Doodles for an antagonist for personal project

Started off with the usual stuff, creepy spider/snake hybrid with spikes all out the wazoo. The antagonist is what sets most of Falafael's adventures in action. He starts off being a curious lil' ratface and winds up in an encounter with the Lady of the Forest/The Dark Lady, who's just chilling in her den with this little snot breaks into her house and goes rummaging through her stuff.

I'm making her a bit more interesting, rather than just a boring snake/spider, she's going to be a weta/tuatara with gecko hands. Get some real kiwiana going in this animation. Also, it makes her look cooler.

I added the porowhita to her forehead (like a tuatara's third eye) which Falafael ends up breaking in the end of the introduction. This causes the whole splinting and warping, which teleports Falafael to a different location when he grabs one of the shards, which provides the 'adventure' of the story, since he must now track down and recieve the shards to repair the porowhita in order to get home.

Of course the final shard is still embedded in the forehead of the Lady of the Forest.

Some inspirations for my personal project

I've been looking up 'mini games' and 'side scroller games' since they are the kind I would like to explore for my personal project.

One I found I really liked was Badland, by Frogmind;

I just really like the environments, especially the mossy trees and industrial piping that litters the areas.

Another game I studied was Trine 2 by Frozenbyte;

Hmmm, lush foliage.

Musin's

So I've been working on some things for our film, mainly doing giant chains and thick robes for the Bone Ship.

Chains like this;

Mainly because these chains are the ones they use on docks to haul up those gigantic ships. Figured it'd fit with the whole rustic post nuclear theme we're going for.

With the ropes I'm just going to make it all gnarly and coarse- doubt cultists really care about looking nice and pretty.

Also been brainstorming some of my independent animation; thinking of doing a mini-game involving Falafael, a small fluffy mouse/kangaroo that's a side scroller. So I've been doodling some of that in my spare time and trying to get some good concepts to go along.

Veni, Vidi, Vic

 That's right, I've gotten Dark Souls 2 and I kicked it's ass.

Well okay, I died a few hundred times. (And global deaths are 100 million something)

The game carries on with the desolate, Undead everything-is-trying-to-kill-you theme.

New enemies show up, such as the Pursuer; 

The King's Guard who attacks you with a giant bell club;

 A crazed king who got consumed by iron and lava;

Of course, you get odd enemies such as giant dragon skeletons that fire their skulls at you.

There's also the Looking Glass Knight, who is able to summon PvP Brotherhood of Blood players to aid him in the fight.

Once again we are friends with those Bonewheel skeletons.

A possessed Chariot drawn by a two-headed demon horse;

 

A giant monster made up of numerous undead bodies;

Also some very pretty cloth simulation, due to the large variety of capes and swaying armour you can choose to equip. Not to mention some very delicious environments.

 

Including the Dragon Arie (though they are technically Wyverns)

 

But yeah, final boss was kind of a let down- she hit really friggin' hard, but it was also kinda obvious when she was gonna attack. Oh well, I'll just carry on being a Sunbro for the time being.

Hair - Song Hair

Outstanding.

The beauty of CG Hair

She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, don't know
It's not for lack of bread, like the Greatful Dead, darlin'

Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy

Hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow, my hair

Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas, in my hair
A home for fleas, a hive for the buzzing bees
A nest for birds, there ain't no words
For the beauty, splendor, the wonder of my hair

Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow, my hair

I want long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braided
Powered, flowered and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled and spahettied

Oh say, can you see my eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short
Down with here, down to there
Down till there, down to where it's stuck by itself

They'll be ga-ga at the go-go, when they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond, brilliantined, biblical hair
My hair like Jesus wore it, Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son, why don't my mother love me?

Hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow
My hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow
My hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow
My hair

Crafting

So much of the holidays was dedicated to creating sets and props for our game trailer. I spent some time making decorations, such as fancy lanterns (though we're not putting a candle in them) as well as a skull buckle which kinda high lighted the fact I need some practice at paper mache, or however you spell it.

Anyway, asides from that I was working on my Hair assignment. Ahahaha, yeah. Hair. Such a wonderful thing to try and animate. Hair. Everywhere. Going through eyeballs. Flying away. Eating the head. HAIR