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More natural X-Key. Softer colors.
Jonathan’s brother, Jason, did the keyframes for this quick cut of X-Key on her bike. Then it was passed to me for tweening.
DJ Jam! This is concept art for a character from X-Key. I like how she looks even with minimal line art.
Jonathan did some quick doodles of the characters from Rebellion.
X-Key jumping down, way down it appears.
Jonathan did the keyframes and I tweened it.
I wonder what song X-Key is listening too...
X-Key expounds upon her backstory! A preview of the next page of Rebellion chapter 3 coming soon! Read at highoctanerevolution.com
Ok I was trying to upload a gif of some vfx I applied to this image Jonathan drew of X-Key in her stealth camo but the gif seems to show up as a still image so until I figure this out I’ll just post the still image.
Edit: Ok it looks like I got it going so hopefuly you can see.
Quick gif of the layering of this sketch Jonathan did. Hope you guys are having a good day =)
How was your winter? Spring is right around the corner here.
Take a look at this early version of an X-Key outfit. The final version was posted earlier so you can see it if you scroll down.
I can’t believe we never shared this one on tumblr! I’m thinking about making a gif showing each layer but I’m not sure...
This here’s a rough sketch of Lilith, a bounty hunter in X-Key.
Here’s a preview of the next page of our webcomic ,Rebellion, chapter 3, which will be up later tonight I believe. We’ve got plenty more coming so be sure to check out highoctanerevolution.com to see what X-Key is up to. And remember, it’s free so no worries!
(Just to clarify, the series as a whole is called X-Key and these couple of chapters are called “Rebellion”)
It actually snowed today, it almost seems weird =)
X-Key with a natural look.
Casual X-Key?
Jonathan tried out some custom brushes on photoshop the other day.
Jonathan posted this sketch to the instagram a few days ago so here are a couple of the in progress versions.
Here’s some vectored ink art for a swag bag we gave out at last year’s C2E2.
Lead artist Jonathan likes to do what he calls “non-destructive drawing”, in which layers or other methods are used to separate different steps of an illustration in order to make changes to specific parts.
This can result in a lot of layers being put down but it’s nice to be able to go back and see how the rough sketch led to the final drawing :)
I can’t believe we never posted this! I left her lips on in the shading version just because I think it looks really cool. Anyway, we’re back on the webcomic and will be posting new pages regularly at highoctanerevolution.com so come check it out!
This is line art from a short clip we did in 2014. Two bandits rushing X-Key. I don’t remember why the one guy’s arm disappears like that but I know we fixed it in the final version =)
Seems you guys like these process images so here a set from a pic we posted on instagram a few days ago. Hope you all are having a good new year so far!
It’s been a while since the last post, but rest assure there’s tons new artwork coming as well as new pages of the X-Key comic “Rebellion”
Check it out at highoctanerevolution.com !
Just posted this to instagram so here’s a couple of images showing some of the different steps in digital rendering.
An element of a new illustration. X-Key without hair color, make-up. Her hair and eyes are naturally two different colors.
X-Key does a long jump! Rough animation done in flipbook.
Lilith in red.
Hope you guys had a good Halloween and/or Day of the Dead! Found this old site banner, you like?
Ghoulish X-Key for Halloween! Hope you have a great day!
Bang! This is an old drawing of X-Key inked with micron and finished in photoshop.