First game character created

Last weekend I created our first character to play in the game. This is the basic sombrero character that tries to get over the wall. I created it in Adobe Animate, alltough I have never used that programm it didn't take long to learn the basic features. Also it is easy to export it as a sprite sheet, which we will have to use to implement in the game.

First "Sombrero" character animated

First I thought about the design og the hat, because all the sombrero characters will wear a sombrero hat. I had already drawn a hat for the Logo I made so I used that one. You can see the Logo here, alltough I will probably update this Logo and make it better for when the final version of our game comes out.

Logo, probably not the final version

Now back to the process of the first character. I started to think simple and only have a hat with feet. Also to learn the programm better. I came up with this:

First animated character

After that I started drawing some sketches at home. I started by looking at the "zombie" characters from the "Plants vs Zombies" game. I switched his head back, changed his mouth, added some big eyebrows (with a nice little animation) and made his clothes a little more "Mexican style". You can see the comparison below. I should probably make his head a little bigger.

Basic "Sombrero" character

"Plants vs Zombies" character

As you can see this was quite a process and the next character will be a "Sombrero" on a donkey, in the game he will cost more recources than the basic version, but have more speed.