still one of the most beautiful bits of advertising i ve ever seen

so can you just give some of your red stuff already?

Site is back up woop woop

site is back up and ready for some updating
have a butchers

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portfolio site is down

hey all just a quick shout that due to some shitty hosting by http://www.web-mania.com my portfolio site is down and operations to exricate data and get it back up in the mean time are underway. In the mean time please email joncreightongriffiths@hotmail.co.uk to get in touch

latest frankie update, just text left to do

nother morning before work updating the last few little bits of frankie, just the text left to do now

some more frankee inking trials

some more progress, want to try and stay away from the greens

further dev of the frankie vinyl part 2

in amongst the quiet today i finally sat down and inked all the bits with a brush that i could
that ended up something like this

then because the day was over and no one was going to the pub i added some digital ink, got wholly distracted and three hours later ended up with a quick blast as a colour trial

 

shes no where near done but i m happy with the raw ink at least. woop woop progress

further dev of the frankie vinyl

i wanted to do a nice ww2 stle graphic for frnakie, my new old mgb, and because she is such a monster of different parts this seemed entirely appropriate.
I ve been playing with a few poses and stuff but this test for the head is getting to the kinda place I want to be.
but yeah its been a while since i posted and thought i should show something.
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ruthless seo self promotion, coming top of google images results when you type in work + doodles

well for about a minute at least at last view i was down to number three, ah the fickle world of internet seo. so to blitz my rating and make a desperate reality star esque last gasp bid for interest i m writing a blog post to blast me back up.

Quick illy for a mates blog

i mades a blog header for my friend dan, his blog is here

Illustration for a tshirt for SAS with will for Will & Tom studio used in pipeline

look its will and mine's purty illustration, looke looke, glad surfers against sewage liked it

look what arrived

look what arrived, html 5 tshirt, from america
awesomeness incarnate

some prospective tshirt designs for charity

so did these, wait to see if any get chosen from our lot.

some doodles from my hand

in between the odds and sodds i m doing i thought i d just wack out some doodles for you to see

swatch palette art gallery 50's pin up

 evening all, I, on my day off have made another swatch palette art gallery piece to hang in your photoshop, specially for mr s greenwood and leake who requested it.


it s available for download here


also included in today's post is a clearer swatch file so that if you want to make you own swatch palette piece you don't have to spend 20 minutes deleting all your current swatches. (yep it only took me three pieces to work out that might be a good idea)


the clearer file is available here.


same as usual use replace instaid of load and drag your palette to the right number of swatches

toodleoo

swatch palette art gallery pop art double bill, Warhol's soup

pop art double bill here's Warhol's soup, available here

all rights to the warhol meister still i m just pasticheing
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swatch pallete art gallery, Roy Lichtenstein's Whaam

another piece to hang in your swatch palette, it's a wide one so maybe more for those with duel monitor set ups
.aco file available from here (for those using safari ctrl or right click to download the linked file)

once again copyrights belong to the lichtenstein estate.

gunna make a smaller portrait one next for those with only one monitor to play with. also will make a blog to dump these all in, if you fancy getting involved or want a comission let me know.
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my latest creative nonsense, I present the photoshop swatch art gallery

want to bring a bit of class to your photoshop workspace, want coworkers to thing you're a bit of something classier than what you actually are? Then i give to you my friends the photoshop swatches art gallery. Miniature masterpieces reformatted to fit into your swatches palette so you can hang your favourite artwork on your screen to look at all day whilst retouching, scamping, designing or merely pretending to work.

download the .aco file here, load it into your photoshop swatch pallete using replace, and then drag your palette to the correct width, et voila, swatch buckling awesomeness if i do say so myself.

more coming soon and open to comissions
and yes that blue pixel is supposed to be there (for those who know me too well its C100 M0 Y0 K4, that should explain it)

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p.s obviously all rights still belong to photoshop with regards to my use of their name

portrait videos on vimeo

i saw this portrait video on awesome solitaire
embedded from vimeo and portrait to make a really good screen visualization,
intrigued i made a test and by the looks of it you can pretty much create any aspect ratio of video for vimeo, which is nice to know.
heres my test,


testy testicles from joncg on Vimeo.

hackday 3: The hack fights back or the difficult birth of HoleRunner

This weekend held the third hack day and what will most likely be the last one in the house of mister kufluk. Worked out with  Kenneth Kufluk,and Andrew Mason, the concept sounded simple on the surface of it. We wanted to create an online multiplayer game that had a mechanic dependent on the number of players. It would need to be made in SVGs and in HTML so that in firefox it could be played with extra plug-ins.
How hard can that be I hear you cry, actually If you're keeping up with the talk of html 5 and svg s you ll be one of the few.


So anyway in the pub the night before andy and I cracked the idea of a demolition derby style version of a micro machines style game where you have a surface and each team is struggling to push vehicles from the other team off into space for points. This was promptly sold into Kenneth the next morning at his house. Things we d forgotten but added awesomeness were added and HoleRunner was born.


Over the next 8 hours I got to happily play with vector drawing, which I love, so was in a happy world of my own, while Kenneth and Andy battled against box2d and node to make things happen. I'll leave the explanations of exactly what went on there to them but it seemed hard. Radians and advanced trig and moments and torque forces had to all be worked out, leaving me exceedingly happy I was the pixel monkey on this one.


SO after 8 hours of struggle and trial and tribulations it became clear we were fighting a losing battle. And thus like any mighty army in need of a regroup we went to the pub. We decided to call it a night at about 2 am.
The next morning Andy and kenneth went about coding the mechanics from first principle rather than continue to try to bang their heads against the desk (fair call I say).
SO long story short HoleRunner is still coming soon, we have based mechanics and base graphics and base internet fuynctionality but this one is going to take more time.
However this is kind of what it will look like, (click to make it full screen)

hopefully I'll be posting more about this soon
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ftwinnebago

yet another quick brain fart to keep me entertained. came up with the idea of the ftwinnebago in a brainstorm for a different project and liked it so much that i figured i d make it, now I've started a blog based on it. It is here to satisfy my desire to make bad puns. hopefully like a punsink my work should now be a little freer of such nonsense
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