Start of Second Semester

Hello everyone!

So just to recap, Phantom Mansion did not pass into second semester. The members of our team and the others that got cut were relocated and drafted to other teams. This semester I joined Team SuperGeneric as the character artist for their game, SunBots. In the game, the player control a small robot tasked with collecting energy from planets to shoot into the sun that is dying.

The second semester focuses almost entirely on production. We have the first 3 or so weeks to do some iteration, however, and find new ways to improve our game. As a team we want to explore some different options.

Our first big milestone is Greenlight. The goal for greenlight is to have the final designs of the three in-game characters. These characters in specific are the main sun-collecting robot, the enemy robots, and the neutral helper bot. By next week's update I hope to have concept art for all three characters. For now, I'll post some references I've been collecting for the characters.

The style of the game is storybook-like. The characters created by the team's original artist were intended to be friendly and approachable.






Here are some of the references of other robot character that I think will be useful in achieving a look and feel similar to the one existing.

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Chibi-Robo and Telly Vision of the game Chibi Robo


main character from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones


Canti from Fooly-Cooly


The robots from Mystery Science Theater 3000


The Iron Giant

Mainly what I want is to create easily recognizable characters. They'll need to have strong silhouettes to stand out against the space backgrounds. I would like to have them be as personable as the first examples but that might not be as much of a issue as the characters are usually seen from far away.

See you next week with the concept art.