New Logo, New Me!

Old Me.  2008 - 2014.

For years the online persona known as Blue Highwind has been represented by a little photoshopped image from "Final Fantasy III DS"*, originally drawn by Akihiko Yoshida.  I loved that little creation as the little Luneth Dragoon with some color correction was everything BH needed to be.  I like FFIII, Luneth was my favorite character there, and Dragoon was my favorite class.  But now thanks to my dear friend TacticAngel, admin on the Final Fantasy Wiki, and wiz with art stuff, things have changed.  He's drawn a fantastic new form for me, because he is very good at drawing, and I am merely average.  He is also fantastic at coloring and I am brutally terrible.  More impressively, he got these professional quality images done in a single night, all without pay!  Because he's that awesome.

And we also have a brand new logo!  With a floating space monkey on it!  That's you by the way, you're Space Monkeys.  You float though space oblivious to all, having no connection to civilization beyond my own magnificent blog posts or Youtube rants or if you're into the classics, my FFWiki Walkthroughs.  ...Or well, that's what seventeen-year-old would say back when I lost most of my connection to reality and became a prisoner on these wonderful interwebs.  Modern me is more modest and possibly more mature, but you're still Space Monkeys, and you better press what buttons I order you to, or no bananas!

Anyway, here's the old logo.  Old Planet Blue Logo:  2009 - 2014.  You will be missed:

And after the break, I have a small gallery of TacticAngel's absolutely brilliant, magnificent, and completely hyberolic work.  Thank you so much, dude!  (He was also one of the best commentators on that Final Fantasy VIII Let's Play I did last year.)


TA's artwork of Internet Me.  I color-corrected the eyes and hair to be more similar to real-world me.

Color corrections:

Really rough sketch I sent to TA as inspiration.  Brilliantly captured with a potato camera:

You guys, a Space Monkey:

Finally, us together:

And that is that.  I've been meaning to change my Internet persona image for years, since stealing from Square Enix official artwork was bound to result in a lawsuit eventually.  This is much better stuff.  Enjoy the new, cooler me.  (Though I'll keep around the old me for smaller icons, just because I'm really sentimental about that past.)

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* The increasingly misnamed "Final Fantasy III DS", now that it has been ported to the PlayStation Portable and is soon to be out on Steam.