New Year, New Project, New Game

The year ended, and with it some projects were left behind, others moved on. I was put on a new project, The Crisis of the Super-Verse, a fighting game where super heroes take the center stage and battle it out in different stages corresponding to each one of their stories. The game has solid game mechanics, but the art needs a revamping which is where i come in.
I am a huge comics fan so this is a huge opportunity for me to take the lead artist position and make some awesome art for my portfolio as well as helping make the art be as successful part of the game.
The first changes we talked about was how to turn a fighting game, into a fighting game that takes place inside a comic book. Right off the bat we knew that the backgrounds needed to be changed, as of now they are rendered in 3D space, what we want to do is make the backgrounds 2D so relay the feeling of being inside the comic book.

My first assignment as lead artist was to update the two preexisting characters, Major Marvelous, and Light-Speed Lass.
I want the characters to have a modern look, old school comics have more of a simple design and both Tristan and I agreed that we want to give our characters some visual interest, this would open some creative doors and make the characters more interesting to concept and to model. We turned to the DC New 52 comics in which all of the new super heroes got their costumes revamped. For the major marvelous concepts i looked at characters such as Superman, Batman, Shazzam, the Sentry, and Captain America.

 I really liked how their costumes stayed simple yet the artists used simple shapes to make them look more armor plated. This is an idea that me and Tristan really liked so we adopted it into our Major Marvelous costume.

Out of this four iterations we decided to go with the fourth option. We liked the way the suit was broken up and it looked not only like a super suit but also like a suit of armor. Since the battle will be among super heroes they need the right kind of protection. Once we had decided that we wanted the 4th suit we wanted to go with for Major Marvelous i made a concept art piece out of it so that Tristan could start modelling him and we could get the animations on the way.

I also did some concepts for Light-Speed Lass. She still needs some work but the concepts are based on the Flash, her bio says that her suit also acts as a space suit that is why i made a heavier version. We are thinking about keeping the color scheme of the first suit but again giving it a more segmented and armor plated look.

When the team showed my work to professor Nadel he really liked the idea of going with the New 52 style he said it would work as a satire because he doesn't think that DC's new comics makes sense. I personally don't have a problem with the direction DC has taken but i do like the idea of poking fun at this controversial situation that is taking place in the comic book world.