Liquisity 2 Art Production
Chubigans asked me months ago to make blog posts for the site. Usually I’m working on secret stuff, so it’s a bit hard to just go nuts and post confidential material. Granted, he gave me the option of posting whatever I was working on currently – but I’m pretty sure the other developers would be pretty upset if I started posting their secret projects on another dev’s site. Many months and Catch 22’s later, I caught the flu and decided to make a piece of art for the full version game that I would simply post up to the site. Since Liquisity 2‘s final look is no longer under wraps, it seemed like a good idea.
Every piece of art for Liquisity 2 was painted in exactly the same manner. I am not an inherent painter. Sketching it out first makes me feel too committed to the original line drawing and I tend to color by number and forget there’s an overall painting that needs to be done. So I work it like a sculpture and chip away at chunks of color and block in general shapes instead:
It’s hard to see what’s happening in the middle 3 steps; there are subtle decorative elements going just above his head which you can see in the final and the zoom. The piece is very loosely based on Mayan relief sculpture. This was done in about 2.5 – 3 hours (maybe less – my cat needed his human slave and dinner somewhere in the middle of that). I spent longer on this one since it’s not just a rock texture or an ambiguous plant shape.
This was for fun. (I’m not sure if we’ll use it for the final.) My current art production list is just me shooting from the hip. 😉
Wow, I’m really impressed with how much detail has gone into this.
IMO, if chubigans doesn’t use this than he has no soul. 🙂
holy crap! that’s awesome
and only 2.5-3 hours? that’s ridiculously fast
I agree. No one with a soul would not use that. That doesn’t make sense.
Poor David. His soul has been unwittingly thrust into a struggle for his immortal eudaemonia as a result of my unscrupulous art meddling. Lol.
Unscrupulous art meddling? That picture’s epic. 😯
Awesome stuff! Very nice work. Sometimes I wish I could do things like that, but I’ve grown comfortable accepting my style is cartooney and leave the fancy stuff like this to the pros. Like you.
Cartoony *is* pro. Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends and Samurai Jack are god-like gems in the art industry. Or *I* worship them, anyway. Ever seen Samurai Champloo?
Realistic is drab and run of the mill while cartoons think outside the box and push limits (of style and reality). Never think less of yourself for it – and never ever lay back and accept anything if you’re not willing to…
Ok fine, I guess I’ll use it if I have to.
Also, I’d be mad not to use it indeed.