Charlene Fleming

Monday, October 8, 2012

Alternative Press Expo 2012

It feels as though it just happened a few months ago but the Alternative Press Expo is happening this weekend. I'll have my books and prints from last year available for sale as well as some new prints and pins. I'd like to design pins for every San Francisco neighborhood eventually but three are a decent start.

I'll be sharing a table with my pal, Traci Hui, as always. You can find us at table #501, which is very close to the entrance and easy to locate. Here's a map of the expo floor with our table marked in red.

Hope to see some of you there.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Godfather: Park Avenue

We had a lighter-than-usual workload on the Godfather: Five Families team earlier this year and decided to take the opportunity to bust out a unique new expansion. I suggested we make this expansion take place at night, as we were all getting burnt out on using the standard warm Godfather palette. I painted two racket buildings and the background plate for the neighborhood view. It remains my favorite Godfather release to date.

The only part of the background plate above that I didn't paint was the Estate Tile, which is the bright building at the top with the lit-up roof. That was painted by my intern, Mclean, and is actually a separate tile that grows as you upgrade your Estate.

I don't like drawing attention to shortcomings in my work but I think it's important to say that there are areas near the top and bottom of the background plate that look bare or unfinished. These are areas the user interface covers. I usually don't paint these areas much (if at all) since they won't be seen by the player. It allows me to spend my time making other areas that the player will see look better.