WP theme no longer super generic.

I found and modified a nice theme called Gear by the entity that inhabits www.mymobiles.com.
My contributions were hacking my own icon in, choosing from the decent selection of colours and patterns and replacing the mini icons at top right for some that are larger (and fiddling with their position with margins and padding and stuff.)
I’m a CSS master ><;

Anyway it will do the job, better than what I had before and a good reward to effort ratio

Space Arts!

Here is some work I’m currently doing for my friend Paul at Black Lab Games.

About 5 years ago Paul and I made a game called Defiance: Final Strike for PocketPC. I did the artwork and Paul did the code. It was/is a retro arcade space shooter with some objective based missions and lots of enemies as well as friendly ships.
Black Lab are doing a remake of the game for current hardware so I’m redoing the artwork. Basically just taking my original designs from pixel art to much higher resolutions.

The plan is:

1. Minimal redesign. Only where it won’t translate or just plain sucks will I do much redesign.
2. No angled lighting. In game the sprites will be rotated at runtime so any strong side/top/bottom lighting wont work.
3. Make it look cool.

To achieve the plan I went with a really colourful, cartoony style which matches the feel of the original game quite well (some crazy designs). I think they’re turning out pretty slick.

Here are some before and after comparisons:

High resolution remakes of old pixel art.