BK HatFlip

Still playing with my buster.

The Beautiful Launch: THE MOVIE

Goop & Poopy

Yup! It's goopy. And it's a little  poopy.

Jingle Jangle Jingle

Playing with and figuring out some more ideas and techniques for how to make 'rough-painted' animations. And showing some ED-E love =)

This is a combo of Photoshop, AfterEffects and Flash.

Bit more Flash fiddling

Weeeeeeeeeeee!

Flash fiddling

Spending some more time fiddling around, familiarizing myself with Flash.

POP!

A little project to play with some painting and animation techniques... as usual. This is made with Photoshop and AfterEffects. The more I use Flash now, I really want to experiment with combining all three of those programs!

Check out the attached (VERY) interactive version here =)

Me' Bronson!

A game I have enjoyed a lot lately with a sense of style I VERY much appreciate is OTTTD (Over The Top Tower Defence). One of my character's names is Bronson Laughpain, and yes, he is rapid-firing smiley-bombs out of a teapot! Don't question me' Bronson!

If you're one for some silliness (and fun tower defense), check it out =)

As a break from my recent Flash animation thing I'm doing - I needed to do something speedy and more rough. I've been wanting to play more with animating with Photoshop's video layers. There is so much muckin' around to be done with them. Check those out too =)

Poop Walk

another bit of a little Flash project I'm playing with. Onto something else for a bit though, then back to it =)

Poop Run

You could say this run cycle is... shitty. =D Poopy Knight FTW! This is just one piece of a little project I'm wanting to put together of this guy sometime. I made this using a combo of Flash/Photoshop video layers. =)

yo flash face

Having a crack at branching out and learning flash. This is the baby-step project for me to help me out for a more complex one. The animation side of things is kind of a happy place for me - but I am new to the coding side - so this thing ain't perfect but I tried! =) 

Check out the interactive version here

This is inspired by this freakin cool interactive display from Soap Creative in Sydney.

Bombstrich

Far to go - but I did figure out some IK stuff in Unity and got this guy runnin'. Like a... like a bomb...ostrich.

Learning and talking and painting!

So I attended a Masterclass with Valve/Weta artist Laura Dubuk - already a favourite artist of mine...lucky me, it was awesome. It was mostly about one of my favourite topics- Level Design!  =)

We did a bit of practical practicing - I haven't done any photo-mash + paint pictures in a long time but for quickness' sake, that was my approach for this one.


...also...

Some little character designs and animinimations

   me. RUV. simple. limited. animation.

   and character design.

...made some.

...photoshop and after effects.

NOW he knows where you are.

Rough concepts everyone! Rough concepts =)

So if you don't catch the head - It'll jump back into it's body and it will come straight back atchya. Longarm's head and shoulders rotate quickly, his body can move pretty well, but his arms are slow. You'd be thankful for that...

Now, alternatively, if you do kill the head - Longarm will get up on it's own and be pissed right off and stupid reckless. But of course - blind. This is dangerous but also exploitable. Outsmart the fatso.

EXPLOSIONS in motion - Longarm's head

So I have a video game world idea (EXPLOSIONS) that I use as a vehicle for thinking about game design and visual design. For a while now, I've wanted to illustrate some scenes and aspects of the game, but then display them as little animations. So here we are - for practice, fun and hopefully some viewing pleasure.

I will add more and more tidbits of the world, building up this thing I call Explosions =)

 This is the head of our most common enemy, Longarm. It acts as a zippy little scout for the slow, lumbering Longarm robot - and once it knows where you are, it will quickly return to its body... unless you catch and stomp it into the dirt. BUT. Doing that won't  make the big bot too happy...

Spaceman Spiff X King Sepiad

Bout to get messy here! I've wanted to mash up Ratchet and Clank with Spaceman Spiff for a long time now. It's just so...right! 

Do yourself a favor and the next time you see a RaC game, imagine it is being narrated by Spiff like he does. ;) For me, the best one for that was A Crack in Time because of its mini planets - perfect for some ... Spiffing... 

Nechy's green grubby-ass grotto

Playin' =)

R.Y.N.O V

Up there with Mr. Zurkon, Ratchet and Clank's RYNO V has got to be my favourite weapon from any game. If you don't know - along with everything explosive or deadly, it also blasts the Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at full volume! Brilliant...BRILLIANT :)

Looking to Kiillll Youuuuu

I love Mr Zurkon, he has to be one of my favourite things from the Ratchet and Clank series...that and the RYNO V.... :)