Character avatar things

Thought it might be an idea to upload all the little icons that will be used in the character selection screens.



Some were taken from pr-drawn pieces, and others I drew up quickly this morning.

The next few posts are going to contain my research for character selection screens, and the images featured are not my own and are copyright to who ever owns them.

Dustor

I had lots of fun drawing this quickly, so I thought I'd post it.
Tis Tom's character Dustor.



He doesn't look very happy XD
I used both my older sketch of Dustor and a picture reference of a gorilla to get the features right.

Character selection screen 1

Ok, so this is the first rough mock up for the character selection screen that I'm doing.

As you can see, it's really rough, and although I like the initial layout, I really don't like the background colours. I want to make this look like a hologram so that it fits in with the rest of the work that everybody else has been doing.



So hopefully now it's more clear as to why I painted the portrait of Lucretia; it's an example as to how detailed all the other portraits would be when selected. I am going to be playing around with various different types of layouts, so expect quite a few more rough ones before I settle on one idea :P

From top left to right characters and their owners:

Lucretia © me, Switch © me, Wip © Dave Astle, Ike © me, Robot © Cat Eardley, Dustor © Thomas Knight, Feline aliens © me, Vesnar © Jay Richards, Thea © me.

I used this for the background texture and this font.

Where to find the others

I thought it might be handy to link the blogs of the others in team "Wenches and Mead" *winces slightly at name :P*

So we have:

Tom: On weapons design, textures and narrative.
Cat: On 3D modeling.
Dave: On 2D sprites.
Jay: Will link once I get Jay's blog address

And thats our wonderful group :P If you go to each blog you will see how everyone's work is being used in different things, several of which will be combined as mock ups.

That's all for now until later, where I'll upload a simple environment concept that I did the other day as well as some other bits and bobs.

Oh yes...

Done :D I'm suprisingly really happy with this despite how much trouble it has given me. It's been hell of a learning experience, and I'm really glad I chose to do it as I've learnt so much. I think my techincal ability in photoshop has slightly improved too so that's all grand :D

I want to put together a few close up shots of the different areas so that you can see the detail.

I'll start a mock up the character selection screen tomorrow, which will also feature very simple portraits of everyone elses characters so that you can get a sense of what it would look like with all the characters to choose from.

I'm really glad that this and the animation are finished now- I feel like I can go on and do so much more work now before assessments.

Resources used to create this:

Stock photo: Katanaz-Stock
Brushes used: adonihs, Ruzaila and trisste-brushes
Tutorials: adonihs and Bobby Chiu

Turn around is complete!

I've finally finished the turn around animation of Lucretia XD I changed quite a few things since my last post. I re-drew her face on a couple of frames as I was really unhappy with them, also added a little more detail in places like the hair and skin, and I played around with the opacity and what not when animating to make the flickering look more noticable and prettier.

So here we are:



It's still running slower online than it does on my pc, but I have no idea why it's doing that or how to change it. I made it a little smaller again, hopefully it fits better on the page again now.

Next to do today is finish off Lucretia's portrait, and mock up what it would like on the selection screen. Should work ok...I hope :P.

The Denalarai

Here's what I was going on about- unfortunately my scanner has broken so I had to get a picture of it, hence the awful quality. I'll see if I can get a scan of it ASAP.

So yup, another alien spices, which I have named the Denalarai. I'm working on the male at the moment and once I get him uploaded I'll include a short description of their species.

I haven't used coloured pencils in absolutely ages, so this was loads of fun to do. I'd forgot that pencils also give you quite a nice texture too ^^ Will experiment further with pencils and possibly gauche paint this weekend with the environment and creature designs I mentioned.