Avalanche Software Art Blog

The official, unofficial blog of Avalanche Software employees. Avalanche is a game development studio. We created the Tak and the Power of Juju property for Nickelodeon and we were recently acquired by Disney. We are currently creating new properties and developing games based on Disney Feature Animation films. This blog is a vehicle to help keep us creatively fresh and help us sharpen our skills... but mostly for fun.

January 14, 2008

Puffy Shoulders

I'll have you know I started this before Kevin, so any resemblance to his color scheme or crown is purely coincidental. Either that or h...

January 07, 2008

The Queen of Snow

January 06, 2008

Take that Woodfolk!

My "Man Dominating Beast" trilogy is complete.

January 02, 2008

...late again

Snow pixie herder for the woodland folk challenge that ended a bit ago.

December 20, 2007

New Topic: The Snow Queen

Since I didn't post in time for a holiday-themed topic, we'll at least do something for winter. This topic is based on a fairy tale...

December 12, 2007

The Littlest Brownie Scout

Having recently been forced from his home in the dwindling woods, Aberfeldy found a place to stay in a nearby garden. When news spread that ...

December 10, 2007

One gnome to good home

When this topic came up I looked but couldn't find any good reference of gnomes or other woodfolk . So I went out to my garden, set som...

December 05, 2007

Woodsy Elf

December 04, 2007

Gnome-N-Bones

December 03, 2007

Elf folk...in the woods

November 21, 2007

Brownies

This makes me hungry. I must be excited for Thanksgiving.

November 16, 2007

Late Paranoid Squirrel

I know the acorn is a little contrived ,but with a paranoid squirrel I couldn't resist.

November 14, 2007

My squirrel thingy. . . Shoot, now it's late.

So, I've lost one of my iterations between these two, but here's a go I had at making my squirrell and then trying to emulate an art...

New Topic: WOODFOLK

Something about Autumn colors and falling leaves remind me of the old European legends of mischievous or malevolent woodfolk. For this topic...

November 12, 2007

My Badger...

... using Amanda Visell 's style (her blog here ). I never copied someone else's style before. That was a very interesting exercis...

Final Badger

I know there's still problems, but I'm hoping this is good enough to post. Done in the style of Baz Reynolds .

November 09, 2007

Pony!!

This is my wrestling squirrel for the character design workshop. These are the results of week 1 and 4. I am not about to show you what a me...

November 08, 2007

woggle of warlocks?

I think I'm the winner of the late entries. And its not painted, or even witches. Man, I suck at this game.

4 Degrees of Muskrat

You learn a lot putting all of your failed designs on one page. Goodbye pride.

November 07, 2007

failed drawing

Although it failed the character design workshop, I will post my character only as a warning to future designers: swallow your pride and st...

BadgerTailor

My thoughts behind this character are that he can get around in tight spaces to solve puzzles n what not. He uses his handy "tailor...

November 06, 2007

Sam the Squirrel

My Badger

Here he is... shooting love arrows. He's still going through changes, but this is him so far.

Berserker Muskrat

I still need to take this guy through the last two filters but this is my current progress.

Excitable nerd badger

These aren't necessarily in order, but that's good because you can see how little progress I've made over the course of the work...

November 05, 2007

Mafioso Badger

Retarded Inbred Badger

November 01, 2007

One More Witch

I was a bit surprised and disappointed to find out that hardly any of my nearby coworkers had seen The Witches, a movie based on a Roald Dah...

New Topic: Design Workshop

Time to give people a break, so we're just going to have people post their designs they've been doing/will do for the character desi...

Haunt at company Xmas party

I thought I would do a Haunt and a pre - emptive Christmas painting

October 31, 2007

The Old Fisher of Blindman's Wharf

He is seen only rarely, but when the wind picks up over the water, you can hear the Old Fisher dragging his hook across the crates.

Leatherface

The cleaning lady of Avalanche's forgotten time

Before buyouts, layoffs and Tak she reigned supreme. And if you say her name three times in the bathroom during crunchtime she will apear.

October 30, 2007

Happy Halloween

This a late "Woggle of Witches" entry.

October 25, 2007

The Legendary Haunt of Sleepy Hollow

"What was to be done? To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping Ghost or Goblin, if such it was,...

October 22, 2007

Tardy witch

As usual, a day late and a dollar short. This is more of a study on the possible look of a real witch, which is essentially a old woman on a...

New Topic: LEGENDARY HAUNTS

I kept this open, so it could refer to either a location or the being that does the haunting. You decide.

October 15, 2007

Great Aunt Minerva Oakgriddle's pie: Simply to die for.

Minerva Oakgriddle, 3rd eldest in the Witch's Woggle of East Wood, has over three hundred year's experience in malevolent baking. He...

October 12, 2007

Tea Time

Woggle of witches

ok so this isn't technically a "woggle" and it isn't a sweet design like most of the other ones that have been posted. I w...

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