Website Work: Desklamp

This is the table lamp from the image I posted earlier of my drawing table.  It is a vector based image made in CorelDraw X4.  Most of it was made with various shapes.  The glow of the light was made with a shadow effect that I made yellow.  Then I took the shape tool and shaved the sides of the shadow image, giving it the look I was going for.

Website Work: Vintage Rotary Telephone

This is a vintage rotary telephone that I made using CorelDraw X4.  It is a vector based image and will probably be going on our new website.  It will be part of the contact icon.

Website Work: Barn, Tornado, Cow and Pig

Here's a vector based image made in CorelDraw X4.  This will represent the fact that we live in Oklahoma, the land of tornadoes.  It will probably be going on our new website.

Website Work

So, I am transitioning into a new role with our missions organization, Team Expansion.  I am going to be based stateside in Tulsa, Oklahoma working on all sorts of creative projects for the 320 missionaries around the world.  I will be doing graphic design, website/video editing, continuing to create curriculum, logos, illustration, etc...

That means I have to redesign our website.  So I will post some of the images that I have been working on.  Starting off here's the main image that I am probably going to put on the main page.  Hopefully, you can tell it's an exaggerated self-portrait of me sitting over my drawing table.  I even took one of the ink drawings from my book Fat Baby and put it on the drawing table.  I gave it some perspective in CorelDraw X4.  This image was completely made in CorelDraw X4 as a vector image.

The next several items will be the icons that I am working on to link to various pages on our new site.  The other night I had spent several hours working on the file that included those icons, the above image and several other images.  Then I got a scare.  I clicked to do something and it just sat there.  It didn't look like it was working, yet it wouldn't let me do anything else either.  I waited and waited to see if it was hung up.  It was frozen.  I closed out the program and restarted it.  The file had an error on it.  It wouldn't open.  I spent several minutes wishing I had saved it under multiple names as well as searching for a possible version in the temp folder.  Finally, I noticed that there was a copy of my file in the folder where I was working.  CorelDraw had made a duplicate file when the program had an error.  I opened it with bated breath, praying the entire time.  It opened.  I proceeded to save it several times, under several names.  Now I can rest easy.

Little Big Planet: Return to Titanic Expedition

This is the seventh level that I made for Little Big Planet, a game only available on the Playstation 3.  It is called Return to Titanic Expedition.  It's a sequel to my level called, Titanic Stowaway.  You can find either of them by searching the Little Big Planet community levels or find my PS3 ID mbcross.

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Little Big Planet: Titanic Stowaway

This is my sixth level that I have created for the Playstation 3 game Little Big Planet.  I did this level in March 2010.  It's called Titanic Stowaway.  As of April 15, 2010 it has been played almost 6,000 times.  You can find it by searching for its name or search for my PS3 ID mbcross.

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Little Big Planet: Jungle Adventure

Here's a level I created for Little Big Planet on the PS3 called "Jungle Adventure".  You can find it by searching for the name or my PS3 ID mbcross.

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Little Big Planet: Little BUG Planet

Here's a level I really enjoyed creating stuff for called Little BUG Planet.  It's for the game Little Big Planet on the Playstation 3.  You can find this level to play it by searching for it by name, or by finding my PS3 user ID, mbcross.

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Little Big Planet: New Space City

Here's a level I created called, New Space City, for the PS3 game, Little Big Planet. You can find it by searching for it in the game or you can find my PS3 id, mbcross.

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Little Big Planet: Little Sack and the Beanstalk

This is my second level for the Playstation 3 game, Little Big Planet.  It's called, "Little Sack and the Beanstalk".  Here are some screenshots from this level. You can find it in the game by searching for it, or by searching for my PSN user name, which is mbcross.

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