Not my most amazing job ever, but I was bored and it was something I wanted to do. I mostly based it off Bob Welch's eponymous 1981 album (minus the segmented distortion shifts since it looked weird on Bruce), as it looked fairly easy to replicate. I also made textless edits with filters and AC's Gaia Records logo I tend to use; the one on the left is general purpose, while the right side is more suited for avatar use.
My Wahu Journal states that Bruce is a bass player in his band, but he uses a rock guitar here as it was what I had on hand. Besides, many bass players can also play ordinary electric guitars; I could imagine Bruce being such. I also took pictures with Lopez doing the same thing, but he would blend in with the background fairly easily.
There were times where I've felt that my Lopez and Kyle banner was too wide to be paired with other things (see first post), so I decided to make a new one that's smaller and only features my go-to antelope. Why the Pegasus? I think they're cool.
A new holiday banner is definitely on the horizon at some point in the next few weeks, but I wanted to toy around with drop shadows, colors, fonts and arched text (it's more painful to set up than you think). Of course, my guy Roscoe is featured. I honestly think that the 80s retrovibe style is up my alley, so I found a cool wallpaper image on the interwebs and went to work on this banner. Maybe down the line I'll make this more postcard-like, but for right now I'm leaving it as it is.
Alright, I'm going to cheat and mention that this isn't something I made in Photopia. Rather, it's the first thing I made and screenshotted in Garry's Mod...
It's not perfect by any stretch of the imagination (no speakers and no amps lol), but finally. The band I created are actually performing something. For those of you that read my Brucewood Mac origin story on my island journal thread (totally not a plug to go read it if you haven't), you'll notice that Katt has a guitar rather than a keyboard. I'm still experimenting on how to scale certain props to fit those of the villagers, and was having trouble with trying to make a specific keyboard prop fit Katt's size. To be honest, I actually like her playing guitar this way.
Of course, the default graphics in GMOD aren't all that fabulous, which is why I applied some heavy filters to make it stand out better. Regardless, I can't wait to see what else my mind can come up with down the line.
Happy New Year everyone! Here's another thing I did in GMOD:
It's a redo of my previous Antelopes Are Hard to Find cover, now looking more natural with the photo studio setting and villager poses. Also, I decided to have Bruce hold a cupcake as sort of a tie-in to this being my first official TBT Museum contribution for 2025 (on the album cover this is based on, John McVie is fittingly holding a champagne bottle). Overall, I tried to go for a mixed magazine cover/greatest hits album look.
I really should give some other villagers I like more attention, but I really can't get enough of these four. What can I say? I honestly feel happy when I take the time to make my dumb ideas more of a reality.
This might be recognizible to most of you that like '80s music. It's based off Fleetwood Mac's 1982 album, Mirage. Really didn't take long to make; all I did was pose the characters on a black background and added filters afterwards. If I knew how to easily change their clothes (I have the addon pack from the workshop), I could easily make it resemble the original much more, but I'm still in that basic learning phase.