Storm8 Update

I've been slacking on my updates. Here's what I've been up to at work so far! I have more to show, but will have to wait until they're released in the games. :)

I've been switched on and off the following projects:

Bingo!

Bubble Mania:

 Fruit Mania:

Jewel Mania:

Character of the Day: Wonder Woman

We have daily 'Word of the Day' themes at work to keep us inspired to do our own personal work. Today we were given a 'Character of the Day.' I usually don't participate because of all the work I need to do, but I couldn't resist this one! I love drawing girls, especially super heroes.

Secret Santa Art Exchange

Aggie and I held a Secret Santa Art Exchange at Storm8 this year. We had this event last year at CrowdStar and now that we both work at Storm8, we thought it would be fun to get the art team to participate in this too.

Sueann was my chosen person. I read somewhere that she liked Japanese background paintings, so I thought that she may like something with cherry blossoms painted with some Asian influence to it.

Here was my process and what I came up with:

Our mini gallery turned out to be a big success! I'm so glad a lot of people participated in it. Everyone had so much fun doing this, that we are talking about maybe doing something like this once a month at work.

Jewel Mania & Bingo! Concepts

Now that some of our new games came out, I can finally update some things I've been working on!

This was an earlier concept I did for our match 3 game that unfortunately didn't make the cut. They were really fun to do. I was trying to go for a vintage robot look, but still maintain the box shapes so they'd be easy for the users to match 3 together.

 

These were some earlier Bingo characters that also didn't make the cut. Understandably, these characters were too young looking for the older audience we were trying to appeal to.

 

After some revisions, these are the characters that did end up in our Bingo game!

One of the backgrounds I did for Bingo

Storm 8 Update

It's been so long since my last post... I am way overdue for an update.

Since my last post, I started a new position at Storm8 in the beginning of June. I am really loving my new job! I'm pleased to say that at Storm8 I get a lot more creative freedom in the games I've worked on, and we are constantly working on new games every few months or so. I am learning a ton from everyone and am so happy to be working in Photoshop again! I can't wait to post what I've been working on these last few months, and will hopefully get to show you all next week when it launches.

For now, I can show you one of the games I had the opportunity to contribute to, Bubble Mania. When I heard I was going to be placed on this team, even though it was temporarily and just for one background, I was so excited! After being so out of practice with Photoshop since I've been working in Flash the whole year, it was a little bit intimidating, but exciting! Bubble Mania is one of my favorite games at our company and I'm glad I got to be a part of it. Here's the piece!

Some early concepts I did before we chose which island to go with.

the background I did to match the island.

 Here are screenshots of what it looks like in the game:

It Girl Update

CrowdStar Internship

This summer I got the wonderful opportunity to intern at CrowdStar on It Girl as an artist all summer thanks to the help of Liana Hee, whom I met at Wondercon this year. Liana has been nothing short of helpful and has been training me during the past month. She's been teaching me a ton of tricks and I've been learning a lot! I could not be more thankful for all her generosity.

This is us at Wondercon:

Here are some It Girl outfits I designed for the game: