BlackMoon Design

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 [...]

Here’s a short video with a fast-forwarded process how we create character illustrations. Character illustration step by step from Robert Podgórski on Vimeo.

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 [...]

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 [...]

In this post I’ll show how to create a fantasy illustration in Gimp. We’ll design a (rather sexy) fairy.

Here’s short (6 minutes) tutorial showing how to separate a complex object in GIMP. It’s extremely useful for cutting out hair blown in the wind. Before: After You can download higher resolution video for that tutorial here.

In this tutorial we’ll create a simple (yet very usable;) AIR application. This is a calculator widget with custom, chrome window. The main point of this tutorial is to show how to create chrome windows, add your own window managment functions (to close, minimalize and move the window) and create key based events.

I would like to demonstrate what you can do with Gimp in creative photo manipulation. Gimp is a very powerful tool – and you can have it for free at http://gimp.org Here’s the photo we’ll start with: The photo itself is very nice – but the only thing that annoys me are the people all [...]

One of the most common tasks I do with Gimp is to seperate a part of the photograph, so I can use it in my Flash projects later. At first I had problems when it came to a objects with hairs – fortunately I’ve learnt quite easy way how to do it. So – here [...]

In this tutorial I’m going to write about how to prepare nice cartoon, based on simple shapes with gradient fills. Although it’s hard to make detailed graphics this way, the cartoons have one strong advantage – you can scale it downto a very small size and it’s still clear – that’s why it’s perfect for [...]