Niklas Jansson

Skyranger VTOL

This is a screenshot paintover (lineover?). I just wanted to see what it looked like as a VTOL. These should have a little turret and camera upgrades if they're landing in the middle of a battle, though that might displace the troops tactically I guess.

Stray Thoughts on Isometric Workflow

I suppose the best way to do isometric reference figures 3D modeling, but that's a skill I don't have. I'm used to sculpting with clay though, so if I were to make an isometric game I'd probably end up with a workflow closer to that of DOOM. It still saves a lot of time when dealing with perspect...

Not-X-COM

With age it has become increasingly difficult to play games like Dwarf Fortress and X-COM. Part of it is a dwindling interest in games, but these games are also difficult to break into sessions. I can't remember what I was doing last time and lose any investment.

When thinking about how to ...

X-COM Personal Armour

I suddenly just wanted to draw this. I'm kind of sad the new games didn't reference the old much visually. The appearance of this armour varies but overall it sticks to the same look. I gave mine some additional padding/seams/panel lines. The original style is more of a skintight superhero suit I...

Tau Sketch

Requested in a previous post. I took some liberties. Don't let a WS of 2 stop you from pursuing your dreams. 

Starsword Solo Boardgame, WIP

I better post this as a WIP or it'll be forever. Like mentioned in the previous post, I've been thinking of using a "retro" board game style as a vehicle for my Starsword / Star Sword setting. It makes it simple for me to focus on lore-type illustrations and not getting bogged down by specific as...

Code Post: Dot Matrix Font Renderer

I've been thinking a lot about which vehicle I should use for my Starsword (not-40K) project. Ideally, I'd like to go 6mm tabletop, but it's beyond my capabilities. Next up is a TTRPG, but I'm not a writer. A comic is a whole lot of work.

My most realistic idea might be to take the print &a...

Fallout Armour

As per request, something Fallout. This started out as an X01/Advanced armour but I decided to do my own thing instead. It's more slim than the typical Power Armours and fairly "designed/engineered" looking so I plopped on some random spikes and rust. When doing research I looked at all the armou...

Trek Thumbnails

These are the thumbnails for my Star Trek project that I've been adding bits to. Most of them are quite small and more like notes for the digital elaboration and cleanup. There are some other ships on there too. I often draw these while watching lore videos late at night in bed, trying to learn t...

Any Requests?

Not quite sure what to do here this month. My brain is all over the place. Maybe some requests?

Yule greetings from the past~

This is a 1:1 paint size (1 layer) Yule bot from 2008 and Cortex Command (Imperatus faction). I did various stuff for that game.

Red dots are chromatic abberation fakery just to liven things up. Then there are some blue reflections and fog. The saturated brown terminator (light | dark) edge...

Loose Doctor Who doodles

It may be no surprise that I prefer the older Doctor Who material. For its charm rather than its quality, I'd point out. I think the series could work without the time travel element, and perhaps without the doctor even. This would be more like Star Trek TOS, with some characters appearing out of...

Old Thorbjorn mech, hirez

Here's an old piece from 2000 which I never posted in high rez. I found some notes about it in a text file, included below. Possibly it was inked in late '99 and coloured once I got my first flatbed scanner.

The original ink was A4 size which I scanned as line art (1-bit) and colored using ...

The Family System

A system for organizing families? Well, no, it's a haphazard design sketch of a NES-FC hybrid base unit. I've included some process stages in case anyone wonder how I do these. The perspective is freehand as I don't know anything about 3D tools. As usual, I do the shading in the line art layer, w...

Cartridges

NES cartridges are mostly empty inside as the PCBs are similar to those in the smaller rectangular Famicom cartridges. I think a few early NES games (Gyromite?) had FC-to-NES edge connector adapters inside though, filling some of the empty space. Another reason for the size could've been that the...

Barbarian Prince Map

Attached here is a flattened version of my Barbarian Prince map that's nearly finished and abandoned in that state. The PSD is hundreds of megs so I'll attach a flat jpg (still 28mb). I haven't mustered up the courage to test print it yet... I forgot what the resolution was but it might be in the...

Old board game time~

Hey. So, if anyone is interested in print & play aka old forgotten board games maybe no longer played for a reason, here's an OUTPOST GAMMA cleanup I've been working on. I don't know if it's a good game as I've yet to play it, having just finished my build. One can sort of solo it, if changin...

More Dwarf Fortress

Some  tricky designs.

It's unclear how Cave Swallow Men would carry their spears when flying. On their backs perhaps. They can fly so their arms have to be functional wings unless they have arms in addition to the wings. The Raw/data file is pretty brief (well, it inhe...

Dwarf Fortress - Cave Stuff

I wanted this design to be a bit different from a regular spider to give it identity. I turned the front legs into mandibles of sorts, partly to remove some legs for a simpler look. The body is more like that of a hermit crab or snail. The maw I borrowed from a recent Kruggsmach design (Crimson T...

GIGA GEAR

Drew another thing for no particular reason. Some kind of camera grip thing going on, and the usual shoulder buttons instead of Start & Select, which I always find inaccessible on joypads. The Switch lite has this minus button that's used for the map in Dragon Quest Builders 2 and I kinda hav...

SONY Walkboy

I never owned a MiniDisc player. There are a few cool looking ones, but generally I don't like the curvy designs of this era, with oval tilted buttons and spline-lines. Anyways, I turned the form factor into a handheld... probably a bad idea be be squeezing the disc hatch... the PSP, here for sca...

Nintendo GameTape?

Or perhaps Datasette Boy? It's a bit of a nonsense concept, but one that had to be done~! 

I like two colour cases so the back is dark gray. The screen is not incidentally the size of a cassette tape. The buttons might be more for regular tape use. 

Tape control would be aut...

Process Journey

If I think back 20-25 years I remember really struggling with developing my pencil thumbnails into larger pieces. A thumbnail is sort of in flux allowing you to imagine it in various cool ways. Once you start refining, that aspect is lost as you're forced to make choices and fill in sensible deta...

arcFAMIBOY

Photobash with anachronisms . Arcade portrait screen, as the drive would be pretty long, even if a compact modern USB model. Thinking about it, if using regular Mitsumi disks the drive could be smaller. The Famicom ones have the proprietary NINTENDO bit tacked on. Regardless, the screen would sit...

Dwarf Fortress Gorlak PSD

I'm posting another PSD. The DF Trolls are building destroyers so that's what's going on here. I like the Gorlaks and figured they could have slightly different appearances. They're kind of like Orc-Pacmans.

The workflow is as described earlier, but here I'm using a coloured background. Som...

Terminator sketch

Here I wanted to draw a Female endoskeleton (different from T3's), but it turned out to be much trickier than expected! I started out with a photo of my Neca 2009 T-800 figure, which is kind of cheap and probably not very accurate. Rather than painting over the photo I put it on 50% multiply and ...

Project #3 - Monster Colle

I've wanted to make my own monster collection game and universe for decades now, but haven't been able to produce more than a few designs that I find passable. I think I'd like to go for a look somewhere between Pokémon's efficiency and Digimon's wild playfulness and anthropomorphization. For sp...

Warlord Project - Public Sample

This is a project and setting based old stories now in the Public Domain, such as A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, Warlord of Mars, and At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Out of Time, as well as the Gilgamesh epic. There's some mild nudity because that's a thing on Barsoom/Mars.

Warlord - Thoughts on Clothing

In the first book we learn that Martians are very often nude, wearing but a "harness" for holding weapons and various "accoutrements" which clang and rattle at inopportune stealth moments. The harness design vary in description when there is one. I don't know when the iconic X-shaped harness beca...

Warlord - Tharks

Hunting for that Thark face that I imagine when reading the books, but it remains fuzzy and indeterminate. I grew up reading the Warlord comics (from the late '70s) so it's maybe something along those lines. If following the description closely, they have eyes on the sides giving 360 coverage, th...