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

Damn Barbarians..

I won the Castler Crasher Car Design Contest!

Forgot to mention that my "The Behemoth Chicken Car" designed got featured on the Behemoth (makers of Castle Crasher's) Blog.



Sadly, the competition promised some goodies and also a decal on the car which was not addressed. (yup, that totally sucks)

Read more from the other older posts about the whole process. Cheers.

Weird Heads and Big Heads

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

Zelda Props

props coming your way.

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!

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.

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!

Random Illustration

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).

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.

Renegade

Character Development