Background Designs

Haven't updated the blog in awhile and so I figured it was due time to do so! Here are some background designs I did that I felt were worth posting up. They're from Brainsurge season 2 (top 3) and AIVA vol.1 DVD (bottom 3). Enjoy!

Character Designs for Nickelodeon BrainSurge Season 2

Since the 2nd season of Brainsurge is currently airing on Nickelodeon (check your local listings), I figured it would be okay to post up some of my character designs I did for them. Most of them are for a level two game titled, "Cyber Friends".

Initially when I was working on the level one games, my designs was more akin to anime, but the execs at Nick felt that it didn't quite fit within the shows style and asked me to redesign almost all my characters :-( You'll see a page with some of the redesigns for level one, in which I had to think outside of my usual zone. It paid off because it made me look at designing characters in a whole new way and leveled me up! My level two (and onward) designs shows better poses, silhouettes, and overall better visuals. I hope you guys enjoy and feel free to comment :-D

MSG Comic Strip

Well, here is a comic I had thought up a while ago (like in '07) and did a strip for it. It's about a trio of buddies (Sam, Max, and Roger) who go to bars after completing various martial art tournaments. They're not very good at it, but hey, it's a living for these guys. They get into some interesting situations at the bars, mostly Rogers infatuation with Asian females.

The comic is titled MSG and my initial plan was to do a bi-weekly strip for this, but I've only done 2 so far! The first was my initial strip and the second just got done recently this year. It only took like 2 years between the two :-P Really though, between the interning full time, working full time, doing freelance, and what not I was pretty busy for that period. Now I'm on my down time and I figured I start rolling with the MSG comic. Next time hopefully it won't take so long. Might have to make it with less panels a la newspapers. I've posted up my 1st strip also underneath the newer version, so you can see my how my style of drawing has changed. Enjoy!

Little Marissa

This is little miss Marissa, a character I created for a hypothetical show. She is just your average girl that likess bunnies, making funny faces in the mirror, and bubble gum music (more Cyndi Lauper than Britney Spears).

Manga Minutes Rogue designs!!!

I had the honor of doing the 1st season of a bi-weekly web show called Manga Minutes for the website Manga.com. Basically its a 2 minute show hosted by two animated characters (which I designed and animated) that reviews things from anime, games, and manga. One of the host is named Rogue, who is a big fan of video games (especially the fighting variety) and is into vinyl figures, cartoons, and the female persuasion :-D People say I added liberties of adding a sprinkle of my own personality to this character, but won't admit it. LOL Anyways, here are some designs, from concept artwork to the man himself, Rogue!

Love-chan the oh so sexy character designs

This was actually a character redesign of a clients existing character which they thought of as their mascot. They gave me what they wanted her to look like and her traits, i.e sexy, space cadet, anime influenced and so forth. After a few iterations, I finally nailed the look of what I thought the client would like and the client agreed. Here is Love-chan, the oh so sexy space cadet!!!

Character Designs of furry fighters pt 2!!!

Next set of designs is of a koala named Kuso that practices the art of shotokan karate. As you can see on some of the poses, he bears some resemblence to another famous shotokan fighter from a particular game where you fight on the streets. Yeah, that's actually where I got some of my inspiration from. Any who, hope you enjoy and feel free to comment!