Commercial | Empowered Life Solutions | Logo and Bumper

This one has been one a while in the making.  And I am very happy to post about it.

Thor Media was approached by Josh Lee.  Someone who we have done work for before.  Specifically some CG work for a short film based on the book "Alliance" by Gerald Lund (I posted about it here).  And Josh asked if we could put together a logo and a bumper for Empowered Life Solutions LLC.

It was slow going, because of different scheduling difficulties.  But, so far, this has been one of the best work situations I have been in.  And learned allot on how to deal with timing and other issues that may arise with a client.

Here are some of the process sketches and other ideas that we played with. Also a shot of website with the new logo.

Midnight Light Live Wallpaper

Another Live Wallpaper out.  I did the concept and did most of the asset creation in Gimp and Blender.  Kudos to Bryce for all his hard work on the programming end of things, and getting it all put together.  He is a freakin genius.

We at Thor media would be very grateful if you would go out of your way to purchase the app and review it. Or if you want to check out the free version and just review that, that would be great as well. Here are the links for the PAID and the FREE versions.

Also, if you are interested, been doing some really simple web design on the the Android Development page on thor-media.net. Check it out!

Thor Media's first Android App!

Well, it has been out for well over a week now, but I thought I would still post about it, since version 1.5 was just released.

I have had the opportunity to take charge of the art direction and do allot of the modeling and texturing for  the wallpaper.  This specific live wallpaper is directed towards anyone who is passionate about music.  The wallpaper showcases different instruments and objects related to music and was built to be very visually appeasing.  So if you are interested and have an Android phone, click here and get your copy of one of the best live wallpapers for Android today.

Here are some stills of a few of the objects I modeled.  All objects are under 2000 faces and textures are 512x512px or less.

Low-poly modeling, with a limit, is a challenge.  Especially when you are dealing with n-gons.  I discovered that when baking textures, n-gons are your worst enemies.  But overall it is fun to try to push your models and trying to figure out where you need detail and where you don't, to get the most out of your models.

Another note about this stuff.  I recently switched over to Kubuntu to see what kind of perks it might have.  I am falling in love with it.  Visually speaking it is quite appealing.  I am not sure if it has any performance advantages over other distros, but it does have really nice tools for Wacom tablets, and has other perks, if you are working with Krita.  I am hoping to do some time lapses in the future, and they will probably all be in Kubuntu.  Keep and eye out for that.

One last thing,  if you haven't tried the recently released 2.8 version of Gimp, I highly suggest it.  Its really  nice.

Thor Media Pamphlet

Here are a few pamphlets I put together for marketing.  I really had the chance to dive into Inkscape and enjoy the vector "landscapes".  It makes page layout much faster and easier.

Thor Media LLC Logo Bumper

This is the Thor Media LLC logo bumper. It was all done in Blender and we are planning on using this particular logo for a while.

Thank you to Aaron Thorup for collaborating with me on the logo, and Bryce Thorup for providing critique on the bumper itself