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This image is not available for use by anyone else.Current work. Concepts for The Orion games series by Spiral Game Studios. All done in Photoshop CS5 from scratch. My first character and vehicle designs - as you can see I got better as I went on with the multi-view stuff. I hadn't done this before so had to basically pick things up asap. Projecting something is actually quite hard initially but I have now discovered people generally use 'isometric projection' rather than real life perspective projection. Like anything, it all makes sense eventually.
These characters are going to be playable 'good guys' with individual abilities and parameters which will be evident when the first game of the Orion series is released some-when in March 2012. There are 3 other character types already designed for the games. They form a team of 'Carriers' that have to work together to accomplish goals whilst being attacked by dinosaurs.
For more info on Dino Beatdown see this link [link]
Each character would be created in 1 day - cost for similar £100 ($160).
The VTOL took longer, about 2 days with revisions. Cost for similar £200 (£320).
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Great job with the various views of characters and machines!
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Cheers - another one people don't tend to comment on.
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really? I don't know why, this is decent work
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I think concepts on white backgrounds don't appeal to the general public, as they aren't complete pictures, I guess.
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maybe that's it...that's happened to me before too, where a character of mine gets ignored because of lack of background. I try not to do that to other artists...
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Good concepts here. The action art is solid. Recon art is great through and through. Support profile view seems a little off to me. I can see you had originally sketched his legs in another position, which would have looked odd. Instead of bring the whole leg forward more though I would have bent it at the knees a bit. He seems a bit like he's falling backwards. Vtol is fantastic. Solid piece and a great total concept composition. Having the size reference for the Vtol really helps establish the scale of things.
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Cheers NV. You are right - the support was my first ever character, followed by the recon and vtol. I definitely improved as I did them as I had no understanding of the formula beforehand. Glad you confirmed things for me and I will continue to improve.
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sehr gut
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Sorry, no english
very well
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yourwelcome king .
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Show those to Steve-burg, I'm sure he will be impressed. [link]
If need advice from him about CGI stuff, don't be affraid to ask. He might even hook you up with a video game beta test or maybe allow you to be involved with making one!
He created the CGI ships for Babylon 5 the TV series and many Star Trek episodes!
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Cheers Arch! I have looked at his website - he did the concept for the wormhole machine in Contact too. Very, very good!
I will contact him and see what he has to say. Thanks again Arch!
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I almost forgot about this game! It's the one where you hunt dinosaurs with space age weoponry right?
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You may be right!
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They look cool! Although I don't know much about the games!
How is the reading going? did you find an author you like?
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Thanks Holly. Not specifically - I like the book I am reading now (Colin Harvey - Damage Time), which is great!
Other than that, Wilbur Smith is still my fave, even though he does a different genre entirely of course.
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You're welcome!
I don't seem to find time to read anymore! I got the Game Of Thrones series for Christmas and haven't even touched it!
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I hate it when that happens - loads of good books lying around but no time to read them. My only time is when I go to bed. Then I end up falling asleep within a few pages...
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