Updated with Supermagical announcement trailer on page 2.

Enrique · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:46 pm

Hey guys,
I was missing posting on these forums and I thought, what the hell, it´s about time.
I´m loving the good energy and awesome skills you guys have managed to keep here, so here I come again ´cos I need some of that. And big time.
Oh, and glad to see how some of you have become real art beasts in such a short time.

So yeah, enough with the chatting and here goes some of my embarrasing stuff I´ve been doing lately:

Some character designs for the Dood Hex 2 game:

Some fanart:
http://www.artofenrique.com/big/beck_web_big.jpg

And concept stuff:
http://www.artofenrique.com/big/Tank_concept.jpg

I´ll be trying to post some more "realistic" concept art images. Just trying to build a new kind of portfolio, as I´m growing tired of always working in the same kind of games. And yeah, I´m looking for a new job now.

As usual, thanks for the look!

dutkov · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:52 pm

wicked men!
what's the texture used on the tank-dude, dude?

Enrique · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 4:39 pm

dutkov wrote:

wicked men!
what's the texture used on the tank-dude, dude?

Just some random metal texture I googled. It was kind of a fast thing, so yeah, Google is your friend!

Soulkarl · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:50 pm

ahh great stuff man - especially that second piece of that hammer witch girl, I dig the way you did her hands and pose. The colors are also pretty fresh.

anyways something to watch out for is making sure your silhouettes are clear. This is mainly a crit for the 3rd piece in of the dude jumping with the spear, but everything seems squished in, and I think w/o the rendering the pose would possibly not read. Try to avoid unnecessary tangents in the forms of the silhoutte that would otherwise confuse the overlap (like the further away shoulder to the pecs, and really the whole like that follows from that.) Don't be afraid to spread out the pose and open it up a bit more - it feels really confined.

also you're prolly aware of this but the big awesome rock dude in teh first ones just floating there, might want to make him grounded or is he supposed to float or wat?

oh and the beck piece fucking rocks - the end. hope this helps :]

Gunstar · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:24 pm

Tank and Beck arts rock! it's all so good :happy:

.

Kid Kalig · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:04 pm

Man, I missed message boards because of posts like this. Everything here, is awesome dude. Enrique, its been a long time since I've seen your work is everything is even more top notch than i remember.

k.

Enrique · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:12 pm

SoulKarl: I hear you, dude. Top notch advice. The characters are kind of floaty and lacking shadows ´cos they will be used all around for the company´s dossiers, sell sheets or whatever, so they ask me to draw the character´s final art like this, that way they can just grab and drop the art.

Kid Kalig: Thanks so much for your post, man. It means A LOT.

Thanks for looking, guys!

Dylan · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:30 pm

Welcome back Enrique. I hope Mar and yourself are doing well. :]

No crits from me right now, just wanted to say how awesome it is to see your work gracing these boards once more. Such amazing shape and flow, plus killer inks as well. Loving that tank down the bottom, would love to see more of that for some unknown reason haha

Enrique · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:38 pm

Dylan wrote:

Welcome back Enrique. I hope Mar and yourself are doing well. :]

No crits from me right now, just wanted to say how awesome it is to see your work gracing these boards once more. Such amazing shape and flow, plus killer inks as well. Loving that tank down the bottom, would love to see more of that for some unknown reason haha

Hey Dylan!
It´s good to be back, man. I´ve been completely out of the internets for a while, but I think it was about time to soak again into all this cool energy that floats around here. Good to see you here again, man.

Aaand, some more art. This time it´s just a speed painting (about 1 hour and a half) I did with Painter. I´m just starting with it and having a lot of fun.
I know it kind of sucks big time, but I´ll try to post stuff like this more often. I have to improve my coloring skills FAST!

Mako · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 6:48 pm

man enrique this stuff is inspiring

i saw your beck fanart at phase3 and i totally recognized it
you rock

InvaderTak · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 4:47 pm

hey! Good stuff man!!! i have to say i am particularly fond of the first guy you posted (with the texture- i really dig the colors and the smooth vs. texture, real clean) and the tank really got brought to cloud nine with the colors. Thanks for sharing! Your speed painting is pretty rad too... i think i would have been more selective on the speed lines and laser rays, but im a beginner, they just seem to be scattered very... evenly, you know what i mean? Like, op, heres an empty space i'm going to put a red bolt there, and everywhere!

Cool beans! Cheerios!

Enrique · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:16 pm

Yo Mako! Cool to see you here, man. Just saw what you´ve been up to and you got so good is scary.
So you´r a Beck fan too? haha. Good taste!

InvaderTak, thanks for your comments, man. Yeah, Me and my speed lines! someday I´ll get the hang out of them...haha. Thanks for looking, man.

Enrique · **Posted:** Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:04 am

Been a while!
I´ve been quite busy lately and that didn´t left me with much energy to do anything after work, but yesterday I thought I needed a cheesy space marine on my portfolio and I went for it :cheeky:

Thanks for taking a look.

Enrique · **Posted:** Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:00 pm

Ok, no more space marines then.
Here´s something different I´ll be flooding my art post with. This is part of the sprite sheet of the main character from my next videogame project for the iPhone. It´s just me together with good friends having a bit of fun with one of our own ideas for a change, and see how it goes.

Igo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:55 pm

Awwww... but your space marine was tight! Dont hate just because we've all been uber busy haha.

Seriously though great work man. I definitely didnt think "space marine" when I first saw the design... I think the feathers and the scarf threw me off, and not having a space helmet on. He just looks like a bad-ass futuristic warrior of some sort. Great work though man, Im really digging your color and rendering work as well.

The sprite stuff is great man! Ive always been curious to get into that type of stuff, but it seems like it'd be tedious as all hell. Is that mostly what you've been doing lately? Sprite work for iPhone games? It's great man, fun stuff!

Enrique · **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:06 am

Haha, naw, I was just joking with the space marine thing. I know you guys were busy as hell with the SDCC and the forums were a bit dead during the time.
Glad you dig the sprite stuff. I´ve been also quite curious about doing sprite work for some time, so when I had the chance of working on a game full of the stuff I thought it could be fun. But yeah, it´s tedious big time.

Awesome avatar, by the way! haha.

koroe · **Posted:** Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:43 pm

Its all so good enrique! beautiful colours and line art... and this last sprite rocks. congrats! :happy:

haha its a pleasure see other spanish member here^^

Enrique · **Posted:** Mon Aug 10, 2009 4:08 am

Yo Koroe! I didn´t notice you were from Spain too! Thanks for the post, man.

Enrique · **Posted:** Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:22 pm

So here´s the game I´ve been working on with a bunch of good friends! We are just having a bit of fun on our free time.
I did pretty much everything you see in there, including the logo and stuff.
Coming soon for iPhone and iPod Touch!

Mako · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 2:46 pm

hahahha looks mighty fun, did you get inspired byt the spanish team, i heard they kicked ass on the qualifiers
anyways, is this game for a company, or just something personal you guys are making?
and if so how much is it gonna go for on the iphone?

Enrique · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:59 pm

Hey man,

Yeah, we are just good friends creating a game for fun, money and sex ;) No company involved, it´s all in our free time. In fact, our Programmer works as a clerk on PC World...lol

Dylan · **Posted:** Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:37 pm

Its like some of my fav games from my childhood rolled into one. Seriously. I cannot help but look and see Marko's Magic Football meets Zombies Ate My Neighbors via Metal Slug 3.

Nicely done sir!

Shane · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 8:00 pm

Wow enrique this stuff is looking awesome let me know when that game comes out, would love to pick it up.

Ken · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:50 am

Oh man.. this is going on to my to-get list. It's great to see your sprites in their correct context, it all looks superslick.

Enrique · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:54 am

Wow guys, thanks a lot for the comments! :)
Working hard on this to be finished soon...I´ll post a gameplay video next week so you´ll be able to see everything in motion.

Enrique · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:43 pm

Ok, so here´s a very little update, but an update, nonetheless:)
So here´s a little preview of just one of the enemies you are going to find on PZS, so you can take a look into the game´s animation style.
Warning! Cartoon violence ahead!

First, we create our zombie guy:

Second we add some color and put him in motion. This guy REALLY wants your brains!

Third, headshot!! Some nice bonus is due.

And OMG!! he still can run! And he still wants our brains!! :happy:

How do we kill him for good? Well...you´ll have to play the game to find out! ;)
More to come!

Mako · **Posted:** Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:39 pm

LOL amazing, man, would you able to get away with so much blood on an iphone game tho?
if so, then thats awesome

Igo · **Posted:** Sat Oct 24, 2009 3:19 pm

Dood, Enrique, this shit is insane-o man! Id lvoe to pick it up, but Im lacking iPods and iPhones... I got nothing, Im still stuck with my Katana haha.

Seriously man, this looks like so much fun you have no idea. Fucking nuts...

Enrique · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:18 pm

Hey guys, thanks for liking this so far! Now, the ultimate test: let´s see if you like this gameplay video too :)

zombiezach · **Posted:** Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:20 am

oooh man! haha this is looking sick. at first i was a little disappointed cause it looked a little slow. but the satellite special move thing and the different balls make it alot more fun looking. i wish i had an iphone or touch

Igo · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:22 pm

Dood thats freaking rad man! Do you stay stationary the whole time or is there running around and stuff?

Osorio · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 8:43 pm

Yeah this is looking great. I can't wait till it's available.

Enrique · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:01 pm

Thanks guys! :twisted:

Naw, no running around. I don´t really believe on those screen drawn d-pads that other devs use on their games for controls on the iPhone. I prefer to have a simple and straighforward control system that works perfectly rather than put a d-pad in there for free movement. But anyway, the running around idea is cool, although I still wouldn´t do free roaming. Maybe just a level with the character on the go while he kills stuff would look nice.

Maximo · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:56 pm

Man that looks totally fun, I love those designs!

Mako · **Posted:** Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:52 pm

Enrique wrote:

Maybe just a level with the character on the go while he kills stuff would look nice.

Love that Idea man, would make it so much more dynamic

t-wei · **Posted:** Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:51 pm

Damn, this looks hella fun! Makes me want an Ipod touch even more.

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