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Tyler Owen — Mon, 28 May 2012 17:10:41 +0000

Reviving an old game concept with new concept art

Tyler Owen — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:21:37 +0000

Just a teaser for a game idea that I've had in the back of my head for a while and I think I just finally found my art style. This game might come together relatively quickly now.

New app icon for Iceberg Frenzy

Tyler Owen — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:21:47 +0000

For the updated version that will be out soon. There is not much changed here other than a reduction of file size to get it under the 20MB limit for downloading over 3G networks.

Poster designs for UNI Green Month

Tyler Owen — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:05:32 +0000

A couple months ago I was asked to create some posters for UNI's Green Month events and I gladly accepted. I love doing designs for worthy causes and it seemed like they had some great ideas for events that I could string together with a general theme. I decided to go with the (perhaps cliched) theme of a globe and worked with some old-fashioned fonts to appeal to the ideas of simplicity and conservation. Despite the mountains of text on each poster I think I managed to create some eye-catching designs that hopefully helped raise some awareness on campus. Feel free to click the above images to view larger versions of the designs.

Concept art for a future game idea

Tyler Owen — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:53 +0000

The following is a photoshop painting that I did for a game idea I'm currently concepting. The basic idea is that you are the sole survivor on a failed mission to Mars. While there you discover a mystery that crosses the galaxy. A single player exploration and puzzle game. The suit design was created by my friend and coworker Eric Young while I did all the coloring and painting. I actually would love to have the game look very close to this style. Somewhat cartoonish... almost like a comic book. I might do some 3D art tests soon.

Testing... Testing... Testing...

Tyler Owen — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:33:10 +0000

Painted Animals - visual update

Tyler Owen — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:39:37 +0000

Logo and user interface test images

Tyler Owen — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:06:29 +0000

Tonight I really wanted to pin down a look for the user interface and the logo for Painted Animals. I did some sketches and a black and white digital rendering and I really like the way they turned out. I love the simplicity of the menu buttons, but they still have the hand-crafted feel that we are going for with the game. I think the logo really works well too. The "Painted" part of the game's name is really just there as a descriptive term and something that I hope will bring good search results on the app store, so I wanted it to be less important with the branding of the logo. It looks solid in black and white and now I can't wait to see what Frances will do to add some watercolor texture to it. What do you think?

Early screenshot for "Painted Animals"

Tyler Owen — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:37:01 +0000

Enjoy our first true "screenshot" for our game, Painted Animals. We don't have any of the user interface elements in yet, but you can see the basic idea of the animals that you have to match to a shape. Things are coming along!

Art sneak peak

Tyler Owen — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:30:57 +0000

Frances and I have been hard at work on our educational game and we finally have our first finished pieces of art to show off. Our process involves several conversions from pencil and paper to digital to paint and back to digital, but I think the results speak for themselves. Only 30 animals left to complete. Let us know what you think!