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This was a highlight reel I made of game play during a closed server, game developer to community meetup. Various designers, directors, and marketing folk from DICE LA and DICE Sweeden came out to play a few matches with 80+ of our community members. This is the resulting footage compilation. I originally cut the first minute of this reel to the song “Lone Digger” by Caravan Palace. If you play this and that song in tandem, the video flows a lot more naturally. I had to change the song since it was blocking my video in multiple countries without the option to monetize. Here’s that version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBdMBVXrpBg Unfortunately, this highlight reel’s quality lacks severely due to it being taken from the twitch stream I was recording. Streaming quality can only be so high until it requires viewers to download video so fast that their download speed can’t handle any more data flowing in. Created using Windows Movie Maker for Windows 7. I know how to use other, more intensive programs for video editing, but with the ease and quick rate I can cut videos in WMM, it vastly outweighs the practicality of opening up something like Adobe Premiere or After Effects.

#DICE #highlight reel #gameplay #DICE LA #game community

The top two banners were created for a friend’s twitter page. This was created using stills from glitch style animated gifs (e.g., http://imgur.com/FlG8nsC). I used somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 different animations blended together using some new methods of picture compositing I’ve been playing with. I balanced the color scheme to pop with dramatic effect and to tell the viewer a story. The pyramid on the right was to give a looming sense of power, and was textured with a hexagonal glass that was supposed to represent a beehive honeycomb or more directly, “a hive mind”. I wanted the nebula on the left to look like a dying sun that was being sucked into a black hole. The version on the top was created from my own preference to style, while the one below incorporates the revisions my friend requested. The bottom banner was created for my Youtube page’s profile pic with the original goal being to only make the emblem on the right in the rain. The original image was a Battlefield 4 wallpaper image that I decided to sharpen up, and remove the soldier in the image that took up roughly 30% of this banner. I acknowledge that I left a small amount of artifact from removing the soldier in the middle, but I decided I didn’t want to spend any more time on this project.

The emblem aura was created from spot areas of the same wallpaper image, and blended in a way that makes it look like a storm cloud is opening up into fire and light. An ominous dark spot to the upper left is shown being overpowered by the opening cloud aura and sun beams.

#composite #photoshop #design #banner design #artwork #photo mashup #sharp #glitch art

The latest Tweets from New Fantasia City (@CynthiaSomerset). The first 4 books of the two part, 7 book sci-fi, thriller series by Justin Powell. Based on the anthology of contract killer Cynthia Somerset. Washington, DC

Just started a twitter page for my 7 book series. I'll be logging my progress in trying to get my first book traditionally published. My deadline is to receive an offer for my first book within in 7 months, or by December 1st.

To do list:

Manuscript

Pitch

Synopsis

Find an Agent

Query Letter Submissions

View my progress at twitter.com/CynthiaSomerset

#publishing work #writing agent #writing #finishing book #series writer #publishing steps

This project was to recreate a scene from my 3rd book finale that pits my character against a helicopter in the middle of a bridge, somewhere in New Fantasia City. My only goal was to work on this until I got a better mental image of what I needed to accomplish in writing the scene. Top: Composite image of various city shots and helicopter to make one scene. Added color effects and brushwork to set the mood Same but black and white. Minimized image focus for more stylized grunge look. 2nd: Initially decided against adding this version to my post, but in retrospect, I enjoy the color and style a lot. Even though the strokes are dumb and the image looks unfinished, it still pleases me to look at it.

3rd: The most realistic of all versions of this image. I decided that even though it was nice to see the realistic version of the buildings and helicopter, I didn’t like how it felt placed in there all cookie cutter like. Bottom: The final piece before I decided to stop sinking more time into the project. I got the mood across and learned a lot from trial and error. My favorite aspect of this is version is how I got the bridge concrete to appear soaking wet and shimmer light from the rest of the scene. I enjoyed creating the splashes which was created using intersecting vector strokes that both created and cut into the color fill. I then heavily modified the blending options, tweaking almost all options available to some degree. The looming fog was created from the unexpected result of rearranging 4 layers of brush strokes above or below other layers. It reminded me slightly of the rainy skyline of Blade Runner.

Photoshop. 4hrs.

#photoshop #bridge #helicopter #composite #grunge

The best verb I could use to describe what I did today is “Bob Ross”.

I Bob Ross’ed a painting today.

Freehand Photoshop brushwork. Not bad with a mouse considering I’m left handed. Right image was created first at 3″x3″ and then tweaked to the left image to stretch it to 10″x10″. Did alright trying to preserve detail and add upon color.

Photoshop: 2hrs.

#photoshop #paintbrush #brushwork #happy #clouds #sunset #sunbeams #bobross as inspiration

Book Update: Just printed the first rough draft copy of book 1 from my 4 book series entitled New Fantasia City.

Book 1 of my New Fantasia City series, entitled Cynthia Somerset is roughly 32 chapters, 304 pages, and 75,800 words in length.

I started writing Cynthia Somerset in April 2012 with no binding expectations other than to find out how far I could push myself. I had no writing experience when I started this book. I spent a little less than half of my time researching writing techniques and reading textbooks on how to become a writer. Because of this, book 1 was completed much slower than book 2 and 3. As of right now, book 4 is already ahead of schedule. Because of this, I’m using the extra time to reread my first 3 books and write down everything that I need to tie together in book 4.

I’m excited to also say that I’m finally working towards getting my works published!

#writing #rough draft #new fantasia city #sci-fi #suspence

Top 2 images: Banner designs I created for an online gaming community I’m part of. We had setup an event in Sept to play with some of the DICE LA and Stockholm members who created Battlefield 4. The developers enjoyed it so much, we had to host it again on November.

Middle image: Created and added to this post long after I did these other pieces. This was the newest version for the DICE LA 3.0 event held on Apr 22nd.

Bottom image: A banner I created to replace our previous donation image. All images are composite images with heavily stylized text blending adjustments. Background images are touched up with various paintbrush techniques to blend color schemes and improve visual direction.

#graphic design #flyerdesign

And here’s the final version of Godzilla Imperial Forces Bionic AT-AT. Disney’s gonna sue me :(

Edit: Made a color change :)

Did this piece for a friend on the side just for fun. It’s a photo composite of various StarWars images and were used to clothe a very techno savvy Godzilla. Made this as eye catching as possible using the light from the lasers and the explosion. If there’s one thing I learned, it’s that explosions are great eye candy.

No vector work on this one.

Two vectorized badge designs I created to help with a gaming community I hang out with. Their site only allows 100x100 and 60x60 square versions of these designs, giving me plenty of practice in understanding the various issues of trying to make a quality image in practically “nothing” resolution. Below are two pen and marker sketches I made for potential ideas. It was decided these were too intricate to reduce to 60x60 and 100x100 pixels.

A vectorized caricature I created of a friend. I told him to make a few goofy faces on his cell phone and send them to me. I found that playing around with the lines and negative values of light made for a better outcome. I spent only 20% of the time looking at his photo so I wouldn’t make it too realistic. I was gonna give it professional color it but we drifted apart before I could complete it. So instead, I made a quick composite from a still from the movie “The Professional”.

A mockup design I made of some keychain cards for a friend. No, I didn’t make this for Mr. Awesome unfortunately - I just hate using Loreum Ipsum wording for designs. Makes it feel less alive. Everything done in PShop. Everything vectorized except the background. You can blow these things up to banner size if you really wanted to. Pen and ink sketches below to show off the other potential ideas I had in getting around making the design around the key chain hole.

Two Linkedin header designs I made for my profile page a few months ago. Done in Photoshop of course. Everything except the wood texture are vector graphics with a ton of time added into the blending options.

Just doing some logo work for a new website in the making. Started out just throwing typography on Photoshop and then I got the idea to draw this fellow. Freehanded the man from my imagination using the pen tool. I usually sketch out logo designs before getting anywhere near vector work, so I was quite surprised with the outcome.

#logo design #vector

Just started my 3rd book and to go along with it, I decided to make a composite of the prologue chapter I just finished. This was a huge project file. The size was over 5000px wide and 200ppi. I love big files. I'll go back and fix the truck a little more in the future.

I've been getting an average of 5-10 followers a day on Spotify from a playlist I've been working on for the past 3 years. Just recently, I decided do a little bit of a marketing campaign to see how much interest it would generate. I made a quick mspaint cover when I uploaded the list to playlists.net a month ago. I just needed some free time to make this. This is the finished album cover for my playlist.

This is a rough composite I'm working on for one of my chapters from my 2nd book. I'm planning on painting it on my tablet once I've got enough to work from. This piece is movie poster size @ 300dpi. My poor Photoshop struggles every time I save this 2gb file.

Don't mind the Google map image. I'll be replacing all the buildings and streets with my own.

#rough composite

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