Sandy: Ex-jadooWorks

Storyboard widgets

Had sketched out a storyboard for one of our game characters.


Based off the football character in the game Scrambled Legs-2, goofing around. Enjoy!

NFL Football Player

Got my Titmouse Coloring Book! (FTW!)

Finally got my hands on "Adventures at the Animation Studio" coloring book. A BIG THANKS to the kind folks at Titmouse who are giving away this on their site. If you don't know who titmouse is (WTF?!STFU), roll over to their site to see some of the sickest animation work they have made.

New Year's Greetings for my Friends

Some really quick art for my friend's company.

Three Diggas and a Mallu walk into a bar. (updates)

These were three comics I had made for close friends, sometime late last year.
The humor is very colloquial. The character development posts can be read here and here.

The power of the decoder.


The trip to Gokarna.



Ashwin's Birthday

- Fradiation Fred -

Lost in space (since 1994 because his cars' ignition blew up on his way back from work thus causing a nano-space-time vortex which threw him out there), home-sick Fred is now battling his way back to the times.

Game Concept:- Super Extreme Ham Sandwich Fun Extravaganza: Awesome! (W.I.P)

Damn Barbarians..

I won the Castler Crasher Car Design Contest!

Forgot to mention that my "The Behemoth Chicken Car" designed got featured on the Behemoth (makers of Castle Crasher's) Blog.



Sadly, the competition promised some goodies and also a decal on the car which was not addressed. (yup, that totally sucks)

Read more from the other older posts about the whole process. Cheers.

Weird Heads and Big Heads

The God Collective

I had this series of Hindu Gods for Moytoy Community but never got about coloring the characters.

Why don't they cry? Oh why?

Left 4 Dead | 'Smoker!"

I love killing the 'Smoker'. Sweet gratification on seeing that cloud of tar-filled smoke puffing away when he explodes.
For all you 'Smoker' lovers, read this article

Network Redux Man

Got a lill shout out from them. Thanks to Mark for getting me involved in that project.

Ref: http://inside.networkredux.com/2009/11/18/network-redux-sponsors-ignite-portland-7/

I worked on the last scene of this animation. Watch it here

Zelda Props

props coming your way.

Airport Authority

Working on some concept boards with a friend. It's a short story on Link (Ref: ゼルダの伝説). Poses from the boards.. enjoy!

Lateral Collateral on the App store!

Been a super good day for all American Football fans! Two of my games have been published. Lateral Collateral, a big favorite on the NFLRZ has now been ported to the Iphone. Now you can spend endless hours on that international flight lateraling the ball and getting your butt kicked by your opponents. Fast and fun game. (Click here to go to the Apple App store)



The other game which I have made that has been green-lit is "Sprint Attack". It's a take on Super Sprint, with football players pushing opponents off the tracks, picking up bonuses and dodging Big Red Blitz Bots. Its a well made game, have fun playing it here at the NFLRZ

Character Turnarounds!

Decided to just stick to the 3/4th of the character for simplicity. If the strip required specific poses, I shall scratch them out on a napkin and throw it in the bin, cause I dont want to be so anal in my approach for this personal project.

Three Diggas and a Mallu walk into a bar..

I had always wanted to do this comic strip for my good ol' friends Jakie, Ronny, Ashwin and the rest from Bangalore. Over the week I salvaged some old photos and sketched out caricatures as a start for the comic strip tentatively named "Three Diggas and a Mallu walk into a Bar". (It was an old joke that we always played on Ashwin, a true-blue Kannadiga boy, rather the only Digga in the gang).
The strip contains a lot of inside jokes, so I'm contemplating about posting them here on the blog as the humor is very colloquial and would not make too much sense to anyone who weren't with us for the last fifteen years.

Meals on Wheels

Some quick art for the Kogi Truck (L.A's best Korean-Mexican fusion food on wheels). Blowfly's Booty Bus should be the theme song for this truck.



ps: Don't forget to try the 'Black Jack Quesadillas', they are yummy!

Made this for a colleague.

Superhero or dud?

Many hours have been spent debating whether Aquaman really makes a worthy superhero?


This one's for Mark.

These should be on postage stamps :P

Here is the complete list of 'The Behemoth' inspired cars that's scattered around the blog.



Enjoy!

Character Design for the NFL

This is Darnell, He is an avid football fan and appears in his own show, which can be seen online at nflrz.nflrush.com

You need a free RZ account to access the theater there.

'Game Schematics' Template

Being a game designer has helped me understand how to write a quick game schematic and over time I have created a game schematic template which is super helpful and quick to create a pitch.

you can download the template here (PDF)|(Word)

Feel free to modify and contribute.

The blams of time

I decided to work on some art to help move the cog wheels of Clock Day.

Clock day is celebrated every 15th of August (since 2001) on newgrounds.com. It started when a user named StrawberryClock had turned in his flash submission which just contained the letter 'B'. This submission, as much as it was blammed, withstood the blams of time and has churned out an internet subcultre. From these bytes of silliness grew the phenomenon of the Clock Crew and their creativeness.

According to history books, before StrawberryClock submitted 'B', he had turned in 'A' which was blammed to the peak of oblivion. Thus my project is based on that submission by StrawberyClock.

It's a short animation and personifies the letter 'A' and A's bleak, short lived future it faced by the forces that binds newgrounds.

Below are some of the preproduction works that went into this project. Enjoy!

I started off by first getting a good feel for the character and penciled out some basic shapes to simplify the figure.



On nailing down the final design, I decided to go straightahead and not do the turn arounds, something that I essentially do on all projects.





After thumbnailing the concept storyboard, dove right into to creating a tight animatic with Jedadiah's: Pardon(theme) from the audio portal. Songs that didn't make it into the list or were dropped last minute were the following, A salute to these talented audio slaves.

CJ's : Ghost of the Past
DanPaladin's: Pear
Zeke30695's: Lilium (Music Box)
Jedadiah's: Reprise and Finale

The Clock Crew in the mean time have finalized on this years preloader, which I have modified to fit my animation.

Thus getting to the end of this post, I had fun working on this project. The total time it took me from scrip to screen was approximately 12 hours, broken over a few nights. Getting technical, this animation made in Flash CS3 (bloody thing crashed a lot of times), the background texture is from CGTextures.com which is a collective maintained by Marcel Vijfwinkel, also used Photoshop for editing and optimizing the final image. Audacity was the weapon of choice for sound editing.

I'm submitting the finished animation this Saturday to newgrounds.com and by next week, it goes up on thedevilsgarage.com too. So for now, I shall leave you with two stills from the animation.





Shoutout to Sean 'Chains' Mckenzie who helped me out with that strange language called actionscript.

Update: Death of 'A', has been featured on newgrounds homepage! Had got 15,000 hits in the first 24hours, most excellent!

Logo Design

Recently I had created some logos for a friend. Here are some of the alternate logos and color and render treatments done to it.

Castle Crashers RaceCar Design! Part V

This may be one of the last installments of Car Designs that draws inspiration from one awesome indie game studio, The Behemoth. Below are three new pieces, two of them using the Behemoth Chicken logo riding a Radio Flyer and a Wooden cart (refer Castle Crashers) and the third one is the Troll Boss ride.







What's the magic formula to come up with silly designs, you ask? Simple, Nocturnal drinking of Redbull and Alcohol.

To view the other designs
check here, here, here and here

Sasquatch Test Animations.

I had done this over a year back and had forgotten to post these random tests.