Rodney’s Rampage!

January - April 2023

Theoretical Game Art following Rodney, a scrappy skater kid, racing through his cyberpunk city and the enemies along the way

Seneca Illustration

Character Process

Original sketch lineup for the Core Characters. Wanted very distinct shapes, silhouettes, and colour themes. Even though Rodney is the “protagonist”, he’s still very angular to show personality and the sort of scrappy nature.

(Left to Right: Rodney, Boggs, The Conductor, The Mall Croc)

Digital Sketch of Lineup. Fox character is toned orange, robot bear is toned blue, transit rat is toned purple, crocodile is toned green.
Digital Sketch. Closeup and Headturn of Fox Character, Rodney. Wears a backwards baseball cap, an old ratty hoodie, a backpack, shorts and sneakers.
Digital Sketch. Closeup and Headturn of Robot Bear, Boggs. Wears a duster with the sleeves ripped off, heavy combatboots and ripped pants. Robot arm has laser claws.

Rendering Tests. It was important to have jagged and harsh shadows to fit the story, very graphic and comic book-y.

Digital sketch of Rodney, adding ink and colour treatment
Digital drawing, 4 alternatives of Rodney with different shading style

First Lighting + Colour Pass.

Digital, Lineup with full colour. Rodney is orange with reds, blues, greens. Boggs is brown with blues and yellows. Transit Cop is purple with yellow. Mall Cop is green with red

Promo Lineup Process.

Digital. Promotional Lineup. (Left to Right) Boggs is standingwith a large bat, Rodney is flying forward on his skateboard, . The Mall Cop is chasing Rodney, on the walkie with the Transit cop.
Inked version of Promotional Lineup

Location Design

Rough Location Thumbnails. 4 key story moments to build off of, also designing the areas you may find each individual character.

Digital Sketch, 8 sketch thumbnails of a marketplace location
Digital Sketch, 4 sketch thumbnails of a subway platform/inside a subway car, 5 thumbnails of Rodney in a rooftop hideout
Digital Sketch, 8 sketch thumbnails of a street fight between Rodney and Boggs

Refined Story Moment Thumbnails

Digital sketch, value sketch of Rodney on a subway platform with the Transit Cop hiding in wait. Interior
Digital sketch + Value sketch, Rodney riding his hoverboard through the underground market, evading the mall cop. Interior
Digital Value Sketch, the final showdown between Rodney and Boggs outside Rodney's apartment. Exterior
Digital Value Sketch, Rodney sitting on the ledge outside his rooftop hideout, snacking and watching the streets below. Exterior

Final Story Illustrations + Process. Tried to be more experimental in rendering to keep the energy of the original value sketches.

Props

Rough Sketches.

Digital Sketch, Prop Design. Handheld Objects, backpack, skateboard/hoverboard, Boggs' bat, the walkie-talkies
Digital Sketch, Prop Design. Food Items Rodney gets on his journey
Digital Sketch, Environment Props for Cyberpunk Street Scene
Digital Sketch, Environment Props for Cyberpunk Subway Station

Weapons Sheet. Exploring what best fits each character, putting personality first.

Digital Sketch, Final Prop Design. Fully rendered and Coloured

Food Stuffs Sheet. Kept things very grungy and greasy.

Digital Sketch, Prop Design. Food Items. Fully rendered and Coloured
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