Yesterday, a super-secret project that I have been working on little by little over the past month finally came to fruition -- the Once Upon a Pixel episode of HAWP. This was one of the biggest projects I have ever worked on as an artist, game-related or not, and one that I am super proud of. Now, by popular demand, I bring you an exclusive gallery featuring the art of Once Upon a Pixel, which depicted The Tale of the Metal Gear.
Below lies the full sized versions of each drawing, a few of the original sketches, and photographs of the details on the Once Upon a Pixel storybook used in the video (which has some chocolate icing smudged on it in places, unfortunately). My favorites of the bunch are Snake attempting to shut down Metal Gear REX and the fight scene with him and Grey Fox. How about you? Which ones do you like?
And yes, I know I spelled "soldier" wrong on the first page of the book, I cut off the wrong hand on Ocelot, and I left Decoy Octopus out of the Foxhound group picture (Not on purpose! You can actually see him wearing a Snake mask in the sketch version of the image). Cut me a break! I got the codec number right at least!
Credit goes to deathfetish, who created the great paper texture used to give the final versions of the drawings the "old storybook" look.
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3:00 PM on 07.10.2009
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Great work :D
The Snake and ketchup one is another favorite.
Honestly this is definitely one of the fucking coolest things i've ever seen
More videos please =)
They're amazing :3
Ash you're pretty amazing artist.
And I thought the whole "solider" thing was on purpose!
I can draw with paper and a pencil, but I have trouble drawing with a mouse. Is there any (cheap) pencil like peripheral that I could hook up to my computer?
You can probably find older models on eBay for much cheaper though.. try to look there too! Wacom is constantly coming out with new tablets, so the prices on older ones go down fairly quickly. The one I use is a Wacom CTE-440 -- it's small, but works great once you get used to it. I've never used any other brand, though, so I don't know how reliable any others are.
There are also standalone digital pens called Wowpens that are about $30 cheaper, but I can't vouch for them either. You can buy them on Amazon, I believe. I think they work just like a wireless mouse, only they're more pen-shaped.
I hope that this helps! It sucks there's nothing cheaper out there, but I hope maybe you can get a hold of something to help you out! And just to note, you can't get a tablet and start doing awesome drawings with it right away. It takes a little time to get used to the disconnect, since what you're drawing is coming up in front of your face, instead of below your drawing utensil. It's really, really weird at first, but don't get discouraged! You'll eventually get used to it. :)
Also, thank you everyone!
Snake peeking at Marill's patooty was hillarious
great job =)