120 [m ] : FusionFall Calendar Page

monotonae is not the place for up-to-the-minute information and peeks about what I do at work at Cartoon Network (CN) - what with it not being my stuff ultimately, competition and confidential goopity goop.

That said... About two and a half years ago, I was working on a page (one month) of the Cartoon Network's 2009 calendar. The subject was FusionFall, the CN's Masively Multi-player Online Game (MMOG) mashed up with the network's On-Air mascot, a generic bowling pin headed doll a la Kid Robot. Like the collectible vinyl art figures that inspired it, the mascot is wrapped in any of various skins to take on the colors and details of a character on the CN.


Digital color over scan of color pencil and pen on paper.

In the creation of FusionFall, the game is infused with plenty of boy appealing stuff like fighting, explosions, ooze and monsters. Your avatar's evil opponents are associated with toxic green ooze. This concept plays like a PSA against the dangers of green ooze.


Digital color over scan of color pencil and pen on paper.

The logo image for the game is a massive clumping/fusing of different planets. Keying in on the figures' round heads, they're used in the same manner replacing the planets.


Digital color over scan of color pencil and pen on paper.

This a pop-art idea requiring the replacing of the enlarged dots with tiny silhouettes of the mascot figure.


Digital color over scan of color pencil and pen on paper.

This is yet another PSD idea (I'm gonna continue pitching these "Loose Lips Sink Ships" posters until some one bites). I must have had some bit of dislike for the little mascot figure.


Digital multimedia
2008

This is the final image. The figures were drawn with shading with pencil on paper. The scanned drawing served as the basis for the digital art, and provides a bulk of the shading for the final image although recolored on some parts like the green center mass. The colors including stripes and craters for each figure were drawn digitally flatly. Then for added form, highlights were added.

The logo is pretty much the same as the final official logo for the game.

Clint Carruth came up with the head line.


http://fusionfall.cartoonnetwork.com/splashpage.php

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