HOME | DD
TysonTan — Maria Notte
by-sa
#tysontan #freedomplanet #freedomplanet2 #marianotte #maria_notte #钛山 #tysontan_art #tysontan_art_original #tysontan_art_original_freedomplanet #marianotte_freedomplanet #bats #furry #freedom_planet #freedom_planet_2
Published: 2017-07-28 08:29:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 55853; Favourites: 1501; Downloads: 672
Redirect to original
Description
Project: Freedom Planet 1: freedomplanet.galaxytrail.com/ and Freedom planet 2: freedomplanet2.com/Description:
Maria Notte is a support character I designed for Freedom Planet 2. She is a megabat and she works as a news reporter.
Pixel art first, concept art follows
At first I only drew Maria's pixel art -- I designed FP2 characters directly as ingame pixel art to avoid impossible details. In this way I can also tweak them precisely according to my vision, probably also saved some work from the pixel artists. When Stephen posted her pixel art on GalaxyTrail's twitter account, people seemed to like her, so I drew some supplemental concept art. Some of the new details developed in the concept art are later fed back to pixel art, and you will see a improved Maria that resembles this art set in the actual game.
Quality-of-life for bats in Freedom Planet 2
I ended up making this artwork set as the demonstration of how the FP2 bat race cope with their natural body characteristics. Inspired by Zootopia, I designed the bats in a more realistic way, retained their arm-wings instead of cheating with back-wings. Then question rose: how they live their modern life with ease? Bat wings make them clumsy doing all task except flying, so I designed some stock gadgets and specific gestures to help them improve quality-of-life.
If you like the bats in FP2, please thank Stephen DiDuro for his openness to experimental ideas.
Follow FP2 development
GalaxyTrail twitter: twitter.com/galaxytrail
Producer and main developer Stephen Diduro's twitter: twitter.com/SDiDuro
FP2 official website: freedomplanet2.com/ (artwork not updated yet, but it has new demos!)
My twitter: twitter.com/TysonTanX
My tumblr: tysontan.tumblr.com/
Related content
Comments: 49
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I absolutely like that people go against the norm when it comes to bat characters by making their arms literally wings with the webbing merged together with their bodies.
However, I still struggle to see why people make normal clothing for them. Imagine getting in and out of that dress of hers with those massive wings, if she don't tear and break them..
It would make much for sense if the clothing was designed for her body in mind, with straps or belts holding the dress together at either the shoulders or waist, letting them be capable of removing their clothing from over their head or stepping out of them as they were pulled up like you'd do pants.
Red and black is not a very original color combo but I admire that you decided to not go for bright red or pitch black as both of these are extremes. Extremes are so hard to work with and bright red in particular tends to really hurt the eyes due to it being so vibrant. Black, white and red all contrast each other which makes a decent color scheme overall with the beautiful blue eyes being the winner in what takes my attention the most.
Overall, I am pleased with how the character is portrayed in this reference sheet and I hope your demonstration will impact the game's design of bats, if it already hasn't!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thank you SO much for sticking with the anatomy and not making her a four-armed freak of nature like a certain other cartoon bat from a similar game series. I've waited a LONG time to SOMEONE to get it right, so you have my deepest gratitude.
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
Great job! I have a character name lily and she kind of looks like her. Again awesome job!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Why aren't you making your own clothing line by now?
Seriously your costuming is impeccable.
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
she's now my second favorite character in freedom planet my first favorite is milla
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
www.facebook.com/JungleAardvar…
Imagine Maria doing this.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Goddammit! There's no Maria Notte in Rule 34. Yet!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Really, really cool how you handled doing the arms/hands/wings into one limb. Not a lot of artists attempt this, but you did, and you knocked it out of the park. She's still very cute, too!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
A fine looking bat girl, it gives me the nostalgia of Chip and Dale Rescue rangers, as there was in one episode a bat called Foxglove who was Dale's girlfriend.
By the way, do the pair of add-ons of the headband act as headphones ?
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
If the wings are attached to the body to the waist, how does the dress work?
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
Dresses like this exists in real world. You can google some photos of this kind of dress that only attaches its front side and back side around the butt. The extreme example is apron. This design works because of gravity, material tension and friction. I also gave the dress a rubber reinforcement band under the chest to keep it in shape, but I guess even that wasn't really necessary.
👍: 1 ⏩: 0
Shes so adorable. From her theme to design I can say she's the best bat humanoid Ive seen. I see freedom planet being mentioned alot so Im curious to what it is. Ill probably do some research and maybe be pleasantly surprised.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
So... I saw her with a mike, and a bat with echo location must have a perfect singing voice.
So... I provide you with a possible sample of what I bet she can do:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VgLKX…
Pay particular note of the final Aria
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
She's a news reporter, not a singer....
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This is definitely one of the more interesting designs in the game so far. Looking forward to seeing her in action!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Dude words cannot describe of how epic this is
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
You should see Maria Notre in a belly dancer bikini with face veil. <3
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
As far as I know, she is the most natural Anthro-bat.
Is she playable character?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you! Foxglove from Rescue Rangers was a realistic bat, I guess she was on the animal side, not the anthro side?
Maria is a support character, but if time allows, Stephen said he have some ideas about making her playable in a minigame.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
So Cute! :3
Love the little gadgets and things you've designed for her, very neat.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
good morning my friend, Maria is a pretty megabat, I like her face and her wings.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
why do I find it ironic that the day after me and Turb0 come up with a bat NPC for our game... this gets released...
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
This is new. Bat characters are not often used. But she's certainly a welcome sight.^^ So cute!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I love this! She's such a cute character! Her realistic bat features are very cool. 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Well that is lovely. She looks very adorable, but also very professional (and not just referring to your talent haha). Love the way the outfit works with her, looks like it'd breathe well but not be too trouble to fly with. And the design for the earpiece as a reporter is ingenious, showing how she'd get input. The boots for grasping and hanging is also clever.
Overall, loving the piece and how you designed everything to work well together and make a bat a functional design.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
