Joel Carroll

Project: Amp character/concept/turnaround

2009-11-10T11:37:00.001-08:00

Working on a little side-scroller video game with some buddies...
thought I'd share a couple little pics.

Here's a basic concept for the main character:

A turnaround to aid the modeler (in this case, Derek Marunowski):

And here's some of the pics I took while the character was being built in Maya:

Mole Thing

2009-11-05T12:35:00.000-08:00

Is it a Chud? A mole? Who knows....he wants to scratch your back, though...

Crossposted on the MONSTERMANUAL

Cat Update

2009-11-05T11:20:00.001-08:00

That cat has CRAZYFACE!

Here's the cat vs. Mario

Triad Terror

2009-11-04T11:24:00.000-08:00

Three's the charm, right?

Crossposted on the MONSTERMANUAL

The Viper Queen

2009-11-03T10:18:00.001-08:00

Another monster! This time a ghostly snake woman thing...

Crossposted on the MONSTERMANUAL

Canine.....Insectoid....thing....

2009-11-02T11:21:00.000-08:00

Ok, back to posting some monsters after a week of sickness!
Crossposted on the MONSTERMANUAL

Frankenstein's Monster

2009-10-23T12:23:00.000-07:00

Drew this up for this week's DRAWERGEEKS

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

Full Sail Advert feat. Punchline

2009-10-21T10:28:00.000-07:00

About a year back, I helped design some super-villains for one of the student developed games in the class I teach here at Fullsail.
Recently, we found a banner ad out there on the net that featured the main character, Punchline.
He was modeled by Mike "Chops" Washington, one of the guys on the asset team I manage.

The original blog post for the game can be found HERE!

Two sketchcards from Baltimore!

2009-10-20T13:26:00.000-07:00

Drew up these two sketchcards at Baltimore Comicon!

First up is an Arachnid Kid, for Josh Alves! Great meeting you, Josh!
You can buy the Arachnid Kid comic at IndyPlanet!

Next is a little R2 with Jawa for Andy Runton, of Owly fame!

I have some more sketchcards I'll show off some time this week!

Hector PLasm: Totentanz

2009-10-13T12:58:00.001-07:00

Out of the many, many comics available at last weekend's Baltimore Comicon, this was the one I most wanted to get!
Hector Plasm: Totentanz will be out tomorrow, so you pussies better go get it...and if you didn't pre-order it, tell your local comic shops to go and get it before Halloween, or you'll all die of pumpkin HIV.
And while you're at it, tell them to see if they can get Hector Plasm: De Mortuis, too.

I got my copy at the show early, and it rocks! Nate Bellegarde is seen above googling over it.
Benito Cereno couldn't make it to the show, so I burned a wicker-man full of sportsball fans outside the con for him.

Nate also has a great blogspot with tons of cool art, and keep checking their team-up site, Fetorpse.org for further Hector announcements soon!

Baltimore or Bust!

2009-10-08T11:47:00.001-07:00

Gonna be at the Baltimore Comicon this coming weekend (Oct.10-11th)
And here's a handy dandy map of where me and some various online pals will be.

You should come and spend copious amounts of money and/or adoration at us.

Wyrm

2009-10-06T13:20:00.000-07:00

An Emperor Duskwyrm....recently caught on the edge of the Stygian Mist Desert.

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

Kitty Pryde

2009-10-06T13:19:00.001-07:00

Servitor

2009-10-05T11:24:00.001-07:00

The dark servitor and herald to an outer god...a writhing mass of putrescent matter, created from the overflowing ephemera known as pop culture.

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

TEACUPS!

2009-10-05T07:55:00.001-07:00

Full of candy from the Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Disney, Aim decided the teacups were the thing we HAD to ride.

Tyrant

2009-10-02T13:28:00.001-07:00

Hey, it's Tyrant, from the first Resident Evil.
And yeah, I put a peener on him.
I figure if he's gonna have lockjaw, night vision, and a heart on the OUTSIDE of his body, the least they coulda' done was leave him with some junk.

The little "super-deformed" version on the right cracked me up. He's pitiful, but probably could still do some damage.

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

My Weekend Schedule

2009-10-02T12:03:00.000-07:00

So, starting this morning at 9am, here's my tentative schedule for this weekend:

After work, I'll be going to the Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party till at least midnight or so...I'll just bring my lucha mask, since I totally didn't make a costume in time.
Amy made an INCREDIBLY cool Day o' the Dead mask last night, and I'll take some pics of her wearing it tonight. Keep yer eyes peeled on the Twitter/Facebook tonight.

Then, hopefully around 1am-2am, I'll make it over to Acme Comics Superstore up here in Longwood, FL. for 24 Hour Comic Day with about ten other comic buddies.
Might totally puss out and just get some sleep and go in the morning for a 12-16 Hour Comic Day.
I hear tell that Acme is going to have some web-cam action going on, and I'll twitter/facebook out a link for it, as well as doing semi-hourly updates on the comic shenanigans.

I'll be skipping out on an OctoberFest get-together and an art show opening, so I intend to make a cool comic to make up for it.

Crab Monster

2009-10-01T13:09:00.000-07:00

Continuing to post a monster a day for the rest of the week!

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

Creep

2009-09-30T12:48:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I don't know what it is. Make up a name for it, if you want.

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

Face Monster

2009-09-30T12:44:00.001-07:00

Kind of a japanese demon thing...I don't know.
For a couple days last month, i just drew these monsters with no plan in mind.
Some creepy things came out of it.

Crossposted to the MONSTERMANUAL

Speedy

2009-09-29T12:59:00.001-07:00

The chick Speedy, Mia.
No idea whether she's still around.
Drew this a couple months back...thought I'd share.

If I had my way, I'd draw a comic book of cute girl sidekicks.

Metamorpho

2009-09-28T12:42:00.001-07:00

Here's a couple Metamorphos I drew up last week....in honor of both Joel Priddy (lifelong Rex lover) and the puchase of one of the little Batman toys....

The left is kinda how I'd draw him, and the right is how he first looked.

Aim vs. the cat

2009-09-25T20:24:00.000-07:00

This happens a lot. Neither of them will move, but they'll just sit there and pester each other.
Conan's orgy music added so much to the events tonight, though.

Asohka Tano

2009-09-22T13:42:00.000-07:00

It's Asohka...drawn probably how she "should" be drawn...from the Clone Wars tv show.

I've seen many, many people talk about what a pain she is to draw, and from a design standpoint, she's just a mess.
So, I thought I'd take a stab. Not that I'm an expert or anything, but shit...

The eager padawan of Anakin Skywalker ( I know, I know...from the perspective of the movies, there was no indication that the emo retard could handle anything beyond his own stiff, shit-ass acting with half-assed motivations. But I digress.) is "apparently" a Togrutan, the same race as Shaak Ti...an actually decently designed alien Jedi from the Prequel films.

But, she really has no qualities that make a Togrutan cool....the horns and lekku tentacles are shortened, presumably to show youth, but to me it looked half ass.
So, I lengthened both, and kept her skin colorations and horn/lekku patterning.
Shaak Ti's eyes were all black, with a Karen Traviss book mentioning these folk are like predators on their home planet...I don't give a shit abotu any of that...the all black eyes look awesome. So, I changed them.
Looks to me like they really just wanted a human, but felt they HAD to put an alien in there to seem spacey...but then they didn't commit.

Same with the forehead ornamentation...in the tv show model, what IS that shit? It's just crap up on her head..is it attached? Who knows.
I made it a little more clear on what it's supposed to be. TO be real, I'm just guessing, but shit...anything is better than what they've done in the original model.

The outfit she wears? Seriously. That tube top?
I'll concede the "cute" point and leave her legs unclothed, but she's got to rock more of the robe look.

Now, about her "sassiness". I hate it. It's cloying, annoying, and trite.
Nothing original or anything that challenges the genre.

I had an idea that when she's hanging around Obi-Wan, she's all obedient and respectful, and when she gets Anakin alone, she's a risk-taking wingnut...gives you the impression that Yoda was trying to give the "dark knight" Anakin a "robin"...know what I mean?

But then, when they're back at the base, Obi-Wan has no clue how this little angel has messed up anything. So, you get a little cool interplay between all three main characters.

One could argue that the two sides of Asohka could be confusing to kids, but then, I guess they don't get that our hero is going to be Darth Vader in another year or two in continuity.
Not to mention that my Asohka idea was based on Hannah Montana, and everyone knows little girls hate that shit and wouldn't spend a dime on anything like that, right?

Darth Talon

2009-09-21T12:26:00.001-07:00

Darth Talon, from the Star Wars fanfic comic, Legacy.

She's a pastiche of a ton of things I really dislike about the current state of Star Wars, but she's kind of cool if you detach her from the crap she's associated with.

Does that make sense?
Oh, and we'll be putting together a new Voice of the Republic show tonight...you know...that foul-mouthed Star Wars podcast I occasionally co-host!