Meet Some Of The Monsters Of Valley 2 (Concept Art)
I thought that folks might enjoy seeing some more of the concept art sketches for various of the 120 new enemies that are coming for A Valley Without Wind 2. These concept sketches are done at Heavy Cat for purposes of informing the final sprites that will be created of each monster; these aren't the actual sprites themselves, in other words.
The Overlord And His Henchmen
Demonaica -- The Evil Overlord
Slender
Fanzara
Lilith
Vorgga
Wordrak
A Few Monsters
Swamp Thing
Wall Crab
Pigman
Clockwork Blockade
Floating Bone Mass
Hungry Ghost
Insect Fiend
Steam Cannon
Steam Flyer
Urban Tackle Droid
Submersible Suppressor
Slug Fiend
Owl
Deepwoods Gargan
Landshark
Ceiling Vampire
Flying Eyeball
Clockwork Avian
Auroch Warrior
Originally posted: Christophermpark.blogspot.com
LOL Slender. XD
Awesome art btw. :) Very nice
Incredible art!
Owls for the win. Hoot Hoot Hoot.
Err... Anyway, that slug fiend creeps me out massively, nice work.
Nice artwork, my fav are Landshark, Ceiling Vampire and Floating Bone Mass.
The concept art for the Landshark is identical to the shark creatures from Interstellar Marines, right down to the lack of eyes: Indiedb.com
I can forgive some stealing given this is rough concept art, but this doesn't bode well for the revamped art if your concept artists are lifting designs from other games.
This is unfortunate, and we're presuming that this was a coincidence on the part of the artists who did the concept art. Looking at the one from IM, there are enough differences to make it not wholly blatantly obvious it was a ripoff, anyhow.
All that said, it's clearly very much too similar now that I see the version from the other game (was not particularly aware of that game myself). I've contacted the lead producer over at Heavy Cat, and she's quite upset over this and going to get the concept art reworked substantially so that there is no question of even accidental impropriety.
Thanks for the catch! That would have been much more trouble later if we hadn't known about the similarity before fully doing out all the art for it.
Landshark looks awefully similar to Interstellar Marines...
Please don't include Slender...
I think if you rename Slender to something else it'll be better received. A reference is fine, but using the idea and name straight-up makes it look like you're trying to cash in on the recent craze instead of making good boss design.