18 // Good to Know

Featuring Playground Bully, Barish part 2.
Or as anonymous calls him, "The Office Hobo".

And yes, shameless plug for little bunnybe! She's been neglected. Note the BunnyUSBe ^_^
The actual ones I use have a kitty holding an ichigo, and a kitty. The other one just has a strap.

I have about 3 usbs I switch in and out for different purposes. Some work, music, driving tunes, or temp files etc. Each usb has a big difference in storage and it's easy to mix them up. I have a bunch of cute cell phone key chains that I can't use anymore because my phone doesn't have a strap holder. I put one on each usb so it's a lot easier for me to fish it out of my purse and a lot less easier to lose. Can't tell you how many times I misplace these! You get the idea =)

17 // Fashion

Featuring the Playground Bully, Barish. Part 1.

He gives me shit for basically everything, but I don't take it. I usually throw it back in his face. This was a bit of an adaptation because James came up with the "Top Tier Hobo" line, that I used when this situation came up.
I got this kick ass jacket from Harajuku in Japan a year back. It's super unique so I'm a bit hesitant to wear it sometimes because it's a bit showy and out there because of that. But it's such a cool jacket, and I figure I can get away with it since I'm a designer. =)

True definition of frienemy

Barish: I left you some poisonous bears on your desk.
Alice: OH It was you! Usually you wait until someone eats it before telling them it's poisonous.
Alice: They are cute though. I'd thank you if you weren't trying to kill me.
Barish: I figured I'd leave them for people I want to kill...yourself & Doug for example.
Alice: Thanks man. You're so swell.

Censored

She doesn't have a filter! She's just ice cold.

16 // Designer Insults Part II

Featuring another jerkface.
A few years later, when I started working at Trion as a UI Designer, this happened to me. I thought it wouldn't happen again. I was wrong. Different guy, same insult.

15 // Designer Insults Part 1

Featuring some douchebag. XD
Going to be the start of a series of Designer Insults! I have some really good ones lined up. It's ridiculous some of the crap people have said to me about being a designer/artist WHILE they are trying to hit on me. It's like.. "Really guy? REALLY?" This one happened a few years ago while I was working at cyworld doing web design/UI work.

Rift Mobile!

Something we've been working on for the past couple of months. Has definitely been a challenge since we had a small team to work on this. I was the only artist, and we had 3 engineers, to work on the iOS and Android version part time while 1.6 stuff was coming out. >_< iOS beta version is out for now. Android will be released soon. Soon as in, when the rest of the engineers are back from winter vacation... =P
Kotaku and Massively. This app is totally free, and can be downloaded from the marketplace. http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/rift-mobile/id471051079?mt=8

I did all the art for this app, and here are some of the minigames we call lootables. These are much like scratchers where you match icons to win a prize. All prizes get sent to you through in game mail. We had a lot of thrashing from branding about this not looking Rifty enough, but to be honest, mobile games have to be fun and appealing! What's more fun then cute critters and crying snakes? Ahaha.. There are hidden crying snakes on each card. Why crying snakes? Because their tears are the rarest drop to complete your tears artifact collection. The art for these cards were done in order below, so you can see it gets progressively more elaborate. If you're a Rifter, these items should look more than familiar to you!

Other cool features include being able to chat with your friends and guildies. I've been using this app everyday, it's really nice being able to feel connected to your friends all the time. Easier to coordinate events as well.

Standards

While I was working on the art for the RIFT mobile app ~

Alice: What's up?
Kevin: Just coming by to take a look at your progress.
Alice: This is going to take a while. =(
Kevin: Yeah and you gotta make it better than the last two projects because of your standards.
Alice: Damn my standards!