Crimson Daggers — Art forum - SUMMER PITCH

Trying to make an RPG with an island setting

Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:55:38 +0000

I once read about this place known as Tristan Da Cunha, an island that is surrounded by at least 5000km of ocean in every direction and is pretty much the remotest place in the world. Looking at pictures of the place really inspired me because it made me think of what sort of adventures and mysteries would be had in such a faraway land. I thought it would be cool if there was an rpg game with such a setting.

So I found this game engine online that allows me to make an action RPG, which is great for an artist like me, because it allows me to concentrate on the visual development side of things without having to figure out coding. Currently a lot of things are still up in the air, and the only thing I have decided is that the game would be a fantasy/sci-fi hybrid setting and take place in some sort of island or archipelago. Here are some of my explorations thus far:

For this one I'm envisioning the game to be something like a jrpg where you start as one guy and make friends along the way to form a party. Unfortunately, I have not been feeling this idea as of late, and moving towards having the player just control one character in a open world game.

Here is the main character and a concept showing his melee weapon which is foldable. The bow he carries is foldable as well, but I have yet to draw out the concept. The character was designed with the 'control a whole party' idea in mind: Because his role in the party is like a jack-of-all-trades, I thought that the foldable weapon motif would emphasize his flexibility and versatility.

This is a picture of an important npc. You basically pay him to ferry you around the island(s).

Next up would be creating some environments and try using 3D software in the environment creation workflow. Slightly further down the line would probably be to try using zbrush to create a 3D model of the main character. I'm creating this thread because I hope to be motivated by my fellow artists to work on this instead of procrastinating I guess it would also help to know what other people think. I have several ideas and it would be good to get input on which ones I should stick with. As usual, advice on how to improve the art itself is always welcome.

Artificial Selection (Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Futurist Design Project)

Wed, 02 Apr 2014 09:58:59 +0000

I'm new. Introduction post here. This is my summer project.

What is it?

This project of mine is my attempt to improve my ability to create designs and character art through categorical worldbuilding. I already have a large design document to work off of, but that is for my eyes now and yours when I translate it into digital media. It is, essentially, a science fiction fantasy setting in a plausible future Earth. I want to explore building the world's meaningful aesthetics and in doing so create a strong portfolio, and perhaps if ambitions are met, to use the project to lure in other creatives and make something more out of it.

What goals am I aiming for?

What I hope to accomplish in pushing myself may change as I move through it, but my initial expectations for myself are to put out some kind of material study every day, as well as one or two smaller character or prop studies. Every week I want to create at least a single character rendered out to completion using what I've learned. Every week I want my subject matter to change, from robotics to soldiers to showcasing pieces of technology unique to the world I'm working in. By the end I hope to create a fully realized design aesthetic with a number of pieces to work from.

When am I starting?

I'm going to start my initial studies on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014. From then I'm going to do some preliminary material studies to work with. My full commitment will start Sunday, April 6th, 2014, with every project week running a Sunday-to-Saturday course. I may take a few days off or slow down work a few days, however, as this year two of the debaters I coach qualified to go to the NFL (National Forensics League) National Tournament, and I'm going to need to provide myself as a resource for their success. Fortunately, I don't expect it to disrupt my ability to work on this project too terribly much.

What do I want from the Crimson Daggers community?

Your support. I want you to hold me to my commitments. I want you to tell me what I'm doing wrong in my art so I can improve. I want you to see what I'm doing and maybe even let it help you move forward with your own work. I want to become a part of this community that I've seen give so much to friends of mine. I work best when things are expected of me, and upholding an obligation to this community is going to be the strongest impetus for me to improve over the summer when I'd be too easily distracted from a convenient frisbee golf park, video game releases and general lethargy and complacency. What I want from this community is for you to hold me to my word. So for now, I'm going to gather up some grit and buckle down on art like I haven't before.

Primal Hero - Online Browser-based Monster Fighter

Mon, 07 Oct 2013 20:16:40 +0000

Hello there people, so since about May, my brother and I have been working on our own game called Primal Hero and were finally ready to actually tell people about it. For now I'm just gonna post the videos and some artwork I've done for it on here but I'll be updating this thread quite often. If you want to help support us you can go to any of the social network sites below and just give us a like or a follow and that'd be really awesome :) Thanks

Website

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WOODBOY · Endless summer

Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:16:15 +0000

I have been working on it for a few month and it perfectly fit this summer pitch.
WOODBOY is the dark sequel of the adventures of Pinocchio, a children novel by Carlo Collodi.
The original story is much darker than the Disney adaptation. The story will start after Pinocchio became a real (honest and good) boy. Loosing everything, he will have to make his own choices and grow up now that no one can protect him.

I made a website http://woodboy.fr/ and hope to utimately release an interactive short film (for iPad) and publish an illustrated book gathering both the original story and mine.

It all started with a fan art

Early concept

Other concepts

After more than many versions of the script, I finally got something I like.
Here are some concepts that fit in that story.

More to come soon

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SCIONS

Fri, 26 Jul 2013 17:11:49 +0000

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A powerful boy is destined to Zhenaria's planet, to join and learn from the elite of warriors who live there to protect the planet from the evil forces that born thousands of years ago by a war that happened among the inhabitants of Zhenaria, a sage alien race called Zhenar'k.
The human kind is in it's last, but protecting this planet could lead humans to save themselves once they messed up their own planet.

Character designs

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Sacred Monolith designs

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I had this idea in my head from some time ago, I thought it would be cool to do some of it for the summer pitch. Im gonna try to spend my freetime on developing this as much as I can, it feels great to create something :)
Any opinion or comment is welcome.

The Deep

Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:33:06 +0000

Been a while since i've been on here, but havent not been working.

Have had an idea for a series on T.V called "The Deep" about a riot breakout at a max security deep space prison for a while now. Basically the first season follows the lives of an unorthodox galactic marine en route to The Deep and an alien prisoner incarcerated.

Throughout the season more and more information is given about exactly what has happened in the prison. The warden, fed up with how many new species of alien are filling up his mostly human population, orders the unlawful execution of a species interacting with a human at yard time, this prompts a massive backlash from the alien inmates, who decide to rise against the humans, all of them. Now human officers and prisoners are either working together or for themselves trying to get out or kill off all alien species before the marines arrive to sort the mess out.

I felt like the most interesting thing would be the play on the seperate lives the marine and the prisoner have, being on a ship for most of the first season, the marines story will mostly be quite subdued and a break from the frentic and violent happenings at the prison complex. the marines story would more closely follow his personal life and beliefs on alien species and their roles in the galaxy (he is on board with other species not just human) he would be all the thoughts and ideologies that we as people have and the prisoner would be the visceral outpouring those ideologies can manifest as in different people.

Its pretty bare bones at the moment but hopefully this will help flesh some stuff out, for now i only have some rough concepts of some possible prisoners. Will be doing more.

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Low testosterone content

Sat, 13 Jul 2013 11:54:38 +0000

At first I wasn't really sure if wanted to do a project and now that I see that everybody has so many great ideas it seems even more like a waste of time.

On the other hand I also feel extremly inspired by all the great work people doing. So maybe this here is just a small little treat between dicks, wrestlers in hell and various game concepts.

Here are some teaser posters. (Something is probably spelled wrong so I'm sorry for that).

Two-Thirds Human

Sat, 13 Jul 2013 05:57:44 +0000

2/3 human will be a comic book revolving around two characters, an android little girl and an unnamed masked assassin. Here are some first roughs I cranked out while figuring out the plot for the story.

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Dawn's Summer Brain Fart

Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:48:16 +0000

Hey Everyone!

Really excited to join in on this, sounds super awesome!

Here are a few sketches of a character i started working on and am building a world around.

Came up with sort of a last beer monk super hero guy, loosely based/inspired by the Brother Thelonius beer I was drinking one night. Ive just been sketching out ideas and anything from that world really...

So..heres brother gregorious!

Also coming, sketches of the Hoppy, the ipa drinking rabbit.

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delCid Summer Pitch

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:03:06 +0000

Since I'm not able to get any job I will start posting some images, and try if any story or project comes out.

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"Always glad to see one of these alive." - Corona.

Fantasy Book Covers Project

Mon, 08 Jul 2013 12:38:40 +0000

Hiya

I've been drawing caricatures for a few years now but it's not until I really thought about why I got into illustration in the first place that I remembered I really wanted to do book covers. I keep having ideas and doing sketches but not really going for it.

This challenge is a great way for me to get my thumb out of my butt and start putting together a new portfolio of cover work and fantasy painting, I've got two fake covers on the go so far and several sketches to work up.

Edit: Just going to leave this little slice of inspiration here.. http://www.goodshowsir.co.uk/ <--only the worst sci-fi/fantasy covers

Invaluable advice: http://muddycolors.blogspot.co.uk/2013/0...overs.html

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Nordic Hack and Slay Rpg Project

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:23:59 +0000

Me and My Brother want to do a hack and slay rpg.
im going to do the art and he is going to do the programming ;O.
lets see how far we come =)

here are the first sketches for the characters

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Trash-Updated 28/07/13

Sun, 07 Jul 2013 15:20:00 +0000

Hey so here's my project for the summer and probably a while longer. Trash is a working title but its based around a washed up whitetrash wrestler Tommy who drank, did drugs, steroids and anything to win, but eventually died a failure and a loser in the ring, then he wakes up in hell.

In hell a flamboyant Satan gives him an offer he can't refuse, a second chance in the ring, in his tournament, and the winner is granted what he most desires. Can Tommy get through his 9 wrestling rings of hell catered towards all his past discretions and failures? does he want a second chance to live again? or does he want to become a "living" legend in hell.

through the next couple of months i'll be working up these sketches and more trying to piece together the story probably showing it through illustrations, characters designs and fake boxing promo flliers etc.

So without turning the first post into a wall of text, here's the first load of rough sketches, let me know what you guys think, and how you would prefer I present the story, is it going to be enough interest with so many images or do you like more character backgrounds and story laid out in text too?

Here's an example of one of the fliers i'm thinking of for each of the 9 major fights, think i'll stick with black and white or minimal colours for these

And i've jumped into some quick comic strips just to give a little more background to what i have scribbled down and hopefully build some love for these characters <3

Cheers!

ROT WHEELS

Sat, 06 Jul 2013 08:33:05 +0000

Hey dudes, heres my project, just a mix of things i find schweet, zombies motorbikes and end of the world scenarios. Just going to let it develop organically

Cyber punk flash movie

Fri, 05 Jul 2013 23:08:14 +0000

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Hi, time to stop lurking here and post my ideas

The idea is a cyber punk flash movie that is very serious for adults and I have alot of ideas of what the story could be. I think it has alot of potential.

This is a landscape shot of where the bottom under water part of the city meets the one above the surface. The surface keeps reaching higher but what is below is lawless and there is a huge black market for lost goods from the buldings below, this canel is sort of the "harbour".

Summer pitch is a long project and I will try to post when I get back home. I got alot of ideas stored up!

what do you think?