DESIGN OVERVIEW

Synopsis;

Aleksic’s specific contributions began with general character ideation and sketches. Creating multiple rounds of designs to be assessed by his team members. A crucial step in allowing all members of the project to contribute to the illustrative design.

After the first few rounds of ideation, and sketches. Aleksic had a far more realised idea of what the Too Many Cooks team wanted out of Feed the Dungeon. This allowed Aleksic to become much more sure of himself, and what aspects of his initial designs to hone in on in the coming design stages. Those being a more cartoonish approach towards the main character, mixed with a rougher realism towards potential enemies within the game. This design keynote was what Aleksic wanted to keep as an extremely influential factor when designing characters. To make our main character out to be this bundle of joy and light-heartedness, facing a treacherous dungeon filled with cruel beasts.

For the second stage of concepting, Aleksic expanded his aperture for character design, experimenting with different monster/creature designs for the various creepers who would inhabit the dungeon. This was alongside his attempts at designing the main character for Feed the Dungeon. This stage would eventually produce Chef, the red raccoon cook, who would act as the protagonist for Feed the Dungeon.

After designs for each inhabitant of the Dungeon was agreed upon by the team. Aleksic, alongside his 2D-Animation team, set on to finalise those designs by confirming their look on paper, by making Turnarounds for each major animated creature.

Next came animating those characters, which was by far the most time consuming of all tasks. Though as Too Many Cooks had planned from the beginning that character animation would take the most amount of time, they had accounted for it, and allocated it the largest window possible, with as much grace as possible, within the year-long production of Feed the Dungeon.

FINAL PRODUCTION OVERVIEW

Aleksic’s specific animation/illustrative work for Feed the Dungeon included; the Chefs’, the Harpys’, and the Firebulls’ Sprite Animations, Chefs’ weapons’ visual effects, the Firebulls’ fireball, the in-game Ferocious Tomato vine and fruit sprite, and the in-game Fire Mushrooms.