Friday, August 24, 2012

Call of Duty: Zombie's Perk-A-Cola's

Juggernog by Loco Robo Co.
Jugger-Nog Soda, Based of Coca-Cola.

So my latest designs are based on the Call of Duty: Nazi Zombie mini-game. So basically your goal in the game is to survive as long as you can against waives and waives of zombies. As they added new levels to this mini-game, they added new features, like a mystery box that could give you a super awesome weapon, like a ray gun or a dud, like a sniper rifle. They also added Perk-A-Cola's, they are vending machines that you spend  your hard earned zombie killin' points on which give you perks similar to those from the multiplayer side of Call of Duty. Anyway, that is where all of this is coming from...

The concept.
The inspiration for the zombie hand.
I wanted to do a design that looked like an ad. The original CoD: Zombies was in the CoD: World at War which was a WW2 game. So the time period was set to the late 40's. I happen to love that time period so the designs where a lot of fun for me. I started with Jugger-Nog, a perk that gives you double health. I decided to start looking for Coca-Cola reference art, the vending machine in-game looked like an old school Coke machine. I found lots of material to work from, including this hand ripping through paper holding an ice cold Coke. I said to my self, PERFECT! That was the hand I needed to really sell this idea. Now I just had to "zombify" it. So after drawing the initial hand, I realized I had to figure out the wrist and arm. So I starting thinking back to my high school anatomy class... yeah that didn't get retained, so I found some good images of the forearm bones and went from there. I really wanted the bones to look like they are in the right place, so I drew the bones first, then the wrist over top. I left some detail of the bone on the wrist, but most of it got covered up later by the banner.

The inspiration for the Juggernog sign.

Once I got the hand and bottle just right it was time to thing about the sign to use. I found this classic Coke sign. It was also PERFECT! It was ornate, had the price in the corners and just overall looked the part. So I drew this up and simplified it a bit. The cool part is I only drew the top left corner and copy and pasted it in illustrator so it would look nice and symmetrical. Then I dirtied the whole thing up in photoshop to give it that vintage look. I was pumped at this point. So I challenged myself to do a design for each of the 7 remaining Perk-A-Colas.


Perk-A-Cola Series by Loco Robo Co.

10 comments:

  1. Did you have to acquire licensing to use the images for roboloco to sell? It would be cool to see how they look on actual shirts. Do you have any pictures you could post? Nice work on these, buddy.

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    1. No I don't have any licensing for these. Just did them as a fan. Thanks for the support! I don't have any of them yet, but when I do get one or more I'll post pictures.

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  2. These are freakin sweet! On behalf of the COD BLOPs team thanks for being a fan! BTW - where's the Tombstone? LoL!

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  3. Thanks! Just found out about tombstone when I was playing the new game. It's next on my design list, but it is 4th quarter at my day job and it leaves me too worn out in the evenings.

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  4. I would love to buy a tee shirt, but I am unfamiliar with this website. Is there a link for customer reviews?

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    1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=044_jESUWeI
      See link above. I have a few and I have been very happy with the quality. I wear an XL but these run a little small to me so I had to get 2XL because they do shrink a bit after a wash. They hold up better over time if you don't run them through a dryer.

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  5. What's up man! I love your perk designs! I'm a mapper in the custom zombies community and I'd like to use some of these images in my next map... I just wanted to check and make sure it was ok with you... I'll be sure to credit you.

    Let me know...

    Thanks man.

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    1. Sure, that sounds awesome.
      Let me know if you have specific sizes and I can send you some custom files.
      You can contact me at loco.robo.co@gmail.com

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