NFL Football Player

New Year's Greetings for my Friends

Some really quick art for my friend's company.

Three Diggas and a Mallu walk into a bar. (updates)

These were three comics I had made for close friends, sometime late last year.
The humor is very colloquial. The character development posts can be read here and here.

The power of the decoder.


The trip to Gokarna.



Ashwin's Birthday

- Fradiation Fred -

Lost in space (since 1994 because his cars' ignition blew up on his way back from work thus causing a nano-space-time vortex which threw him out there), home-sick Fred is now battling his way back to the times.

Damn Barbarians..

Weird Heads and Big Heads

The God Collective

I had this series of Hindu Gods for Moytoy Community but never got about coloring the characters.

Left 4 Dead | 'Smoker!"

I love killing the 'Smoker'. Sweet gratification on seeing that cloud of tar-filled smoke puffing away when he explodes.
For all you 'Smoker' lovers, read this article

Airport Authority

Working on some concept boards with a friend. It's a short story on Link (Ref: ゼルダの伝説). Poses from the boards.. enjoy!

Lateral Collateral on the App store!

Been a super good day for all American Football fans! Two of my games have been published. Lateral Collateral, a big favorite on the NFLRZ has now been ported to the Iphone. Now you can spend endless hours on that international flight lateraling the ball and getting your butt kicked by your opponents. Fast and fun game. (Click here to go to the Apple App store)



The other game which I have made that has been green-lit is "Sprint Attack". It's a take on Super Sprint, with football players pushing opponents off the tracks, picking up bonuses and dodging Big Red Blitz Bots. Its a well made game, have fun playing it here at the NFLRZ

Character Turnarounds!

Decided to just stick to the 3/4th of the character for simplicity. If the strip required specific poses, I shall scratch them out on a napkin and throw it in the bin, cause I dont want to be so anal in my approach for this personal project.

Three Diggas and a Mallu walk into a bar..

I had always wanted to do this comic strip for my good ol' friends Jakie, Ronny, Ashwin and the rest from Bangalore. Over the week I salvaged some old photos and sketched out caricatures as a start for the comic strip tentatively named "Three Diggas and a Mallu walk into a Bar". (It was an old joke that we always played on Ashwin, a true-blue Kannadiga boy, rather the only Digga in the gang).
The strip contains a lot of inside jokes, so I'm contemplating about posting them here on the blog as the humor is very colloquial and would not make too much sense to anyone who weren't with us for the last fifteen years.

Made this for a colleague.

Superhero or dud?

Many hours have been spent debating whether Aquaman really makes a worthy superhero?


This one's for Mark.

Character Design for the NFL

This is Darnell, He is an avid football fan and appears in his own show, which can be seen online at nflrz.nflrush.com

You need a free RZ account to access the theater there.

The blams of time

I decided to work on some art to help move the cog wheels of Clock Day.

Clock day is celebrated every 15th of August (since 2001) on newgrounds.com. It started when a user named StrawberryClock had turned in his flash submission which just contained the letter 'B'. This submission, as much as it was blammed, withstood the blams of time and has churned out an internet subcultre. From these bytes of silliness grew the phenomenon of the Clock Crew and their creativeness.

According to history books, before StrawberryClock submitted 'B', he had turned in 'A' which was blammed to the peak of oblivion. Thus my project is based on that submission by StrawberyClock.

It's a short animation and personifies the letter 'A' and A's bleak, short lived future it faced by the forces that binds newgrounds.

Below are some of the preproduction works that went into this project. Enjoy!

I started off by first getting a good feel for the character and penciled out some basic shapes to simplify the figure.



On nailing down the final design, I decided to go straightahead and not do the turn arounds, something that I essentially do on all projects.





After thumbnailing the concept storyboard, dove right into to creating a tight animatic with Jedadiah's: Pardon(theme) from the audio portal. Songs that didn't make it into the list or were dropped last minute were the following, A salute to these talented audio slaves.

CJ's : Ghost of the Past
DanPaladin's: Pear
Zeke30695's: Lilium (Music Box)
Jedadiah's: Reprise and Finale

The Clock Crew in the mean time have finalized on this years preloader, which I have modified to fit my animation.

Thus getting to the end of this post, I had fun working on this project. The total time it took me from scrip to screen was approximately 12 hours, broken over a few nights. Getting technical, this animation made in Flash CS3 (bloody thing crashed a lot of times), the background texture is from CGTextures.com which is a collective maintained by Marcel Vijfwinkel, also used Photoshop for editing and optimizing the final image. Audacity was the weapon of choice for sound editing.

I'm submitting the finished animation this Saturday to newgrounds.com and by next week, it goes up on thedevilsgarage.com too. So for now, I shall leave you with two stills from the animation.





Shoutout to Sean 'Chains' Mckenzie who helped me out with that strange language called actionscript.

Update: Death of 'A', has been featured on newgrounds homepage! Had got 15,000 hits in the first 24hours, most excellent!

Rejected NFL Game Characters

This is one of the many characters that really didn't pass my selection process while developing casual games for the NFL. Appropriately termed, Octo-wuss is a bad guy who flys around in a small capsule space craft, blasting the hell out of the creatures below. Though it looks like anything but a wuss, it has been sent to the reject bin. Da-da-daaaaa.

Characters for the 'Sandwich' Series

Clink - the introbot for Brandissimo! inc.

Clink, the pet bot of Brandissimo! Inc., was created to intruduce the company to its viewers and clients. Thinking out of the box, gets klink in to a lot of trouble, but hey! who could ever be upset with a cute lill bot like it.

This post contains design and development of the character and alternate storyboards and animatics that were pitched.


Some of the doodles for this creation.(Inspired by R2D2?!)

All robots manufactured at the garage go through a color test.

Clink Turnarounds

Complete turnaround of the character and rigged for animation.

Shown below are few other concept boards to the same intro.


Storyboard #1


Storyboard #2


Storyboard #3



To watch the final intro animation, go to devilsgarage.com and see it under the animation link or log on to brandissimo.com (this site may or may not contain the final demo).

Untitled

Futurama's Head in a Jar

Good news, everybody. I have just finished watching 3 seasons of Futurama and got only one more to go. This is all thanks to you, Sean McKenzie

More character poses

"Rusty is growing up!" said the Devil gleefully

The guy with the ACDC tee!

Coloring one of the characters in this new project I'm involved. click here to see it at a higher resolution. No sound!

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Carvel Ice Cream

Something I did over the weekend for Carvel.

When you get a break, jolt away like..

alkanoic

Richie Rich .. had his own Mc Donald's?

This is one of the earliest characters my mum had taught me to draw.

Blame the movie for sucking the fun outta it.

Character Study

Broadly influenced by Muttpop's Lucha Libre, Dr. Destruction with a variation, Here is Argon.

Currently working on two animation tests, shall post them when I'm a lill less busy.

Happy Ending! Update

Janice (from Robot Legion) and myself submitted a tee shirt design called Happy Ending to Threadless.com which has just finished it first round at the competition .If we get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and sold from the site and we will win some prizes.

Illustration details below.

Renegade

Character Development

Seriously though , does Jesus loves dinosaurs?

This though has been floating around the studio about who loves who more. With Mark solving one of the riddles. Here is my answer to .. does Jesus loves dinosaurs?

Season's Greetings.

Want to know more?

Von Robinson and His Own Universe

Character Design for the very talented band from New York.

Watercolor BG

Corn Doggy

Oktoberfest ain't complete without corn dogs!

Tele Shows are fun

Wakaow! I almost forgot to update my blog for this month.

Katamari Democracy

With the new inclusions of the ongoing process to understand what's left and what can be done with what's left of it, I got down and bought a piece of machinery. Thanks to a close friend .P I am now officially off all other drugs except for the occasional rolling up of 塊魂.



Inspired by the King of All Cosmos

Another one bites the dust..

Sometimes familiarity far throws fear.

It was impolite for Emily Post to stated that there should be no color around high tea. For a pinch of reality, she should have lived on an island. Mannerism or politeness ceases to exist in solitude.

The 'Bruce Campbell' Adaptation.

Time and again

some fall off the bucket list..

Learn to be still..

I like using Flash as a medium of illustration, as I can save preliminary sketches without losing the flow. As one sketches out, hit the symbolizer (F8) and that saves a copy of the art work in the library. Break down the symbol on the stage and continue editing.

simple color test

Metro Bus ride

Its been a few weeks back on the bus, but the long hard ride does give me time to relax and get back to doodles

The Real Cowboys

Mafia

Action Shots

Oh, when the sun goes down ..

work work work work , la la la la la

Caricatures

Just trying out different styles

Monday Anger ...sweeeeet

Tshirt Design

Octo realised she...

Father's Day at the NFL

One of my animated banner ad's for Father's day, made it to the NFL Rush Page. Yay!

Character Design

Created some concept designs for Sikanth Gopinath, from Studio A Minor (Bangalore). Sachin Tendulkar is the the second greatest Test batsman ever after Sir Don Bradman.



Ref Ref

Self titled

ZOMBIE NINJA KILLER

Sometimes , everyone need a little love.

..and a 40 ounce Colt 45.

Just like a Bollywood Movie.

Inspired by a Mango

Silly Adventures of Spiderman

I had conceptualized this story in 2005 but never went about making it. I did do the flash character setup and a couple of color tests on it though. Made me feel good ={D

No sketch long time me work

Yup, thats right. Its been long since I have posted some new creatives here. These macro-ideas brood in my thoughts and here is a random one that I had just sketched up a few minutes back.


I have no idea where it came from or where this is going to go. But thats what I love about art.

Playing with words

My friend and 3d Rigger Extraordinaire Vijay Sarathi and myself were pitching ideas across when we hit upon a funny one called "Quick Gun Poly Gun". A wild wild Polygonal character who was a clumsy draw but got his point through. While developing the character as we were discussing this other character popped up.

RapTapTapTapparapp Yooooohoooo! (Update)

This is awesome! Thanks to Brent Kiser for all SFX and Track, the Tap Dancer is looking better.

Detroit Shock City!

Working on a small concept animation with Brent Kiser, Sound Designer from SCAD.
Updates coming soon.

My take at ...

Word Girl is an animated shot for schoolers, playing on PBS. The show had been animated at Soup2Nuts, Boston. (Want to Know More?)

Thug

Style treatment. random stuff.

Shaddap Capone, Shaddap

Stooopid

Character design for Stoopid and Shaddap.

So far only Stoopid is done.
Enjoy

Doggy Heaven

Cleanup of some scribbles I had done some time back. Duggy is the Energy-Ball who is always on heat. Well, we never neutered him. god bless dogs.

RapTapTapTapparapp Yooooohoooo!

King | Character Sheet

Concept work for the Monkey and the King