Big Huge Games Open House

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Thursday, March 24 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm

We kindly ask that you RSVP via email to RSVP@bighugegames.com by March 22nd. In your RSVP please note if you'd like to reserve a portfolio review slot and specify your primary area of interest (concept, character, UI design, environment, level/world design, animation, modeling, texturing, etc...). Review sessions are limited and during past Open Houses have filled up quickly.

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lara croft redesigned

here are the environments and the redesigns that i forgot to put up onto the blog until now. enjoy.

Salomé Progress

Not sure if we're supposed to post this week, but here they are just in case.

(She's going to be wearing a partially transparent blouse, which I've not yet drawn)

Also, since we talked about modding, I collected a few screenshots in case you're still interested. Most of them are pretty old, haven't had the chance to take screenshots lately.

Colors!

Green:

Florist

Forest

Plants

Envy

Poison

Sludge

Night vision

Swamp monsters

Emeralds

Sick

Calming

Youth

Yellow:

Pikachu

Bile

Pee

Banana

Anticipation

The sun

Warmth

Light

The beach

Action

Smiley faces

Sunflowers

Purple:

Royalty

Barney

Irises

Nighttime

Dusk

Incense

Perfume

Plums

Mystery

Gypsies

Seduction

Blue:

Sky

Ocean

Complacency

Adventure

Ice

Inner Peace

Colgate

Kid’s Crest

Rain

Water

Sadness

Sleep

Red:

War

Blood

Fire

Cherries

Rage

Luck

Action

Danger

Passion

Satan

Santa

Valentine’s Day

Sex

Roses

Lips

Eros

Orange:

Lauren

Oranges

Orange Juice

Hunger

Spice

70’s

Retro

White:

Death

Marriage

Purity

Snow

Absence

Peace

Light

Angels

Void

Bunnies

Ice Cream

Black:

Asian hair

Empty

Abyss

Chaos

Luxury

Anubis

Death

Decay

Brown:

Poop

Chocolate

Caffeine

Dirt

Trees

Cats

Mushrooms

Old West

Fried Chicken

Pungent odors

Grime

Nostalgia

Homely

Pants

Unassuming

Gray:

Neutrality

The wind

Boredom

Steel

Flashback

Robots

Rocks

Rain

Spacesuits

Cloudy day

Depression

Koalas

Elephants

Age

Decay

STARFOX!

Okay, so for my story I chose Starfox (the nintendo 64 one specifically).

I wasnt sure exactly what direction I wanted to go in with the alterations, so I made all different variations on Fox McCloud and the environments to help myself figure out where I wanted to take it.

Vortex the Blue Marlin

This blue Marlin is the fastest fish in the world, and a distant relative of Sonic the Hedgehog. He takes advantage of his aerodynamic nose to go as fast he can and be the dare devil he is. Once he gathers all the Chaos Pearls, he will be the unstoppable sea critter and along with his buddies, save the seven seas from the doom of Dr. Shellman. The rings in the environments are dolphin air bubbles.

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your long tail.

if rapunzel was a squirrel and the other characters were all adorable woodland creatures.
it takes place in a tree, instead of a tower, and instead of having long hair, this rapunzel has an abnormally long tail.

More Concept Artists we'll be looking at

https://daarken.com/

http://gulzarjunaid.blogspot.com/

http://www.wendypark.com/illustrations_spike.html

http://www.goodbrush.com/

http://www.jonfoster.com/#portfolio

Assignment #4 – Character and Environment

For this assignment, you’ll take the character and environment thumbnails you did (those from a story you’re recreating) and you’ll create one finished, colored concept piece for each of them.

Don’t jump straight into these. Before beginning the final pieces, do a few more thumbnails, either approaching new directions or combing/refining elements that are effective in previous thumbnails.

5-10 character thumbs

5 environment thumbs

Following those, begin your finished concepts. The character may be on a solid color background.

Both of these should be at least 8.5 x 11, printed with acceptable quality.

Due date: 3/02 – 2 weeks

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Character/Environments

For mine, I decided to redesign Sly Cooper from the video game, and remake the story into a steampunk setting. For the character, I used Sly, and for the environment, I went for an urban city, and tried to vary the different places he could go, such as the indoors laboratory looking place (number 3), or the airborne buildings (8, for example).

In the game, Sly's central weapon is a cane, so the last picture is a few different designs to start with.

The Giving Tree - Environments

Beauty and the Beast Redesign

So I also decided to do Beauty and the Beast. I really wanted to do some redesigns for the Beast too, but I unfortunately didn't have time.

Anyway, most of these concepts are going off of the idea of Beauty being a monster hunter.

Salomé

The archetypal femme fetale. I hardly ever do anything thats not fantasy, so I figured I'd practice and set this in a modern/near future setting. 

The Giving Tree

Featuring... dismemberment! And lots of weird science stuff I haven't really figured out yet (this takes place maybe 200 years in the future). My recreation involves two young brothers abandoned on a hostile swamp planet after their scientist father is killed on an expedition. The older brother, Cause, is the more courageous and brash of the two and has taken it upon himself to hunt for food. But going anywhere on the planet is dangerous, and he often returns from his hunts with severe injuries. After loosing his hand, his little brother, Tam, proposes giving Cause his hand so that he'll still be able to hunt.

Using their father’s leftover equipment, Tam cuts off his hand and grafts it to Cause’s bloody wrist (science!). As time goes on, Cause continues to return to the hut injured, and Tam continues to help his brother the only way he knows how. But after sacrificing himself for his brother time and time again, Tam becomes nothing more than a mishmash of organs and a head hooked up to a life support vessel (science!!). Cause returns injured once again, and upon realizing that Tam has nothing left to offer him, is overcome by a wave of helplessness. Having developed a vain streak in light of his Frankenstein-esque appearance, he requests only that Tam tell him he’s beautiful. Tam looks his brother over, awkwardly proportioned with Tam’s limbs and covered in scars, and tells him as such.

So...er... dismemberment!

So the story I chose was the Land Before Time. I think I might have done the assignment wrong; I didn't choose one theme for my sketches. Whoops?

Character- Littlefoot

Environments

Beauty and the Beast

I chose the original Beauty and the Beast story (not the Disney movie, although they aren't super different)
But I moved it to space/different planet and now we are seeing an alien species of sorts

Belle:

 Various Environments (Castle, Belle/family home, garden)

the sexual vampires of chinese myths

The story or "myth" that I chose consists of this: The Daoists had created a variety of disciplines to gain control over their mind and bodies, and sexual energy was just as important as any of the other energies or spirits.
"Chinese folklore had many stories of shape shifters who took the form of beautiful seducers, both male and female, while seducing to drain unsuspecting victims of their sexual essence. They thereby prolonged their own lives at the expense of their partners, who wasted away to an early death."

The Daoists found ways to avoid their life being shortened, such as non orgasmic sex, or climaxing at the same time as their sexual partner.

Demons Demons Demons! :)

Mass Effect- But with nineteenth century pirates (Shepard & Omega)

"The Swamp Princess"

For my story, I selected the classic animated story of "The Swan Princess." For my concepts, however, I decided to put a bit more of a horror-story twist onto it. Instead of the princess being cursed to turn into a beautiful swan every day, she is turned into a deformed gruesome looking swamp creature.

sorry they're super late, i accidentally posted them onto my other class blog. and im also sorry that the desert scan is so washed out. ill try to re-scan them before the next class.

Sanctuary, Palace, Desert