Game art for a Facebook game called: Inheritance

We here at Killer Minnow partnered with a company called Fusion Creative to develop a game called Inheritance. It is currently in Beta and we are supplying all the artwork, 3D models and design for the game. Here is the opening image of the mansion you inherit in the game. The object of the game is to clean up and fix the run down mansion you inherited from a relative, driving up the value.

This was done with a 3D model that was exported as an ambient occlusion (which is basically a black and white image with gray values). I also had a shadow pass. It was done all in photoshop using textures and photographs. 

Here it is as it's used in the game interface.

Sketch of an ooold college friend! Black Violence!

We all have those ideas for comic heroes we've come up with in life that we can't fathom how we ever thought it was a good idea. One day, during my freshman year at art college, I saw a tube of paint of which the color was labeled: "Black Violet". I immediately saw the word "BLACK VIOLENCE" and thought that sounded awesome. Not black as in African American mind you, but black as in dark, unforgiving, horrible "Violence". I was a disturbed lad with issues apparently.

Well, I formulated this back story of a huge dude with long black hair (I was into Metallica and the like at the time) who was imprisoned for defending himself in a park at night in the City of Boston.

"Defending himself" you say? "He shouldn't go to prison for that!" you say? Ok, so maybe you didn't say that , but thats what I imagined people saying in my naive youthful imagination. The problem was that the utter horrific violence he used to dispatch the would-be muggers was seen as excessive and brutal, so he went to prison.

The government decides to enlist him for covert ops based on the nature of his crime. They code name him: "Black Violence" and send him on those missions that require brute strength and horrific acts of over-the-top maiming. You know the kind...

Soo, a friend of mine brought him up, so I decided to draw him. It has been over 20 years.

Oh, and it's set in the future were all the Boston Police are now robots....yes..damn straight.

Lookie what arrived in da mail today.

It's the Michael Borkowski sketch book. Complete with an original sketch of a District 9 alien!

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

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Just sketching away. Bipedal Mech fight

I learned me some stuff about custom Photoshop brushes and other techniques from an ImagineFX magazine and decided to practice them. I ended up just using a cool sketch pencil brush and sketching out this thing. Hmm, maybe next time I visit this sketch I will do more with the background and values and what not.

Flying through the air with intent to kick.

...or maim, or through one of those sharp tear drop shaped things at you. This is one of many character sketches for a project I cannot talk about as of yet. If it goes down, it will be very fun.

SciFinal Banner

Here is the printed banner that arrived today, thanks to vistaprint.com! It came out really good, the print quality is amazing, and it was pretty cheap.

This here a banner I just did for our site, SciFinal.com.  I wanted to do one of the character that encompassed the idea behind SciFinal. So I drew him sort of working his cosmic mojo, sucking in all the internet's independent sci-fi shows into one convenient portal...clever eh?

Stomz Stavros - issue one breakdowns - pages 5 and 6

Ah yes, there is no sweeter sight than the blood and brain matter of a bad guy being emptied unto his accomplice via quad-tipped explosive shells; and after he was stabbed through the neck with a gun-knife! HA! Am I right?

Stomz Stavros, issue one breakdowns. Pgs 1 thru 4

Stomz Stavros is finally getting done. I am on the committed road to getting the first story out there. It is a great story (I think...hope I'm not wrong..zoinks) and I want it to see the light of day before I am drooling on myself in a rest home wishing I didn't get too wrapped in the hum drum of life's bullshit to draw the damn thing. I've had it written for like three years and I just revamped it a week ago.

I've also started to draw it already THREE times. I was unsatisfied with my skill level at the time (still am of course, but we must reach a level of "acceptably awful" and get something done) and just abandoned it. I'll have to post that old art once I have new stuff to counteract the eyeball assaulting mess I put to tablet back then.

Anyway, here are the first four pages broken down roughly. These four pages are overlaid with dialog of a young kid reading his history homework out loud to his mother (sets the tone for the universe, which is an alternate time line mid-eighties).

The SciFinal mascot!

Our website, SciFinal, collects online independent SciFi into one convenient portal. We are adding a new section called "Creator's Corner" in which we post an interview of some of the show's creators. I drew this alien for the header of that section, which is actually the incarnation of the SciFinal logo.