Wizard Frost Blast Animation Promo

04.11.2013:

Hey! Today Pyrrhic Studios ask me, to add in the background to the wizard frost blast animation. So that they can present it better =)

wizard frost blast animation with background (photoshop cs6)

Milestone #1 done

18.05.2013:

 Today I managed to finish the first milestone of the current contract with Javier. Also I did another compositional study in the evening. Really tried to analyze the values afterwards. The reference you will see in tomorrows post. See yah!

kick animation (photoshop cs6)

final buttons; except for the 4th bottom one (photoshop cs6)

compositional study + analysis (photoshop cs6) 

More work on the commissioned piece

17.05.2013:

Finally found time to do some further work on the commission piece. And also finished the uppercut animation.

W.I.P. commissioned work (photoshop cs6)

uppercut animation (photoshop cs6)

New animation

15.05.2013:

Here the first animation done for this milestone. Just realized I forgot mentioning it the day I announced the further work with Javier. I also do some extra animations for the main character. Here you can see the block animation, also there will be a kick and an uppercut one.

Afterwards I did some sketching and thought about the next animation. See yah!

block animation (photoshop cs6)

animation scribbles and drawing from life (pen in sketchbook)

drawing from life in the middle, rest from imagination (pen in sketchbook)

from imagination (pen in sketchbook)

from imagination (pen in sketchbook)

animation scribbles (pen in sketchbook)

End of milestone #2

29.03.2013:

Hi guys, heres todays work. I finished the charging and flying animation of the fireball for the dragon ball z like character. And with that finished the whole milestone. I also got directly paid for it and Javier is already enjoying his graphics. That's the kind of guy I love to work with. So thumbs up for Javier and on to the the next and most time consuming milestone: backgrounds!

fireball charging/throwing animation (photoshop cs6)

fireball flying animation (photoshop cs6)

Toss it!

27.03.2013:

Today the throwing animations for the two objects. I'm not really sure how exactly he wanna implement it. Because I think it would have been better to draw the actual objects within this part of the animation, like I will do it with the fireball animation. But it's his game right :D If he should find out it won't work this way, I will add it into it for him. But let's see how it will turn out ;)

And it's the same animation, but one of them has one frame more than the other. So yeah nothing fancy about that!

throwing animation smoke bomb (photoshop cs6)

throwing animation boomerang (photoshop cs6)

Boomerang

26.03.2013:

Hiho =) Here now the concept for batman's boomerang. And also the ""flying animation" for it. It will also give a throwing animation. But not today =D

concepts boomerang (pen & pencil in sketchbook)

If you are like, omg why is this so small, I can't see anything. That's the in game size. Live with it! ;)

flying animation (photoshop cs6)

Milestone #1 completed!

23.03.2013:

Hi pals, today is the best day ever. I completed the first milestone and got paid! My first money for doing what I love freelance. I can't believe it just yet! :D :D :D

And here the last animation. It's the "walking" animation of the dragonball z like character. He is floating :3

walking animation enemy #3 (photoshop cs6)

Ninja turtle power!

22.03.2013:

Hehe, I love this animation.

attack animation enemy #1 (photoshop cs6)

The rest of the day I spent cleaning up all files and making sure that all transparencies and positions are right. Afterwards I saved all the png-files for the spritesheets. Damn, that took a lot of time. But I'm near the completion of the first milestone :3

Attack animations

21.03.2013:

And there I'm again. Still totally excited about this project and happy to be part of it :D

Here now my first attack animations. Javier loves them, which makes me really happy. But I still have so much to learn and can't wait to see where I'm in a year if I keep working this hard.

Oh and surely they won't loop the whole time, it's simply for presentation issues.

attack animation enemy #4 (photoshop cs6)

attack animation enemy #2 (photoshop cs6)

Spawn!!!

20.03.2013:

Today is bad ass day :D

Did the walking animation of the spawn like character. He walks much slower as all the other enemies because he is superior. It took quite a lot of time to do this one, because his gloves and shoes are different on each side. Also he has this freaking big axe and the living cape. But I really dig this character. It's awesome. I love it! Hardest to do but also the most fun! I think I will do his attack animation next.

walking animation enemy #4 (photoshop cs6)

Ninja turtle walking animation

19.03.2013:

For today only the walking animation for the ninja turtle like character. It will get more exciting soon I promise. One walking animation left and then the attack animations will start. Boom!

walking animation enemy #1 (photoshop cs6)

:'((

18.03.2013:

Hi guys, if you are wondering why there aren't any posts over the weekend. My iMac and/or Photoshop are hating me. Photoshop kept crashing all the time, no way to work this way. And after reading a lot of forum posts and guides how to fix this problem I decided to set up my iMac fresh. I never did this before it was running without problems for 3 years now. Besides that I also have a graphic error in my display. It's huge :( Seems like I'm not the only one with this problem, but after three years there is no guarantee which will take care of the costs :/

Does someone else now this problem?

Okay but back to business. Now my iMac is fresh, somehow the Photoshop error disappeared and I'm happy about that at least :) So here the walking animation of the power ranger like enemy. I try to give all characters a similar walking animation for consistency. Except for the spawn one. He is like a bad ass enemy so he gets a special one. Stay tuned!

walking animation enemy #2 (photoshop cs6)

Main character done for now

13.03.2013:

And the third day of my new mission ;) Here are the final animations for the main character. Idle, walking and flying. And also a little sheet I showed Javier about the possible arm positions in the flying animation . He wanted them up front, but after showing him the possibilities restricted to the character design he went with the first one. I really enjoy working with him, because he is totally uncomplicated and easy to talk with.

final idle animation (photoshops cs5)

final walking animation (photoshops cs5)

possible arm positions for the flying animation (photoshops cs5)

final flying animation (photoshops cs5)

First approach on 2D animation

12.03.2013:

Hey, today I started with the animations of the main character. First of the idle  and the walking animation. They are not finished now, but I'm getting there.

 main character - idle animation (photoshop cs5; unfinished)

 main character - walking animation (photoshop cs5; unfinished)

Freelance work

Hi guys, today is my first day of working freelance as a 2d artist. I'm working together with Javier Bryan who is an independent games developer creating a 2d side scroller. More about his game you can find out here. My tasks include the character design of the main character as well as enemies. Besides that I do the character animations, backgrounds and tiles for the first three levels of the game.

Javier was so nice to allow me to share my progress with you guys. So here it goes.

First of the initial concepts for the batman like main character. He choose concept 24. And some scribbles to figure out how I want to animate his cape. I'm completely new to 2d animation. So let's see with what I can come up with. Till tomorrow!

initial concepts (pen in sketchbook)

first version of the main character (photoshop cs5)

initial thoughts about how to animate the cape (pen in sketchbook)

Earl animation

04.05.2012:

from life (pencil)

This isn't the final animation. Simply trying how Earl looks in side view, color shame etc. Still lot's to do.

frame 1 (photoshop cs4)

frame 2 (photoshop cs4)

Earl colored

29.04.2012:

earl side view + color concepts (colored pencil)

Spiders, Stars and surely Earl

The original sketch for the spider was done by someone else. My task was to vectorize and color it.

25.04.2012:

enemy for "Earl" variation I (vectorized and colored; photoshop cs4)

enemy for "Earl" variation II (vectorized and colored; photoshop cs4)

star for "Earl" (photoshop cs4)

And some earl concepts in different views and animation sketches.

same as the finished squirrel concept the post before (pencil)

trying to draw in side view (pencil)

more decent results (pencil)

animation concepts (pencil)

animation concepts (pencil; colored pencil)