Work Update

Well I have one theme 40% done and several concepts under way (pre-alpha). The big news is, I aquired several new programs that I am in the process of learning how to use, namely: Cinema 4D, Terragen, and Erain Swift3D. These programs will help make my themes even more awesome.

On a side note, I would like to point out that I havn't recieved any comments on ANYTHING! Please don't be afraid to post. Heck, what you say dosen't even have to be inteligable! JUST LET ME KNOW THAT LIVING PEOPLE ARE READING MY BLOG! I would like to feal that I'm not wasting my time here, but it is starting to feel that way.....

Avatard :p

Yea, I know, my new avatar is prety darn scary. I do believe it's better than my last though...

Its prety accurate except I messed up on my nose. When you enlarge it, it dosnt look so creapy though. I think I will color it... Eventualy....

"Skull's Soul"

Well its finaly done. Halloween theme is here! It took way longer than I expected, but what the heck, I think you will find it worth the wait. This theme is comprised of skulls and lots of them! Every wallpaper has skulls, every icon has skulls, and i bet if you were trippin balls, you would see skulls in the audio too!

This theme has 9 HD wallpapers, a complete icon set comprised of skulls that have a sweet transluscent quality to them. I also included my normal audio set. I swear, eventualy I WILL make a new audio set. Audio is hard though, so untill I come upon a large ammount of free time, no new audio. ENJOY! And dont let the zombies get ya....

Link to download. If you need download instructins, look to my other posts. Its in here somewhere....
Skull's_Soul.p3t

and....SAFE!!!!!!!!!

Well, by a stroke of geniouse on my part, I got my computer working again without the need to delete anything! I now know exactly what was wrong. A rootkit had taken over anati.sys driver, a highly critical driver, and was denying access to it.

How I fixed it: I loaded up my broken computer on a port of WinPE called Active@ Boot Disc and copied the entire C: drive to a WD 1Terrabyte drive. On a whim, I plugged the drive into my brothers netbook and scanned the entire thing with Kaspersky AV. IT FOUND A ROOTKIT IN DRIVER ANATI.SYS!!! I searched my brothers netbook for the drive and copied it to a flash drive, put it into the broken PC and replaced the original infected driver with the netbooks driver. I re-booted the computer fully expecting it to blue-screen again, BUT IT LOADED UP!


Yea, so now stuff is workin and the themes can roll on! I am making final preperations to release Skull's Soul theme! Just in time for Halloween!

First steps.

To my imence pleasure, I was able to rescue all my data. My computer, however, will not escape the hard reset... bummer. The only upside to this is whole ordeal is that now I am an even better troubleshooter. I was good before, but now I have a program called Active@ Boot Disc. IT IS THE SINGLE GREATEST PROGRAM EVER. LOOK IT UP!!! So yea, its going to be some time still befor I'm making themes again. I have to re-install all my programs still, but at least the data is safely on my WD 1TB drive now.

Murphy's Law...

The law that sometimes seems to govern my life. It states that "If something can go wrong, it will". I was preparing my next Halloween macabre skull theme when that Microsoft upade shield poped up. It updated while I ate dinner. When i got  back, I tried to re-boot my PC and to my infinite horror, it bluescreened... then blackscreened. I tried all the boot options (safe, networking, last known config and normal), but it always Blues then blacks. I am locked out of windows *sob*. I am fairly sure that it is being caused by a malfunctioning driver called TDI.sys. I am currently able to recover my files by means of a WinPE boot disc, but i dont think that I will be escaping the imminent 'full reset'. Needless to say, I wont be making any themes for quite some time. I am now posting from my brothers netbook, which most certainly cant pull the weight of the programs I  use. I have to *sniffles* re-install all my high end graphic design programs. I expect to be opperational again between 14 and 21 days. Wish me luck.

Wallpapers

If you don't have the money for an entire theme, you can always spring for a wallpaper. They're versatile, cheap, and fun to make. I make them in dimensions that are compatible for your PS3 or your PC (I guess they would work on Mac also, but i dont have a Mac so I'm not certain).  Heck, if you know the proportions of the picture you want (in pixel size), i can make a wallpaper for anything!

To my knowledge, there isn't a free image hosting site that does justice to my hi-def pictures. one sight made a red picture blue... So I packed all the wallpapers I was going to post here into a .zip file. You can download the pack and just keep the ones you like. Keep in mind that these files are sized for PS3 wallpapers, so there is a minute amount of distortion if you use it as a PC wallpaper.

This is the Rapidshare link. It links to a .zip file. once you have downloaded the file, right click it and select 'extract all'. Enjoy!

Wallpapers.zip