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.

May 28, 2008

New Topic (Finally): JOE'S COLORING BOOK

Sorry for letting this one sit so long. Since everyone seems to be busy these days, we're going to do a simpler one by letting Joe Olson...

May 16, 2008

A Thundercat is Kinda Like a War Machine

Jasper, the One Man Band

If you could hear his horrible falsetto, the squeaking of his violin, and his out of tune trumpet, you would believe me when I say that Jasp...

April 17, 2008

war machine

April 16, 2008

Goldbergian Machine of War

Here's my first entry to the art blog. Maybe someone out there would like to put together a working prototype? I know where you can get ...

April 14, 2008

War Walker

Someone's got to post something for this topic, guess it's going to be me.

April 04, 2008

Butt Head

Here is my very late 40's Dick Tracey "Mob Boss". I wanted to give him a cigarette butt shaped head but it looks like a Pringl...

March 31, 2008

1920s Gangster - color version

This wasn't exactly what I had planned for the color version of this, but it's what I ended up with. Now I can go back to being lazy...

March 20, 2008

New Topic: MACHINE OF WAR

I was going to call this topic "War Machine," but as Joe Olson pointed out, most people would think of the Marvel Character of the...

Unfinished gangster

I was going to do color on this, Ryan Wood style, but apparently that's harder than Ryan makes it look. Most people have already seen th...

March 19, 2008

Kingpin - 1920s Gangster

I intend to do a color version of this guy, but I wanted to work on a drawing for a background I had in mind first. So until then, I'll ...

March 18, 2008

Bootleg Phil

March 06, 2008

sciGuy

Gangster

Edit: here is a new version of that picture. I changed the shadow, the tommy gun and the left hand. Thanks to Reed Hawker, Adam Ford, Dave M...

Gorilla Gangsta

February 19, 2008

Bernie "Lips" Cahoon meets his maker, and a young carp

Edit: Changed the water, based on Dave's reaction. Better, or not?

February 15, 2008

Snow Queen with Cuddles

Late entry. Snow Queen with a warm, loving bear.

Tiny AKA "Tony the fish"

February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day from Chicago, 1929

February 12, 2008

New Topic: 1920's GANGSTER

Old-school, film-noir, Dick Tracy gangsters.

February 06, 2008

Sans snowflake crown

The snowflake crown has been so overdone. I don't know the Snow Queen story, but I imagine it is something similar to the matchstick gir...

February 05, 2008

Cate the Snow Queen Ice Princess thingy

So, I always thought Cate Blanchette would make a good snow queen-type lady. Not to say she'd look better with a greenish purple hue and...

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.

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