Happy May the 4th! Star Wars tile art theme

So, finally got around to doing the Star Wars #tileart theme. We had a few requests come in for this one…

@TileArtGuy Just want to say that i love you work! Any chance you can do a Star Wars tile art for the Lumia 1020?

— Parth (@TheIndianJedi) March 8, 2015

@TileArtGuy cool, but what about Star Wars theme?:)

— Pivazi Zurab (@PZurab) February 19, 2015

@TileArtGuy how come there isnt a star wars/ darth vader art so far….

— Parish Pokharel (@parish_lfc) February 9, 2015

@TileArtGuy nice can I request star wars or star trek start screen design cheers

— RWatt📱➕🚘=❌ (@rolandworf) February 4, 2015

After a lot of thought I decided to go with this Dark side vs Light side (Ying vs Yang) approach to the home screen. It doesn’t use the real-life characters from the films, but I think the comic book art adds a nice effect. I especially love the white theme.

One thing I have to say…is long live the stylus! This is the first time I’ve tried the stylus on my new Surface and it’s been incredible!. First time stylus user, so all those wacom experts please forgive my enthusiasm 🙂

Anyway, here are pics and videos to show the home screens in action. Links to the images at the bottom of the post:

The theme was only possible thanks to the awesome artwork form RebornRock, Kevin Nowlan, Tim Bradstreet, Tony Harris, Joe Quesada and chrono-strife

You can find all the images used to create the two themes here – http://1drv.ms/1ETJpn0

The Joker Lumia 930 Tile Art Theme

Although this home screen does have some Joker artwork from random comics, if you haven’t read Batman:The Killing Joke, I’d highly recommend checking it out. It’s the origin story of the Joker told by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.

Well, both Bobby and Jez wanted to see the Joker make his Tile Art appearance…

@TileArtGuy A joker theme would be awesome !

— BobbySchaw (@Bobby_Schaw) September 20, 2014

https://twitter.com/MSFTY/status/481181721283796992

So without further ado…

Link to the PNG images and background here.

Sin City Lumia 930 Tile Art Theme

Sin City, one of the best requests I’ve received so far.

The reason I loved it so much is that Frank Miller’s artwork was the reason I got into tile art to begin with. Here’s a pic of the first home screen I ever customized back in 2013.

It also came at the perfect time, having seen Frank Miller’s amazing Dark Knight comic come to life in the “The Dark Knight Returns” animations just last week.

It was a bit tricky to create this transparent theme, given that all of Frank Miller’s Sin City artwork is mainly black & white, but I hope that I managed to do it justice here.

You can find all the images used for this home screen here.

Full Throttle Lumia 930 Tile Art Theme

Right, so this is one of the stranger requests…it comes from my dad!

When I was a kid growing up I had a small chair which I used to drag into his office so I could watch him play various PC games that came out back in the day (wonder where my passion for gaming comes from). I remember games like Dig, Half Life, Wing Commander and Quake, but the one that really stood out…was Full Throttle.

The game was developed by LucasArts back in 1995 and was designed by Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle). The artwork looked amazing, but what really made Full Throttle unique was the impressive story line, voice acting and humor.

One of the funniest moments I remember from the game was watching my dad lose his temper on one particular part until he jokingly released a box of bunnies who then proceeded to run across a minefield while Wagner’s Flight of the Valkyries played, only to see them blow up and clear the path before the hero…brilliant.

Anyway, dad, here’s a home screen just for you.

PNG images can be found here.

Assassins Creed Lumia 930 Tile Art Theme

Between South Park The Stick of Truth and Shadow of Mordor I haven’t had the chance to check out many new games lately. So when Suraj requested an Assassins Creed home screen it was only natural that I dived straight into Assassins Creed Unity artwork.

@TileArtGuy could you make an assassins creed inspired home screen for #Lumia630?

— Suraj Shiva (@suraj_shiva) October 10, 2014

Now, although I tried to stick to one Unity theme, I couldn’t resist using Adewale from Black Flag. He looked too bad ass not to be on the home screen.

I thought it was really important to mention that while I trawl the internet for awesome imagery, preferably PNG images, I’ve started to find a lot of people who create amazing renders on Deviant Art. Renders which turn great game and comic images into transparent PNG. These are the guys who provided some of the Assasins Creed artwork: JaRenders, BriellaLove and Zero0Kiryu.

You can check out all the PNG images used on this particular home screen here.

Request: She-Hulk Lumia 930 Tile Art Theme

So, it’s been a while since I last jumped into the tile art…for the last month or so I’ve managed to lose a phone, finish off one of the biggest work projects of my life, attend a wedding in Mexico and fulfill my life long dream of pretending to be a dolphin…

Now that I’m back I’ve jumped straight into finishing off the requests, starting with this one from MoBedeGuti:
https://twitter.com/GutiMob/status/509994559192190977

Obviously I had to do a little digging into She-Hulk and if you’re interested here’s a great video about the Origins of She-Hulk.

Well MoBedeGuti, here you go bud:

As usual, you can find the PNG images used here.