This is an image I rendered in order to place on my PSN profile. I wish I could make it my avatar for PSN as well as Bungie.net, but alas the fates have not willed it. I feel the image is incomplete, but I’ll need to execute the draft and give it some time to watch and learn to decide how best to proceed.
Web Assets Design
HearthStone Twitch Emoticons
Twitch emoticons I’ve been working on today to submit to Kripp. Any feedback is appreciated. Continue reading
Steph and Misha avatar
I created this image for a very special Youtube friend of mine. She runs a fun channel that focus on gaming with her co host Misha the hamster. Check her youtube channel for lots of fun and suspense!
BaseTradeTV Reflection
Though I am mired in my current work, I find that it can be a good thing to take small breaks from the grind to reignite my passion for artistic work by tackling smaller more focused projects. I enjoy doing overlay and eSports work for many reasons, but one of the them is that it utilizes a generally very simple concepts that can be deeply explored through creative problem solving and intelligent design. This allows me to push aside a lot of the extra considerations that can weigh down exploration of design while I’m working on such a complicated project as my Indie game Mecromage.
An image to promote the crew of @BaseTradeTV
December of last year I had an encounter with a Starcraft 2 community stream on Twtich.tv that I really enjoyed. Their obvious passion and dedication purely to the community of gamers was inspiring. I felt this could be a nice avenue that would allow me to stretch a little and focus on quick creative execution of some small projects. I contacted BaseTradeTV and offered some graphics support for the channel, they accepted.
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SC2Pro Stream Front
I was commissioned to do a budget web splash page. The purpose -to have a stream front that fans can navigate to and see multiple streams simultaneously in action, from a given team or group. The challenge – to create a design in three hours. While I accomplished the initial three hours concept goal, I did spend another three refining some of the ideas.
Team Eve Gaming Logo
Creating Team Eve’s logo was a rewarding experience, and a test of the process of achieving a shared vision with a client. Below I discuss the process I used to communicate online, across the globe, to deliver not only a logo for an up and coming eSports team, but some working assets for their web and streaming needs.
Grubby Splash Protoss Video Player
Downwhere’s Man
A friend of mine from the WCR community has been hard at work on creating a series of hilarious videos where he takes games that allow you to make morality decisions and plays out the meanest of the options. He commentates over the gaming for added entertainment.
Grubby Shop Coming Soon
While in the process of designing Grubby’s first run website, we decided the Shop would need a place holder as we were to release before it was ready. I took the opportunity to have a little fun
The Stacraft 2 SCV has his work cut out for him. This looks to be a long build time.