I have recently been working on a new presentation background for my game icons.

I wanted it to be similar to the old one but better looking and after several ideas i ended up with this, which i like quite a lot Also, i got rid of the Vista Ready box since was is starting to sound a bit unnecesary.

I haven't updated all icons yet since there are a lot and it's a bit of work, but i'll eventually get there. The most popular ones are fixed already though...

Example: [link]

Yes, Rockstar has finally confirmed the game for PC, and has given a release date: November 18th/21st in America and Europe respectively, so now you can grab the icon i made a few months ago and rest assured you'll have the chance to use it!

Today i have uploaded a new icon, for Blood Bowl, but this time there a bonus for those interested in how i make my icons.

You will find on youtube a video of 20 minutes (divided in two parts) showing how i make the icon in Photoshop using  a couple of images from the game's website.

See the videos here [link] and here [link]

More videos will be published in the future, especially when i have to use different techniques to make other icons or maybe even other kind of deviation, so any feedback about the videos will be apreciated.

That's right, 30.000 pageviews! (that's 20.000 since my last journal entry in september hehe)

As a way to thank you all, i will try to update it a bit more with ocassional info about icons & other deviations i plan to do, polls, and things like that.

So yesterday it seems i reached the 10k pageviews milestone.. Quite a big number considering my gallery is all made of Work in progress 3d renders, a couple of rather simple wallpapers and a bunch of icons

I've been tagged by... so here i go..


Here are the rules:

1. Post these rules
2. Each person tagged must post 8 random (hopefully interesting) facts about themselves
3. Tags should write a journal of these facts
4. At the end of the post 8 more lucky people are tagged and named
5. Go to their page and leave a comment telling them that they're tagged.


8 facts about me

1. I love cokies

2. I have never smoked a cigarrette (neither enything else )

3. Most of the time i use headphones, the speakers on my PC are mostly decorative...

4. I have learned all i know about computers by myself, the only course i took was many years ago, about MS-DOS and Win3.11. Wasn't very useful either...

5. I made this dA account in 2003, but i was like almost two years without using it.

6. My handwritting is horrible

7. I like lots of kinds of music, from Marylin Manson to Erik Satie. I laso enjoy soundtracks a lot, including the ones from videogames (i'm listening to one now ).

8. I should shave now. Im just too lazy to do it. Maybe tomorrow...

And the winners are...



I'm only taggeing these since most of the has alrady been tagged

Until i come up with a more apropriate character render or artwork, here's what i got for the new expansion:

Let's see that...

Just wanted to say that lately i'm recieving more icon requests. I am happy that you want me to make icons for those games installed on your PCs

But i guess i won't always be able to do all requests. Different reasons may be involved in each case, maybe there's no good material to make and icon (ie character images or logos), maybe beacause of the lack of free time, etc.

I'm not writting this to disencourage anyone to make a request, just bear in mind it might be done in a copuple of hours, days or weeks, or it might not be done.

In any case, from now on, to those of you who request any icon i will try to answer you, telling you if i can do it and so on.

If you have already requested an icon and i have not done it, neither answered you at all, then i have probably forgotten about it, send me a note or something

And that's it..

Here i have two candidates for a Starcraft II icon.

OPTION A: [link]

The first uses a very nice artwork. The full image can be found here: [link]

The main problem with this is the weapon, which goes out of focus leaving me two options: resize the guy till the weapon fits, resulting in much less resolution/detail or manipulate the rifle, shortening it to a bolter size or so.

OPTION B: [link]

The second is a simpler concept art piece found here: [link]

This one isn't as shiny and detailed but it fits easely on the 256x256 pixels frame.

The thing is, Option A shown above is a fast preview, still gotta work on it and see what happens but the finished version will look way more polished. On the other hand, Option B is as good as it looks up there, i don't think there's much detail to be added to it, and feels a bit poor in comparison.

I might end up releasing them both, along with icons for other races, if i find nice renders/artworks for the cause. But if anyone wants to express his option, now is the right time!

More great Startcraft II artwork and stuff on [link]