http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/ en Copyright 2012, The Pickford Bros Naked War is a video game by The Pickford Bros. This archive collects background material from the making of the game. http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=244 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=244 This is another rough layout sketch for part of the cover / loading screen design for Naked War version 2. The cover design is based around four soldiers in four different vehicles (the number four is a big theme in the game), so this sketch only repres... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=244#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=236 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=236 This is the fourth 'Top Brass' avatar image I drew for Naked War. The Top Brass are the top Naked War players, who have achieved the rank of Field Marsall. Congratulations Rammer! There's actually a fifth member of the Top Brass, but I've criminally n... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=236#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=230 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=230 This is a rough layout sketch for part of the cover / loading screen design for Naked War version 2. The cover design is based around four soldiers in four different vehicles (the number four is a big theme in the game), so this sketch only represents o... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=230#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=190 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=190 To follow up the picture of the blue team / male units from Naked War, these are the red team female units. (You don't have to stick with females on the red team - you can pick units of either gender on either team colour). I had fun modelling the ha... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=190#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=174 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=174 This is a little promo / poster image I did for Naked War, showing all the different versions of the male units, on the blue team (there are female versions of each unit, as well as red team and green team costume variants, and so far un-released monkey ve... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=174#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=173 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=173 This is the portrait / avatar I drew of the third player ever to reach the highest rank in Naked War - and thus be named as one of the Top Brass - Jimmymac! Well done, sir! http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=173#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=155 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=155 These are some rough poses / layouts for the characters in the Naked War cover art, drawn in 2005. These roughs were the next step after the very rough layout sketch (see follow up link above), and before I started on the final image. I was drawing r... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=155#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=88 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=88 This is a portrait of Chopley Turnip, the second Naked War player ever to make it into the Top Brass. Well done sir! http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=88#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=86 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=86 Here's a page from an old work notebook, from 2005. It's some rough layout sketches from when I was making the soldier characters from Naked War. I've got loads of little doodles and sketches like this in my work notebooks, usually interspersed with to... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=86#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=78 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=78 This is a follow on to yesterday's first sample render of the texture blending system for Naked War, from way back in 2004 (quite early on in the project's development). This is the first screenshot John took of the game after adding the system to the e... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=78#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=77 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=77 This is a test render for the texture blending system in Naked War. Nothing especially clever but it was one of a few measures we took to ensure the actual map file was tiny. Each tile had a simple terrain type value which (sometimes in combination with... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=77#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=67 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=67 This is one of my layout sketches for the little 'tips' comic strips I did for Naked War, as seen on the Naked War website. I've discussed the tips comic strips themselves in an earlier pic blog entry (link above). http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=67#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=54 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=54 This is a portrait of Naked War player zzhari. He was the first player to reach the rank of Field Marshall in our game, mainly through playing it almost constantly since the beta and winning every competition we organised, and this hand drawn portrait w... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=54#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=48 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=48 This is a page from the Naked War Wii pitch doc we put together (discussed with yesterday's pic). It's a little comic strip explaining how we envisaged Naked War working on the Wii, with the blue light letting a player know they had a new turn waiting, ... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=48#comments Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=47 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=47 This was a Wii channel title page we mocked up for a pitch of Naked War on the Wii. I think at one point, to test it, I made it exactly the right size for the Wii screen, uploaded it to our server, and pointed the Wii version of Opera at the image and t... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=47#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=46 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=46 This is one of a series of little comic strips I did for Naked War, to illustrate how the game mechanics worked, and to give new players little tips. We kind of hoped that packing the Naked War website with pages and pages of information would be a subs... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=46#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=16 http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=16 This is the preliminary rough sketch for the Naked War cover image. It was drawn in my work notebook. I keep an A5 notebook on my desk all the time, which I use to make notes about whatever I'm working on. Often just filter settings, or image sizes I ... http://www.zee-3.com/nakedwar/archive/view.php?post=16#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT