Movie Teaser!

I like to sometimes give myself retarded and fairly uninteresting challenges to perform. Like once I tried to see how long I could miss work without calling in before I was fired. 5 days! This time I tried something a little less consequential. I picked a random superhero, and decided to make a teaser movie poster for that hero. In the grab bag of super heroes, I ended up picking this guy: Captain McDouchebag.

Actually, his name is Banshee. He's Irish. He's with the X-Men. I think he's actually dead now...I'm sure from alcohol poisoning.  So, with movie posters that are just teasers, it's usually a good idea to make some kind of image referencing the idea, but not directly giving it away. Plus, the date of release is usually a good move. So with this design, I tried to capture his costume and his powers. His costume is yellow, green and black (though I wish he had a derby and a four leaf clover sticking out of it). His powers are being able to scream obnoxiously to kill opponents. So I mixed the idea of visualizing soundwaves with the colors of his costume. It's fairly abstract and maybe a little TOO vague. Meh. I'm not sure. Anyway...that's what I was going for. I don't know if it works, but it's kind of an interesting graphic.

sigh...I'm bored with it already...time for a new challenge. Let's see how long I can sing the guitar riff from "Sweet Home Alabama" to my wife before she gets so annoyed that she curses at me. I'm guessing 32 seconds. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Package Design!

 

So....

I'm a graphic designer. And when graphic designers get bored, graphic designers make package design. So here is something I designed for a Transformers toy. For those of you that don't know...this is called a mockup. It's all done in 2D and is just done to suggest what an actual package design could look like. So this Transformer's name is Vanquish apparently, and he is a bad toy what attacks good toys...much like how Michael Bay is a bad director who attacks innocence and taste. I wanted to go for a more adult and elegant design than what you usually see for these kinds of things. I was going for something that looks like it could be expensive and there could be something cool inside. For most design, minimal = expensive. And that's what I was trying to achieve. Yes it's a little geeky. So what. Fuck you.

Game Review!

Fine. I'll add more stuff. So since I work in the stupid vidja game industry, I guess periodically I'll add reviews of games I've played. Here's my review of Airwolf (pronounced "airwoof"). Remember that show? It was about a super cool helicopter. I think it was on CBS and then moved to the USA network, where all taste goes to die.

Airwolf is based on the horrible television series which aired during the 80's. Most of you kids won't remember it. And in that, your generation is blessed. In everything else your generation is cursed.
Airwolf was an arcade game and is your standard "I'm a flying vehicle moving to the right, and I need to shoot everything in my path" side scroller. And it's hard.
Really hard.
You get hit once and you're dead. This means you need to have skill to play this game. Of which I have none. But it's still fun to play. Maybe it's just nostalgia talking, but I found the game to be a low tech blast. You shoot anything that moves. And it's amazing how your ammo can take out anything. And I mean anything. People. Tents. Trucks. Tanks. Helicopters. Planes. Battleships. Even big fat nuclear missles.
So play the game if you want a quick, non-committal shoot em up romp.
If you don't want a quick non-committal shoot em up romp, play something else.