Nintendo Badge Arcade is a free-to-play game for the 3DS in which you play a crane game to unlock badges to decorate your 3DS's home menu with. By Installing custom firmware to the 3DS users can make their own custom badges out of 64 by 64 pixel PNGs. There is a special kind of badge called the mega badge; it's made up of two or four normal badges, but the parts appear as one badge when viewed on the top...
Last week, I came across a quiz that asks the quizzee, "Is this song title from Kirby or Touhou?". I thought that I would do very well at the quiz, because of how many Kirby songs I know, but I only got 66%. Then I wondered, “Are all of these Kirby songs actually real?” To satisfy my curiosity, I tracked down the source of every song title myself. I made the mistake of doing this before checking to see if...
I've never been that big of a fan of most emoji. Apple popularized the the use of gradients in emoji, but I think it just looks so ugly . Gradients look nice in a background, but the moment they're put into a character design they just look tacky. The reason I like flat colors so much is because they don't have any ugly gradients, they're easy to draw, and they're easy to read at small sizes .
Today, I was working on the social media ads for RCP and I needed to space out the numbers in "1,500,000,000". I first clicked "create outlines" so I could move the individual digits around. I knew there had to be a tool to space them automatically, but I didn't know where it was or how to use it. Following a guide I found online titled "How to Evenly Space Objects in Illustrator", I selected my objects, then clicked "Horizontal Distribute Space" in the Align window. Nothing happened. I tried again and again; Did I select the objects wrong? Eventually, on a whim, I decided to ungroup the objects. It worked perfectly. Illustrator has good tools, but it's frustrating when they're so unintuitive.
. Gradients look nice in a background, but the moment they're put into a character design they just look tacky. The reason I like flat colors so much is because they don't have any ugly gradients, they're easy to draw
, and they're easy to read at small sizes 
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