full release about 4Kids hosting Big Big Battles after the jump.
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What does this mean for Big Big Battles?

Things have never been better! Big Big Battles will continue to develop and grow at an even faster pace and at an even higher level of quality. It also means Big Big Battle’s files and updates will be available from their website and not this one. Look to TylerTinsley.com for a develops blog and papercrafted.com for sneak previews of whats coming in the future.

What does it mean for papercrafted.com and TylerTinsley.com?

It means I’m hard at work, not only on Big Big Battles But on an entirely new set of games and projects to fill my pages at papercrafted.com and TylerTinsley.com with the quality content you have come to expect! It also means these pages are on something of a hiatus as I prepare these projects for release.

Eye movement
You need only look at the first page of Bone in B&W and color to understand how much color can effect how a readers eye moves not only from panel to panel but much more importantly from subject to subject within each panel. In the B&W bone the eye starts at the mountain’s shadow and moves clockwise around the panel actually reading contrary to the normal left to right direction until you reach the first word bubble. In the color bone the eye starts at the nap sack because it’s bright color stands out against the desert and catches the eyes attention first. Just as the eye is draw to the spot of white on a black page, the eye will be drawn to a bright color on a pale page and vise versa. Controlling a readers eye movement in this way makes a book easy to read.

Literal colors Vs non literal colors
Literal colors are colors that represent the actual color of the subjects portrayed in a scene. If a page has not been designed to read well with literal colors it can be difficult to read, this is why some comics that look really good can read like crap. Just like a B&W artist must make sure they are staging their characters in the proper positions in a panel to read correctly a literal color comic must be sure to stage it’s most noticeable colors in the proper positions in a panel. A master of literal color would be someone Alex Ross.
Popular with earlier pulp comics and import comics, non literal colors are colors that do not necessarily represent the color of the subjects portrayed in an image. This style of coloring generally relies on impressionistic sensibilities to chose what color things should be. It is generally easer to compose a comics page using non literal colors as you can adjust a subject’s color so that the eye looks at it in the right sequence. A master of non literal colors would be someone like Moebius.
Combining both types of colors is changeling but can prove rewarding, if done incorrectly it will leave the audience confused about why everything keeps on changing colors. If done correctly you wind up with compelling and dynamic imagery that reads well.

The problem with “Color Theory”
The use of rules pertaining to specific colors, hues, or saturations, lies much more in an artist choice of style or a time periods taste then it does in discovering some type of universal law of color. Over the years color theory has changed and morphed right along side the passing trends and fashions of the people who were making it up . Not that developing your own theory or use of color is a bad thing, just know that it’s really all up to your style.

How does a Press Release start? a Press Release starts in your brain. Your brain sends a message to your website’s readers (fans) that it is time for your website to change. Your websites readers make a special chemical or hormone called promorone. Promorone makes you’re website grow taller and change shape and causes your readers to make links.

full Release after the more.
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Those who have played my games and the designers who I have play tested with know that I have a knack for component design, taking complex rules and systems and making them into streamlined and intuitive components is my specialty. So I wanted to tackle the task of taking sony’s new PS3 TCG The Eye Of Judgment from the digital board to the real-space tabletop.

This printable PDF has everything you need to play Eye of Judgment without the aid of a PS3. Just like the video game the field tiles flip to change element. The field tiles also have health meters so you can keep track of each monsters health without using handfulls of tokens. Tokens that keep track of the health are also colored to match each player so you will never be confused as to who’s card is who’s, Along with separate energy trackers and reversible dodge/invisible tokens this is a whole solution for playing eye of judgment when your power goes out.

Download and construction instruction after the more

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