#2dcharacterdesign

[thunderdummies]

The process for one of the panels that tells the introduction story content at the beginning of a Rook play through. The first panel is the thumb which I draw very small in Flash. Then I do a tonal panel that goes into game to see the flow early on. It also goes off to bg support at that stage. In this case Vangelis handled the bg! Then I do a tight rough of the characters. After that comes clean up and colour. Then the scene is composited, and light and fx are added. These “slides” as we call ‘em have a little camera drift when they go into game, so we can get some parallax depth and fx anim. Also, it might be interesting to note how the initial idea for the bg can change so much. Later!

-Aaron

[fredc44]

Visual for my short movie “The Road” © Fred Coince

[thunderdummies]

I design the Griftlands characters in Adobe Animate. Every character in the game shares a build so the proportions are pretty locked in. These characters went through some changes (mostly the faces) before going in as the Assassin’s in Sal’s play through. Any way the process is pretty simple. Rough/clean/colour!

-Aaron 

[thunderdummies]

A Griftlands inspired illustration. Taking a moment after a hard day of Grift’n. My first but not last quarantine illo!

-Aaron

[thunderdummies]

Found this old Griftlands poster. This was back before it was a card game.

-Aaron

[thunderdummies]

We’re adding hero preview art to match the boss’ before a fight. This the process for Rook’s first outfit. Later.

-Aaron

[thunderdummies]

This is an old design for an automech goon in Griftlands that never made it in. 

-Aaron

[thunderdummies]

The preview image for our recent update. Sadly has to be pretty small for Tumblr but you get the idea. This is one of Rook’s boss’ in Griftlands.

-Aaron