Monthly Archives: July 2015

Cherry Cheers

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In 2009 after playing Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan (押忍！闘え！応援団) on my Nintendo DS I was consumed by the idea of a cheerleader heroine. But of course it would be boring to have a mannequin cliché for the main character so I thought of letting Cherry be as far from the proportions ideal as possible. So mixed with her hyper personality and incredible dreams I think she could be one meaty package for the cartoon lands.

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This big gal took a few different stages in shape and form.

Actually, her original name was Betty.

This is was her birth form in 2010.

These are some sketches a few months later. I guess she gained weight pretty soon.

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I already had ideas for a short story of Cherry’s origins. Here are some thumbnails.

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In 2011 one of the university’s assignments was to create a poster for the next year’s student film. I still cannot remember what I was thinking when choosing these awful colours.

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When I was studying abroad in CCSU (Fall 2011) I chose to do a sort of a mockup of a pitch bible (for cartoon series) as my final submission for the colour drawing class.

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Here, I could explore her expressions a bit

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And I think that was the first time I let Lemo play a role in Cherry’s world.

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There was this woman in the university, I never got to find out who she was, but she had a really unique voice that I thought would work very well for Cherry.

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Cherry’s home idea was also born during that project.P1150799                              Cherry’s family made debut here as well

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         Kinda weird drawing that’s depicting whats not ok to do in the show

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                                        Here are some support character ideas
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                                                  Cherry’s high school

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                                                               Lip-sync

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                                                  some quick concept work

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Thanks to that colour drawing project I managed to gather loads of ideas for Cherry’s world, so in 2012 Cherry left her Betty phase. This was her peak in personality development as she starred in her own comic book and later was considered for a short film pitch.

A bit of messing around with acrylic.

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She became more flexible, softer and just cuter with that giddy grin.

I live how the latest Cherry looks, and I hope to return to her sweet madness one day.

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Mr.Sneaks

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I guess I can say this is sort of my mascot since he tends to show up in my work more than anyone else. After all, it takes seconds to draw his stick figure. With his trademark nose, bushy eyebrows and wide grin Mr.Sneaks is a wacky character who lives just to have fun. Though for Mr.Sneaks there are no boundaries, so he is not exactly a nice guy when it comes to choosing ways to enjoy himself.

Does he have a heart or does he even need one? Maybe one we’ll find out.

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This cheeky fellow has been trying to find his form over the years and I think he did it.

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Here is Mr.Sneaks’ 2010 appearance in my sketchbook

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In 2010 there was this little idea for a short film. Here, Mr.Sneaks was supposed to be a flat paper-like shadow trying to get to the 3D world.

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I sometimes left the tail out

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2009 Everything black was also an idea for him

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2008 What is up with those hands?

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2007 Shortly after his birth. I wish I could find the very first Sneaks image in my high school notebook, but so far this is the oldest one.

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Delight’s Plight – Work in Progress

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You can follow this project on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Delightsplight/?fref=ts

 

Delight can soon unleash his/her rage in this 2D on rail beat ’em up game!!

One day a tragedy struck the calm fields of Delight’s home as all the animals started to turn ferocious. From goldfish to giraffes, the previously hunted became the hunters. Even the top of the food chain now prey on it’s own kind. What in the world is causing this insanity? It’s up to Delight to find out.

While Delight is always on the move in this game, you have many ways to control him/her in each level. Delight has forward slash, upward slash, air forward slash, air down slash, grab and throw. You can also make this feline grab branches/vines to climb higher. There are also Hyper moves that you can level up by defeating enemies!

Are you precise enough to sweep everyone in your path?

White is also here to make sure you fail. He has many tricks to keep you on your toes.

There are many different enemies rushing your way so learning the patterns of their attacks is key to staying alive.

There are only 2 people in this project, which means I take the visual part and my friend, Alexander, takes the programming (in Unity engine) part. Though it seems like it’s gonna take forever to complete this, we actually did a lot of work in the past year. All the Delight controls are done (only Hyper moves remain) and level progression elements, so right now we are working mostly on designing levels.

Stay tuned for more updates !!

Animator VS Painter

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from 2011

Harvest Crunch

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This was an attempt to make a mobile phone game with my friend, Stefan. It was beneficial either way for him since he used this for his university graduation project. I came up with the concept and did all the art stuff while Stefan took control of the programming in Unity engine.

The idea is very simple. You take control of the little worm, called Wormy, inside a fruit (apple, pear, etc.). The main goal is to survive in each level by protecting yourself and your territory from other creatures, and avoiding attacks from farm toxins.

Sadly, we did not go far with this. The project stopped soon after my friend’s graduation. Who knows, maybe one day Wormy will return to the light.

Mr. Sneaks – Episode 2

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I wanted this character to do more action so I ended up doing this long episode. All the animation took about 2 weeks, but the sound work and voices took a bit longer. It is all worth it because the music/sound quality here turned out to be spectacular!! Again, thanks to The Intergalactrix who did all the sound work. You can find all their stuff here https://www.youtube.com/user/theintergalactrix

Mr. Sneaks – Episode 1

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This took about a week to do all the animation stuff. I was exploring TvPaint 10 on my new laptop, so I wanted to play a bit with the sizes, because before I was always limiting myself when making projects in TvPaint. My laptop was simply not strong enough to handle everything I wanted.

Huge thanks to the Intergalactrix for doing all the voices and sound work!!