The yet untitled Swamp Chicken animated short will probably look like this. From the left: Suzy the Marsh Rabbit, Swamp Chicken, Mort the Mud Salamander, Team Turtle, Raccoon Babies and Frog.

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Swamp Chicken™ and © Brock Rizy 2011

In February, I was commissioned to illustrate a logo and a zombie attacking a hapless chicken for peta2′s Flesh is for Zombies campaign. These were the color options I offered them.

Eons ago, Major Robot Interactive, who I worked with on the Big Mapple project, hired me to design a graphic robot icon mascot. After an initial cartoonish sketch phase that nearly ended in tears, a new direction was decided on. These were the initial choices I sent for review.

Appealing elements were pointed out, so I offered them another round with similar attributes.

And this was the final choice, which you can see in use on Major Robot’s site. I enjoy that they used the robot’s hand for the User Experience Design icon.

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Most of the final character designs.

Swamp Chicken © Brock Rizy 2011

Narrowing down the Swamp Chicken character designs and redesigns. You can see a simple indication of the revised proportions and the new characters in these concept painting concept sketches. Mort has changed the least. Suzy the Marsh Rabbit’s and the Fox’s designs are totally new. Suzy’s design is the furthest from finalized as of this drawing.

MERLE
This is the swamp, chicken, so you
better get use’ ta stench scroogin’
around in yer nostrils. They’ll
always be somethin’ malodorous
waftin’ by.

Swamp Chicken © Brock Rizy 2011