I’ve had the pleasure to work with @GrouchoDuke from Acceleroto on his upcoming infinite runner, Rush City. Above you’ll see the final icon for the game. See below for a time-lapse of the artwork for the icon being created by hand from a low-poly in-game model (similar to how the Sortie icon was created).
@iPhonig asked me to make an icon for their upcoming dogfighting game, Sortie. They had 3d files of their fighter jets, but I wanted the icon to have more of an illustrated look to it (as well as be infinitely scaleable). With some helpful tips from Pete Parisi of @fuzzycube, I used a technique I’ve never tried before: using a 3d render as a reference for perspective and lighting in a 2d vector drawing.
Here’s the before and after, with a time-lapse video of the process following that:
All the artwork was created in Photoshop; time-lapse video made (effortlessly) using @qrunchmonkey‘s excellent ScreenNinja (Mac App Store link).
I am arguably one of Disc Drivin’s biggest fans. I started a tournament for cryin’ out sakes. I love this game. So when @cannos came to me and asked if I wanted to work on a new UI and splash screen for the iPad version, I was… excited.
They asked for a comic book style splash screen with lots of character, and the UI was to resemble an ESPN or FOX Sports score HUD.
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Concept sketch:
Final splash screen and UI bar:
Welcome screen:
This is a time-lapse video of the creation of the splash screen. It was recorded with ScreenNinja, available on the Mac App Store. Highly recommended. Music by @wblackall.
During the Game Jam at the 360iDev San Jose 2010, Dan Byers (@coffeedan) worked on and showed a head-to-head tank game for iPad. The game has since been reworked as a space game, and Dan asked me to press the “make look better” button. Below are some samples of the work I did on Star Fighter X2, including a cool time-lapse video of building the spaceship in 3D.
View the game in the App Store.
