How To Draw A Werewolf

I found this amazing YouTube video in which someone draws a werewolf from scratch in Photoshop. I wish I could do this!

Bludlerp, Bludelerp, BELUDELERP!

I love comedy. I love wit. I love being a geek. So what happens when you combine all these? You get the competition from cracked.com to Photoshop the best powerup into real a real-life situation.

Some people (I hope) didn’t spend much time on the Photoshopping but some didn’t need much.

The favourite of mine is below.

To see all 30 entries and the winner click here

Oh and the title of this post is the sound that Mario makes when he gets a powerup in case you didn’t quite get the strangely spelt, obscure reference.

Eye See

Here is a quick Photoshopped image of my eye.

Click the image to view the set in Flickr.

Blog Re-Re-Design

So although I’ve been hacking away at the code of the current design of this site I realised that it wasn’t conducive to a portfolio site. So in an attempt to make myself seem more ‘designery’ I will be trying to implement the design I have concocted as shown in the screen shot. Any comments would be appreciated (Russell). The next step is to Photoshop a concept for the portfolio page.

I Just Don’t Sleep

Yes I’m still up!

I’ve made a new blog for the Virtual Environments project which you can check out here or click the link on the right.

I’ve also fleshed out my new website design a little more… looks like I won’t be using my newly found Java script drop-down menus.

Here’s a screen shot.

Rave On Air 2008

I have just finished a quick template of a holder page for Rave On Air 2008. There is no branding for it yet and I don’t expect there will be for a few months yet so I was instructed to use the Ravensbourne colour scheme. Let me know what you think.

Pod-ing?

So I have been working in Illustrator on the connecting points within the main structure. Lets call them pods. It’s been very difficult to get the perspective right and for some reason I just can’t use gradients in Illustrator, so I had to switch over to Photoshop to create some lighting effects.

Anyway, here is the result of a few hours work:

Off to bed now as I have a personal tutorial tomorrow where I get to say what I have learnt from this project…does Illustrator count?

A Group, Fractured: Back to Square One

So today we had our formative assessment. Yet again we produced two distinct presentations - paper printouts and PowerPoint. Not that it mattered, we knew we were incredibly unprepared for it considering that we had no sketches…no ideas until 5pm last night and that was only thanks to a 10 minute meeting with Latent.

So we all agreed we were fractured as a group, with me; Omari and Yuki on one ‘team’ and Will and Ash on the other. I spoke to Ash this morning about the bean idea (I will see if I can find an image to post) and he seemed very enthusiastic about it. I hoped that it was the end of all the squabbling and bickering but boy was I wrong. After the presentation we

sat in a group for a few hours and discussed where we would go from here, only to be told by Will that he didn’t like the idea. Whilst we listened to a valid argument from him, we all still agreed that it should be a permanent structure Will thought it was best as temporary - speaking from a financial and ‘commission’ based perspective. So instead of moving forward from our presentation, we moved back a stage - SQUARE ONE!

This resulted in a few more hours being dedicated to hearing everyone’s views, opinions and ideas, to which Will was unreceptive. We were going round and round in circles and as much as I tried to keep everyone calm, I myself found it hard to control my frustration with Will for not even entertaining the ideas that we had all (excluding him because he was ‘building the model’ which wasn’t even completed as he said it was) previously agreed upon.

Here are some images we used in the presentation - we had little time to correctly convey the ideas.

The end result of all this was that I just got up and walked out of the room after we started again for the fifth time. I had certainly had enough of not moving forwards and people (Will) arguing about a concept and simply suggesting “a market”. So to conclude today’s post: Myself, Omari and Yuki have decided to progress the ideas we presented today without Will. Ash is a laid back guy and was willing to support most things suggested so I am sure we will ask him to participate. As for Will, he is more than welcome to be a part of the group, but we have NO MORE TIME to argue. We have taken a creative lead and are going to stick to it. Oh and Shanice has yet to turn up for anything. I even forgot she was in the group again. Oh well.

Anyway…back to Illustrator.