Recently I was given a great opportunity to work as an animator with
GeeFX Studios on
Road to Wembley: A Video Game produced by
BBC Sport. The fast paced, energetic mini-doc is a quick look back through various teams' highs and lows on their journey to try and win the FA Cup.
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| Donkey Kong inspired Level 01 |
RTW was divided into 6 separate levels each inspired by different video games. The levels were Donkey Kong, Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter, Outrun, Mario and FIFA Soccer. Each level would have characters designed to look like well known footballers who would then recreate scenes from various footballing events.
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| Donkey Kong Final Designs |
Starting out with simple sketches and then turning those sketches into the retro gaming style graphics using Aseprite wasn't an easy task. "Pixel art" can be extremely limiting but after some practice I started to get used to the process and really enjoyed it.
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| Sonic inspired Level 02 |
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| John Motson |
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| Ronnie Radford |
Finally it was onto the character designs for the two competing teams' managers, Pep Guardiola (Man City) and Erik ten Hag (Man Utd) which was inspired by anime. This took a while to get right but I was really happy with the way it turned out.
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| Pep Guardiola |
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Erik ten Hag
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