(1994) Pixel art + animation for unreleased Elfmania Datadisk (Amiga, Terramarque)
Elfmania was my first paying job in Game industry. I was hired to create the pixel art and animation for the datadisk, as the original character artist had left the project. Animations were rotoscoped, and one of my first tasks was to shoot movements on the video tape from the actor, then rotoscope them. Kor-wa character was an inside joke, if you select him after Kosken, you get Kosken - Korwa, after famous finnish hard liquor. Rod-er character was my own design. Working on the backgrounds and animations was hard work but felt very rewarding, but sadly the data disk got cancelled after the programmer left. All the art is made with Deluxe Paint using Amiga 500 + mouse.
Treasure chamber, unfinished
Rejected version of treasure chamber
older rejected version of treasure chamber
Floor texture to treasure chamber
The "body parts" library we used to save time on making animations. But they were also recycled by code to save memory! The way characters were assembled and parts recycled on the fly to make the game fit in mere 512K was insane.
Korwa jump
korwa unfinished jumpkick - rotoscoped martial arts model can be seen above
korwa jump punch - sketch
korwa mid kick
korwa punch
korwa squat
korwa squat - sketch with original rotoscope footage
korwa squatblock
korwa squat kick
korwa squat punch
korwa stand
korwa turn with rotoscope footage
korwa walk - this was my very first assignment. I was given the model and told to animate it. It took very long time to get right, especially with all the flower textures on the pants!
Rodder selector animation - this is actually hidden in the released Elfmania game disk
Rodder standing idle
Rodder standing sketch with rotoscope footage
Rodder walk with rotoscope footage. I enjoyed animating the pants
Korwa block
Korwa death
Korwa dizzy - every character had a dizzy animation loaded, but due to bug in the code, they never activated in the released version!
Korwa high kick
Korwa hipunch