As some of you may have noticed, I have been making some changed to how I have organized some of my content on the site. I am doing this because I plan on introducing a number of new sections in the upcoming months that focus on providing more content for the people who kindly visit this site. Some new additions will include:
The foundation for these new additions will take place in the next few months. Also, I will be updating the blog more with new posts more frequently. I’ve been very lax in the past few months when it comes to updates, but I have enough traffic to my site where its worth writing for on a regular basis. I thank all of you that have stopped in so far to read and look into some of the things I do within my fields of study. Your interest is greatly appreciated.
As promised, I’ve decided to put up some of the screen captures for the game we’ve created called Nanobot Extreme. The game is still an ongoing project and the photos demonstrate the development of the game.
The title text for the game was made in Adobe Illustrator using the Bauhaus 93 font with a 3 pt stroke. The color of the text was white and the stroke black. I then converted the text to outlines and used the built in blue gradient in Illustrator CS4, changed it from a radial to linear gradient, and applied it to the outlines. I finally applied a pathwork filter effect to the text to add a grainier look to the text.
The character nanobot, which we call a Nanite, was originally hand drawn by Marci Mihalko and digitized in Flash CS4. I exported the drawn image into Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Fireworks. The instructions panel was created in Adobe Fireworks using a built in texture and a bevel effect for the text panel. The images exported from Flash were placed behind the texture to add an additional artistic effect.
More photos will be added as the game develops.
I’ve noticed that it’s been awhile since I’ve updated the blog and actually wrote about some of the things I have been up to the past few months. Most of my posts lately have revolved around the Religious Studies adjunct I have been leading throughout the semester. While this is fine and dandy, I’ve been up to plenty with Planet Label and a video game that me, Jeff Nehlsen, and Joe Motacek have been working on for a flash course at UWSP that focuses specifically on video game development and storyline. I’ll post screen captures of the game in an upcoming post and will have a link to the game when we have a fully working version of it.
As always, my time spent working with Planet Label has been nothing short of wonderful. I’ve been able to publish more content for them in the past few months than I did in September and October. I’ve put together a number of posts where people can find resources for projects that use Photoshop, Illustrator, or any other desktop publishing and design software. Here’s a list of the posts I’ve written:
As you can see, that’s a fair amount of content worth checking out, especially the brush and Adobe CS5 posts!
I’ve also been continuing work on a few websites for Joseph Waligore. Joseph has been absolutely a wonderful client to work with and his sites are coming along wonderfully. There’s still some design tweaks that need to be done on his sites, but he wanted something simple. All of his sites are very content driven and contain bountiful amounts of readings worth looking into if you have a knack for philosophy and mysticism. His sites are as follows:
The Stevens Point Skate Park website is also up and running. After a brief technological battle with the hosting site, I was able to get everything up and running for Lars and the gang. The site uses a similar container as Waligore’s sites, but i find the sheet and approach to be very effective for this site, as well. The organization behind the effort is very pleased with the ease of use and functionality of the site, which always comes first, in my opinion. As for making it look appealing, I tend to stick to what works for the general audience. Also, they have an awesome Fan Page on Facebook. Check it out.
Last but not least, me and the others at Erge Creative have done a site re-design for a local Sushi Bar in the area called Matsu-Ya. The site was created using Joomla, whereas all of the other sites mentioned in this post have been created with WordPress. Both are wonderful content management systems and provide ease of use so that the client can have the independence of updating their own website without depending on the designer/developer on a constant basis.
That’s about it for now, other than the small alterations I have made on my site. I usually don’t post as many links to sites and pages as I have in this post, but really has been a hectic few month! Check back soon!
