Chorizo the Game Background Art
Recently, I was asked to create some background art for an indie video game by an artist that I follow on Instagram. His project is still in production but he has kindly given me the go-ahead to share my contribution.
It was a happy coincidence that this opportunity came about; lately, I had been trying to incorporate more backgrounds into my personal work and posting them along with background studies to Instagram. He came across my “Goldhorn” painting and it aligned with the style he was going for. Because my background studies were more for learning, I wasn’t sure how they would work in terms of animation. Fortunately, this parallax animation didn’t require that I deviate too much from my normal workflow—keeping the foreground, mid-ground and backgrounds as separate layers. Of course there were some things I had to be more concerned with, such as painting-in hidden elements so the environment would appear more seamless when layers moved. It was a fun experience and I would welcome the chance to do work like this again.
The Backgrounds
I was sent the following sketches to use as guides. The last image—with the client's cute pig character for placement—is an earlier version I did of the hut scene. For the sunset scene, I was asked to change the monkeys to the “see/speak/hear no evil” iconic poses.
When there is more information available about the game it will be posted over at the official site.