustration, logo, minecraft, site update

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