N7day - Blog Posts
Last year you guys got Shepard: http://fav.me/d85nv1z This year you get Kaidan!! And damn does this boy need some love after Bioware's N7 Day live broadcast. There was a lot of Kaidan bashing going on! So I'm showing my love for him! Enjoy guys! :3 Credit: Kaidan: http://me-for-xna.deviantart.com/art/Kaidan-Nude-DL-491685082 Guns: http://nach77.deviantart.com/art/Pistols-369874391 and http://nach77.deviantart.com/art/Sniper-Rifle-369875152 All other modification by me. All characters are property of Bioware and the Mass Effect Team! (Good work guys! <3) NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT WAS INTENDED!
-N7 Day 2022-
As mentioned yesterday, here’s my new minimalist Mass Effect title card!
I’m a big fan of title sequences (and main menus in games) as the choice of art and music really sets the tone for the whole experience from that initial moment. This is one of the many things Mass Effect does so successfully, and I love playing with these moments as it allows me to do fanart of a favorite series, while still hanging out in my typography/graphic design happy place.
For this year, I wanted to explore a more alien design, maybe a strange new world we could visit in a new Mass Effect. I love doing minimal, restricted color palettes with different textures providing the details and variations. This idea was born from the classic N7 red for the text, which then spread to the planetary surface in the background.
And then these mysterious obsidian orbs hovering over these impact craters. Or maybe scorch marks... One of my favorite things in ME1 was discovering those weird ruins on random worlds, often with the single chrome sphere hovering over the surface. I wanted these orbs to hearken back to those moments, but also be different.
That’s all I’ve got. Thanks as always to Bioware for creating these games, and I look forward to new adventures in the future!
For now, though, I should go.
In anticipation of N7 Day tomorrow, I wanted to share this minimal fanart title card I created last year. After the teaser trailer that confirmed it would continue the story post-Shepard, I was thinking about possible storylines, about rebuilding in the aftermath of ME3… and the tagline “Reclaim the Past” kinda stuck in my head. Which is where this sorta overgrown stone title text came from—the need to rebuild, but also the idea of nature reclaiming broken worlds.
(I was feeling nostalgic for the old font on “EFFECT” so I used that instead of the newer, more squared-off version.)
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Can’t wait to see what they do with the next entry in the series! (And I have a new title card I created for this year that I’ll be sharing tomorrow!)