Animation: Prof. Piglet

Game Art Concepts. Just an idea or two. All of these digital pieces are done in Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. The animation walk-cycle was rigged and animated in Spriter.

I’d love for Prof. Piglet and his friends to have their own book—or story app—or games!

pig walk cycle in spriter app — **Artwork:** Created in Above: Adobe Illustrator and sliced up and exported as PNG sprite files. Animation: Spriter 2D Game Animation Software. I built the skelton, rigged it, and created the keyframes from scratch.

Finished Art

professor piglet character design in action — **Above and Below:** Adobe Illustrator Vector Artwork

Concept Art & Sketches

I started vector-drawing this, on top of the pencil drawing, with perfect shapes; but then switched to following the hand-drawn version instead. It has more life and is less stiff.

game animation pig design in progress — **Above & Below:** From Pencil to Vectors

animated gif character turnaround — **Above:** Pencilled proportions on paper, to a rough Photoshop colour concept

game animation chracter design concept sketches — **Below:** Pencil on paper

animated gif of game animation characetr design turnaround sketches — **Above:** I did some rough character turnaround sketches and made an animation from them. **Below:** Rapid character ‘turnaround sketches’

Earlier Versions

game animation animal character concept designs — **Above:** with and without ‘outlines’

Originally, I was wondering if I could create a range of animal characters based on the same proportions and similar shapes. Perhaps a kid elephant could be the same size as a kid mouse?

Perhaps it would be possible to make their skeletons, props and even outfits interchangeable. The pig in the first page below was the one that spoke to me most forcefully. As soon as I drew him, I loved him.