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Website Design – DuaneWoods.com

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Shawn
Posted in Web Tagged apple, coverflow, demo, design, duane, editing, film, flash, mac, reel, tv, video, videography, Web, woods

In the summer of 2008, I designed my brother’s professional website. He’s a videographer and editor and wanted a site relating to film/tv. He is also very technical and familiar with various lighting rigs and cameras. So I combined the two ideas using concrete lights and cables with the “filmic” background to give the appearance of Northern Lights we saw so much back home in Manitoba.

He uses a Mac, therefore the Coverflow navigation was a perfect fit for his website. It is easy to use and expandable to display more movie clips in the future.

Visit Duane’s Website at http://www.duanewoods.com

UI Design: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade (XFire Skin)

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Shawn
Posted in 2D Design Tagged art, artist, dark crusade, dawn of war, design, hud, LinkedIn, relic, rts, shawn, supervisor, thq, ui, web design, woods, xfire, xfire skin

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
XFire Skin

Xfire^TM is a free tool that automatically keeps track of when and where gamers are playing PC games online and lets their friends join them easily. It works regardless of game type, server browser, or gaming service that a player is using. Xfire eliminates the hassles of running multiple programs like IRC, instant messengers, or in-game friends lists to keep track of when and where a gamer’s friends are playing. It supports the best and the latest online PC games including server and non-server-based First Person Shooters, Real Time Strategy, and Role Playing Games.

This was a custom skin I made for Xfire using key UI elements from the game.

You can download the skin here.

Hello world!

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Shawn
Posted in 2D Design, Art Direction, Games, News, Web Tagged 2D, 3d, 3d studio max, art, artist, blog, cg, cgtalk, character, creative, design, director, Games, interview, intro, photoshop, shawn, Tutorials, Web, web games, website, woods, zbrush

Welcome to my new blog! I have decided, after much deliberation, to switch to a blog format. This will allow me to update my website a lot more often. I also plan on writing some industry-related articles, and post links to information that interests me.

Thanks for visiting!
- Shawn