Jacob Schulke

Star Trek Illustrations

Jacob — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:21:56 +0000

A while back I did a Kirk Gorn illustration. I did a series just never got around to posting til now.

Star Trek is copyright Paramount Pictures

Snake Eyes - Arashikage ninja

Jacob — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:01:55 +0000

Snake Eyes was my favorite G.I. Joe when I was growing up.
Penciled and hand inked then scanned it in and colored with Photoshop.

G.I. Joe Snake Eyes running action pose with Arashikage symbol in background.

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Best fight scene ever - Well maybe not

Jacob — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:44:19 +0000

Kirk vs. Gorn was good entertainment… the cheesy guy in a rubber suit beating the snot out of Captain Kirk kind of entertainment. I woke up this morning with this image in my head. Made it in Adobe Illustrator added texture with Adobe Photoshop.

Thinking of doing Star Trek themed series this style. Do you think I should?

Art Deco flyer design process - Twin Cities IT Social

Jacob — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 02:30:29 +0000

When I was asked to create a flyer for the Twin Cities IT Social that is taking place at The Forum on April 28^th, I was excited; first I got to design something and that is always fun, second I got to dust off my Art Deco Book.

I first started by reviewing the information and photos of The Forum provided. I then did a google image search and created a mood board with results. I was surprised at the amount of time I spent on creating and arranging the board.

While taking in the board and thinking about the theme of the event I decided I needed more social images to inspire me. That was when I found the Dunnhill poster. The Dunhill and the style of the woman in the bathing suit posters influenced the form of the flyer.

After sketching out the illustration I scanned it in, used Adobe Illustrator to create the base form. Then I brought the illustration into PhotoShop to add some finishing touches.

I used the community at Forrst.com for feedback on the design. The community was especially helpful
regarding the typography.

The finished flyer:

If you are going to be in the Minneapolis area on April 28^th
and would like to go to the Twin Cities IT Social please register.

Surender your bananas! - Space Monkey Bandit

Jacob — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 05:46:54 +0000

Email Marketing - And RSS Publishing

Jacob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 21:20:12 +0000

I have been testing different email campaign engines and how they handle RSS feed distribution. The goal of this post is to test various email campaign services and how they scrape content form the website, either they publish the RSS excerpt or scrape the HTML form the page.

Findings:

Mail Chimp Can display full HTML and images, strips CSS class on image, had to use a little custom code from this post to get HTML and images to display the way I wanted.
FeedBlitz publishes the HTML of the full post, with CSS classes intact can add custom CSS in the head to float images. Funky GUI over all and has few template options that I could I find.
iContact publishes the excerpt from the RSS feed, no images little design control.
Campaign Monitor Couldn’t find a way to send out RSS automatically

Over all I like Mail Chimp for both regular email marketing and RSS email publishing.

Green Lantern CSS logo - Pure CSS HTML

Jacob — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:50:00 +0000

Inspired by Pure CSS Shapes: Triangles, Delicious Logo, and Hearts and with Free Comic Book Day coming up I created a Green Lantern logo using CSS, HTML and no images. Only works in Fire Fox. I created a new version, now works in FF, Opera and Webkit.

V1 Demo

V2 Demo

Simple bits - CSS ascii art

Jacob — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:33:28 +0000

Simple Bits has some fun ascii art in the their css

Twitter Bird Illustration - Free vector download

Jacob — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:15:38 +0000

tweet: vector and raster pack

One Adobe Illustrator file

Two PNG transparent background raster files (315×309 and 590×573)

Adobe AIR Battle of the image re-sizers - Shrink O'Matic VS ImageSizer

Jacob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:21:55 +0000

In this corner coming in at version 0.25 Shink O’Matic! And in the far corner coming in at version 0.5.3.1 ImageSizer!

Shrink O’Matic comes out strong with drag and drop image resizing, with a fresh and clean design.

Oww! ImageSizer strikes a blow with whole folder import, screen snap detection and drag and drop image import options.

Shrink O’Matic hits back with four output formats, auto file renaming. Follows up with a round house blow; intuitive navigation.

ImageSizer comes back strong with individual file renaming, cropping and image rotation. ImageSizer finishes with output to a new folder, a zip file, Flikr and Twitter upload options.

ImageSizer! The winner!

For a client with little understanding of images who has a 50 megapixel camera, because he likes big numbers, and only wants to upload a few pictures at a time Shrink O’Matic is most likely the best fit for him. For a professional photographer who wants to upload whole galleries to his NextGen gallery ImageSizer may be the right fit, import a folder output to a zip and upload it to an album/gallery. The down side to ImageSizers is the single file format output and complexity of options. Shrink O’Matic is easy, maybe too easy, but has multiple file formats to choose from.

What do you think?