Hackberry Hollow

Glen: “So…we need to figure out what to put on today’s blog post. I can’t think of anything to say about this image that wouldn’t spoil the story.”

Adam: “I dunno, maybe we could just ramble about what went into making the image?”

Glen: “Meh. I always do that.”

Adam: “Or we can just make crap up.”

Glen: “Hmmm… Okay. ”

Mmm. More magic symbols.

We are working on the new logo for Hackberry Hollow, and since it’ll probably include a magic symbol or two, we decided to pick up work on the design for the magic system. Now, the logo will probably have more to do with the necromancy field of magic, but that’s not what we are showing here. (We still have some work to do on the king of all necromancy symbols which is turning out to be a pain to design).

Some of you may remember a post in November where we had planned to show more vehicle concept art but didn’t because apparently vehicle design can be very very difficult (i.e., rage inducing). It’s not that difficult to create an original truck design that looks a lot like a real truck, or a pirate ship that looks like a real pirate ship. But when it comes to creating a vehicle that’s completely new, like say for example an amphibious SUV that looks like a sporty off-road recreational vehicle that can also go on water, you enter the realm of completely new and have to design the whole thing on your own.

Oh the rage.

Anyway, Adam compelled me to have another crack at the amphibious SUVs since it has been well over two and a half months since last time I tried to work on it. So here’s what happened last time and here’s where we are at now.

Much much more after the jump.

This is the start of the process of this particular prop design (we’ll be posting more finished designs of this prop later).

We’ve established Preston, the main character, as somewhat of a redneck. Nothing says redneck more than someone who lives in the wilderness in an old cabin, drives an rusty truck that barely holds itself together, but yet he also owns the best modern firearms that a civilian can legally buy.

“Best modern firearm? But where’s the scope?” you may say. Oh you of little faith. Preston is a redneck. He doesn’t need a scope.

I’ll let the picture do all the talking.

Well, most of the talking anyway. More actual talking after the jump.

Over the past two weeks we’ve been revisiting the entire outline and fixing things in the story that were bugging us. In one of our most recent writing sessions—like, yesterday—after we had sworn that we had finished the work on the outline and all of our previous concerns were resolved—we took the input from our test audience and significantly reworked the first chapter. We added a new introduction that reveals a lot more information about the backstory and two of the characters which leads right into the previously written introduction.

The new introduction was so compelling that I had to do some color keys for it, so that’s what I’ve posted for today.

I’ve been working on more robot designs. Not all of the robots will look the same. There will actually be a lot if diversity in the robot designs because each one has a special task to do.

And what they want to do with a water heater is beyond me. I don’t know, maybe they’ll use it to launch satellites into space.

For this concept we focused primarily on the logo design for MAPS (Mountain Area Paranormal Society). Two of us are graphic designers, and so we decided to have a little fun. We wanted to create a logo that doesn’t look terrible, but definitely looks cheap.

Here’s some concept art for a RORO (roll-on/roll-off) container ship, also called a ConRO. What is that exactly? Find out after the jump.

“Behold the power of cheese!” Okay, there isn’t any cheese currently on the shelves. But there will be once Adam gets a hold of this mockup. So for today’s post we present to you Seven Seas Cheese, the finest cheese on the seven seas. (try saying that 5 times fast!).

More views after the jump.