I confess to getting carried away with the "Bad Side of Town" concept on the video game I worked on. I figured a bad side of town ought to
LOOK like a bad side, thus the buildings took the shape of rioters battling with the police.
How would a skateboarder navigate through this 3D jigsaw puzzle of a city? I got a start on the problem (above) but I had to put it aside. I was after all supposed to be working on a Hong Kong Level, not a crime city.
I had so much fun on the prop end of what I did for that game that, when I was finally laid off, I briefly tried to sell myself to mainstream studios as a prop designer.
Haw! What a disappointment! Nobody but Spumco was interested in this (above) sort of thing.
At first I didn't know whether the Jungle Level was supposed to cover Central and South America or Africa, so I did both. Here (above and below) are some African huts.
Lots of quick sketch stuff.
I threw in some Micronesian designs, too. It all seemed to fit together somehow.
These Africans worshipped Tiki gods.
There had to be some kind of danger in the Jungle Level and I had a chance to try out different things.
I also did more trees. Who'd have thought that trees would be so much fun to draw?
Here's a black musician pyramid. It wasn't approved, maybe because it was too far off topic.
3 comments:
Still incredibly fun now! I love how well this drawings have stood the test of time.
So I made the plunge the other day and started a free trial of Toon Boom. Currently going through the tutorials on the website and it definitely feels like a diffferent animal from Photoshop or Illustrator. I wanna practice animating with the program too. Besides John K's animation lessons, what else would you recommend?
I really like the battling buildings. That would make for an excellent animated studio logo at the beginning of a film. The tree with the skateboarder in its but and the black musician pyramid are interesting as well.
Roberto: I'd recommend an ipad so you can use their simplified animation programs. If you already have Toon Boom then you don't really need it, but it's a nice luxury to have because it's so portable and the programs are so easy to learn.
BTW: I heard Toon Boom's going to change to a subscription model.
GW: A studio logo??? Wow! Great idea!
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