DWIII - 2D - Piripi-chan!

Eatpoo forum posts by Niklas Jansson on Apr, 2008. No finals submitted to DW contest.


I had some free time today, so I thought I'd whip something up for DW3:

Piripi-chan and her companion pet-beast Dogu-Dogu comes from the land of Moeanime. Having journeyed far on their adventures, they now find themselves in hostile new territory. There are xenophobic growling abominations as far as the eye can reach. However, because she is a powerful Invoker, she can use her magic to blend in. After an elegant gesture with her wand... she strikes a stunning pose!

MUSCLE KNOBS - SCARY TEETH - GLOWING EYES - MAGICAL TRAAANSFOOORM!

She spins in the air!

Time seems to stand still!

(Enemies can not attack during transformation scenes.)

Her clothes flies off!

She transforms into...

RHAAL-KORGOTH!

And Dogu-Dogu changes into:

NAEWRATH-DÚRULGOTH!

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Yeah, I'm making nods to Dokuro-chan here, but mostly the whole magical-girl trend. Her demon alias is also a nod of course (to another trend).

Quick color concept. I prefer to work in color, it doesn't take much longer than grayscale and you get a lot better feel of your character. Grayscale is useful when you have no clue about which colors to use though.

With the suit needing to be gray, I went for happy BG colors instead. I think I'll use another pose for the final illo though. Would be cool to throw her in amongst some nasty creatures, making her 'pop', but for that she needs a colorful suit. I guess I could use the apedog logo as a design element (chest bell / staff head), but I dunno...


Here are some updates. Didn't get much done on this today.

Just noodled a bit on this one, not much to show. Oh yeah, when the demon jumps and lands, it always lands super-cool, cracking the ground. And it shoots lightning through his eyes when it gets mad and want to make a point about how crazy mad it is.

Rough, probably too many characters at the same time for the render shot, but I wanted to show how she relates to her inner beast.