While practicing animation I started to animate Pokemon cards, recreating them in pixel art and then adding movement was a great way to learn how to adapt different styles and recreate them frame by frame.
Twitch Stream Intro Countdown
In 2020 I started to experiment with pixel art using Aseprite, creating designs for a game development project, this then led onto streaming on twitch as @Oldmanhighwind.
I used this platform to practice making overlays for cameras as well as animated scenes to play during breaks and intros.
Below is a collection of some of the work I created based around a theme supplied by the clients as well as a collection of various works for myself to practice character design and animation.
Bingle Bang Bang
Bingle Bang Bang's stream was mostly based around tabletop roleplaying games and collectible card games such as Dungeons & Dragons and the Pokemon TCG.
So we based the streams overall theme on a fantasy casino, with dice, coin flips and cards at the heart of all of my designs. This led to some of the more challenging animations I've created.
Orangodan's theme was based on a jungle, using variations of foliage, wood and ropes to create panels and borders that hung from the top of the stream like vines.
Creating templates to make new panels and widgets as needed with several options to avoid repeating patterns made this a lot easier to work with after completion if the client needed to add more variety themselves.
Dungeon & Dragons 4-person camera screens for Sixteen Candlekeeps, a Youtube series of D&D adventures, with a slow and infrequent lava animation to avoid distracting the viewers.
