Wednesday, August 06, 2008

I Am 8-Bit Show....Thursday, Aug.14.

The fourth annual "I Am 8-Bit" show is coming up next thursday. With over a hundred artists partipating this year and a new bigger location, there's going to tons of great video game art to be seen.

Here's my meager submission this year. Nothing over exciting. It's kind of mish mash of Fleisher, a weird japanese add I saw last week, and a little bit of golden books.

Process:

1) Quick digital rough on the cintiq.

2) Digital Color Key 01. Tried out some funky japanese-y colors. It came out very cool but in the end, I tossed it. Mostly because I might not have been able to match it with the cel vinyl colors I have.



3) Color Key 02....this one was definitely do-able in cel vinyl, plus it had a nice simplified retro feel. Kind of like an old wartime poster.



4)Final Piece....measure 11 X 14. Not sure if I'm 100% happy with how it came out. In retrospect, I should have kept the yellow skin. Da well...what's done is done.


Hope you enjoyed the sneak peek, and thanks for dropping by!

16 comments:

RAWLS said...

hahah... looks like a Mr.Sparkle add. Crazy hotdog nose. Great work Slamby! Wish I could be at the show. Hope it goes well.

Jon McNally said...

Super-cool, Steve! Have fun at the show!

Dee said...

yey! Looks great Steve!! Love the color scheme. The nose looks like....welll...uhmm....I'll just leave it at that. ;)
See you later! Sad you can't make the show though...=(

Drake Brodahl (pumml) said...

Yeah! Nice to see you rockin the cel vinyl. This came out great! If you want to get with the bright colors in the future, there are always the radiant cel vinyl paints. Downside is that they don't scan or photo too well.

Jay D Smith said...

Amazing!!

Larry Levine said...

Steve, Your submission is awesome!!!

Mukpuddy said...

Holy crap dude, this is awesome!! Love the retro vibe to the whole piece!
How the heck do I get to be involved in that shinanigins?! - Alex

Sean Szeles said...

Looks great Steve! very bulbous!

damon said...

i love you stuff

Kyle Jones said...

Love it. He's got those spinach legs Ugugugughg

SteveLambe said...

Thanks for the kind comments, guys!

Pumml : Cool!Thanks for the tip. Going to have to give that a try.

Alex: Dang...wish you had contacted me earlier. The deadline is today. If you want to submit next year, give me a heads up and I'll pass along your info. You work would be a perfect fit.

Jorge R. Gutierrez said...

Wow, these are amazing!!!

Chris Battle said...

Another bit of Lambey-Awesomeness! Love the subdued color palette-- great choice.

Perhaps the saturated vers. can be the alt. limited ed. super-happy funtime digital print version...?

K.B. said...

You are strong with the Force you brilliantmo fo.

Alexei Martins said...

WOW!!!haha!!Awesome painting!!!!love the colors!!!!
ultra-mega-cool-スーパーマリオくん!!!!

Cheers!

Anonymous said...

So, for these you color keyed them in Photoshop and then painted them?

You do that for all your work, Steve? I haven't been looking on your blog that long.