#blackmask

My placeholder assets for Blackmask, are just the pixel art I made in color for my programmer’s sake. Half the reason I don’t show gameplay updates anywhere because it doesn’t match with the image of the game I wanted to convey to the public. Everything else is literally my own artwork, as I’m the sole concept artist, environment artist, main animator, and writer of this game.

I compile my daily five minute sketches from my sketchbook into an animation map for later reference for pixel animations. I do this for both player animations and enemy animations.It’s insane to me how people an post rendered paintings and call them sketches! Am I not as skilled as I think I am?

When prepping bosses and design, my programmer and I chat in Discord about what kind of gameplay and gimmicks should be in. With that, I sketch proposed enemy movements and sketches of the map layouts of the boss arena. I do this with little consideration for difficulty or game balance because I’m more hands off about that stuff, until I have a controller in my hands to test things out.