ARCHIVE August, 2009

Character Creation

January 25, 2010

This was a concept for a character selection screen that I put together over a couple of evenings last year. Something to give the team members an idea of what might be.

A Few More Pixel Games

January 16, 2010

Here’s a couple more cell-phone game sprite sheets.

Snowball Fight

January 15, 2010

Snowball Fight was one of our most popular games. Originally it was an online game, but later versions appeared on Verizon cell-phones.

Enviroboarder

January 14, 2010

I wanted to show some other examples of my pixel art. This is from a game called, Enviroboarder. The goal was to collect recyclables without hitting anything.
The boarder character is modeled after a room-mate I had in college. I think he’s the kind of guy who would appreciate being a character in a game.

Pixel Miner

January 12, 2010

Improved versions of game art I did a few years back. I’m hoping it will show up in the Iphone version of the game.
I pulled out Macromedia Director to do the pixel art. I didn’t realize how much I missed working in Director. I used to work in it every day before Flash came [...]

Gator Game

January 11, 2010

I did this a long time ago. It was one in a series of games for a school district in Pennsylvania.

Cowpoke

January 10, 2010

Cowboy character concept for an online game.

Beer Hunter

January 7, 2010

I painted this glass of beer in 2001 or 2002 using Adobe Photoshop.

The Process

January 5, 2010

From rough pencil to finished illustration in Flash.

Animating a Pixel Game Character

January 3, 2010

I’ve been seeing a few really nice pixel games on the iPhone. It’s gotten me thinking about a tutorial about how to draw and animate pixel characters.
Here’s a preview of the first lesson.