Blackthorne, Onegai Teacher + Twins and the Aries Project
While working on Blackthorne, I was wondering how to do the header images. I have decided to use both Onegai Teacher and Onegai Twins screen captures (Does anyone know of a better screen capture tool than CaptureMe for OS X? I mean, one that works while DVD Player is running.) for the header images and other art on the site that isn’t my own. I just hope it works out as well as I imagine. I am pretty certain on what fonts I will be using for Blackthorne, but I still consider Trebuchet, Helvetica and Verdana at times. The Blackthorne style does NOT work with sans-serif or semi-serif fonts. Right now, the hardest task I see would be slicing it and coding it in CSS. I have not done a full CSS layout before and I would like to get much better at this. Plus, I would like to update this homepage and make it look much better. Thus, I will be working a lot more in CSSEdit than Photoshop in the next few days.
But one thing concerned me. Blackthorne was looking WAY too much like the original Aries Project. In fact, Blackthorne started getting too close to it for my own comfort. I had to do a few modifications to the design so that it was a complete derivation from what it was supposed to be. But the important thing is that Blackthorne is supposed to be something that is mine and mine alone. Is that selfish? Possibly. But hell, this is something that I am going to be working hard on and I want it to be mine and mine alone. Plus, I want something that is purely mine and not reminiscent of Bryan Veloso’s Avalonstar. Sool, I will show you a preview of the .psd I have so far and hopefully, you will get a vision of what I am looking forward to.