SWGEmu Packaged Community Portal (PCP)

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New look for the SWGEmu Packaged Community Portal (PCP) let me know what you think...

The project has not hit live yet but you can read all about it here: http://www.swgemu.com

Crazy Bump Tool

I was really impressed with this, it has some nice tools for creating and tweaking normal maps. Has a lot of features I havent seen elsewhere.http://crazybump.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohchkP-9oxo

MTV graphic design reality competition

MTV are looking for entrants for their graphic design reality competition. Each week the teams are given a brief that they need to produce media for. The results are then judged by a panel of experts.
The experts names have not yet been released but there’ll be someone from the world of business who’ll play the client, there’ll be an artist who’ll play the designer, an advertising or music promo director, etc… The experts will judge the teams work and give comments and critique based on the quality of the final product and the ways different mediums are used - each team will have a designer, a film maker, an animator and a sound designer on it.
The designers chosen to take part will be flown to NY and put up in accommodation. There’s also a top team prize of $400,000 US Dollars and a load of HP design gear to win.
or more info on the competition visit http://www.mtvengineroom.com/

SWGEmu Logo

Hello! the folks over at the SWGEmu Project asked me to come up with the new look for their website!

SWGEmu is a project aimed at emulating the official Star Wars Galaxies Pre-Combat Upgrade servers after the original game was destroyed by Sony. Over the last 2.5 years they have researched and documented the protocol used between the SWG client and the Live Server. By doing this they were able to build their own server daemon from the ground up, which allows those that miss the old SWG the most, to enjoy the experience with other veterans once again. Every single line of code (over 2 million!) in their software has been written by the development team, on their own free time, with absolutely no corporate funding.

Link: http://www.swgemu.com/

In-Game Store Poster

Hello! a friend of mine asked me if I could come up with a poster for his In-Game Store and this is the result.

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New Logo and mail shot for a new catering company in Birmingham.

let me know your thoughts.

New WashproofStudios Logo

View the Animated Flash swf file Here:
http://www.freewebs.com/washproof-design/washprooflogo.htm

Hello Again! this is my new take on the Washproof Studios Logo, I received an email...

"hey dude, your logo is sweet! it looks like it has a hidden message in there somewhere, and the oof/007 thing is for James Bond? was just wondering :)" from Jamma-Man.

Well Jamma-Man, the OOF/007 device is not realy to do with Bond. The original 007 agent was in fact a man called John Dee, Ian Flemming based his Bond character on Dee, also if you have ever seen the original Bond flick you will know Bond was a turban wearing mistic and nothing like the modern day character.

Dee was the original medievil British Agent to Queen Elizabeth I, founder of The Order of the Helmet & later the Hellfire Club (modern day MI5/6) and mentor to Frances Bacon, so its my ode to him to be honest.

As for the A-Sun symbol, this symbol has been used since around 1780 and is used to symbolize Knowledge, Enlightenment and Illumination.

So yes your right the symbology used does have hidden meanings, I have used them in my logo to show that I am "in the know" and an avid student of esoteric symbolisum and the ancient schools of the Arts, knowledge and understanding.

And the name Washproof? its a secret :P maybe I will tell you that silly story another time...Hope you like it, Washproof

Star Wars Animation

Hey Folks, I have been working with this animation over the past few weeks, the idea is to produce an interactive, animated graphic novel/comic book. its only in its early stage of production but i thought i would give you a sneek peek at the intro, hope you enjoy it.

I have been asked how to make the "Star Wars" iconic title crawl with flash, I will make up a little "how to" for you very soon!

view the Animation here http://www.freewebs.com/washproof-design/

Lichtenstein Pop art style

I have been experimenting with a Lichtenstein Pop art style after i saw some work by an artist called Chris Whal.

here's how to produce those comic style dots:

to start you need to save out the image or the part of the image you want the dots in as a jpg, I only wanted the Iris of the eye to have the dots so I saved that layer out as a jpg.

1. Go to Image/Mode and convert to grayscale, then Image/Mode and convert to Bitmap.
2. Set the Resolution/dpi (I think it is set at what your working at by default) then set the method to Halftone screen.
3. Set the frequency, I use a number around 10 - 40, at 300 dpi it depends what rez your working at.
4. Set the angle to 45 degrees and the shape to round.
5. Hit ok...
   so have a play around yourself, and thank Chris
   

Well here goes my first post as a blogging artist. This space will serve as a "visual diary" and a place where I can showcase some of my work and ideas, along with that i will be adding notes and maybe even a few videos about how the work was produced. I hope you will enjoy looking around and can take something away with you to apply in your own work. Washproof.


So on with the show! This first piece was a small A5 sketch, scanned into photoshop and then coloured by making selections with the lasso and wand tools and then using an adjustment layer (found at the bottom of layers pallet) to alter the hue saturation. I like the comic book style this produces.