Thursday, February 27, 2014

My Motorcity Phase: Hard Femcity

So Motorcity never got a second season. And it broke my heart. But before it finished, I entered a contest held by Titmouse to get some swag. The contest was 'The Ladies of Motorcity' to promote the wide range of ladies in the show. I decided I'd go the fashion route and create pictures showcasing weaponized femininity;





Originally, it would be one pictures with all the women just chilling and looking awesome. Because I was going through a bit of a rough patch, though, the final result was two individual portraits of characters Claire and Babs






Piccolo and Gohan

It was practically a decade since I'd seen Dragon Ball Z in any capacity, and then me and my friends just sort of returned to it. Watching something you idolized as a kid, seeing it all over again, the nostalgia can be extremely inspiring. 





Revisiting Isis




Revisiting Herz; Scene sketches

After I got Herz's new look down, I went on to creating the linework that would eventually come together into a full comic. While a lot of the pieces were finished, the whole never got constructed.







Revisiting Herz; groundwork

Around the fall of 2012 I was in a class that had me revisiting and revising my character, Herz. In this new story, he was an English teacher. I tried to give him a gentle giant kind of look, with a physique close to Bear!Flynn's







My Motorcity Phase; Motorcity Jak part 2

After working on the two protagonists, I moved on to integrating my favorite character, Torn, into Motorcity.




This outfit? Sadly too cluttered for the MC style


Torn and Tess, one of his spies

My Motorcity Phase; Motorcity Jak part 1

Besides Zelda another video game love of mine is the Jak and Daxter series. Living in a post-apocalyptic, tech heavy future and fighting the guy currently in control of a highly militarized city-state? Kind of a big plot of the second game. It and Motorcity have quite a bit in common.

Chuck, Daxter, Jak, Mike




Good Guy Ganon; more revisions

Here's where they started getting a little closer to where I wanted them. Most notable change being Ganon's head dress being replaced with paint.



I even played a little with making sprites, though they don't really look like anything in 8-bit Zelda



Good Guy Ganon; Questions answered~

Well okay that title may be a little misleading. What happened was, at the time, I asked for questions directed at characters in the GGG cast. Here's a goofy example;



And a more serious example;





"Seeing what she'd done to him."


My Motorcity Phase; MC meets HtTYD

I'm all about taking one good thing and smashing it against another good thing to make an even BETTER new thing (as you've probably already seen). At one point I decided that How to Train Your Dragon and Tangled should exist in Motorcity because no one was there to stop me;



Good Guy Ganon; a visit to Ocarina of Time

The Zelda game I grew up on was Ocarina of Time. It was only a matter of time before I pitted my version of Zelda against the established Zelda I treasure most;








The boys appear in the Spirit Temple


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