throw bugs on it.

Blahhh Sorry it's been such a long time. I've been real busyfor the last month, I'm working on my own IP atm, and I've been real busy with some NDA stuff so I've not been able to show what I've been up to. I'm gonna try and post up some new stuff soon, I feel like I'm cheating posting older stuff. I've got a couple of projects on the go that I should be able to post up which I've been wanting to do so for a while now. Keep posted! 

Either way this is something I meant to post aaaaages ago, but I'd lost all of my second yr Uni work .Which blows. However my girlfriend had a copy of some larger-res jpegs on her computer for some reason. Which is awesome. So here they are. It's a Information project I did back in second year. I wanted to design a insect spotter's guide since I had one as a kid which I loved, and I've always been keen to do my own. I recall this being quite a short project, or at-least I didn't get to spend that long on it. So its not as fleshed out as I would like it to be, and if I get the chance I probably will finish up the rough edges. I had a lot of fun with it, would be real sweet to get something like this published. 

Enjoy

p.s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q949rFuVfHM&feature=relmfu

Rune for thought.

A post or so back in the rockbot update my friend Marcel mentioned about looking into runes for their decor. After he'd mentioned it I had a flick through various alphabets and things, and thought I would spend a couple of hours fixing up my own for fun. So I decided to post them up. I was looking to create something that could actually be read reasonably easy, but still looked very foreign. I actually remembered that number code from the episode of The Simpsons where Lisa couldn't work out that the numbers were mirrored and I pulled inspiration from that. So I halved the alphabet and combined that with the similar principles from this Korean alphabet chart to create a language in runes. After creating the basic foundation for it, I pulled inspiration from Japanese calliagraphy, particularly the Gyosho style of calligraphy, which deforms the characters either to create more pleasing compositions or for the sake of efficient writing. I wrote these out by hand in a chunky marker and scanned them in as it felt more authentic that way.

I liked the idea of taking something existing, and manipulating it to create something new, but understandable. The potential for the type to actually be read/understood either for eastereggs or just pre-production fun ( I do enjoy it when studios/companies throw in little injokes into their work) or whether it could be utilised to work as clues for gameplay or storytelling is also something of a bonus.

It's construction rules, also mean others can take the principles and characters and create their own sentences with meaning and still retain a consistent aesthetic. 

Enjoy.

Wild Jo Appeared.

My girlfriend and I were on Skype™a couple of nights ago, she was working on her uni work and I was about to start painting. I was thinking of what to do, when I noticed how the desk lamp she uses made for some really nice lighting, and the pixellated cam made some weird glare effects and blew out a lot of areas of the image. So I thought I would do some studies of it. They're sort of done whilst she was on cam, and I screen shot a few to work up. She moved during one of them. Enjoy. 

p.s. my lady partner friend has gone done a website for these hog roasting folks based in Milton Keynes. They do spit roasts and all sorts for MK, Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas. If pork is on your rind, maybe grab yourself a piggy for your do.