Well, a big thanks to Kickstarter.com for featuring our game there.

Another shout-out for Indie Jones @Blodic.us, sweeet!

To learn more about Indie Jones, go here.

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.

Recently Nate mailed saying that he’s uploading his documentary to Kickstart.com, asking netizens of the Interbutt to help fund his movie. We spoke about other ways of getting this message out there so that more people could support this project. My friend and myself 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 is over. (Project funding closes on Sep 01, 11:59pm 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 art 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 the tool had 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.

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This is a small animation that I created for the instructions page for the game mentioned in the earlier post. I’ve included the Flash source file so that anyone can use it for their non-commercial/personal projects. Feel free to download the FLA file and possibly create your own animation with these assets!

The audio track is by REECEY-BOY

I’ve received quite a few requests to create a tutorial on how to rig characters for animation and games. That article will soon be covered.

Cheers!

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.

If one goes back to the roots of this day, it was first observed by formerly enslaved black people in South Carolina, honoring the Union soldiers who had fought for the preservation of the Union. That’s definitely a reason for humanity to celebrate and it doesn’t matter in which part of the world it’s observed. I wonder how many other cities outside the USA have a day off work?

Want to know more about Memorial Day? (wikipedia)

These are some of the earlier concepts I made back in 2007. It’s about a team of nerdy footballers and their friends.

Roughed out something quick before jumping into my next assignment. I find it very relaxing to take a break and doodle. Nope, I don’t smoke.

Run cycles of the Kid from Vault 101.

Got cranking at the animatics for Tetanus Shorts, and here’s a video where I’m working on the first three scenes of the animation.

To view the storyboards, go here.

As much as I really didn’t like Wordpress, I never thought I could pull off this whole website in under two week without the help of the Interbutt, WP, everyone’s philanthropic contributions, plugins and themes.

Most recent updates: Other than the fact that a good portion of the site has been revamped, do check in for new content over the next few weeks. I also understand that a lot of the earlier posts have broken links and I’m working on correcting all that.

Here are some initial concepts I was leaning towards when redesigning this site.

The biggest challenge while working on the layouts was to create an intuitive navigation that was easy to understand and always had scope for expansion.

It was this layout design (below) that I felt best suited the new design. I dropped the Print and Illustration links and combined the content under a Design category.

The last step was to quickly work up a logo.

Enjoy!

Sweet! Thanks to Tom Fulp for posting Kevin Bacon Head-in-a-Jar on the Newgrounds.com homepage. Screen Cap!

Made these assets for a top-down shooter game. Rigged the assets such that one can create more jets from random combinations of jet parts.

My friend and I had been working on some scripts for Tetanus Shorts around 8 months back. We had ambitious plans of making this a series that may have a run time of approximately 4-5 minutes. Upon revisiting the project this week, I churned out this storyboard for a short where the two main characters grab a bite.

This is one of the finished pieces I had done for a client sometime back. They preferred another one, so this goes right into the Garage Black Book.

“Do. I. Look. Like. One. Of. ‘Em?!” – Louis
This is a continuation of the small Left 4 Dead project I’ve been working on and off on for Newgrounds.

Bacon and eggs are the best things to have happened to breakfast (and lunch and dinner. Thanks, 24 hour breakfast).
Well, the best things don’t always happen to games and thats why Sean James Games Chains McKenzie is gathering his thoughts about this subject matter here. I was commissioned to work on the mascots “Bacon” and “Games.” Here are some of the preliminary sketches and color treatment for “Games.”

Ref: here and here.

Pvt. Bedlam is a game concept inspired by the movie Jacob’s Ladder. Bedlam’s crew was picked by the Army to try out new experimental performance drugs to make universal soldiers, but things go bad with the first batch of testing and the Private is one of the mad survivors who is hayballin’ his way outta there. Alice’s Restaurant Massacre would probably be the most fitting track for this game.