Blog

Here there be writings of all kinds, but mostly my own thoughts and ramblings about art, sketches, video games, animation, and design.

New Site Header!

I finally updated the site header! Though I wanted to try something ambitious with Zanoi’s head and SVG animation, that didn’t quite pan out. I do have various ideas for the animated gif of pixel-me to implement later this year, however! And a definite return to SVG testing. (And a way to tie the little […]

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Kirby: Queen Sectonia

For a collaboration of Kirby bosses, I illustrated Queen Sectonia, the final boss of Kirby Triple Deluxe! Her battle’s music, “DIRTY & BEAUTY“, captures perfectly the theme of her villainy. She quickly became one of my favorite bosses of the whole Kirby series. Sectonia © Nintendo

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Designing 3D Spaces: Valentin’s Apartment

For an upcoming comic project, there are a lot of interior scenes that take place inside of an apartment. Nobody but the especially mathematically inclined enjoy drawing interior scenes in a comic over and over at different angles in their free time. So, after getting this idea from another webcomic artist, I created a 3D […]

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Nested

I can’t stop clicking through the seemingly infinite nested universes within this site.

The only thing stopping me is the functional inability to continue reading once I’ve gone so far…in a single nest. Once they add vertical scrolling, there’ll be literally nothing stopping me or anybody else.

The minimalist suggestions of worldbuilding with the surprising depth of each nest is what gets me. Even with the time I’ve spent on it, there’s yet more to discover.

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Content Migration & Editing

Between 2011 and 2017, I did content migration with HCA Healthcare’s Web and Social Media Product Development team and TriStar division. This has involved moving website content – text, images, widgets, etc. – from old content management systems to new, and then from old web implementations on the system to new hosts, using design guidelines […]

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Concept Logo: Legend Industries

I had an idea while messing around with my Smash Bros. Fighting Polygon Team vector art. I thought the head for the Ness Polygon fighter had a cool, iconic shape, so I adjusted it as the symbol for a logo. With such a strong appearance, you’d almost think that head was Link’s, wouldn’t you? You […]

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