ANGRY BIRDS ACTION!
I had an Art Director role for this mobile sequel to the popular Angry Bird franchise. A role that required Initial visualisation, GUI design, some 3D backing assets, and general art direction tasks while working closely with the original Rovio team back in Finland.
OTHER GAME ART
Disease Lab
A fun card game, funded by the university of Dundee to teach kids (and others) about disease.
Disease Lab
This was a one person project for art, so all design, gui, character art, animation and promotional art was produced by me.
Disease Lab
As well as drawing and animating hundreds of diseases, each also required a 'symptoms' animation, showing the effects of said disease on some poor unfortunate guinea pig. Research into disease sympoms was both equally very interesting and very unpleasant!
Disease Lab Promo
Produced in Adobe After Effects
Sky Active Digital TV
While at Denki, I produced art for many, many games, including Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, Boggle, Cartoon Network properties, Nic Kids and many others. The games were all 2D, simple and controlled via the Sky TV remote control. An interesting design challenge when it comes to gaming.
Terminal Station
An interesting one. We were making a game that was to be on early VR headsets. As moving in VR frequently made people queasy, this game was static from the player's point of view. You had to seek out a particular person and spot or assassinate them. The platform was not too powerful, so in order to have many people in shot the characters needed to be quite low in thier polygon count. One way to do this is to stylise the game. The player would look around, seaching for a certain description, finding the person before the train arrived to take them away. It was fun to model and light, but ultimately, didn't progress to full development.
Narball
One of those games that only made it to pitch documents. A sporty fun, water based action game.
Spongbob Squarepants Pitch
This one was intended to be a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" in the Spongebob universe. Didn't make it past the pitch stage, but still fun to draw.
We Are Power Corps!
Title screen mockups for a bold game concept from Denki.
We Are Power Corps!
The working title was "Power Gear Assembly". This was intended to be a 'Cooking Mama' with military hardware. The user was making things, using welding, cutting, Painting, grinding etc. to make tanks and planes that would go out to war, either succesfully or comically bad depending on how well you made them. Here, I've been exploring how the different tasks can be visually different and dynamic.
We Are Power Corps!
The visual indication to show how well the player's did in their construction.
We Are Power Corps!
The vehicles would be shown in a fairly colourful cinematic, showing their build quality and how it helps or hinders them in battle. These are rough colour and layout tests for possible sequences. Quick tests to explore style and options.
We Are Power Corps!
The vehicles would be shown in a fairly colourful cinematic, showing their build quality and how it helps or hinders them in battle. These are very rough colour and layout tests for possible sequences. Shown here is a missile the player has built well in action.
We Are Power Corps!
Vehicle and some task exploration illustrations.
Festival Fever
A fun title that made it as far as a small playable demo. It's a sim game that places you in charge of building the perfect music festival event. The art here is shared (I produced the layout, compositing, logo, some of the effects and the charcaters).
Festival Fever
Needing crowds of hundreds in the concert venues, they all had to be minimal polygon count, so a bold cartoon style was brought in to cover for the lack of modelling detail. I was involved in concept art, GUI, logo and the characters.
Festival Fever
Some of the crowd characters
Festival Fever visual
Testing out lighting, effects and how the crowds could look. Game icon included here too.
Supermodel Showdown
A fighting game unlike any other. You take the place of a runway model, trying to outperform others on the stage. The classic 'Rock, scissors, paper' mechanic, using various actions to represent them. This was taking the fighting genre into a light hearted and silly direction.
Supermodel Showdown
There were mini games to bosst up a player's skills, so practising the runway walk, posing for shots and modelling clothes. The animations would all include failures, good jobs and perfect jobs. Of course, the player's had many options in their wardrobe too as the game progressed.
Supermodel Showdown
Customisation was key, so there were layers to the characters and their accessories. All animation and character rigs were produced in Unity.
Supermodel Showdown
Promotional Video
Denki Blocks!
A simple block puzzle game that had some success. Originaly for the Gameboy Advance, it went on to become more widely available on other platforns.
Denki Blocks!
The GBA version of the game. Lots of basic GUI and character work.
Denki Blocks!
Various play, menu and story screens from Denki Blocks!
Denki Blocks!
Some of the many characters in the game.
Denki Blocks!
Updating the game to the modern mobile age. This was a visual exploration into how the style could be updated for a more mature audience.
Battle Break
A simple numerical themed Breakout style game.
CBeebies: On the go
While at Tag Games, we were commisioned by the BBC to do a game hub for many minigames that involved a whole host of programming from the kids channel CBeebies. I designed a fairly neutral 'village' that could host the varying styles of characters, from photos of presenters to dressed characters (tellytubbies) and cartoon characters. The mini games were all accessed from this hub and there were many hidden areas to discover and interact with.
CBeebies: On the go
Set design
CBeebies: On the go
Three examples of the App in action.
The Big Question
A small game while at DC Thomson. A daily quiz game with no right answer. It was all about figuring out what answer you thought most people would pick, not necessarily what was right.
The Big Question
Promotional Video
Earth
A pitch from the BBC to see if we could explore a digital and interactive library for the wealth of natural history footage in the BBC archives. 'Earth' was intended to give users access to many videos and lots of information based on a map of the globe and simple menu systems.
Redbull
A pitch image for a wingsuit arcade game from Redbull. This one didn't make it past the concept stage. All art here (3D sets, effect, GUI) by me.
Car Jack Streets 2
Tag Games had one big early success in "Car Jack Streets". There was some interest to build on that with a sequel, but this one never progressed past a lengthy pre production phase. This was my take on the visuals. SImple 3D modelling with a pass of photoshop. The aim was to create an inviting, warm, fun and arcade style aesthetic.
South Park
Another one that didn't make it past the pitch stage. Lots of Photoshop mockups to show the 'olymipc' style gaming action.
Words Master
A quick title screenshot freelance project based on a pre made game. Some 3D modelling, graphic design and character design.
A quick pitch
A pinball style game with a UK based comparison insurance site. This was a pitch image using 3D, photoshop & illustrator.
Qyzz
A quick pitch for a simple quiz game. Lots of Adobe Illustrator. GUI and logo design.
Loop Twister
A freelance project for a puzzle game. Use the tiles to make loops. Keep looping and try not to fill the board with unlooped tiles. Lots of experimentation for lighting and effects.
Before and after
Lopp Twister menu screen. Logo design and GUI.
Germs
A small pitch for an interactive germ game.
Belly & Brain
"Just Eat" commissioned us to make a small game based on their characters at the time, Belly and Brain. This character was Belly, produced in Photoshop.
Belly & Brain
Some of the backing art. The Just Eat compnay facilitates the connection between local eateries and the public so they can order takeaway food for delivery in one handy location. The characters of Belly & Brain went around the 'food' world during the game, eating as they went. Chinese, Indian and Italian food were, of course, obvious choices.
Treasure Island Dizzy (Amiga)
Just for fun, taking you WAY back to the start of my journey in the 80s!
Micro Machines (NES)
Just for fun, taking things back to the early 90s. I was breifly involved on the original Micro Machines on the NES.