Game development is really fun, especially figuring out timing on different characters. Here’s a preview of what this bot’s walk cycle would look like.

This is a small animation that I created for the instructions page for the game mentioned in the earlier post. I’ve included the Flash source file so that anyone can use it for their non-commercial/personal projects. Feel free to download the FLA file and possibly create your own animation with these assets!

The audio track is by REECEY-BOY

I’ve received quite a few requests to create a tutorial on how to rig characters for animation and games. That article will soon be covered.

Cheers!

The character went through a bit more evolution and I fine tuned the colors so it’s easy to animate. I decided not to use strokes or lines so as to keep the animation easy and that way the turnaround time for the assets would be quicker.

If one goes back to the roots of this day, it was first observed by formerly enslaved black people in South Carolina, honoring the Union soldiers who had fought for the preservation of the Union. That’s definitely a reason for humanity to celebrate and it doesn’t matter in which part of the world it’s observed. I wonder how many other cities outside the USA have a day off work?

Want to know more about Memorial Day? (wikipedia)

These are some of the earlier concepts I made back in 2007. It’s about a team of nerdy footballers and their friends.

Roughed out something quick before jumping into my next assignment. I find it very relaxing to take a break and doodle. Nope, I don’t smoke.

Run cycles of the Kid from Vault 101.

Got cranking at the animatics for Tetanus Shorts, and here’s a video where I’m working on the first three scenes of the animation.

To view the storyboards, go here.

As much as I really didn’t like Wordpress, I never thought I could pull off this whole website in under two week without the help of the Interbutt, WP, everyone’s philanthropic contributions, plugins and themes.

Most recent updates: Other than the fact that a good portion of the site has been revamped, do check in for new content over the next few weeks. I also understand that a lot of the earlier posts have broken links and I’m working on correcting all that.

Here are some initial concepts I was leaning towards when redesigning this site.

The biggest challenge while working on the layouts was to create an intuitive navigation that was easy to understand and always had scope for expansion.

It was this layout design (below) that I felt best suited the new design. I dropped the Print and Illustration links and combined the content under a Design category.

The last step was to quickly work up a logo.

Enjoy!

Sweet! Thanks to Tom Fulp for posting Kevin Bacon Head-in-a-Jar on the Newgrounds.com homepage. Screen Cap!

Made these assets for a top-down shooter game. Rigged the assets such that one can create more jets from random combinations of jet parts.

My friend and I had been working on some scripts for Tetanus Shorts around 8 months back. We had ambitious plans of making this a series that may have a run time of approximately 4-5 minutes. Upon revisiting the project this week, I churned out this storyboard for a short where the two main characters grab a bite.

This is one of the finished pieces I had done for a client sometime back. They preferred another one, so this goes right into the Garage Black Book.

“Do. I. Look. Like. One. Of. ‘Em?!” – Louis
This is a continuation of the small Left 4 Dead project I’ve been working on and off on for Newgrounds.

Bacon and eggs are the best things to have happened to breakfast (and lunch and dinner. Thanks, 24 hour breakfast).
Well, the best things don’t always happen to games and thats why Sean James Games Chains McKenzie is gathering his thoughts about this subject matter here. I was commissioned to work on the mascots “Bacon” and “Games.” Here are some of the preliminary sketches and color treatment for “Games.”

Ref: here and here.

Pvt. Bedlam is a game concept inspired by the movie Jacob’s Ladder. Bedlam’s crew was picked by the Army to try out new experimental performance drugs to make universal soldiers, but things go bad with the first batch of testing and the Private is one of the mad survivors who is hayballin’ his way outta there. Alice’s Restaurant Massacre would probably be the most fitting track for this game.

I received an email from Blogspot saying they’ll be dropping support for FTP-based blogs as they’ve come to realize that it doesn’t make monetary sense for them to provide such services. Thus, the Devil’s Garage blog … will yet again be moving on to another service. Readers may not be seeing any immediate updates in the next coming weeks.

~a

Update: looks like I got this thing up and running, super fine! A big thanks to Janice and Sean for all the help.

Sketched out a storyboard for one of our game characters.

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

Caricatures of Ashwin and Yash from Avenue’s Hospitality.