Friday 29 June 2012

Updated Pitcher plant guy!

Take-a-look-a THIS! *gong sound*

I just removed those ball things from the hips and shablammo! This also helped me make it look better colored in

I did a few other things to make it gel better, namely I made the eyes the same as the fingers, toes and the spikes that jut out of its back.

Now all I have to fix is the underwater Blue creature.

I'm not sure how much needs changing to be honest, both color schemes I designed for it don't look quite right, but at the same time I need to make it recognisably blue. I'll possibly need to find a better plant design. One thing I may consider doing is removing the wibbly fin bits from the stalks, so it looks more like a reed.

I guess we'll just have to see!

In Zog we trust.

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Plant Dudes update!

I've changed the pumpkin guy!

Suffice to say he's a lot more firey now, which is nice.


There are still things I would want to change about this, mainly I need a better means of scanning in the drawings. My solution is simple however, just use higher resolution images and scans. The composition can be better too, but mostly this was to get the designs looking right. The only design  that I entirely like however is the mushroom guy. The greens have funny hips that I don't know what to do with and I'm not sure about the color scheme used on the blues. Another thing they lack is a single unifying feature that would make them look less like seperate entities.

I'll dwell on it for a while.

In Zog we trust.

PS I posted some new images on my deviant art account.

Check it out Y'all! (the funk soul brother).


Friday 8 June 2012

Some plant dudes!

Ever played Overlord? They had these minion fellas who had four different colours and jobs. I decided to make my own version out of plants. and here they are.


The Browns are the Mushroom guys. they are physical attackers who use weapons and can wear armour and helmets to protect themselves

The Reds are the pumpkin fellas and they're as halloweeny as all hell. They use their flaming carved pumpkin heads to spit fireballs into their stalk hands so they can throw it at distant enemies. Yes, I said 'Stalk hands'. Real pumpkin leaves look nothing like that, so its just part of the vine. The main body of these guys are green, I'm currently working out a way to make them more red and Autumny so these are not the final design.

The Greens are giant pitcher-plant men! They use poisonous barbs growing out of their backs as a deadly weapons. Just like in the games they are based on they attack best from behind and look kind of like ninjas. But don't be fooled, that's not a high collar they're wearing, its a giant lower jaw. They sometimes open it when they are flabbergasted at something and it makes them look really goofy.

The Blues are an odd design. They are floating ephemeral underwater plant creatures, their only jobs is to rescue people from water, and to bring fellow plant dudes back to life by cramming their life-force back into their body.

The main reason why I did this was to practice my procedures. Making this I kept running into annoying logistical problems, I was intending to make this in such a way that I could remove and rearrange things if I ever wanted to single out an element or change somthing completely.

Observe:

Notice how its not shaded in correctly and how the blurry bit at the top is cut off? These were things I had to fix in post.

I intend to refine the design on this thing later, so its not so much of a problem. Until then though I'll keep on truckin!(TM)

In Zog we trust.