Merry Christmas! 2023

 Merry Christmas everyone! And a happy new year!

I got Knight Light, Spotlight, Sunscraper Spire, and a light trap from my grandma! And the Hot Dog ornament has been put up again this year! My dad gets tired of seeing it but I think it's hilarious. I also plan on buying more Skylanders with my Christmas money.

See you all next year! ;)

Ring of Heroes rips

 Well I've been back onto fixing all of these models and uploading them, meanwhile fixing all of my old renders on the page- 

Here's a few renders of some upcoming rips while I'm at it!

To be honest I could gush about the Awakened designs for hours, I wish that they could be some cool figures or something... (*Cough cough*, Activision hire me- *Cough*)

And as you can see, or hopefully see, these renders are a lot cleaner than those of my previous batch and they really let the textures shine through. I have been changing my rendering over time as I've worked on other model ripping projects, so hopefully I can get around to cleaning up the old renders.

Like this one. Yikes-
I'll get around to you too Zoo Lou...

https://www.models-resource.com/mobile/skylandersringofheroes/

The Skybridge AU is finally in progress! I hope to work out a release schedule I can work with over School.

Thank you for checking it out!

Skylanders Commercial Designs

For some reason the Skylanders Trap Team commercials actually have a lot of publicly available concepts, including for the Skylanders themselves!

Daniel Garcia

Jesse Sandifer

Victor Hugo

Daniel Kho

More Concepts!

This time we have some Skylanders 3Ds concepts from Chris Bromby at https://www.chrisbromby.com/

Chris worked on Swap Force and Giants as the art director, and he still works alongside large companies to this day, even working on Super Nintendo World!

Chris designed Frightbeard and his ship with some neat scale references too!

Oh man, if this doesn't convey the scale of Frightbeard's ship then I don't know what will-

Skylanders Commercial and Cinematics Concepts by Ivy Tai

Ivy seems to have been working on Skylanders advertisements since the beginning. It's neat to see how much love and care went into even just the commercials! Unfortunately I couldn't find higher res screenshots but if you would like to look at all of their concepts they have their own blogspot page right here!

Skylanders Spyro's Adventure:

Skylanders Giants:

The interior of the Fist of Arkus!

Skylanders Swap Force:

I think it's a shame that we didn't get these freaks in the game

Oh man, I can only dream of being here...

Skylanders Trap Team:

I couldn't find anything that suggested they worked on Superchargers or Imaginators. 

Ivy also worked on the 3Ds games cutscenes for Swap force and Giants.

Thanks for the amazing commercials and cinematics Ivy! I wish I could go back to the times that they aired on TV... Nostalgia trip aside, you should check out Ivy's blog here again to check out their other work and more cool Skylanders stuff that I didn't upload here!

Skylanders Toy Concepts and Pantones

More concepts by Jeff Murchie for toys! I appreciate how the gold colors are labeled 'Trigger Happy Gold' I think it makes digging these up a bit more fun. Jeff mentions how these were used to also better communicate colors in the case of a Pantone typo.

Murchie also had some toy designs on his page. For example this Imaginator base guide.

You can find more of his work here

It's neat to look through concepts and see how my favorite game has come to life!

Jeff Murchie Skylanders Concepts Appreciation

I think it's quite interesting to see how the artists worked on the models! It's also neat to use his work as reference to learn how to properly do markups. Since I also aspire to be a game developer I enjoy digging through what I can find of the productions and analyzing them to the best of my ability.

And it turns out the Jeff Murchie also worked on the toys as well! You can see how markups work here too. How I wish I could work at TFB someday...

Skylanders Model Ripping

 Welp, I finally have it. Thanks to help from JesseTheLamest (JesseTheCoolest in my opinion) who has run me through the steps and programs required to do this. My dreams of finally ripping Skylanders models have come true!

So my current project is to rip most models from Skylanders Superchargers and get that all uploaded online. And oh man does it take a long time to even get one model out there...

See you guys on the other side-