Knockout City Concept Art
I worked with Velan Studios on a freelance basis during the very early exploration phase of Knockout City. Knockout City is a genius game idea. If you're not familiar and like dodgeball and games, Knockout City is for you! You can finally play Dodgeball without getting spiked in the face! My artistic contribution was very early on in the production process. We were still trying to figure out the basic visual language. I love the combo of dodgeball with the 1950's - early 1960's.
Art Direction - Ben Greene
Early concept explorations for various archetypes. The style drastically changed during the evolution of the project but some of the spirit and variety shown in some of these concepts stuck.
A bunch of early style and proportional concepts for the avatar heads. Some of these are terrible, others I like but ultimately it was an exercise to find what we did (and did not) like. These designs were all narrowing in on the jock greaser.
More head proportion and style explorations. These designs explored a wider variety of personalities and backgrounds.
Early concept for one of the main characters in Knockout City. I did not create the initial design. My design is an evolution of the original. I'm not sure which artist was responsible for the original.
A variety of female designs. My favorite is easily the girl on the far right.
A variety of designs for Knockout City's cool "nerd." I always loved the idea of 3D glasses as an accessory.
Variety of 40's/50's flying car concepts. The idea is that the dodgeball players would arrive to each world on these cars and jump off/out of them into the battlefield.
A couple of early sketches for the jock greaser.