My work on Feeding Frenzy

I wanted to talk a bit about the work I did for Feeding Frenzy, one of the slot machines contained within Fish World. I worked with another artist, who provided all of the animations, UI design, text, and some of the artwork.

I painted the background art for the slot machine, as well as many of the reel symbols. I’m especially proud of the little green turtle.  A lot of the challenge was getting the colours just right. The symbols need to pop off the background, but they also need to look symbolic of how much they are worth.

I also helped to design the shark character who feeds on the tins of shark food which pop up periodically on the reels. It was hard to find a good balance between making him not too scary, but also look dangerous enough to be exciting to watch. We also had trouble coming up how to represent the shark’s food, since we wanted to avoid anything gory.

I’m pretty pleased with how it all came together.