Devlog #16

Hello everyone! Sunny here with some news about Ero-tank brigade, we bumped with a small problem developing the X-ross weapon which has slowed the updates. So this week we are going to show you the design of the first boss of the game Mother Bee, Originally was speed bee but after making a design process with Crisis beat we move further and more in line to the game style art. So let's talk about her:

Originally Speed bee was this leader of the Bug-theme level, and her main weapon is a trail of poison making this a fast-passed boss that the player have to catch in order to be able to defeat it. So in the first concept arts I (Sunny) made some ideas, specially we had clear on our minds she was going to be a motherly creature.

Also she was Bug themed, so we made a design board with some of the influences and a first sketch of where to go with her. We tried to have something more bug-like at first.

Then I made this version of the mini-boss, more bee themed moving towards this MILF idea and concept, we developed more concept art of her.

(I wanted to the girls to have jackets, eventually they evolved into this armor-suits)

From there I made a full rendered version you saw a few weeks ago, more aggressive, slim and faster, but the motherly theme get lost in the process.
 

(I really wanted for her to have four arms, we keep this idea in a different shape of four armed girl)

This is where we started to work on her ship and how is gonna look in the in-game sprite, so at first we made some approach to a more yamato-like ship and more bug-like but less bee themed version.

This is where ideas like the diamond and the masks for the bosses appear for first time, the Diamond is the symbol of the intergalactic army besiege the earth and the mask is a control device used to have full power over the leaders of the different planets that fell under the Diamond Army, this to contrast with the star that the main characters use.
So after this Crisisbeat presented his own approach to the design, bringing back all the motherly concepts we had at the beginning and also putting her in line with the art style of the rest of the character.

So I present you, Mother Bee:

She looks amazing, we kept the alien colors and the bee theme but at the same time she is now ready to join to our character cast once you defeat her, she will become another team member of the Ero-tank brigade, finally free from the diamond's control.

And now the Hive her ship is right now designed and in rendering phase, but I wanted to add it here to her post:

The hive is ready to pop-up over all the other enemies on the battle, also being HUGE in comparation with everything else.

So I hope you guys enjoyed today post, we hope to make more progress in Ero-tank in the future after we fix this issue with the xross laser. Thanks to our supporters and...

LET'S SURVIVE!