Extreme Makeovers! | mr.paick | strider

[mr.paick]

Extreme Makeovers! | mr.paick | strider
http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/competitions/uploaded_thubnails/33-game-concept-art-1207-1182446843-thumb.gif

mr.paick has entered the competition!

[Enma]

Well.. you've just narrowed down my choice for me. I was stuck between 2 possible characters. Seems the hands of fate have fiddled this one for me aswell :approve:

Looking forward to the concept :thumb:

[mr.paick]

haha thanks i guess?
i'm looking foward to posting up some art .....should be fun =)

not much of a character guy myself but...i thought i'd give it a try.

you guys can see my work on my website....

http://www.jamespaick.com

http://clockworkart.blogspot.com/

[Enma]

Nothing in your sig that I can see :)
I found your link in your profile though. Got quite a shock when I visited your site. Ive had it bookmarked for quite awhile now as a 'favourite artist' site! Small world :D

Good luck with the comp. I'll be keeping an eye on it!

EDIT: You cheated.. it's just came up in your sig :P

[keo]

nice work on your site! while it looks like you prefer to do enviros, you're no slouch when it comes to character design.

[mellowsmoothe]

oh man this is UNBEREBARABOR! ha ha. this should be fun. competitions make me want to talk shit soooo bad but then people will take it the wrong way and i will become "that arrogant guy". anyway enough about me, glad to see you here... let's do this!

[brian_h]

HOLY SH!T...Almost...I mean I literally flipped a coin on it...did this one. Too many memories of playing this drunk at the local arcade at 3 in the morning...ah, the days...nice greasy burger and Strider at 3am...damn good choice. Don't let me down on this.

B

[rv_el]

Awesome.. your in!

This was my favorite arcade game back in the day. I was a bit young to play it drunk though. It stood out as a fast paced game amongst many really slow games at my local shitty arcade.

[mr.paick]

thanks for the support guys....i'm looking forward to posting my first round of thumbnails..=)
stay tuned

[mr.paick]

hey guys....
so here is my initial ideas of the new 'Strider'
its definately not the version that most are used to. What I wanted to push was a complete change, not just an updated version. I like to call it....
Strider meets Mad Max meets S&M meets punk.
aw well it was fun....=D
http://www.jamespaick.com/images/ent_stuff/character/paintings/Strider_character_line_up.jpg

[mellowsmoothe]

oh damn. yeah homie, this is the good stuff. number two is talking to me. i dig the silhouette and the get-up. i think the face is a little on the "kratos" side but maybe you can preserve that feel and change the colors or somthing...maybe even a more intricate facial tatoo or something. 2 with the head of 4 might be cool. i might try to figure out how you could have a cool silhouette but make it feel more functional, just to push the plausibility factor. i think the antennae-like things on his shoulder could use this kind of thinking. last thing i would say which is basically the anchor for all good design is to create a story that links his design to something. not sure how much of that you though of but it would be nice to hear your ideas for why he is steam punk, what this new twist means as far as his powers are concerned, and how does all of that make him who he is. cool man, good job.

[mr.paick]

his new powers are that he is from the underground world of sex torture and his main male lover was kidnapped by the republicans of the free world. OR....
its just something cool to look at ;)

[mellowsmoothe]

ah. i see. hmmm. well that sounds... fabulous!

[Vailias]

I gotta say, I like the first one the best.
For a full departure from the character only the first one still says, "Hey, I'm strider."

From the left I get crazed techno-ninja, UT2007 Samurai, UT2007 meets God Hand, and somewhat less flaming God Hand mini-boss design.

I really think its the mesh and the not quite so over the top armor design that pulls in the strider-ness of the character

[Ste]

Brilliant! Love the first one the most!

[Enma]

Loving the chest plate design on the second sketch as well as the sword placement.
As a full character though, the first one has my vote! Maybe try adding the chest plate design from the 2nd to the 1st to help add alittle contrast in that area, and add alittle something to help break up the symmetry.

So glad you got this guy before I did :thumb: :approve: :thumb:

[mr.paick]

i love the crits i'm getting....i think a round 2 is in order very soon..
thanks guys!

[mellowsmoothe]

hmm you've got too much time on your hands to be sitting around and not posting anything. you disappoint me young grasshopper. :lol:

[FredH]

Really nice sketches so far. I think it's great that you are giving him an entirely new approach. It looks like you changed his time period from futuristic to fantasy. This is sorta fine, however, one thing that makes your character really loose his ties with his old self is his balance and fitness. Strider is a game where he is hanging off ceilings and jumping all over the place, but in the sketches you have shown thus far, he looks incapable of doing this. The abundance of armor makes this impossible. Perhaps if you toned his armor down, and gave him a grappling type weapon of some sort, and maybe even keep his long hair somehow, these elements would tie him to his past some more. It's up to you. Regardless, really nice sketches. I am sure whatever you end up with, it's going to be great!:)

[mr.paick]

good point about the armor and movement characterisitcs. I'll go about another round with this in mind.....
=)

[Klockwerk]

Great Start. Lovin the renderings. Awesome direction you took with the character. Although I think in my opinion its really easy to take a character and do some crazy redesigns with it with out any constraints. The danger with that is, the true essence of that character could get lost.


I think you should find what makes Strider who he is and bring a little of that back into your design. Keep up the goodwork.

[rv_el]

I suppose i'll put in my 2 cents

I really like what you have so far. The base guy fits well.

I like the 2nd one and the 3rd one. The 4th one iis less like strider, not that it isn't cool.. just not my fav for sure.

The 2nd one has a kick ass silhouette. I am not really into Franken-Crits (as i am now calling it, perhaps it will catch on) But, I would like to see the second one with the hair of the first one.


Franken-Crit. When people tell you slam a bunch of different ideas together on one character... as if more is always better :). So you end up with a Frankenstien character - - random shit sewn together. I dunno.

[mellowsmoothe]

ha ha. sweet, i love it... "franken-crit". yeah unfortunately those ideas are cute at first but you really have to see if they work well together and then adjust the design accordingly.

[alexisys]

Sweeet..:) I personally like second one, and head look of last one...
Can't wait to see more!

[Enma]

Waiting for an update here :p

[mellowsmoothe]

uh, yeeeaaahhh. where's the updates? oh wait "i have a new job". :P