Character sketch for another pitch, Killa Beez. Urban bees. You know. Anyway, a rhythm-based open-world flying game (we just can’t keep it simple, can we?) where you, the bee, are trying to cause as much choreographed Rube-Goldberg-like mayhem as possible in a suburban neighborhood.
The prior Art Director and Project Lead went through a few rounds of character designs with a variety of artists without quite hitting the right note. When I came on I got hands on and hit a lot closer to the mark. None of these designs were close to final and would have gone through revisions had the project continued past the early pitch/ prototype phase.
This one is (wait for it) “Ali Bee”.
Some of the first thumbnails for Killa Beez, starting with the original silhouette of a squat, stocky bee (upper left) who became Teef, with the musculature given solely to Massiv for silhouette differentiation.
Ali Bee’s progress.
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