BubbleForce: Character designs

2019. An assignment done for my studies at DigiPen Institute of Technology during my overseas semester at the Redmond campus. BubbleForce is a hypothetical action-adventure shooter game idea, inspired by videogames such as Ratchet & Clank, Splatoon, Bubble Bobble, and anything with crazy wacky weapons! The render style was inspired by one of my favourite artists, Axbraun (Alex Braun), and the character designs were inspired by not only Splatoon but also Tyson Tan's sci-fi anthropomorphic character designs.
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I tried to design the weapons based on Splatoon's philosophy of "toy-like guns", but with my designs leaning more closely to the actual appearance of brightly-coloured bubble wands/guns and the solid or semi-transparent plastic that their bodies are made of.
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It is the year 4000. All humans have gone extinct from a nuclear war, and the only survivors are animals who have since evolved to become the most intelligient life form on earth, known as “Anthros”. However, they have since built upon and abused technology to wage war against other species just as the humans did. You play as a member of the elite BubbleForce, using your special bubble guns to subdue and manipulate those warmongers to uphold peace across the land and prevent anthros from making the same mistake again.