Black Phantom (3)

After the sculpting and painting process, I have exported the model to Maya. Then, I have made the skeleton and I have bound the skin of the character to it. I have also made some controllers and nodes in order to move the joints easily.

Then, I have set some poses like run, fight, jump…

The next step is animating the character: in this flash file I show you some basic and cyclic movements I have set. Please, do not miss the dance movement ;)

In future entries I am going to try new more complex movements, for example, fight with weapons, fight against other characters or interact with the environment.

Dragon Bat

Dragon Bat is other of the main characters of the Alien Power universe. He represents the power of the energy so he is linked with fire and magma.

As in the case of Black Phantom, he has changed in the process of creation. In the beginning he was a blending of a dragon and a bat, but later he has turned into a kind of demon. His colour is red, related to his nature. He usually appears with a special weapon: a kind of knifes adapted to his arms. He also has dragon wings and tail.

His home is Magmalia, the world of magma.

Black Phantom (2)

These are two new pictures of the development progress of Black Phantom. I have made a model using Zbrush and I have painted it. Then I have exported it to 3ds Max and I have added the bump map and the features of the clothes and some materials. Now I am doing the rigging process in Maya.

I have also modelled and mapped the sword. I have made this picture in order to show the context of cold desert environment of Black Phantom's world.

Black Phantom

These are some sketches and basic animations of Black Phantom. He is one of the main characters of the Alien Power universe. He represents the power of the Death so his costumes, armours and environments evoke bones, ruins and other ancient things. Essentially, he is an immaterial spirit that lives into a inert body but he can change his armour or even move freely. The Enchanted House is his home.

I have drawn Black Phantom in different ways, but certain features are invariable: the heavy armour with evocations of  bones,  the cloak that gives him grandeur, a kind of medieval plumed helmet only filled by a light and a battle long sword. The colours are also a invariant: purple for the clothes, bone, dark grey and metals for the armour. In older versions he had claws instead of hands.

Magmalia

Magmalia is other environment of the Alien Power universe. It is the place where Dragon Bat lives. It is a web of caverns partially full of lava. Inside the caverns, it is very dangerous, with lava-jets, geysers, and explosions. Only creatures which are adapted to these conditions can live there.

In these sketches, I have tried to represent this ambient. There are long stairs that take you across the spaces, sometimes as a labyrinth. Finally, the path culminates in the throne of Dragon Bat. This throne is positioned dominating all the place. A ray of light from outside illumines it.

Enchanted House

This is a part of the process of development of the Enchanted House, a large building where Black Phantom (one of the main characters of Alien Power) lives. It is a kind of strange building that has a lot of chambers, courtyards, and tunnels mixed into a surrealistic way. It is designed as a videogame stage, where you have to go from a place to another in order to get to the final room and beat the boss.

The complex has several main parts: The courtyards (cementery, gardens...), the "tholos" or circular temple, the main building and finally the great tower. So, here I show you some sketches and primitive models.

A sketch of the view from the cementery

Section of the building across the tower, the main building and the temple.

An aerial view of the building and the environment.

Composition of the main buiding for making the model.

A view of the tower from the gangway.

In the future I will update with more advanced concepts.

Welcome to Alien Power

Alien Power is a fiction universe full of characters, creatures and strange environments. It represents a concept art project of a hypothetic videogame in order to show the skills of  his author and share the concepts with another artists.

The original idea was created by four kids (three friends of mine and I) a lot of time ago and recently  it have been developed by me as an tribute of those times and stories.

In the next posts, I am going to show some of the concepts that I am working in. I hope you like them.