Attack Of The Robo-Bugs

After really enjoying the process of illustrating Game On, Zhuri! Book 1: How To Defeat A Blob Monster I was delighted to be asked to work on D. Zollicoffer's sequel Attack Of The Robo-Bugs! The follow-up similarly followed Zhuri and her friend's exciting adventures in a video game environment and was more ambitious in scale than the first book. This expansion also applied to the creative demands of envisaging bustling city scenes and interiors, mechanical spiders and the titular robo-bugs themselves. For these elements I turned to Cinema 4d to design and build the various robots and sets and transformed an off-the-shelf model into the video game's Hero City. Having these 3d elements really helped with the workflow, especially when presented with depicting armies of robo-bugs.

New character designs were also called for and I made some subtle suit upgrades for the central trio to keep it fresh. Once again, it was great to work with the team at Reycraft Publishing on the cover and 20 interior illustrations over a six month period with three months apiece for roughs and finalising. I also relished the slightly darker tone and techy sci-fi edge of this instalment and got a real kick out of building the robo-bugs. Roll on Book 3! You can see more of this project on the main site here and the book is available to buy now.