Niklas Jansson

Creatures for Book Thing

I have worked a bit more on the story that I mentioned earlier. Well, actually I derailed and drew a bunch of animals and creatures.  Here are some more highrez images than those seen on my Mastodon. Also daringly attaching a WIP of the chapters I've written so far. I really need to get an e...

Another Hardwar Sheet

So I did another sheet with random shape ideas, then I started writing another isekai story which I might upload on Royal Road – if I dare, that is. The place has an elaborate critique and reputation system and might not be the place to share "early work".

Attaching some doodles I've made...

Hardwar Yet Again

I keep getting little visual ideas that I want to jot down, so here they are.

In Hardwar ships can't leave the craters and sort of magically stall. Perhaps this can be addressed by coming up with a repulsor-drive system, where the drive is set to different altitude tiers. It becomes prohibi...

Hardwar Continued

I've always liked yellow construction crabs. I think Half-life 1 had one on the into level. It's questionable whether people would bother with legged and wheeled vehicles in a world with solar powered anti-gravity though. I don't know what kind of atmosphere is on Titan at this point and to what ...

More Hardwar

I managed to get the game running on new windows (using the fan patch) and got some more ideas for a Hardwar type game.

Perhaps going for an untextured look would make asset production easier. Objects could be coloured as flat polygons, with some subdivision to help making patterns and such...

Hardwar

Hardwar is an elite game, but set in the misty craters of Titan out in to orbit of Saturn. Society there has collapsed, and the player is tasked with... well, basically just managing to leave, or fool around.

I bought it back in the day but only played it a little. I didn't like the FMV stu...

Space 1999 Redesigns

I've been drawing some Space 1999 stuff. I've posted it on my Mastodon, but here are some more high-rez versions. Perhaps I'll make a page and do some rewriting as well.

Space 1999 was a two-season sci-fi show which aired from 1975 to 77. Initially it started out as a continuation of UFO......

Rewrites

Edit: Attached an early version of a few chapters. It's in .RTF format, pocket book size. Written in Textedit on mac; I'm not sure how it displays elsewhere. A preview and not final.

Also added a few creature ideas to an image, added a world map, and added a mutant pic I di...

Imperial Map

I took some time to line the map (coastlines and mountains). Trying to keep the squiggly-ness natural.

The shape was based on UK and Scandinavia, with hints of Indonesia.

In my story the isle is ruled by the Imperial Seat, which is actually three individuals (Kings) chosen in some nas...

Notes for Another Short Story

I started on a new writing project (skeleton + maids cultivation isekai), but it's difficult for me to keep track of all the character descriptions, creatures and locations, so I made some visual doodles to help me. Haven't gotten to the part yet where the skeleton rides the giant centipede, but ...

Space Stuff Continued

Did these today while listening to more audiobooks. I always liked how the PDP-8 looks (with the arrays of coloured cartridges) so I wanted to try making a radial version. I also tried to come up with some sort of monster to fight. They ended up on the sillier side...

Space Stuff

I felt like elaborating on the design for Textile Plant 1051 as I got a sudden image of it in my head... a sort of floating sandwich factory oil rig. I guess I had a subconscious image of the ill fated Texas Towers oil rig in my head. It had these Amiga Boing Balls on it, and it sunk (just like t...

Monster doodles

These monster roughs are for my edutainment game. I'm just borrowing some shapes from my Digimon project here. I think Digimon desigs will be a bit easier to do. Pokémons are hyper efficient and stylized d...

Just some doodles

I'm starting to think about the Monster project a little. It's very daunting to approach, but maybe it's doable if I try not to overthink things and just draw a bunch of stuff, then tweak the weaker designs at a later point.

Also attaching some pantsu nonsense.

Last Imperium - Weapons Cont.

I have made a little progress on the weapons sheet. Because of the medieval undertones I've angled back the handles a bit, like on pirate guns. I'm unsure if these are compatible grip-wise with all of the playable aliens. I think I'd rather change the alien hands than making a bunch of variants o...

Last Imperium - Bugs

I've done a few more variants of the Bull Ant, thinking it's a successful family of common bugs. There's the desert-dwelling Bone Ants, and forest-dwelling... uh- Antler Ants (based on forest/horse ants).

I did a more scenic pic of the Bug Hound. Perhaps this comes in variants too. I like v...

Last Imperium cont.

I've continued noodling on this project a bit, working on ships and inhabitants. Stylistically I'm going for a sort of  Bretonnian Space Knights feel. Heraldics, Knight armours – but in chunky coloured ceramics.

I'm not sure how good a fit the Cepheus Engine is, given my lore. Perhap...

Last Imperium - Creatures

I've began colouring up some pencil roughs from last year. These creatures will be general creatures common across the imperium – the idea being that the imperium is old and things have pretty much spread everywhere due to trade... like banana flies. I'm doing a few morphologies of some types. ...

Last Imperium Continued

I've made some progress on this sheet with some of the flora & fauna, and thought I'd share (fullrez 3x4K, flattened, sharpened). I'm not sure if I should keep the white and colour in one layer, or block in colours as flats in a separate layer like I do with some of the figures. Might settle ...

Accumulated Updates

Sorry for the lack of updates here recently. I did update a few of my pages a little though so I'll upload some full-rez versions of the new stuff here. Unfortunately lost two weeks to sickness but I'm fine now.

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More Heroquest, and a Carnifex.

This time the tiles are a bit more in line with the colourful original game board (was it by Gary Chalk?). I also went back and popped the shadows in the Zelda room a bit.

That's... eight pieces total. I think I need nine for testing. Plus all the furniture, doors and character stand-ups. I...

World Map and More Tiles

I decided to draw a world map in case I make my own fantasy setting. I wanted it to be a bit less on-the-nose than the WHFB one, but still not completely alien, so I swapped Africa with South America because it puts Lustria/Lizardmen a bit closer to the action. The rest of the world was perhaps e...

Tile Tests

I've done some tile tests. I guess I should be prototyping before drawing assets, but I'm not in the mood for that.

I like deterministic procgen maps, though mechanically they're more difficult to design. Still, I think I've gotten somewhat close. Basically, each unrevealed map block (6x6 t...

(?Not-) HeroQuest Characters

I've made some progress on the characters and monsters. I think I'd rather have monster variants than pose variants. It keeps each enemy iconic. It's best to keep the poses a bit dull an neutral then, so it seems less like they're all doing the same pose. The original HQ poses are not very action...

HeroQuest

So what have I been up to?

I've posted a new 40K page on my site.

http://androidarts.com/40k/40K23.htm 

And I wrote some 160 pages for my book, but I'll let that rest for a while so I can re-read a...

Dungeon Keeper Cleanup

I've continued with these doodles a bit. 

The Maiden has some interesting concept art, but apparently ended up as a rather standard spider-woman in the game. I took some inspiration from the Quake Shalrath and crustaceans... while also trying to represent the upright postures of the co...

Dungeon Keeper

I've never managed to get comfortable with this game but it's still fascinating in some way so I wanted to draw something from it... perhaps a few small-medium-large variants of the enemies (iirc they level up in the various rooms, but maybe there could be variants on top of that). The troll and ...

Dark Reign 2 - continued

I've continued doodling on this while listening to audiobooks (currently Master of the Hoard). It doesn't really make sense to draw front views when the units are seen more from the top, but I suppose legibility is a thing which can be improved though iteration. Also, I often approach these proje...

Dark Reign 2 Redesigns, WIP

Dark Reign 1 and Battlezone II have some of the best RTS unit designs I know of, from a visual PoV. ( Edit: DR1 is unfortunately not playable on modern Windows. I installed from my original CD and got palette corruptions. The downloads/patches are apparently risky/compromised. )

Da...

Ducks Continued (and other stuff)

Good Yule, as we say here in Sweden.

I can report some minor progress on the Mutoid ducks, with humans added for scale/feel. 

Also, I'm mirroring my DeviantArt stuff here since it's behind an age-check on DA so it's not really available. I don't think I posted it on my main site,...