BlackMoon Design

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:)

Have fun with DoodleBlast!

Robert — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:30:14 +0000

We have created yet another great game. It’s called Doodle Blast and it’s a puzzle game where physics plays a major role. You need to draw lines in order to guide falling marbles so they will fill the jar. The game has got a nice, sketchy feel.

The DoodleBlast primary licence was bought by i6.com gaming portal. The game also entered Dare with Bamboo and won 2nd place at the competition. DoodleBlast should be lanuched on Bamboo Dock platform pretty soon.
Click here to play DoodleBlast.

Lemon Film Studio

Robert — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:02:52 +0000

Some time ago we’ve launched a new website for one of the major polish video producers. Lemon Film Studio mainly specializes in producing commercials, but they’re also doing documentary films production. We’ve created a WordPress based website to showcase their work. The site has ascetic and minimal feel to it, with biggest focus on the videos.

Home page

We have also created a custom, Flash-based video player for the website.

Video player

You can check the site live at lemonfilm.pl

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

Sketchbook update May 2010

Robert — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:06:18 +0000

New portion of pretty cool illustrations made by us.

T-Rex walking animation and free model for download

Robert — Mon, 24 May 2010 13:00:45 +0000

Here’s something nice from BlackMoon’s team. We were experimenting with Away3D and we were in need of some nice 3D model to use in our playground. So – we’ve created a very nice, low-poly dinosaur and make some walking animation to use in Away3D. Click here to play with our dinosaur. Since we’re rather nice folks we figured out that we’ll share both the model and our Away3D experiment – if you’re interested – go ahead and download the files here. (it’s free to use for personal and commercial projects btw.).

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

Creating character illustration step by step

Robert — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:14:55 +0000

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.

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).