Items tagged with 'Rex'

It’s called Eyelevator, it costs £2.39, and it’s out now on the PlayStation store as part of The Studio. That’s pretty much all the informtion you need to know - go forth and decorate your XMB! Here it is…

Haha only kidding, It’s waaaaaay cooler than that, it has stickers of fun things all floating upwards towards the top and… oh just take a look for yourself it’ll be easier.

It’s been a while so it’s probably time for another piece of found art, our supposedly regular blog feature where we, um, find bits of art simply lying around the office and we pop them on the blog for all to see.

Like buried treasure, we stumbled across this rather tasty pirate sketch that Rex gone done on a bit of paper.

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Leave anything near Rex and it will become awesome and doodled upon. This envelope is a perfect example…

It’s GameCity 5 in Nottingham this week, and as part of the fun, the organisers put up a load of really nice new white walls around the place. They were really shiny and really brightened up the place… Then Rex turned up with some spray paints and pens and ruined them, they aren’t going to be happy about this!

Oh wait, he was meant to be doing it... oh ok… phew I thought we were all going to get in trouble!

I had a couple hours to paint the wall (I was using spray paint so I had to be quick so it didn’t gas the visitors who were turning up to eat Sushi and watch me working). I managed to not kill the Major of Nottingham (the real mayor, not just a FourSquare user). The mad scientist in the upper middle of the main wall, and the pyramid-head-man on the left panel are my favourites.

Other people drawing on the walls to create awesome included Keita Takahashi of Katamari fame, Baiyon of LittleBigPlanet 2 soundtrack fame (oh, ok and PixelJunk Eden) plus
Babsi Lippe, Sarah McIntyre, John Aggs, Daniel Grey and Tom Brown. You can see some of the things they drew over on Sarah McIntyre’s blog.

The fun and games are going on all weekend, so if you are in the area, you should pop along to Nottingham and join in with some Game City Shenanigans!

When you come back to the studio after being away on holiday for a week or so, you expect your chair or keyboard to have been been stolen by someone, and for your desk to be taken over by someone else. What I didn’t expect was for my monitor to be covered in a zillion post-it notes all with copies of the same doodle on…

The original was a doodle by Rex I planned to use in a found art piece, but just before I went away, Michelle decided to absentmindedly stamp some graffiti over it it whilst hovering over my desk chatting. The Bonnets doodle was ruined… kind of.

Whist I went away however, Michelle and her gang of ninja doodlers clubbed together to reproduce the picture a billion times, more than making up for the act of vandalism in the first place… Yay for Michelle, and yay for bonnets!

Yesterday the office was in the throws of chaos, crates being filled up with stuff, everyone getting ready to move office. Right in the midst of this chaos,  a delivery man arrived at the door with an exciting package for Alex. iPad!

Watch in wonder as Alex unboxes his iPad, and marvel at how within a mere 5 minutes,  Rex has come to draw on it.

Just like an amazing unseen creature captured on film by David Attenborough and his BBC film crew, on a recent train journey to Scotland, Alex managed to sneak up on Rex unawares, and capture this footage of the man at work, filling a page of his sketchpad with nonsense.

Click through to see the final piece, and what happened next…

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I’ve always said that if you leave anything on Rex’s desk it will be covered in doodles before the day is out. I left my Macbook Air on his desk to test the theory and look what happened!

A new character springs to life courtesy of Rex’s modified business card.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the world’s favourite image manipulation suite, and chief tool used in the making of lolcats, Photoshop.
Let’s raise an overly lens-flared champagne glass in celebration!

Computer Arts interviewed a selection of pixel-loving doodle gurus about how Photoshop has changed their lives, including our very own Rex Crowle. Here’s what he did say to them.

What was the first version of Photoshop you used?
Version 5.0 as far as I remember, before that I’d been using Corel PhotoPaint (as it came free with my “Multimedia PC”) and before that, Deluxe Paint on the Amiga.

What were your first impressions?
Initially I was a little disappointed, as it had less plugins than PhotoPaint and no animation features. But, I hadn’t learnt at that stage that plugins are generally pointless, it’s how you use the basic tools that matters!

How would your job be different if Photoshop didn’t exist?
I would destroy a lot more forests-per-day than I currently do.

What do you hate about Photoshop?
The ease of undoing! It can be easy to obsess over redrawing tiny elements to get them perfect, hammering away on the Apple-Z keys, and completely losing the flow of the main piece.

If you had to give one Photoshop tip, what would it be?
Keep it simple and don’t get too distracted by software features. A good idea should still work even if you draw it in MS Paint with a trackball. Although it’ll look rubbish, so don’t do that.

Head on over to Computer Arts to check out all the other similar interviews, including one with our friend Jon Burgerman.

Oh and remember, Photoshop is a powerful and dangerous ally, and not everyone should be allowed to use it.