Redrawing Old Demons
That title sounds so serious. I’ve been creating character concepts for enemies that my characters can fight against. It was important to be able to come up with something that would be easy to create variations of. Since I’m working on attack and spell casting animations, I thought the next step in animation would be to create full fledged battles, so this is the first step towards that!
I created a trio of demons last year for Halloween that I had really liked. I pulled out the old drawing and started to recreate them in a new style that I could use as a reference pose for animations down the line. I was deliberate in making all of the body shapes identical. I can essentially draw and animate the line art one time, simply recoloring the characters and adding a custom head to create a lot of variation in the lil’ demons.
The goal was to play around with patterns and glow effects in Photoshop to create an assortment of dynamic, demonic dudes that would be easy to animate multiples of. These were a bit quick and a little sloppy, but I like them enough to come back to them later.
I’ll need to come up with a few clothing options that are easy to animate, too.
We’ll see!
As a reward for reading one of my first blog posts, please enjoy the reference photo for the demon illustration: the Backstreet Boys.
