EqD Event 3 Submissions - Day 9

Quickly putting this up before I run out to do some dA errands. Long story short, this was supposed to be a simple crossover submission for the NATG's ninth day, but the temptation to go the extra mile expanded the scope of the production into a love-letter to a game I don't even consider my favorite. Who'da thunk?

I originally intended to create just the doodle at the center of the image; while I had trouble going forward with Pinkie Pie in a retro style, I wanted the Vault-Boy and a pony from the start. As I looked up references from Fallout, I checked for the font behind the series, just out of curiosity. Turns out it's Monofonto, and I already had it installed. I then stumbled on the fact that "Fallout Green" is practically the video game equivalent of "International Klein Blue", so that had to go in, too. Oscilloscopes seemed pretty cool, too, and I had just the right textures...One thing led to another, really.

Process-wise, I went back and forth between Paint Tool Sai and Adobe Photoshop. I rendered Pinkie, the Vault-Boy, and the non-alphabet symbols in Sai, while I dealt with the text, layout, gradients, and textures in Photoshop. Special thanks goes to all those anonymous folks who were nice enough to share their screencaps of Fallout on Google Images and the like.

"My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic" © Lauren Faust and Hasbro
"Fallout 3" © Bethesda Softworks and ZeniMax Media
All rights to their respective owners, too.