Firelight

model - Courtney K

foreground: vector graphics based on a photograph.
background: heavily processed version of the same photo

completed 8.14.05

Possibly the most complex one of these I've done so far, and the one I'm happiest with.

Courtney is an old friend of mine from my arcade days who used to live near me on Long Island, although I didn't really get to know her until she moved to Las Vegas and started a livejournal.

That Guy

model - That Guy Matt

vector graphics based on a photograph.

completed 4.4.04

My first ever attempt at this sort of thing, and it shows.  If any accomplished illustrator saw the original graphics file and the truly horrid, unprofessional arrangement of half-assed shapes used, he or she might cry.

That Giy Matt is one of my best pals ever, and the one person from my school days I still hang around with.

MST3k: The Fan Comic

Nearly all the original graphics are vector-based.  The textures in the background are made from manipulated images, mostly of circuitry.

work in progress

I'm slowly working on a comic version of the dear, departed Mystery Science Theater 3000.  As the characters in that show had to watch bad movies, so my versions will have to read bad comic books.

The bots will add their witty commentary to existing comic pages.  As in the series, they will take occasional breaks for "host segments," aboard their Satellite.

Album cover and CD label: Intergalactic Pop Music Rescue Squad

Front cover and CD label: vector-based.

The back cover can be seen on my photo manip page.

completed 9.21.05

When my data-jockeying alter ego DJ Luciernaga put together a mashup album of Beastie Boys songs, of course I needed a cover.  I decided to merge the Beastie's alien-landing-party characters from their Intergalactic music video with one of my favorite album covers of all time, Jean Michel Jarre's groundbreaking 1978 synth album, Equinoxe.

Yes, I'm a nerd.

The disc label incorporates one of my Equinoxe/Beasties with my logo for Space Mutiny, where I released the disc.

The font used is Futura Md BT, the closest I could find to the text on the Jarre album.

Full-sized versions of the covers and label are included in the album download.   When printed out at 300 DPI, they are exactly the right size for a standard CD and jewel case.