Welcome to take a glance at my project with design of character for mobile game.
COSOBAN - its the new game that soon will be released for Android and IOS by Ukrainian developer. This is logical game with stone age atmosphere where you’re playing for the cave man who’s trying to find the way to his cave house by moving stones on his way.
I was very exited when I get an offer to design the character and it’s animation for the game. As always I started with analysis of this time of the history, of the stone age. What people were wearing, how this time is showed my movies, cartoons and ofc, games. I was searching for references of similar games. It was similar by the style, or, only the type of the game, 2D mobile-game where you see the character that is moving on the squares and a little bit from up. For me searching for good references and inspiration can be even the biggest part of whole project.
I can say, the most difficult part was to depict the right perspective of the character so he will look naturally on a field as you’re looking at him a little bit from up. So his head should be bigger then his legs, for example.
At this time I started work without sketching by two reasons - I had the “base” from another character so my perspective will be right, and the second reason - this art isn’t so difficult for me, without a lot of details and with no special composition needed. I had already idea how it should look like, had references in front of me, and, unexpected for me, the first variant I made - was approved by the client. And after this needed only small changes so it can be perfect.
The next step after the basic pose was to draw the animation. As I expected, this part took the most of the time on this project. The character must look the same in any position and naturally and cartoonish and the same time. We tested the animation a lot of times, cause only on practical testing in a game you can see all the imperfections.
In the end of all tests - this is what we get.
