A collection of motion tests demonstrating the Newton plugin applied to a character rig in After Effects. Newton is an After Effects plugin that creates simulations and dynamics and when applied to a character you can create a ragged doll effect.
Seattle Stereographic Images
This weekend I took a road trip up to the Olympic Mountains in Washington and using the 360 app for the iPhone I took a bunch of panoramic images. The application also lets you take your panoramic images and apply a stereographic filter to them making them look like a tiny planet.
Mario’s Tanooki Suit
So I recently got my hands on some Prismacolor markers and started sketching out some illustrations with them. The illustration above is one of the sketches I created, it depicts a darker concept of Mario in his Raccoon Suit. I love the textures and feel that markers have and I’ll start posting some more illustrations I create with them.
Microsoft Store: Skype
Skype and Microsoft have come together once again to bring you a new and exciting theme for the MS Store video wall. Celebrating the release of Skype on the Windows Phone the new Skype theme showcases the many different ways you can use Skype on all your Window’s devices. Working along side Skype’s marketing team the new Skype theme features a new branding style along with exciting new animations that mirror the Window’s Phone app.
Adobe Touch Apps: Creating Mario’s Flower Power
Using both Adobe Ideas and Photoshop Touch I’ll show you how to create illustrations and effects on your iPad.
PSTouch: Adding Textures to Illustrations
Adobe Ideas is a great app for creating nice clean vector illustrations, but with Photoshop Touch I’ll show you how to add textures to your illustrations using only the effects inside the app.
Intro to Adobe Ideas
An introduction to Adobe Ideas a drawing application on the iPad that lets you sketch out your ideas in complete vector form. Because there is no loss in quality, any sketch or illustration on the iPad can easily be turned into an enormous banner that could cover your local skyscraper. You can even import your Adobe Ideas files into Illustrator or Photoshop to continue to refine your creation.
Flare Presets
Flare is an amazing photography app created by the Iconfactory that let’s you easily apply effects and filters to your photographs. You can download the additional Flare presets I created below to add to your collection!
You Don’t F*#k With Zarbon
An illustration depicting the transformed Zarbon about the finish off the Sayian Prince Vegeta.
Troubled Times in Mario World
Hard times have fallen upon the once plentiful and happy Mario World. This illustration was created in Adobe Ideas, a vector drawing application for the iPad.
Electric Man
Another sketch created in Adobe Ideas. I actually enjoyed the “sketchy” feel of this piece so much I decided to stop progress on it rather than doing the usual clean up process most sketches go through.