13.10.2008

Living Live

So Friday's release has spun around - it's not three days behind, it's your imagination - and it's creation was a bit strange. I got the neat idea last night of using Mogulus to stream arty things. It was pretty neat. Folks got to see how non-Photoshop people do things and live feedback is pretty cool. Definitely think it could be a nice regular feature.

It's strange how things work out. For the past year I've been focusing on doing each icon state as pure vectors - yet, half the time scaling down as a bitmap and touching up has a nicer feel. Not always, but sometimes. Especially with diagonal lines. Fireworks has a few oddities in the way it likes to draw paths. Odd to go back to how I used to do things. I did learn a few new things about masking last night though.

The other nifty news is that the spiritual successor to the LEON folders is done. I decided on "Hydride" as the name. I'd like to do a few more extra bits for it, but hopefully folks will enjoy it. The plan at the moment is for it to be the "prize" of the Halloween event. For those that don't know, or weren't around last year, I ran a small event on Halloween night, involving riddles and obscure clues in order to get a few SAW icons. Everyone seemed to enjoy it and so that's why it's returning this year.

Okay, enough cheerful rambling (this is supposed to be an angry blog!), take it easy!