141 PORTRAITS! (Rifts:Promise of Power)

[Spartan]

Hey Guys,
I got clearance from Nokia and Backbone Ent. to post these portraits I did about a year ago for the Rifts game for the Ngage . I was the Art Lead on the project, and we had quite a bit of fun with it. The game shaped up really wel, and now that it's shipped, I can't wait for the reviews!

I was doing about 4 of these a day, they were drawn 4x the size, painted in PS, then reduced and cleaned up. As usual, some of the portraits I'm really happy with, others, I can see issues now that I look back...

http://www.members.shaw.ca/tratree/portraits_1.jpg
Crits and comments welcome!

[Carnifex]

no crits here.love the mix between pixel and normal art.

[Form]

if i could choose one to play as.... 3rd from the bottom on the left. Ice horns. Toit.

Great work man!!! Makes me want an ngage :P

[Form]

an additional question... did you have to conceptualise every one of these? or were you werking from a brief or a description?

[VirusArtist]

dude!! i need to dust off my old megadrive... getting that warm retro vibe from looking at these... my fav is the red pumpkinhead at the end of row 7.

VERY cool work!

Etienne

[Pixeldragoon]

Nice. Same as what form said, only I'd be all of the cool ones comb1n3d.

[Olof]

whoosh

gotta agree with the rest, the elements are <3

nice works!

.peace

[hurricane]

great work !!

i would choose the tentacles, because then CArtoonfox would be jealous :)

cheers !

[bat]

Looks great, excellent character portraits. Good luck with the N-Gage game. I hope it is better than the game it was inspired from.

[|NTeRN]

only cirt id say is to mix of the veiws a bit more, i wish there was a few facing the left, instead of tehm all facing the right. just my opinion tho

[CaptainInsano]

these are freakin sweet! They all look good. I luv those robots!

[Ian Mack]

hmm...3rd row 1st one on the left.

Awesome stuff! It's cool to see pixel art done in such a style. I'm limited to a very childish/cartoony look for my work.

[asoir]

Incredible stuff, very lively characters, great job.
I'd choose the first dog, he owns!

[Chuck,mate.]

lordy lord....
these are AWSOME!
versatile, interesting and well executed.

of course, not all of them are on the same level of quality,
and some are better than others - but that`s all good.
:)
great stuff.

[tgfx]

crap those are cool...I think you wanna join my crew... ;o)

[goran]

Hot and clean,nice light too.

[flatliner]

great work, all unique looking characters. Really like the 4 robotic guys, 3 down from the top on the right.

[izisilver]

wau! Some realy good ones, i can't realy pick my favorite. Because of the pixel borders it looks like a pixel art.

Are they for the same game?

[Spartan]

Hey Guys,
Thanks so much!
Glad to hear you guys like them! They're all for the Rifts Ngage game - and they face the same direction because when you select a target, the faces come in looking at each other (your opponent's face is flipped in programatically) - a lot like final fantsay tactics I guess, but with a bit more edge!

About 30% of the portraits are designed based on the wealth of existing Rifts material, but the ajority are key characters for our game that I am happy to say I designed, along with fellow artist Kierston Vande Kraats ('Rubygenesis' on the forum).

Peace!

[ammoburger]

Make them all avatar or buddy icons. Those are awesome!

[strych9ine]

Christ these are juicy. Love all of the lighting and vivid color choices, they really pop the characters.

[rasdasa]

My fave is the doberman muzzled.
Even though I wouldn't muzzle mine if i had one >:

ras

[Kryaus]

Nice Stuff ya got there

That is friggin amazing that Nokia & Backbone let you post them. Everyone seems so tight with the assets even after games are released


wait a tic.. is that Siembeida second row fifth in? the guy is worse than Stan Lee

[Chingwa]

Swweeet!

[wojtek]

wow, all 141 are actually in here :)
and they do look good
congratulations

[Sketch]

Nice work Spartan and Ruby! You guys kick aiesss! We need to have a sketch meet soooooon!

[Spartan]

Thanks Guys!
Laf - yeah that is Kevin S. - the creator of Rifts. I hear he has quite the rep, but he cam eout to Vancity and was a very cool guy. He's been really supportive of the game, and the direction of the art...

[Scott Johnson]

Great work Spartan! These were fun to look at. Kevin has been raving about the game for a long time now...he's really thrilled with what you guys have accomplished.

-Scott