Archive for May, 2009

I’ve converted both of those tutorials so that they are just xhtml and images, as opposed to being flash tutorials. The process was smooth, I even combined some older pointless steps into quicker, (do it three things at once) steps.  you can checkout both tutorials in the tutorials section.

I’m trying to make a decent effort to update the majority of the colormagix tutorials. I got through the bulbasaur tutorial pretty quickly, it’s just that I need stay constant. When looking at the bulbasaur tutorial compared to some of the other ones, it had a lot of steps. That being said I’m positive I can get through some others within a few days.  Right this second I’m working on the How to draw a turtle tutorial, the Pixel Pumpkin tutorial, and the Spriting on the Breeze Template tutorial.

As I promised I’m making more of an effort to update colormagix. I have a surprise I’m actually working on new tutorials!!! These are inspired from my original Mo Mo Monster game concepts. I’m not going to go into too much detail about the idea, but the three in rough sketch form are bellow. Each monster is going to be featured in their own tutorial. I’d love to go into more detail but you are going to have to wait and see. Until then keep checking the website, as I will be posting more as time goes on.

Please be aware, these are simply sketches, they will look better when completed

As sort of a late birthday present to colormagix, I just wanted to take some time to reflect on the evolution of the colormagix logo and how it has changed over the course of two years. I still find it a bit humorous that I created colormagix over two years ago . As you can see, and experienced if you’ve been a visitor throughout this time period, colormagix has had quite a few logo design changes.

Number 1

This is probably one of the first logos that colormagix ever had, the original colormagix consisted of nothing more that gray text saying “colormagix”. Unfortunately the original colormagix files were lost in a hard drive failure. The good thing about that situation was that it forced me to add some color, to the colormagix logo.

Number 2

The logo you see above was one of the earlier renditions that had the classic blue and red clashing color schemes. This was also the first logo to feature the colormagix star.

That logo was a bit over the top in terms of neatness, it looked almost two “typographical, if that is a word. It probably isn’t but who cares . Anyway, so the new concept used a rounder font, included some thick shadows, and the star was removed.

Number 3

The updated logo left a lot to be desired, so once  again the logo was modified. This new logo took the best of the previous logo’s (minus the underline), and created something that was acceptable, yet appealing. (The original version was much larger).

Number 4

Once again it came time to improve the logo, the previous logo had a decent look to it, but it seemed a bit washed, the previous logo also forced an entire website redesign. That being the case a long with the newest logo came a website color, and layout change. The current colormagix logo combines all the strengths of the previous logo, but adds a little more oomph, if you will.

It’s kind of funny as I sit here typing this I look back at colormagix, and all the updates this website has gone through, all the changes, all the adjustments, and I can’t help but feel proud. Colormagix may have been my first website, but it really is one of the best.

Remember how I said a few months back that I was going to bring life back into the blog? Well yea… about that… I’ve been busy. I’ve had a lot of things under my belt. But now I can seriously get back to doing what I enjoy doing, and that’sworking on colormagix.  If you read some other post you might be aware of the changes that have taken place as of late, (the website news is now apart of the blog). This sort of forces me to come to blog and edit everything from time to time. So expect more posting from me, and please comment, as I’m interested in hearing what you all have to say.