I confess to getting carried away with the "Bad Side of Town" concept on the video game I worked on. I figured a bad side of town ought to
LOOK like a bad side, thus the buildings took the shape of rioters battling with the police.
How would a skateboarder navigate through this 3D jigsaw puzzle of a city? I got a start on the problem (above) but I had to put it aside. I was after all supposed to be working on a Hong Kong Level, not a crime city.
No problem. Hong Kong turned out to be tons of fun.
I had so much fun on the prop end of what I did for that game that, when I was finally laid off, I briefly tried to sell myself to mainstream studios as a prop designer.
Haw! What a disappointment! Nobody but Spumco was interested in this (above) sort of thing.
At first I didn't know whether the Jungle Level was supposed to cover Central and South America or Africa, so I did both. Here (above and below) are some African huts.
Lots of quick sketch stuff.
I threw in some Micronesian designs, too. It all seemed to fit together somehow.
These Africans worshipped Tiki gods.
There had to be some kind of danger in the Jungle Level and I got to try out different things.
I also did more trees. Who'd have thought that trees would be so much fun to draw?
Here's a black musician pyramid. It wasn't approved, maybe because it was too far off topic.
