Draw this again! - Oh Green World update

Here's another progress shot of my piece for the Draw this again contest, previous progress shots can be found here and here. :D It's due on the 30th, anything I should change or anything look out of place? Still tweaking things untill it's done!

Quube TwoDee - a 2D platform game in a 3D shifting world, with physics!

A few years ago some friends and I decided to make an indie games company, Universal Chicken (origins of our company name can be seen here) here's one of the games that we submitted to an Avcon in previous years. 

The game is a 2D platformer in a 3D environment with physics puzzles and it feels a little like running around the face of a rubiks cube made of fruit. Pip takes the role of the main character and will jump push and fall his way through the puzzles. Also featuring a multiplayer version!

In game screen-shots and some assets.

Pip Logo

Pip rough character preliminary sketches

Pip jumping and running animation sheets

How to play sheet

Win lose assets

...Pip with lazer eyes for no particular reason...

Title screen background

And some cubes to cut out and make. :D

It was a great project to work on, the programmers game me a lot of freedom and great feedback! After Avcon we found out that there was another game called Quube so not sure about if were continuing this project or not. But i'll just leave this stuff here and maybe we'll pick it back up again. :D

A coloured squid face and some examples for clients

Today I was browsing the internets for artists and I came along the a few of the artists for Fantasy Flight board games, since its a career path that seems along my lines of work I'm taking a leaf from their book and practising some things that may suit those themes. Oh and here's a bunch of tutorials by Henning Ludvigsen! It includes the technique I used here which was painting wet tentacles. 

15-Sep - Squidz rough greys

Quick greys and some new techniques learned during the night, I'm trying to incorporated more of my line style into my colouring work. These grey are just a rough mostly, just to get initial lighting. I'll run s second pass over it tomorrow and see if I can do some kewl squid/octopus textured skin. :D

Draw This Again - 10Sep progress

Progress for tonight. Oh the trees. I'm glad I did the hard part first...

Draw this again...nights work preview

So here's the little bit that I'm happy with so far, as I'm going through this process I've learnt I don't really know how to draw trees still...

Draw this again contest

Deviantart are currently holding a competition where they're asking for artists to take a previous piece of art and redo it with their current skills. To see how much you've learned and to see what you need to improve on in future work. I've been posting on deviantart since I was a wee teenager, I've chosen a piece and here's some of the progress I've made. 

Here's the original meme

...and here's the piece I did 7 years ago when I was 17. S:

I chose this one because I remember going out side of my comfort zone and learning new things. Also I remember wanting a sense of wonder so I'm going to try and keep and feeling in the new version.

And here's some of the sketches and preliminary value and colour tests for the new piece, to interpret this older piece I've had to use some creative license to make up for my younger selfs lack of understanding of perspective, compositions, anatomy and well most things.

Chimp in a tank, Universal Chicken mascot and some board game themed sketches...

Chimp in a tank is what happens when you have a household of programmers and an artist. Chimp in a tank is mostly verbal ideas and some written down mechanics, so it's hard to show what's going on. So here's some chimpy-themed sketches instead.

So it was late and I was sitting at the table doodling, Universal Chicken doesn't necessarily need a mascot but here's one anyways. The whole shape of the little guy is based off of the logos egg/bird combo.

And here's an assortment of sketches that I drew while gaming and the like. From top downwards: zombies? the some whacky chihuahua and cattle hanging out and lastly a sketch of the abbot from Citadels, cool game that one. The art dramatically jumps up in quality from the first set.

A birthday, some more work and some board games...

So 'some board games' is an understatement. Sorry bout the lack of posts! My awesome friends and partner have let me open a board game a day since the parcel arrived. So spoilt. Reading a new set of games rules is good for the brain but bad for the art.. Eh heh. 

So the board game list tally so far: 

Dixit

Smallworld Underground

Smallworld Realms

RedNovember

Quarriors

Quarmageddon

Evo

Dungeon Petz

Agricola All creatures big and small.

Phew and have we played them all yet? All bar two! 

I plan on sending some art off to a few board game publishers and companies, I just have to make some more board game compatible art to feature in my gallery. Then I'm set.

Tiger bomb!

Also Universal Chicken has updated posts on facebook about the success of avcon and possible publisher details, should be exiting. :D 

Popular Science, the Indie Games Room and a goblin...

Here's the Stick on Parachute piece for the latest
article of Labrats in Popular Science magazine. 

Also here's some mock logos for the IndieGames Room - 2012 edition. 

Just make some changes to the original as requested by the client. 

And a whacky coloured goblin! S:

This weekends work in progress...

Streaming the colouring process of the grizzled orcs sketch

Streaming the colouring process of the grizzled orcs sketch!