Thursday, August 6, 2009

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!

Character Designs of furry fighters!





These are my character designs I did based on furry creatures that I think are gosh darn cute, but who could also be lethal. Now the first design is a little panda named Chi, that has Bruce Lee as his inspiration, who is just bad a$$ and practices jeet kune do. Not only that, he dabbles in winery refreshments and sometimes will initiate his awesome drunken kung fu. Now I know kung fu panda came out not too long ago with a panada as the main protagonist, but I had thought of my Chi character before I even knew of Po. Plus, Chi is way cooler than PO, so.....there :-P