Sub-Zapper - character design

Ah. This was a painful game to work on.
So many weird looking sea creatures. So much to research. So much redesigning.


Step one: research - and a lot of it
Step two: concept drawing. - they may not be the best drawings, but you gotta start somewhere
Step three: more research (this is mainly due to the creative block + unsatisfying concept drawings)
Step four: deciding on characters to develope.
Step five: concept development.



This here is a few concept drawings I did of Dunkleosteus, the prehistoric fish. I quite liked how ugly and distinctive its face was. - measured 6 m (20 ft)


Giant Orthocone is prehistoric squid-like creature which measured up to 10 meters in length (33 feet!)


Final character - the boss:
Giant mosasaur was a carnivore marine reptile, and could measure 17 metres in length (that's... almost 56 ft?!)


Thankfully the design of the submarine didn't take as long. Neither did the splash pages + additional artworks. I'm just glad it's over!

DinoSawUs Mirror Mirror

Steampunked mirror!

This particular design is where the players will get to choose their avatar.

Another concept for a window for picking an avatar:

And some of my awesome concepts:

Fireflies

Backgrounds for Fireflies game. We now have a few games to keep the audience happy for a wee while, so that's good news.

I'd upload other splash pages too but it's home time and I'm hungry.




And of course: concepts!: (I like my pencils much more than the tablet)

Character Incubator!

This is a post-login screen where the kids can pick their own character.
After several hours of discussing + talking nonsense, this is what we decided upon:


Where it all started:

Dino Daily

Issue 2!
There were a few additional pages, but it's all set, and we've decided to settle for 10 pages.
Now it will never be as painful to publish another newspaper as when I had to design all the pages for the first issue.

Check out our Dino Daily on DinoSawUs

Avatar - Character Parasaurolophus

This unpronounceable dinosaur was the last of the 5 characters I chose to design.
I'm not convinced of this dino's "coolness" but the boys seem to like it (maybe it's his shiny face), so I guess I did an alright job.


Profile:

And as always, concept drawings for some kicks!

Avatar - Character Stegosaurus

I find it difficult to give the stegosaurus any kind of vivid personality.
So here is another "nice" character.



Time for some concept drawings! (audience = woohoo!)

Avatar - Triceratops character

For those of you who know me well enough, my choice of colour for this character probably shocked you. But look at her. Awww isn't she cute.
And before you continue to call me a hypocrite for using this colour scheme, it's violet. Not pink.




Concept drawings:

Avatar - Brachiosaurus character

Animated gif:

A new character to join the orange T-Rex.
A friend of mine had suggested to extend the length of his neck a little. And I have exaggerated the way his neck sways in action, so he's easy to identify.


And here are the exciting concept drawings. These could be used if we were to build a parody game - DinoSawUs Zombies

First Launch!

For our testers - for now.
Check out the awesome names (and not so awesome names) we got given!
Go DinoSawUs!

Avatar - character

Our final sexy rexy!:

This is the awesome character that's going to roam the prehistoric earth! - or at least one of them anyway.
Animated:


It is NEVER easy to create a character from scratch.
So here are some working drawings so show the painful progress:

Login screen developments

The shades of brown for the background are only temporary. - or rather, only for this blog because I like to think I'm colour-coordinated.

Login Page Concept

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