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Vinod Rams (@vin.of.nod) • Instagram photos and videos
Here’s Beckett’s un-made sky pirate skin!
I was initially inspired by one of my favorite characters, Dola, from Castle in the Sky. I love their streamlined, simple flightsuits. So I mixed in a bit of Stormtrooper to tie in to Imani’s skin and we have Beckett’s “Flying Phantom” skin!
This was literally the last concept I was working on the morning of the Motiga layoffs.
I recently posted these on my Instagram… which I recommend following if you want to see what I’m working on!
https://www.instagram.com/vin.of.nod/
The lore idea behind this skin was that back before Imani created her mercenary squad she was the commander of a highly organized sky pirate group. She was known as the “Silver Skull” and her jetpack troopers were the “Flying Phantoms”. (Like Darth Vader and his stormtroopers) The idea was that like the original concept for Vader, Imani had a breathing apparatus for boarding ships extremely hight altitudes.; also that she used fear as her weapon, in addition to her tribow sniper rifle! I also included a bunch of color variations, just because they were all pretty cool. (I especially like the Cobra Commander themed one.)
This skin was made but never put into the game unfortunately.
Beckett’s Flying Phantom skin is next!
Started teaching my first independent study today with a digipen student I’ve gotten to know over the last few years, @artsichow . Today we just talked about goals, process, and schedules. We also did some loose, messy pen sketching for brainstorming. Doing quick pen drawings are one the best ways to work out ideas by making mistakes, playing with proportions; and because it’s pen there’s no safety net! #penandink #teaching #artschool #coffeeshop #brainstorming #characterdesign #art #drawdrawdraw (at Walnut Street Coffee)
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Wake up…time to DIE!
A little cyberpunk throwback Thursday for you all! This drawing is from way back in 2007, but I still like it. I was doing a fun thing in my sketchbook back then where I’d arbitrarily paste fortune cookie fortunes on pages, often giving the drawings a new context.
Figured these scummy cyberpunks were appropriate since @emilyfiegenschuh and I are going to a showing of Blade Runner at the @theseattlecinerama tonight! I can already hear the Vangelis music!
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#tbt #throwbackthursday #cyberpunk #bladerunner #sketchbook #sketch #characters #art #instaart #punk
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The Bittersweet Saga of an Aspiring Esport’s Huge Ambition and Brief Life
Pretty good article about the ups and downs of making Gigantic that I was interviewed for. Good read if you’re interested in the industry, how good things are hard to make etc.
Swipe for a throwback Tuesday to this date in 2016, I went to the juxtapoz/superflat show in Seattle and watched @katsuyaterada draw! It was basically empty so I even had a chance to chat with him (with his interpreters help) and give him one of my sketchbooks. I discovered Terra’s work in 2001 at the San Diego Comic con, I believe that was his first appearance in the US! (hipster cred 😉) @emilyfiegenschuh and I realized we both had been looking at his work since the old days of his Zelda illustrations in Nintendo Power! He’s one of my favorite artists, and definitely a later influence on my art. It’s pretty awesome to see his rise in popularity over the years. I’ll post a video of him drawing some moebius “tick marks” as a story later! (at Pivot Art + Culture)
Anonymous asked:
Hey, do you have a discord?
I use discord with friends and co-workers, but I don’t have a personal channel.
black-fox-the-kitsuna-96 asked:
Hello I really like your design of mozu I just fell in love with her me and a friend alway argue about her age by any chance that you can tell us her age
Thanks! Mozu was probably my favoite character I designed on Gigantic. Loved playing her too. Mozu’s a young woman goblin. She’s impatient, and doesn’t really think things through… which can be a teenage trait but I think she knows what she wants in life so that tells me that she’s a little older. Not a teenager, but not an older adult. I think she’s around 22 in human years.
In goblin years…. no clue!
Anonymous asked:
you control the shapes my dude, you are the shape god
Well maybe not a god… demigod, maayyyybe. Or lesser, regional deity perhaps.