Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Aulani Desktop Wallpaper on the Disney Parks Blog!

Aloha from sunny Florida!  Last month, I've  made my debut on the Official Disney Parks Blog with a desktop wallpaper depicting Disney Vacation Club's newest location...Disney's Aulani at Ko Olina, Hawai'i!

As you've seen in my other art, I tend to favor two-dimensional "head-on" scenes versus angled, perspective scenes...so creating this desktop wallpaper presented a little bit of a challenge for me.  Originally, I wanted to go with a "vintage travel poster" kind of look...using very simple shapes, loads of gradients, and almost zero realism.  I did, however, take a stab at a dimensional image by using a recent photo of the lobby building as my template.

My original concept for the Aulani Desktop Wallpaper

After some feedback from Disney Vacation Club and the Aulani Cultural Committee, more detail and color was added to produce the piece you see on the Disney Parks Blog today.  Head on over to the official Disney Parks Blog today to download it for free here!

Artwork by Jason "Tiki" Tackett.  Artwork ©2012 Disney


As always, thank you to all my friends for their continued support with these projects...and to you for sharing your feedback!  Stay tuned for sneak peeks of projects I am working on...and for information on projects I have recently finished!

2 comments:

David said...

The original concept is all kinds of awesome.

Jason "Tiki" Tackett said...

Thanks, David! :)