today on jumble sale i couldn’t resist: i bought me my first NES i ever had, because i never get one when i was a child :( . now i’m a proud owner of a nes system, 4 controller, a 4 player adapter and five games! back at home plug in the cables, search the frequenzy and and put in a cartrige: the 8bit sound boom out of my tv and the srceen show me a nice startup pixelgraphic from 1986. now i have to decide: the legend of zelda, castlevania, double dragon 3, super mario 2 or super mario 3 are the games i’m spoilt for choice. as a eroded rpg gamer i think it will be zelda :) i heard, it has a huge walktrough and 9 dungeons to clean…that is what i was looking for!
here the scans of the five nostalgic cartrige-covers from my game collection and i’m sure there will be more next week ;)
last night i had my first battle with adobe’s illustrator ;) well, after try to draw some xbox 360 templates by hand with pencil, ruler and splines, what in fact i havn’t a way with, i tough about to do the task with illustrator cs2. nice programm and i think it is like as usual: practice makes perfect. as the sun was rises i have finished my templates (this arches are really tricky…it has still some rough edges). maybe you have cool design ideas…? if you wanna clean templates (.pdf/.ai/.png) to scribble your own xbox 360 artworks, you can send me a message.
if you want to do your own scalable vector graphics and you havn’t (500$ in pocket for) illustrator? here is a good open-source solution for osx, win, linux: inkscape.
- retro – space monster for videopac
July 27, 2006
found some wicked oldschool games at a junk shop. this one from 1980 is my favorit…i’d really like to smash the spacemonster with my robot, but i havn’t allready found a philips videopac system to rummble the good old pixel mobs :) anyway the game is a huge cartridge with a handle (you could knockdown everyone with it), not like this tiny nintendo DS games. the cover-artwork is awesome, see the images…
a few days ago i made a bloody thing to carry out tests and see what’s possible with casting molds. i’ve tried different prototype shapings and mouldings. see here the some images of my prototype. i have to say i was quite surprised with the result (srry about the bad picture quality, they are only cellphone fotos). my bloodstain looks nice on nearly every surface. in fact, i have first concepted the blood splatter for the xbox 360 front, but now it turn’s out as a thing for plain surfaces like my powerbook ;-).
the “bloody splatter” is limited to 200 pieces – now ready for shipping -> READ MORE
- my stuff – broken sega megadrive controller
July 16, 2006
no, no.. i really don’t hate sega (what endless nights we were gaming on master system and megadrive :) , but i think as a gamer you have to do this once in your life. so it wasn’t easy at all to crush the controller…i have smashed the segapad with a huge hammer to break the hard shell. today i fixed up my artwork witch i have painted in white and kicked it on scanner…
- in process – art nouveau artwork for xbox 360°
July 16, 2006
- workflow – molten stone xbox360 faceplate
July 15, 2006
my workflow thread for them, who interested in the process of such a molten stone 360 faceplate. i think it’s ok to keep my expirience for me alone, but it’s much more exiting to share it with you and get feedbacks from you :)
you found my work-log for designs on the xbox 360 faceplate i’ve done and i’m about to create at the moment. i think this is also a good practice for me to write a bit more…so, this is my first bloggin activity and my english is bad as it could be…well, i try to give my best at all and i hope you will be courious to see my newest carvings here…but first, this part is all about how i get started…
my first faceplate – “Lava Flow” – (one of a kind)
i made this faceplate on march06 for a official microsoft xbox 360 design contest at our art scool. my idea was to create something that isn’t only a two dimensional, flat and graphical sujet. it sould be a new surface, a new shell on the front of the 360 (unfortunately i couldn’t design a whole box…but i have still time to do this on my own xbox;). to design this faceplate i have worked countless long nights, i hope u like it… i was inspired by some sort of lava dungeon and jump and run games.
all the buttons, the infrared and the hatches function proper. there was also a case in expanded polystyrene to transport the faceplate safetly.
for more 3D-Faceplates check http://www.massivecut.com/
