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Firefoxzilla is back!

Robert — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:15:23 +0000

I’ve created another pixel-art illustration with Firefoxzilla (huge Fire-fox like mechanical droid that helps people) for challenge on Mozilla’s Creative Collective. It got to the top finals and scored quite a huge number of votes.
Let’s hope Firefoxzilla will keep coming back:)

BlackMoon will be speaking at Game Developers Summit 2010

Robert — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:50:49 +0000

There’s quite huge event coming in July – the 4 days long Game Developers Summit 2010 in Gdansk. We can’t really miss such fun – the whole BlackMoon team is going there. Mike and I will be giving the presentations on the event – about game usability, team work (those two are mine) and Flash/AIR game development techniques (Mike will talk about that). It looks like really good event is coming for game developers – check more at zjazdtworcowgier.pl

CS5 in 5 App Contest (and BlackMoon gets to the podium again)

Robert — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:18:23 +0000

During the CS5 launch event in Warsaw (that was last Tuesday) there was a desing-coding contest “CS5 in 5“. The aim of the contest was to create a Air/Flash based app within 5 hours. The app main theme should have been “Birthday reminder”. I very happy to tell you that BlackMoon team (consiting of Mike as a programmer and myself as a designer) scored 3rd place in this contest.
We’ve created a “Urodzinofacebookoprzypominator” app, which connects to Facebook and reminds you if there’s anybody birthday on this given date (it can also run in the back and just show the notifications). The messages are pretty nice visually – we’ve created a set of custom numbers to depict the age. Stay tuned – we should upload the app for you to review soon.
Anyway – it was really a great event!

Here’s how our little app looks like

Drivers start your engines! Designing and coding the widget in just 5 hours needed some haste

Usability in Flex projects preso on FlashCamp2010

Robert — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:21:10 +0000

During the last weekend the BlackMoon team was attending FlashCamp 2010 in Warsaw. I had this pleasure to give a presentation at the event, titled “Usability in Flex projects” (you can check the video of the presentation and download it below). The event was really great – there was quite a lot of very nice stuff being shown and we’ve met some really great people. We really look forward next edition of FlashCamp in Warsaw!
Here’s the video from my preso and the files for download (if you’re interested in other great presentations from FlashCamp 2010 head to http://flashcamp.pl)

Usability w projektach Flex – prezentacja FlashCamp 2010 Warsaw from Robert Podgórski on Vimeo.

Download .pdf file
Download Keynote file

Just visiting, a pixel art commission for Digital Artist magazine

Robert — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:46:56 +0000

I’ve created this pixel-art illustration for the purpose of the article I wrote for Digital Artist magazine. The article (and illustration itself) was published in April’s issue.
The illustration is titled “Just visiting” and it depicts a London street with a huge, ugly monster taking photos of BigBen (as you can see below).

Click on the image to check bigger image

The article is basically a overview of pixel-art style combined with a 6 page long tutorial on creating a isometric city scene in Photoshop and PixAIR (PixAIR is a small AIR application for creating pixel art developed by one of the BlackMoon’s team members – Michał).

Our article in SDJ

Robert — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:00:12 +0000

BlackMoon team write up a article for a magazine Software Developer Journal, about the process of creation a Flash game – starting with the idea, how to design graphics and what are the best code techniques. We’ve created a arcade style game called “Asteroid Raid” especially for the article purpose (the game will be launched soon as we’re still tweaking it). The game utilizes some nice pixel art and run over PixelBlitz engine created by Richard Davey.
Stay tuned for the coming game – in the meanwhile I encourage you to grab a copy of SDJ magazine from the nearest store and enjoy;)

Flashcamp 2010

Robert — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:15:03 +0000

There’s a very nice conference coming in April – FlashCamp 2010 in Warsaw. Huge group of well known Flash professionals will talk about Flash platform and it’s possibilities. I’ll also be there, giving a presentation about Usability in Flex projects – all of you are most welcome!
You can check more info on flashcamp.pl

There is a Photoshop ACE in BlackMoon

Robert — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:41:11 +0000

Some time ago I took a Adobe Certified Expert test and passed it – just recently I got a official certificate that I’m a Photoshop ACE. Looks pretty cool:)

Find us on Facebook

Robert — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:39:01 +0000

I’ve setup a Facebook page for BlackMoon Design. “What for?” you might ask, “Don’t you have the blog on your own?”. That’s totally true, but there are some things that aren’t big and important enough to make a decent blog post and are a little too much to describe in 140 chars tweet. So – that where Facebook page comes in. Go ahead and check it out (and maybe even become our “fan” there – why not?).

Judging at theCSSAwards.com

Robert — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:04:36 +0000

I’ve been honored with a position of a jury member at well-known css showcase – the CSS Awards.
You can read a interview with me (and all the other 23 great designers from all around the world) at http://www.thecssawards.com/jury.php

See you at theCSSAwards.com