Building Better Bombs

Lego Black Ops

2010-12-13T14:06:00.000-05:00

Vym Icon Test #2

2010-11-29T13:16:00.000-05:00

Added drop shadow and changed borders for all icons to 1px.

The Left Rights - WHITE

2010-11-27T12:47:00.000-05:00

Epic music video from Jhonen Vasquez, creator of Invader Zim and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

Vym Icon Test #1

2010-11-26T16:16:00.000-05:00

Even though I don't use Fedora linux, I joined the fedora design team to help with some design tasks. My first project was ticket #165: Design a new icon for Vym (View Your Mind). Vym is mind mapping software.

The only thing I could make out in the original Vym icon (here) is that there is a blue head. The rest of the icon was very confusing. let alone hard to iconify. So I decided to take a chance and redo the enitre logo. After a dozen or so sketches, I finally settled on this:

Now for the icons themselves, i need to do a couple of things to better adhere to Tango icon guidelines:

drop shadow
1px border for all icon sizes.

Icons and logo was done in Inkscape.

Zim wiki logo sketches

2010-11-16T14:21:00.000-05:00

Eleven - Short Film

2010-10-24T00:32:00.000-04:00

A Beautiful Looking Blog

2010-10-22T01:06:00.000-04:00

A Beautiful Looking Blog: http://gregnewman.org/journal/

Waiting for the End (Official HD)

2010-10-20T11:32:00.000-04:00

Tastes Great With Oil

2010-10-09T01:01:00.000-04:00

Tastes Great With Oil is the second in a series of anti-war images I've labeled: Building Better Bombs. (See H for the first).

Cereal bowl, bombs, & hearts: Wings3D & Blender 3D.
Uncle Sam: Inkscape -> Gimp
Oil Barrel: Openclipart.org
Liberty Font: 2 Peas Drama Queen

Uncle Sam, Revised Inks

2010-09-27T14:31:00.000-04:00

Revised the inks on the Uncle Sam picture here. I'm making a vintage cereal box with Uncle Sam on the front as the mascot. The actual cereal and bowl will be done in 3D.

H

2010-09-27T00:37:00.000-04:00

H, the title and finished composition for the 3D bomb seen here.

Uncle Sam Ink WIP

2010-09-17T14:25:00.000-04:00

Inked in Inkscape. Based on the sketch done here.

Uncle Sam Sketch WIP

2010-09-16T13:44:00.000-04:00

Gimp sketch of a cartoonish Uncle Sam. To be inked in Inkscape. Part of my Building Better Bombs project.

3D Bomb

2010-09-10T23:29:00.000-04:00

3D version of my Building Better Bombs logo I posted here.

Modeled in Wings 3D, textured/rendered in Blender, and some post-pro in The Gimp.

Building Better Bombs is an anti-war project I've been working on.

Halloween Cards Rework, Final

2010-08-31T09:48:00.001-04:00

Finished the rework of the Halloween Cards I did for my son's daycare classes. I did the original a couple of years ago, but wanted to update this to give away to anyone who wants to use it. Will either post on OpenClipArt.org or offer it as a download on my site.

Pen & Paper -> Inkscape -> Gimp

Halloween Cards Rework

2010-08-30T22:18:00.002-04:00

Reworking a Halloween card I did two years ago. Changed the font and added the spider and web. Drawn with pen & paper, scanned, then inked in Inkscape. Next, I'll export as a png to color in Gimp.

OpenClipArt Icons

2010-08-30T00:45:00.000-04:00

Created some social media icons for Openclipart.org, based on their logo. (It might actually be there previous logo since I don't see it on the website anymore.) Anyway, the icon was based on the work of Paul Robert Lloyd, and I already use some on the site here.

New Devil Sketches

2010-08-27T09:27:00.000-04:00

New Personal Website

2010-08-26T15:34:00.002-04:00

Finally completed my new website. Tried a more simplified approach this time around with only a few pages. I rarely blogged anymore so I got rid of Wordpress and decided to go with only Blogspot.

Now I'm just going through my art archives and will be slowly adding to the gallery. But I will mainly be adding only new worthy pieces to the collection.

As far as any other web development is concerned, I'm currently working on a site for a friend and will eventually fool around with my current blogger template to make it "prettier".

Saturn Icon

2010-07-28T15:31:00.000-04:00

Trying to help the Bangarang Media Project with some icons for various music and movie genres. The first one I did is for Sci-Fi. It was done in Inkscape and the rings were done using the gradient feature.

Jersey Devil, Reworked

2010-04-29T09:59:00.000-04:00

Hallway Background

2010-03-07T17:42:00.000-05:00

I've finished the set for the opening shots of the animation:

Scene 2, Shot 1 has the robot trash can entering from the right, then coming down the hallway towards the camera. I'm almost done with the texturing on the trash can. After that I can begin animating this scene.

Trash Bot

2010-03-05T23:45:00.000-05:00

A quick render of a trash bot from Industrial Garbage animation. I just need to finish the final lighting, and textures: eye, logo, spec, ref. Rendered in Blender. Modeled in Wings. Will post more technical details when I finish the final image.

IG - Calender Shot

2010-02-27T00:42:00.000-05:00

Scene Four of Industrial Garbage (my animation short) brings us to an office in the building. To show the passing of time to midnight on a Saturday, I decided to use a digital desktop calendar with a clock.

I modeled the calendar in Inkscape, based on the Lightning calendar plugin for Thunderbird. Since the calendar interface looked just like a spreadsheet, I started to use Calc from Open Office. I stuck with Inkscape as it gave me more graphical flexibility.

The two calendar shots bookend a couple of shots of the office.

Industrial Garbage

2010-02-21T14:22:00.000-05:00

Character stills from a short animation I've been working on for too long. Modeled in Wings and rendered in Blender. I have all three characters (robots) modeled and textured, I just need to sit down and work on the animations.

Factory Vector

2010-02-20T15:58:00.000-05:00

Vectorized the factory sketch.

Factory sketch

2010-02-20T13:50:00.000-05:00

Quick sketch done in Krita. Working on the Building Better Bombs banner with an outline of a factory in the background.

What Do Pigs Dream of?

2010-02-18T15:25:00.000-05:00

PEANUTS!
Well, according to my 5 year-old. Have to give thanks to J-Man for the inspiration. This is based on a sketch done here.

J Man

2010-02-15T10:55:00.000-05:00

Quick Inkscape sketch I did of my son, Jaden.

Pig sketch

2010-02-13T15:39:00.000-05:00

This pig sketch was done in Inkscape. Not sure what I'm going to use for the background yet. Thinking about making his pen. Maybe an immaculately clean pen.

The Jersey Devil

2010-02-11T21:20:00.000-05:00

Was finally able to release this little demon from the back of my mind. The initial sketch rendering of Bub, The Jersey Devil. My eventual goal is to do a webcomic with this little fella.

Logo

2010-02-10T16:26:00.000-05:00

Came up with two logo ideas for 3BBB. Not sure which one I want to use. Everything was done in Inkscape.

Alchemy

2010-01-23T16:03:00.000-05:00

Been fooling around with Alchemy lately. It's a great program for sketching and idea generation.