Sports Logo / Effects

This was the sports logo we had to trace in the illustrator for Joe's class...i wish i chose one with less curves. But the bull looks kinda badass.

CD Release Party

Skate Deck

So the skate deck for Andrew's class had alot of texturing to get the effects i wanted. The basic elements were the DNA strand, the molecular web on either end, the text in the center, and of course the P70 logos.

First thing i did was use the pen tool in Illustrator to draw some basic curves for the helix design and then import them into Photoshop to do my texturing.

Next I imported some stock textures I found online and threw a few more filters on them. Then i set up a layer clipping mask over my helix design to give it a bit funkier a look.

To make the lattice pieces that connect the sides of the helix i found this graphic with the same textures and ended up making 3 different colour versions i repeated to fill out the strand.

This was a satellite image type texture i started with for the text. I threw a bevel and emboss effect on the text and a black outer glow to help it pop out from the layers behind it.

I colourized the texture with a red at first and created a clipping mask again. The next thing i did was ctrl click the lattice layer and copied that selection from the red texture I'd already created in a new layer. Then i colourized that layer yellow and added it to my existing clipping mask. This was to emphasize the lattice that went behind the text in the texture. Worked pretty kool.

Next I created 3 different molecule diagram type polygons using photoshop's vector masking layers and some text. Once i had the basic molecules created a threw some different transformations on them to distort them a bit and then duplicated them to build the structures. After that i took the texture from my text and made a clipping mask over the whole molecule structure.

I used the same texture over the P70 logo and put one on either end of the board.

Also, to make the SKATE DNA text a little trippier, i added a scaled down version of my molecule structure to the texture mask. It's kinda subtle but worked.

I also wanted to give a crazy depth feeling on the board like the whole design was just floating in space. So i found some random telescope pix and added some cloudy looking nebulas over top to make my background texture.

CD Cover

These are all final graphics i did for our cd (Click to see fullsize). I have alot of rough ideas from these lying around that i'll get together and throw on later. (if ya want a cd they're 10 buck, ask me! lol) http://www.myspace.com/fnamusic

Halloween Party

So me and the band had a Halloween party at our house, thought i'd throw up some pix. It was a sweet time, like 100 ppl in costume, it was crazy. have a look.