Pixel Art- NEW HORIZON Game Level Card Mockups
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NEW HORIZON Update: Temporary Hiatus
It was somewhat of a short-ish time coming, but I haven't been able to work out as much of a backlog as I had hoped during this past semester of college. Unfortunately I'm gonna have to drop a hiatus for at least a few weeks, just so I can get my bearings again over winter break and fill up some more weeks worth of content. Other updates should continue as planned, however.
2017-12-09 02:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Pixel Art- NEW HORIZON Game Level Mockups
Here's a handful of level motif mockups, both from relatively early on in the game. One of the core ideas that I want to try to have is branching paths that lead to alternate worlds, with the sewer level being an alternate World 2 if you manage to stick to the lower path in World 1.
2017-12-07 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostPixel Art- NEW HORIZON Character Select Screen Mockup
These images are, as the name implies, for the character select screen. You'd choose your primary character, then the little white strip would expand into your selection for secondary.
2017-12-05 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Friday Update (12/1/17) - Rated E for Everyone
Surprise! This WFU is open to all patrons. I figure I may as well considering that the last two game mockup posts were standard weekly updates, so it's only fitting that the same be said for this.
This time around it's an animatic for an intro cutscene. Unfortunately After Effects is acting up for me, otherwise I'd have made this a bit more fleshed out- there's a lot of "mode 7"-esque effects th...
2017-12-02 01:59:59 +0000 UTC View PostPixel Art- NEW HORIZON Title Screen Mockup
Keeping the ball rolling with a title screen. The downscaled logo is basically final, not much can really be done to improve upon it at this point. Basically all other elements are just sketches, though, if it wasn't immediately obvious.
2017-11-29 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostPixel Art- NEW HORIZON Game Mockup 2
A bit more fleshed out than last time. The character sprites have been shrunken down to better fit action and the resolution, and some actual tiles have been fixed up to make it look a bit more proper.
The HUD's been changed a bit, and Anne's here as well! A "ring" based system ala Sonic the Hedgehog was put in place over a health bar, which better fits gameplay.
Probably more to come in t...
2017-11-28 02:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Friday Update (11/17/17) - Family Guy
Here's some family members of the main cast (and by some, I mean "basically all but maybe one"). You can see where a lot of them get their defining traits!
Silhouetted is the one family member who's technically a spoiler if things go as planned. You can probably figure out who it is, just not what they look like.
2017-11-18 01:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostPixel Art- Mario Mania Mockup
It's back! This mockup was originally laid out in 3D using Adobe Aftereffects. The ? and brick blocks are still in 3D from this layout, and all the generic terrain layout was drawn over. A lot of inspiration was taken from Royal Raceway as well as some areas in Super Mario Odyssey, which I think both do a great job visualizing the "N64 Mario" environment visual design.
2017-11-16 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Weekly Friday Update (11/10/17) - New Super Lineup Bros.
Last time there was a full character lineup was last year! So here's a fresh take on the cast that I've made mostly public.
2017-11-11 01:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Friday Update (11/3/17) NPC-a-Palooza
Obviously there's more than just five or six people inhabiting the world of NEW HORIZON. Here's a select few of them! I really enjoy designing NPCs. This particular batch is set based off of personal friends and their interests and personalities. Some of them take more liberties than others by leaning more towards other inspirations, but all inspirations always relate to the person they're based o...
2017-11-04 00:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Weekly Friday Update (10/20/17) - #2 Cover Part 2
Turns out this design ended up being final! Here's the lineart for #2's cover. The final cover will go up in a few weeks when #2 drops, so stay tuned!
2017-10-21 00:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post10/18/17 Update
Hey! Sorry for the lack of updates this past week, the cooldown from New York Comic Con's been somewhat rough and fairly long, surprisingly. Doesn't help that I've been in a creative rut, so not a lot of "big" stuff has been drawn. Things are still being worked on, of course, but a lot of it is NEW HORIZON related things so that I can gear up for the drop of issue #2 before I drop off the face of ...
2017-10-19 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWIP - Mario Mania (Update 4)
Final lines are good to go- all that's left is color and shading. Comic Con got in the way of getting this done sooner, but it's the home stretch from here on out.
2017-10-12 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Friday Update (10/6/17) - Poster Time 3: Just in Time (For Comic Con)
As the title suggests, this is the last update before New York Comic Con! Nothing special this year- but here's some cleaner lines for this. It's slowly coming together.
2017-10-07 01:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostWIP - Mario Mania (Update 3)
Getting some final lines in. Should hopefully be done with the lines by Wednesday, then after that it's time for final colors.
2017-10-03 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Friday Update (9/29/17) - Poster Time 2: Comp Harder
You may remember the print sketch I did about a week or two ago- and also how I said there was basically no composition. Now there is! And there's color, too! There's still some detail yet to be filled in (the rightmost part of the page is a bit barren), but for the most part this sketch is good to go.
2017-09-30 01:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostSketch - Mario Mania (Refined)
Update on this piece. New colors and shading that make it a bit more digestible to look at, with a better focus on Mario and Luigi.
2017-09-26 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Friday Update (9/22/17) - A "Writing" Exercise
I've never really been much of a writer, and found that visual storytelling is much more my speed in terms of getting a point across. One of the exercises I had to do in a writing class was to write a short story, while having to incorporate words into the story as they were called out. Rather than writing something, I took the opportunity to scribble out a little worldbuilding mini-comic about on...
2017-09-23 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Sketch- Super Mario Bros. Comic Doodle
Something from... give or take last year, it's some doodles I did of a potential Super Mario Bros. comic. It would mix the American canon of the brothers living in Brooklyn (or at least, the Mushroom World equivalent) with the Japanese canon of... I guess just them still looking like how they are afterwards? Personality-wise I intended to take notes from the movie as well, with Mario being a pessi...
2017-09-19 01:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostWeekly Friday Update (9/15/17) - Poster Time
I've been meaning to do some kind of full NH poster piece for a while, but never really got a chance to get around to it. Now I did, and here's the sketch.
Right now it's pretty highly subject to change, there's no real composition so I don't know how i feel about the whole thing yet.
2017-09-16 01:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post
