Team Zaxxon Chows Down!!!!!!

[trevor]

SOOOOOOOOOO
this is a temporary SB for the team ChoW happening now....and apparently all month and marco mazzoni and i had failed to notice until today
we decided we could do 6 characters in 3 days so now here we are,
puttin it out there for you all to seemy 1st 2 designs are
the sage and the protector
last of mine will be the hero(ine)
up next
MARCO MAZZONI!

[trevor]

update with some color ideas
bed now

[DeeLock]

sick sick sick sick sICK SICK SICK SICK!

I'm excited to see what the others will look like.

[Adam Schumpert]

Wow, can't wait to see what you guys produce! It's looking awesome so far!
Definitely going to keep an eye on this one. Its going to be epic I'm sure!

BTW Trevor, thanks for stopping buy my and NoShot's SB.
Also thanks for the compliment its nice to know that an artist of your caliber sees improvement in my work. :teeth:

Anyway, the protector and sage are looking awesome. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the group.

Take care,
Adam

[thirdeye]

Nice start Trevor - cant wait to see more from you and Marco. I'm a fan of both you guys :)

[Farvus]

Really cool. I like the sage concept.

[D@niel]

Looks great man!!

[Marco Mazzoni]

Shit man, you're a tough act to follow...

Here are some quick sketches for the technician and the shadow

[Jamie Romoser]

Cool characters man!

[trevor]

update
worked slow today not drawing well
so 1 sketch
the hero
we kind of thought of her as the generic character appearance wise
then the split personality thing will offer another side of her entirely
more to come tomorrow

[Ghostbrush]

yeh these characters look so cool, The protector is a beast!!!!! Actually like all these characters though.

great skills!


All the best


Alex

[Mr.Delicious]

Im still a little upset you guys didnt start earlier :(. I would have loved to kiss on both of you but its ok... Niceeeee designs <3

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Wow, cool designs, though I feel like they are kind pick of the litter from other things I have seen before. Like the protector has a silhouette very similar to that of the evil Iron Man thing. Might wanna spiff things up a little. Take in more insiprado or something. Anyhoot, nice work here:)


-E

[Marco Mazzoni]

Aww man, don't let our tardyness stop you from kissin' up on us. We need your beautifull body :lifedrawing:

Mischeviouslittleelf - That's a valid crit, unfortunately with the limited time we gave ourselves we had cut out a lot of the exploration we would have normally liked to do and just jump right into it. Of course individual designs will always suffer when taking short cuts, but we're still refining them as we go and I'm confident that our assembled team will be pretty unique when we're done.

Here's a quick rabble rabble rabble.... rouser?

[Vorace]

nice stuff guys! hope the tight deadline will help you to come up with insane ideas!!

[trevor]

thanks everybody
we are bustin ass on these after work and i hope it shows
marco 's is looking amazing so far
all i have is this lil old update on the hero
she still has a ways to go but i kinda like where it is so far
she need damage maybe some trinkets
some sort of personal touches
hmmm ill save that for tomorrow
enjoy!
oh and i forgot to mention
they are a cyborg merc squad
i think it fits the archetypes well in a sort of over the top way

[ikuru]

kewl kewl stuff boys!

[D@niel]

Love it!!:D

[Ghostbrush]

commented on the hero in ur Sb trevor but i gonna saw WOW over here again! awesome.

Marco, sketches have a good mood in B and W, rable rouser looks like a cool cat, calm and collected.

Technician has that tank girl look to her, which is how i imagined her when i read the brief, not liking how some teams are portraying her as a weak geek ha ha

Go go guys!


Alex

[smokenmirrors]

way to take a fraction of the timeline and bust out quality that many of us even with the full month could only hope achieve! ;) bad ass!

[SMILEFACE]

way cool wicked' beans

[Twitchfinger]

Looking great guys, you can do it.. go go go! You're the best... aroouund.. nothin'severgonnakeepyoudownnnnn

[Pseudocognition]

Super awesommeeee work guys, I like the contrast of the streamlined skintight suits and the hulking Protector. Good luck!

[trevor]

update
the hero is done for now
i want to do some more personalization
but if i keep going like i have on her ill never get to the others hahha
we need to start thinking of common graphics for them as well but that can wait till saturday after all else is done
enjoy!

[Ghostbrush]

sweet!

[trevor]

UPDATE!
here is the protector
almost done with him then on to the sage
should be able to finish tomorrow i think woo hoooo

[Dan Valkar]

damn it, will be funny, and sad(i gotta admit that) at the same time if u win this in such a fuckin' short time......XD

lovin' and hatin ur stuff so far... :P

[JailHouseRock2]

bastards:)

Great stuff!

[ikuru]

again really cool stuff.
Btw I think there is something to her hand, for some reason it feels a bit detached from her somehow... something about the angle or something.

love to see ur development keep em coming.

[smokenmirrors]

dude. perpective... gesture...texture and polish are off the HOOK! wow... gotta learn some of that digital swager.....

[steven6]

Love all your charactors-sick as fk

[trevor]

hey thanks a lot folks
heres the rest of this mess
i forgot my icon in my final post so i hope daestwen gets it
progress group and individuals
gun orthos in SKP


big dump here
NOW GO VOTE! erm
when the poll opens hahaha

[trevor]

oh and
did i mention we started this tuesday?
we were looking for a challenge and ummm
well
we just hadnt noticed team chow hahaha
marco's progress pix should be up soon

[SMILEFACE]

glad yall made it

[DStraX]

well this is just mindblowing.. !!! :O

[Pseudocognition]

God damn, you guys this is the most insane last-second ANYTHING I've ever seen.

I can't wait to get my vote on lol. It's going to be so hard to piccck argh.

[Marco Mazzoni]

Coulda spent more than a week on these and been a lot happier, but no sense in kicking my own ass over it. I still had a blast.

Here are sketches, progress shots and finals of the Shadow, the Rouser, and Tech

[SamC]

So much awesomeness in so short amount of time..

[smokenmirrors]

what program were you using to design and implement the guns? so crispy clean.....

[Retronym]

What is the preparation for one of these projects like? What do you reference? Do you get to work or do you research things first?

[Marco Mazzoni]

Trevor whipped up those guns in Google Sketchup, something he's gotten quite good at lately.

As far as prep goes, in this case we had very little time so after some brief, but inspiring brainstorming we jumped right into sketches using mental reference that we've already built up. From there it was on to the finals. With more time perhaps we would go into a little more research on modern military gear or even just random photos faces that we like. There's no real set process, just doing what it takes to get inspired.