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.

Game Concept:- Super Extreme Ham Sandwich Fun Extravaganza: Awesome! (W.I.P)

Weird Heads and Big Heads

Zelda Props

props coming your way.

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

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.

These should be on postage stamps :P

Here is the complete list of 'The Behemoth' inspired cars that's scattered around the blog.



Enjoy!

Castle Crashers RaceCar Design! Part V

This may be one of the last installments of Car Designs that draws inspiration from one awesome indie game studio, The Behemoth. Below are three new pieces, two of them using the Behemoth Chicken logo riding a Radio Flyer and a Wooden cart (refer Castle Crashers) and the third one is the Troll Boss ride.







What's the magic formula to come up with silly designs, you ask? Simple, Nocturnal drinking of Redbull and Alcohol.

To view the other designs
check here, here, here and here

Prj: Resistance Part -II

Prj: Resistance

Over the weekend, had roughed out some concept weapons.

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).

3 new Race Car designs from the Garage

Castle Crashers Racecar Design (Update -3)

Here is the third installment of race cars, from Alien Hominid.

Guitar Hero

So Janice started rockin
Aint never gonna stop
Gotta keep on rockin
Someday shes gonna make it to the top.

Castle Crashers Racecar Design (Update)

The Lamest Day.

want to know more.

Brandissimo! Inc, Logo

Just playing around with tiny logo variations for B'issimo! Need to plant these in our games developed sometime.

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.

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?

Tunnle Vision.

Here is a sample animation test I created for a casual game.

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.

Driving around America

spotcha machine.

Eloise

Some inappropriate art for the very talented band Eloise. Inspired from the song "Kill You"

And I've got a strong urge to fly.

Sweet rides, Easy pain. Class apart. My new Honda Accord.

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

Octo realised she...

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.

Ghost Town

Concept work I had done during the Background Class.



Cleanup



Color Test

Detroit Shock City!

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

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.

Something for the brother...

King | Character Sheet

Concept work for the Monkey and the King

Mahabharat

Mahabharat is an epic poem of the Hindus, about the philosophy of life and various other retrospective knowledge. With many characters and unheard stories, its a wonderful book to derive a lot of inspiration from.


Concept work on Krishna.

Francisco Varken - II

I believe that the perfect name for any PI. Francisco Varken. I just so love this character's Surname. After a lot of storyboarding, and model sheets with the previous character. I realised that he has not been designed correctly. Something is really missing from the first character. I made a rough turnaround, and he does not not look good from the other angles. So here is my second try at Francisco. and I believe this is how he should look. Goofy face, the long arms for digging out things, the very large hat to hide him while he turns the underbelly of the mean streets. and the pupil-less eyes. Yeah that's good..
Step a side Dick Tracy

Francisco Varken

I have this assignment to do for 'Storyboard and Previz.' class, where we were all give three words- an Animal, a Color and a Name. and based off that we are supposed to create a character, write a short story, do all the research based on that genre which most suited that character. So I landed up with a Purple Aardvark whose name is Francisco. And since Aardvarks arr like anteaters, they have long faces, long ears and are nocturnal things that's roam the streets at night, generally hiding under the street lamp. which means that Francisco obviously wears a cap, well... may be a hat, like a Private Eye, may be he should just be a Private eye, and that film genre is something I want to explore. May be Francisco's full name is "Francisco Varken!". Varken meaning Pig in Afrikaans/Deutsch and since he is nocturnal, may be he's a blind guy. and since he has a BIG back , I think a huge coat will go well on him. So here we have Francisco Varken, PI, works only in the night and is broke like every other PI that ever roamed those streets. But This purple dude has one disadvantage and that is he is BLIND! yeah , Blind as a Varken from any part of the world.

Now every PI needs some kinda side kick, a foil, a fall out guy, an assistant, a pretty lady who is a lot dumber than the him. who is generally the surrogate audience who Varken can talk to as he is solving the crime. Frank can also have a side kick like a cat, that lounges about his office. may be that's a better plan. keep her in the office.
So far this is all that I developed with respect to the assignment. Let me see how much more can I dig up by tomorrow night.