The Devil's Garage » Character Development

Goat from Bad Egg Pitch

Diablo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:29:33 +0000

Vretta Illustrations

Diablo — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:05:09 +0000

Worked on a few illustrations for Vretta’s cloud-learning blog

Robots

Diablo — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:55:52 +0000

Concept robot art.

The Illusionist

Diablo — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 04:12:12 +0000

Character Design

Diablo — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:05:10 +0000

Character Design for a platformer game. Shall post more once the game has gained more traction.

Wall Defender MX | Game Development

Diablo — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:15:43 +0000

Wall Defender MX is a pet project in development. It’s a clone of Bomb Software’s 1983 Atari Game by the same name. This game take a bit at the lone spaceman defending his last place in space, defending the dysfunctional dead-space fortress as it drifts though Xorthor territory and other space bandits zones. The Video-cap featured here is a preview of art development of the game.

Different Body Types for Creating Characters

Diablo — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:56:13 +0000

Illustrated below are a few sample body shapes I use for creating characters.

If you love designing characters and need a place to start, I’d recommend Cartooning; The head and figure – by Jack Hamm. The book has a relatively large collection of different part of the body.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Diablo — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:05:07 +0000

Character Model Sheet

Diablo — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 06:15:27 +0000

Scared Boy – Render

Diablo — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:14:00 +0000

Color tests and render work for scared boy.

Face Expressions

Diablo — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:20 +0000

Character Concepts

Diablo — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:08:47 +0000

Concept art designs.

Wall Defender – Character Color Tests

Diablo — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:41:28 +0000

These are some of the concept color tests that won’t make it into the game. Burn in oblivion, spaceman.

Game Concept – King Solomon’s Mines

Diablo — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:01:01 +0000

King Solomon’s Mines (KSM) is a game concept based off the book by the very same name. Here one gets to play as the protagonist in search of the fabled treasure of King Solomon. The game concept also draws a lot of influence from God of War 3 that puts a huge emphasis on making the player feel minuscule yet powerful as Kratos (the protagonist) compared to the rest of the world and its elements.

KSM is a side scroller 2D pixel-style game with a multitude of enemies and equal number of special combo moves as the player hacks and slashes his way though the kingdom in search of treasures.

KSM is only a test game and will be made with Stencyl (Flash game maker). Working on this mini project would give me an opportunity to collaborate with other Stencyl behavior programmers and strengthen my knowledge on how to make a solid game with Stencyl.

Brandissimo Christmas Card 2010

Diablo — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 01:46:33 +0000

Castle Crasher Walk Cycle

Diablo — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:13:59 +0000

Related posts: Red Knight, Red Knight Gets Down.

Fallout 3 | Vault 108 Run-Cycle

Diablo — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:25:49 +0000

Got the run-cycle nailed down correctly in Flash, but it doesn’t look like the best cycle. For now it helps my purpose so I’m going to stick with this.

Fallout 3 | Vault 108 Concept Designs

Diablo — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:52:13 +0000

Concept art for the main character. Run-cycles coming up next.

Character Mouth Shapes

Diablo — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:27:31 +0000

Building Robot Walks and Other Assets

Diablo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:25:36 +0000

Game development is really fun, especially figuring out timing on different characters. Here’s a preview of what this bot’s walk cycle would look like.

Everything, By Everyone

Diablo — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:32:08 +0000

Last August a few of us Newgrounds followers had caught up with Nathan, an indie film maker for a documentary film on Newgrounds and the Interbutt. It was an interesting interview in which Nathan asked us what got us into animation, the earliest memories of Newgrounds and where we thought this medium would be taking us.

Recently, Nate mailed saying that he’s uploading his documentary to Kickstarter, asking netizens of the Interbutt to help fund his movie. We spoke about other ways to get this message out there so that more people could support this project. My friend and I have been working on a concept to make this message go a bit more viral. We’re also on a tight deadline to get this completed before the Kickstarter deadline. (Project funding closes on September 1, 11:59 pm EDT)

The concept is quite simple: one plays as Nate, the Indie(ana) Jones who is being chased by this big boulder of time to get all the funding he needs for his project. He needs to collect every little gem he comes across and avoid pitfalls and dodge objects that come across his way.

After we worked out a list of art and animation assets to be made, I roughed out some concept art for the game play and dived right into the style that I wanted the game to look like. First targeting the character designs, turnarounds and run cycle.

Now Nate doesn’t look anything like the character and I felt that I really needed to tweak the art style or do a completely different approach to make the character look more like the reference. Deciding to go 8-bit style, I was able to get Indie to look exactly like Nate…
For the technically curious, Pixel Tools, v2.0 pixel plugin by the neuroscientist Patrick Mineault, is a boon to Flash artists/animators everywhere. I was able to work around the bug that kept crashing Flash.

This game style is a bit new to me as I haven’t worked much on this patience-draining-yet-worth-every-second art approach.

Will keep you posted on further updates.

Protected: Project X – Game Development

Diablo — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:32:52 +0000

The Red Knight

Diablo — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:53:12 +0000

I’ve been working on a submission with a fellow programmer for Newgrounds’ Robot Day. The game is a fan-based take on Castle Crashers and I completed most of the Red Knight assets for programming.

The character went through a bit more evolution and I fine-tuned the colors so it’s easy to animate. I decided not to use strokes or lines so as to keep the animation easy and that way the turnaround time for the assets would be quicker.

Character Poses For an Old Game

Diablo — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:38:59 +0000

The Kid from Vault 101

Diablo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:00:34 +0000

I’ve been wanting to create a Fallout 3 game for a very long time. Here are some assets I made over the weekend.

Run cycles of the Kid from Vault 101.

Comic#3 Three Diggas and a Mallu “take a bus to Goa”

Diablo — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:13:51 +0000

Three Diggas and a Mallu is a series of comics based on my k-12 school friends who have been around since the last two decades. These jokes are very colloquial and are all inside jokes, so I don’t really expect any one to understand them.

Comic #1 and #2 Three Diggas and a Mallu Walk into a Bar

Diablo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:48:00 +0000

These are three comics I made for close friends sometime late last year.
The humor is very colloquial. The character development posts can be read here and here.

The Power of the Decoder

The Trip to Gokarna with Adithya Kote

Ashwin’s Birthday

Damn Barbarians…

Diablo — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:34:00 +0000

I won the Castler Crashers Car Design Contest!

Diablo — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:42:00 +0000

Forgot to mention that my “Chicken Car” design got featured on The Behemoth Blog (makers of Castle Crashers).

Read an older post about the whole design process. Cheers.

Update: Got to meet Kelly Revak from The Behemoth over at Comic-Con 2010 and she gave me some sweet Behemoth swag. Thanks!!!

Weird Heads and Big Heads

Diablo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:55:00 +0000