Monday 22 November 2010

Lighting on the title.

I added a title into my game case but thought it a little too plain so I went into filter > render > lighting effects and added some extra lighting















I went with the light brighter on the word Plants and darker on the word Zombies kind of giving it a look of good vs evil I also added a screenshot of game play on the back so that there is a small glimpse of game play its self this is the current result.


Friday 19 November 2010

Spine, coverfronts and titles oh my!..

I have added a title to the spine of the games case I also added the age rating I also thought that just the plain green background with a grassy look just wasn't enough so I took a picture of the zombies and made it slightly transparent so that it is still visible but so it doesn't dominate the grassy look of the background I did this by going to, Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options and adjusting the opacity this is what it currently looks like.





Back Page Note

Instead of the normal little bit of information about the game I decided to leave a note (Like the zombies drop in game after you beat each stage) but rather than copying one of the notes already in game I decided to create my own note by taking some of the existing notes cutting out the letters with the polygonal line tool just to make things easier and quicker, when cutting out all the letters one by one I had allot of layers so I grouped the layers into the words just to keep my layers tab as clean and organised as possible it also allowed for easy movement of the complete word rather than moving them one by one in the right place I couldn't find an F so I had to slice up a T and an R then stick them together to make the F.The note says.
Hello, We are the Zombies cud we boro a cup of brainz Sincerely, the Zombies.
This is the finished note.

Monday 15 November 2010

Plants VS Zombies CD Cover

Working on the CD case for my Plants VS Zombies project at the moment I have put in a textured green background and using the diffuse glow filter to give it more of a look of grass with this game being all about gardens I thought this to be my best way forward I also used the ruler tool to mark out where the spine of the case will be so I have a clear view of what will be front and back (Although it does not show in this picture).

I also cut out the face of a plant from the game as well as a zombie, I did this with the magic wand tool after adjusting the tolerance slightly to get the best results in certain areas and added them into my case.