I just finished another of my ‘senior’ courses (Instructional Design) about two weeks ago now and, through the class, I finally got a jump on the multimedia tutorial series I’ve wanted to work on since before I got Authentic Vision’s WebWorks up and running. I highly doubt the next ones will be Flash-based, but I do plan to update the WordPress tutorials I’ve done so far and add more as I can.

Meanwhile, here’s an introduction to the WordPress blogging platform, the ‘New Post’ page, a dash of HTML, and a good start to search engine optimization: Click here to view or right click and ‘Save As’ to download for later use.

I mentioned back here that I’m workin on a top secret design for Planet Zoron and, just tonight, I saw something that has me grinning from ear to ear.

From this, via MNTLPLX:

To this (mentioned above):

To this gem, reported by Zoron’s own Hygh Dephunychun:

Talk about transcendence!

I’m not exactly in a position to brag about it on Facebook (deactivated my account – again!) so here’s one for those of you who find this one on its own merit!

I’ve been working on Planet Zoron’s new design. While it’s not complete, yet, I (as the designer and all) am perfectly content with giving sneak peeks and glimpses into the overall process.

Shhhh, back here but remember – top secret!

So I’m in the process of reskinning one of our sister sites, Planet Zoron. This involves lots of nastiness – nitty gritty local server setups that don’t want to work the first 4 times (and ways!) tried. And, once that’s done, trying to work out the graphic in a way that a tutorial says will work.

Me, of course…it takes me time…I suffer from ADD, OCD, occasional dyslexia, and flat out airheadedness! A day of working off and on over about 8 hours (all told) I was about ready to pull out my hair and give in. But when I finally put together that last tiny piece of the puzzle…It’s just too hard to not brag about it and share how I did it!

Now, for those of you I’m working for (the select few I do, anyway) – if you want it, let me know when next your site is called for a redesign! LOL For the rest of you who might be coding or want to – those of you know you’re at least this brave and handy with image editing – here’s an awesome tutorial for doing rollover menus with CSS instead of Javascript!

CSS Image Rollover Tutorial on WebVamp.

It’s Wednesday, my fourth week of eight is dangerously close to being over, and I’m officially hooked on Illustrator. The assignment in Advanced Illustration is to come up with an illustration for a children’s book. It just so happens I have a project in the works that requires an Alice in Wonderland type theme so I decided to use this to work on that.

Painstakingly tedious but awesome.

I figured rather than just do things the ‘easy’ way and share my work on Facebook, I’d put it here too – where it belongs! I’m so droppin Facebook to ‘automatic’ status very soon, anyway. May as well stay ahead of the game, right?

Anyway, it recently came to my attention that I’m at 97/124 credits for school, officially a senior, and they’re finally getting to stuff I don’t know. Last session I had a video production/marketing course and this session I have advanced imaging and illustration – both of which are kicking ass and it’s only the first week. I’ve already come up with a few images but I’m sittin on one in particular cause it’s a music thing and isn’t official til it’s official.

Meanwhile, my first weeks’ class assignments:

Peep the latest Brainspawn

I just realized I didn’t ever get around to formally showing off Umbravo and Lil 8/50′s CD cover and the rearrangement I helped em with!

More Before and Afters!

So, I just got done giving Leaf Qwembi a slight makeover.

And I actually thought to do before and afters! LOL

Back Here!

I’ve finally gotten to a point where I can begin working on making this place over so I took advantage of the time to make a new logo.

I kinda ended up doing a behind the scenes type thing on the progress and figured I’d share it here!

Click to see!

It’s too big to embed here but I just finished my first full-fledged Flash project, click here to see!