Dance Dance Repetition

While we're on the subject of DDR, here's my most recent Facebok cover picture.

I drew this going off a few static images of the PlayStation version of the game and I didn't really know how to handle the gradient. Each picture I saw had a consistent color throughout, but each image I looked at was different. I wanted to give it a more complete feeling without distracting from the minimalism of it, so I just slapped a rainbow gradient on it and called it good.
I did some more research, and it turns out the way gradients are handled in the game is with a sort of scrolling animation, as you can see below.

 

Apparently every arrow on the screen goes through this animation at the same time, which is why all the screens I looked at had arrows of a uniform gradient. Unfortunately Facebook doesn't support animated .gif, so for the time being at least I'm leaving my cover picture as-is.

Here's a copy of the banner format-ready for Facebook, or whatever else you may want to use it for.

Oh, and happy Superbowl.

Starting Point Portraits

Let's get some content in here!

Back when I started using Facebook, I didn't want to put my face on the account. So I've got a bunch of profile pictures that I drew for Facebook. Lots of them are really old, and I'm not proud of how lazy some of them are. But yeah, here's that:

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Concept established: Gray background, orange bubbles, red jacket, black shirt. The lack of nose is due to my inability at the time to draw a nose.

Joined Minecraft, made a skin. And technically, still no nose.

 

Halloween time! Posting these, I'm realizing that the lack-of-nose thing went on for way longer than I remembered.

 

Took a trip to New York on a college visit. And hey, is that a nose I spy under the lack of eyes? 

 

Random art assets! These are from a mural I designed for high school. I'm still not sure why they let me paint it.

Got an internship at Disney, so I modeled this one after the style (and nose) of Aladdin.

Stylization time! This near illegible comic book print commemorates the time I received a pair of mail-order red/blue 3D glasses after a good two months of shipping delay. The excitement was overwhelming.

Got on a bit of a pixel kick. It's a pretty big departure from style, but the facial hair demanded proper representation.

And here we have the dawn of the cover picture. This was my first attempt at getting a profile picture to match up with the cover picture behind it. It was basically just a mess of wireframe heads.

 

At the time of writing, this is my profile picture. It's the only one based on an actual photograph, and was sort of an in-progress asset for a Halloween poster I put together. But that's another post entirely.