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.