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BoBo_the_seal · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 5:47 pm

Heh, I had to share this. Before working for Ritual I worked for an electronic game company called Radica Games. http://www.radicagames.com I did several conceptual pieces for them while I was there and found out today that they decided to use some of them in the package design for Skannerz. This is my first mass produced and distributed artwork.

And here is the original pencil art for the snake creature:

BoBo the seal

Guy · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 6:00 pm

hey congradulations man. nice work too!

i like that snake creature the best.

Lukiaz · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 6:04 pm

Yeah real nice(congrats).

Did you also colour the finals?

Hey you havn't posted any of your oh-so-smooth pieces in a while....atleast I think so.
So start working my friend as I want to see some more!!

oo oo have you got any more pencil works hanging about....old or new, just post em.

FireFry · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 6:10 pm

Hey man that creature is just killer looking. Wouldn't want to run into one of those in a dark room

roundeye · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 7:06 pm

congrats man! you deserve it! those look great. can you tell me how those work? seems intriguing. im not sure we can get those up here. they can scan images?

gLitterbug · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 7:09 pm

Great! My congratulations! Must be a real good feeling, enjoy it!

Radiater · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 10:08 pm

Congratulations Bobo!

I checked out Radica's site. They have some neat stuff there - quite creative. You never know when a company like that will hit the 'Tamagochi' jackpot. Hope you've got a stake in it if they do.

Radiater.

ps. I finally had a chance to watch the tutorial you made a while back. Thanks, it has given me some ideas to help my own painting. Cheers!

chip_artz · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2001 10:22 pm

congrats, happy for ya man.
-chip

ArtKeo · member Member # Joined: 29 Feb 2000 Posts: 115

Congratulations to you , Bobo The Seal.

It feels good , doesn't it.

soulnine · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 6:27 am

BoBo_the_seal, the snake creature u did looks like the character from the starcraft alien creature, a pc game from blizzard entertainment... does ur inspirations came from there?

BoBo_the_seal · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 6:29 am

Heh, yea the product is pretty cool if it takes off like they want it to. They are basically taking on Pokemon and Digimon but are trying to make it a bit edgier by playing more on the actual monster aspect. This is its first incarnation and is a handheld LCD game. The cool aspect of it is the scanner technology. Kids can scan any barcode to find monsters, weapons, and magic. They are hoping this will be a popular toy for kids to take to the grocery store with their parents. They could run a around scanning products to find creatures to battle. You can also uplink with others and fight “head to head”. If this is successful they plan to possibly do a gameboy tie end in the future for Skannerz 2 or 3.

Heh, ok the pitch aside, this was probably the most enjoyable thing I worked on while there and I hope they do well with it.

I have found the art for the rest of the characters. These where done about a year ago before I had a wacom tablet. They where done in a day and where only meant to help pitch the project. I would have invested more time into them if I had known that they where going to be used for packaging. There are several things I would have changed but I think they served their purpose and I am just excited that any of my art was used.

Ok onto the art. Do to file size; I am going to just link them so this thread does not get bogged down any more than it already is.

Snake character color:
http://www.bobotheseal.com/images/published_work/skannerz01.jpg

Sludge Creature B&W and color:
http://www.bobotheseal.com/images/published_work/skannerz02_bw.jpg
http://www.bobotheseal.com/images/published_work/skannerz02.jpg

Robot B&W and color:
http://www.bobotheseal.com/images/published_work/skannerz03_bw.jpg
http://www.bobotheseal.com/images/published_work/skannerz03.jpg

Thanks you all for your comments and support.

BoBo the seal

rbfigueira · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 6:31 am

Hey Friend ,

Your work are very good, congratulations !
Good sketch :O)

Best regards,
RBFIGUEIRA

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

Congrats Bobo! That is pretty cool and not a bad product to show your stuff with.

Mezoic · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 3:24 pm

Congratulations! The hard work finally paid off, I hope to see future publications!

Enayla · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 4:15 pm

Congratulations =)

Very sweet work.

kaylon · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 5:43 pm

Hay Bobo...Congrats..

Umm..your getting a lot of "Exposure" latley...heard you were doing a "naked" talk at QuakeCon...or is that a different Bobo the seal..?..

.

Congrats again.

Kay.

Wyatt Turner · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 9:36 pm

hey those are great.. The game look slike a cool idea.. My kids and myself would have fun going through the store messing with it. hehe.

y2kinG · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2001 10:58 pm

yeah, you're certainly right soulnine, that character somehow resembles The Zergs from StarCraft game.

Thought i have seen you before but then i dont seem to remember when and where.
Anyways, congratulation BoBo_the_seal.!!!

Flexible Elf · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2001 9:07 am

Way cool Bobo. Congratulations!

-Flexible Elf

catnip · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2001 2:16 am

Your work is fantastic!
And big congrats!!!!
I especially like the "snake"

Cos · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2001 2:24 am

congrats bobo! =)