Monday, October 4, 2010

A New Look for Cyclopeatron

You probably noticed the new color scheme and banner art for Cyclopeatron. The black background was getting a little tiresome for me...

Does everything look okay on your computer? If there are any problems with size, color, or formatting on your browser I'd appreciate a note! Thanks!

Here's a nice pop video for ya! Be sure to stick through the first 90 seconds to get to the really good stuff!

20 comments:

  1. Thanks! It's like a Richard Powers painting floating in chocolate milk!

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  2. I love the new image. The new font is hard for me to grok, though. I think it's that big giant "A"- it looks like Cyclo-pea (as in the veggie)-tron to me, rather than Cyclo-pe-a-tron (the way I imagine it's supposed to be said).

    Otherwise, very nice. and the issue is clearly mine

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  3. I like it, it loads a lot faster than the other as well.

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  4. Man this new look is incredibly cool! Looks great on my old mac :D

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  5. Good choice of musical stylings.

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  6. Love it. The painting looks like the kind I see on my 50's sci-fi paperbacks.

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  7. @Bigby & Bliss - Yeah, the banner image is a 1979 painting by Richard Powers. Powers was a major force in paperback art in the 50s and 60s especially. He almost single-handedly began moving sci-fi imagery away from the representational art of the pulps, towards a hardcore surrealism that appealed to a more "sophisticated" audience publishers began to chase as the pulps started to die out. In the 50s Powers did some major breakthrough covers for Heinlein and Clarke that had a major impact on sf/f art.

    Powers painted in the same style throughout his life and was a very interesting character.

    (When I originally started this blog I was planning on focusing on fantastic illustration art, but no one was really interested. People like the gaming stuff, so that's what I mostly focus on now.)

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  8. awesome vid. Like the new look, a lot. No probs here.

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  9. The city with the spire reminds me of the movie "The Abyss".

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  10. Approved! Tell the boys in marketing they're doing a bang-up job. Now phone my secretary and have her send you a box of cigars. The good ones, next to my Filofax.

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