Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures

[cmdrkoenig67]

Very nice!

Dana

[oldmanwinters]

Been a while since my last installment, Benton.

I figured this might be just the thing for your Bebop & Rocksteady mission:

[BentonGrey]

Ahh, sorry I haven't been able to comment on this sooner, Winters, but this is great!  Your work on our favorite dunder-headed mutants is amazing!  They look fantastic.  Bebop's face is really impressive, and the expression that Rocksteady wears is perfect.  All in all, this is pretty fantastic.  I like the layout, it works pretty well.

[oldmanwinters]

Holy cow, Benton finally responded!   

I'm glad you liked it.  I also made up a couple examples of some alternate styles in case you like one of them a little better:

A more fitting logo:


Playmates Toy inspired weapons:


I'd also like to add a little "ridged circle" to the piece (just like on the original NES Contra box art) and maybe paste the Freedom Force logo onto, but I never could get that effect to look good. 

I'm working on that Splinter vs. Mousers cover at the moment. 

I can't quite get Splinter positioned how I want him though.  Also, would you prefer that hand reaching into the picture to belong to Shredder or Stockman?  I think the Shredder blades might make for a better visual if I can draw them properly.

[Cyber Burn]

I am really looking forward to seeing this mod finished, there seems to be a lot of work going into it.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks CB!  Yeah, Winters has really done some amazing work that is encouraging me to keep working myself.

[Johnny Patches]

ben?  how this comming along? 

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[BentonGrey]

Haha!  That is too awesome!  Perhaps my vision of the Turtles battling a giant Krang as he ravages the city has a chance after all!

Shoot, I realized I didn't answer your question Winters.  Sorry!  Definitely Shredder's hand.  You're right, it would just make for a MUCH more dynamic visual.

[oldmanwinters]

ben?  how this comming along? 

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Woah.  Now I'm inspired!

[cmdrkoenig67]

Winters, very nice work!  I don't know if I've asked this, but do you draw these digitally or are you scanning hand-drawn images in?  I see you planned them out on lined paper, but I wasn't sure about the finished drawings.

Dana

[oldmanwinters]

Winters, very nice work!  I don't know if I've asked this, but do you draw these digitally or are you scanning hand-drawn images in?  I see you planned them out on lined paper, but I wasn't sure about the finished drawings.

Dana

Dana, I do my layouts on cheap lined paper, then I draw out all the characters by hand (on printer paper) until I'm satisfied with the look, and then I finally scan them into the computer.  I use the Gimp editing program to darken the lines, erase some mistakes, and apply color.  For the Rocksteady & Bebop cover I recently posted, I used Gimp to draw the purple boxes and superimpose the Foot Clan and TMNT logos, since I would never be able to draw them out symmetrically.

[cmdrkoenig67]

Cool...As I said earlier in the thread, I may draw up some stuff for my mods.  Thanks for sharing your techniques.

Dana

[Johnny Patches]

ok buddy WIP

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[BentonGrey]

Ohh my freaking goodness.  There's something I thought I'd never see...and he looks so perfect too!  That is beyond awesome.

[Cyber Burn]

Glad to see you still in the game JP, that looks fantastic. 

[oldmanwinters]

My latest cutscene progress:

[BentonGrey]

I just posted on the Technodrome, but here are some of my thoughts.

I think this one turned out really, really well. Splinter is especially impressive. I really like all of the details of the Lair you've included. I also really enjoy the character you put into each Turtle's face, it's small and subtle, but well done.

[oldmanwinters]

I just posted on the Technodrome, but here are some of my thoughts.

I think this one turned out really, really well. Splinter is especially impressive. I really like all of the details of the Lair you've included. I also really enjoy the character you put into each Turtle's face, it's small and subtle, but well done.

Thanks again for the feedback, man!

Regarding the layouts for the next piece I posted over at the Drome, what did you specifically have in mind for the scene where "turtles go incognito on the streets with April, searching for clues"?

Even though I want it to lead up to the next "captured April" piece I already did, I don't think it necessarily has to be the same basic location outside the Ninja Pizza parlor.

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[BentonGrey]

You're quite welcome Winters, for what little my feedback may be worth.

Hmm...well, getting another look at the following piece, I think that your first layout posted here, with the view behind the Turtles, seems best.  You could incorporate some more of the elements from the 'toon episode we're drawing from, perhaps having a few more signs for "Ninja" establishment.  Ninja Drycleaners?  Ninja Video Rental?  Ninja Salon?  The possibilities boggle the mind...

[oldmanwinters]

You're quite welcome Winters, for what little my feedback may be worth.

Hmm...well, getting another look at the following piece, I think that your first layout posted here, with the view behind the Turtles, seems best.  You could incorporate some more of the elements from the 'toon episode we're drawing from, perhaps having a few more signs for "Ninja" establishment.  Ninja Drycleaners?  Ninja Video Rental?  Ninja Salon?  The possibilities boggle the mind...

I took some of your advice and here's my new proposal:


I'd like to have some simplistic black outlines of skyscrapers in the skyline background, ala the old Rampage video game.

[oldmanwinters]

Here's what became of that last layout I posted!

Hope you like it, Benton!



EDIT: Photobucket's recent updates are making my picture appear HUGE on these boards.  Sorry about that, and I don't yet know how to fix the problem.

[Cyber Burn]

I always enjoy checking your TMNT pics out Winters, thanks for sharing.

[BentonGrey]

Ohh man, that turned out even better than I thought it would.  I think you definitely chose the right layout.  Great work Winters!

[oldmanwinters]

Thanks, Cyber & Benton!

This was the first picture I did in which I drew the characters (turtles and April) and background (plus Foot Soldiers) separately and then pasted them together in layers.  That gave me more freedom to work and more room for error in composition.  I really do like the way it played out.

The good news is that now I only need to complete one more picture to complete the necessary pieces of the game's intro.  I need to draw up a picture of April escaping into the sewers while running from Shredder's punks (including the pre-mutation Rocksteady & Bebop).   Once that one is done, I may try to draw up an extra picture showing the Turtles' origin story.

EDIT: Most of my pictures in this series have been inspired by the vintage "How It All Began" coloring book, and I was thinking about trying to do something similar to this page:

[gengoro]

Sweet!

[oldmanwinters]

I'm cooking up another piece for the intro!

[Cyber Burn]

Very nice Winters. Kind of reminds me of the old cartoon.

[oldmanwinters]

Very nice Winters. Kind of reminds me of the old cartoon.

Thanks, CB!  It's actually inspired by the box art background on the old TMNT "Mutations" line of action figures.  I plan to experiment with some lighting effects for the mutagen and then layer my character artwork (drawn separately) over this image.

[cmdrkoenig67]

The power-up canisters in  and  could be skinned to look like mutagen canisters.

Dana

[martialstorm]

Cool!