Habbox Graphics
| Habbox Graphics | |
|---|---|
| Manager: | ExtraKen |
| Operating years: | 2007 - Present |
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Habbox Graphics is the team of Graphic Designers who produce most of the graphics you see around Habbox. This includes Habbox.com, Habbox Forum, and Habbox Wiki.
The Graphic Designers produce icons, banners and signature images for each of the sites at the request of various managers and Habbox General Management. They produce a diverse range of graphics in varying styles fit for all purposes, and are especially key to making advertising features for events such as Habbox Summer Spectacular look as polished and fun as possible. The department is currently run by ExtraKen.
The Graphics department has been around from the very start of Habbox. It has had a number of managers, but very rarely an Assistant Manager. Historically, the department is a rather small - around 5-10 staff members, although Drew expanded this greatly in 2014-2015 with the introduction of the Pixel Art department.
On 1st December 2014, a Pixel Art sub-department was brought back by Drew and lawrawrrr. Intersocial was appointed as Senior Pixel Artist to assist Drew with managing the new branch. When Intersocial resigned, Zealoux was appointed as the new Senior Pixel Artist, later rising to Graphics Manager when Drew resigned. Since then, there has been no Senior Pixel Artist and the Pixel Artist role was later merged fully back into the Graphic Designer role.
Department Structure
| Job title | Job description |
|---|---|
| (Assistant) Graphics Management | The Graphics Manager is there to make sure that the quality of graphics are top notch and the Graphics Designer are working. The Graphics Manager does jobs around the graphics forum such as moving tasks when they are complete, writing weekly feedback, writing monthly reports providing feedback to the Graphics Designers when they post their work. |
| Senior Graphics Designer | The Senior Graphics Designer is expected to complete the minimums of a Graphics Designer as well as to help the department run smoothly and give reports to Graphics Designers when required. They also help with department Events like Draw My Thing. |
| Graphics Designer | Graphics Designers are expected to participate in tasks that are posted by other department managers. Graphics Designer make and arrange many digital pictures such as banners, avatars and signatures to use around the Habbox community. |
| Senior Pixel Artist (Redundant) | The Senior Pixel Artist is expected to complete the minimums of a Pixel Artist as well as to help the department run smoothly and give reports to Pixel Artists when required. They also help organise Pixel related competitions. |
| Pixel Artist (Redundant) | Pixel Artists are expected to participate in pixel tasks that are requested by other department managers. Pixel Artists make anything on the Site which contains pixel art; this includes custom Habbo figures, alliterations, icons and forum awards. |
Graphics Managers
| Graphic Managers | Start Date | End Date | Length of tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| ExtraKen | 25-Apr-2018 | Current | Ongoing |
| LUCPIX | 07-Oct-2017 | 25-Apr-2018 | 200 days (6 months, 18 days) |
| Cowper | 26-Jun-2017 | 05-Oct-2017 | 101 days (3 months, 9 days) |
| Drew | 21-Dec-2016 | 23-Mar-2017 | 92 days (3 months, 2 days) |
| Mrs_Plant | 23-July-2016 | 25-Oct-2016 | 94 days (3 months, 2 days) |
| LUCPIX | 24-Apr-2016 | 23-July-2016 | 90 days (2 months, 29 days) |
| Mrs_Plant | 22-Mar-2016 | 17-Apr-2016 | 26 days (0 months, 26 days) |
| Zealoux | 03-May-2015 | 22-Mar-2016 | 324 days (10 months, 19 days) |
| Drew | 24-Jan-2014 | 02-May-2015 | 463 days (1 year, 3 months, 8 days) |
| Nick | 16-June-2013 | 21-Jan-2014 | 219 days (7 months, 5 days) |
| Cameron | 30-July-2012 | 09-Mar-2013 | 222 days (7 months, 9 days) |
| Fudge | 24-Nov-2011 | 12-May-2012 | 170 days (5 months, 18 days) |
| Skynus | 29-Oct-2011 | 21-Nov-2011 | 23 days (0 months, 23 days) |
| SyrupyMonkey | 30-May-2011 | 29-Oct-2011 | 152 days (4 months, 29 days) |
| Headlines | 15-May-2011 | 29-May-2011 | 14 days (0 months, 14 days) |
| Myke | 06-Mar-2010 | 15-May-2011 | 435 days (1 year, 2 months, 9 days) |
| .-.eXtra.-. | 30-Dec-2009 | 19-Feb-2010 | 51 days (1 months, 20 days) |
| iConz.. | 16-Mar-2009 | 14-May-2009 | 59 days (1 months, 28 days) |
| Favouritism | 30-Aug-2008 | 16-Mar-2009 | 198 days (6 months, 16 days) |
| .-.eXtra.-. | 11-Apr-2008 | 30-Aug-2008 | 141 days (4 months, 19 days) |
| Roboevil | 17-Jan-2008 | 11-Apr-2008 | 85 days (2 months, 25 days) |
| .-.eXtra.-. | 26-July-2007 | 16-Jan-2008 | 184 days (6 months, 0 days) |
Graphics Assistant Managers
| Graphic Assistant Managers | Start Date | End Date | Length of tenure |
|---|---|---|---|
| .-.eXtra.-. | 30-Nov-2008 | 16-Mar-2009 | 106 days (3 months, 16 days) |
| Everlong | 15-July-2008 | 26-Aug-2008 | 42 days (1 months, 11 days) |
| .-.eXtra.-. | 30-Mar-2008 | 11-Apr-2008 | 12 days (0 months, 12 days) |
Graphics Events
The Graphics department is involved in the making and running of departmental events as part of larger festivities such as HxSS and HxEE, but has also in its past had a series of larger HabboxForum and client events. Some of the major events hosted by the graphics department is shown below:
| Event Name | Department | Date | Winners | Brief Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stolen Artwork | Graphics & Competitions | August 2013 | N/A | HabboxForum users were provided with mini profiles of different Habbox staff and different pieces of artwork related to profiles - players had to match these staff to the correct portrait based on the clues in the artwork. Points were awarded to HxSS teams during this event. |
| Draw My Thing | Graphics & Competitions | N/A | N/A | TBC |
| Codebreaker | Graphics | August 2014 | N/A | Users had to guess a random sequence of 4 colours based on hints from the host - e.g. "1 Correct, 0 Correct Position". Winners would earn their team points for HxSS. |
| Picture Perfect Memories | Graphics | August 2014 | N/A | Users had to search the hotel for screenshots they could take in relation to a caption in the scrapbook. For example, "Ooh, a blue beach ball!" would mean a screenshot of a blue beach ball is needed. Special captions such a "7 Wonders" were also made available. Users would win points for their HxSS team and every entrant would go into a raffle. |
| The Dog Ate My Homework | Graphics | September 2014 | N/A | TBC |
| The Timekeeper | Graphics | October - November 2014 | N/A | Entrants were provided with a normal photo/picture and had to use various effects (whether via pixel art or photoshop) to enhance the image and make it scarier. |
| Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? | Graphics | December 2014 | N/A | Users had to gather various objects in order to build/fully complete a snowman. Objects were acquired via Habbo, HabboxForum and also the Habbox.com site. |
Trivia
- **Between 14th May and 20th December 2009, the role of Graphics Manager was fulfilled by the then General Management team.
- Up until .-.eXtra.-. became Graphics Manager, the department had been managed by Sierk and the General Management team for three years.
- For a while, Habbox had a second graphical based department, the Pixel Art Department, which co-existed with the Graphics Department. It closed but was brought back temporarily as a sub-department in 2014 by Drew and lawrawrrr.