BlackMoon Design » Character design

Firefoxzilla is back!

Robert — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:15:23 +0000

I’ve created another pixel-art illustration with Firefoxzilla (huge Fire-fox like mechanical droid that helps people) for challenge on Mozilla’s Creative Collective. It got to the top finals and scored quite a huge number of votes.
Let’s hope Firefoxzilla will keep coming back:)

Sketchbook update May 2010

Robert — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:06:18 +0000

New portion of pretty cool illustrations made by us.

Creating character illustration step by step

Robert — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:14:55 +0000

Here’s a short video with a fast-forwarded process how we create character illustrations.

Character illustration step by step from Robert Podgórski on Vimeo.

TradingVans.co.uk

Robert — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:17:51 +0000

We’ve created another cool web design which is heavily based on the illustration.
It’s for site called TradingVans.co.uk which is a site where you can trade your van (as you might already have guessed).
The client gave us a total creative freedom (yes – there still such great people around;).
The result is a eye-catching, easy to use and funny design.

Main page – click to enlarge

Results page – click to enlarge

If you would like to know how was the process of creating the design and the monkey character – keep reading;).

First – we figure out the phrase “it’s not a monkey business” together with the client.
That give us a idea who the character might be – a monkey.
Since we wanted the design to be funny – our choice was the chimp (as in my humble opinion – those are the funniest monkey of all kind;).

We thought it’ll suite (and make the chip even more funny) if he’ll wear a “salesman uniform” – that is blue shirt and tie.

Than we’ve added the colors and shading

The client was given the draft – he liked it and we proceed with the design itself.

Since the whole idea was build around the monkey character – it felt good to have a banana in the logo

If you would like to check it live – please visit TradingVans.co.uk

Sketchbook update

Robert — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:37 +0000

Some various concept art and illustration

Herr Wezer and his Aparatus
(click on the image to check full version)

Cat and Mouse
(click on the image to check full version)

Angel and Devil skatedeck design

Robert — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:51:57 +0000

Some time ago I wrote about new Infectious contest – it’s time to submit my own piece there.
It’s called “Angel and Devil”.

(click on it to see a bigger version)

If you won’t mind spending few seconds to cast a vote on it – that would be great:)

Systemy-Nawadniania.com

Robert — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:12:05 +0000

Here’s new webdesign by yours truly (made as a WP based website by Dante from SenyaStudios).

It’s for garden irrigation (and well digging) company from Poznan name Irriplan.
People from Irriplan were extremaly open-minded and they left me huge creative freedom.
I’m very happy with the result of the work – the whole layout was build upon “ground layers” concept and funny, cartoon graphics.

Site layout (click to see bigger version)

Zoom-in of the header illustration

You can visit the site at systemy-nawadniania.com

Sketchbook update

Robert — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:40:58 +0000

Here are some artworks I’ve recently done.
Comments welcome;)

Dragon Rider
click the image for larger version

Behemot concept
click the image for larger version

Really scared Rabbit

Alien Engineers concept art

Robert — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:34:26 +0000

Concept art made for CAB#43.

Click to see some more

Lilly the Pirate

Robert — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:27:30 +0000

Some concept character I’ve made.
Sketch done with Sketchbook Pro 2009 – then it was colorized in Photoshop.

click the image to see larger version