Zombies Ate My Sneakers

[Khali]

"Where the hell is another pair of Speed Shoes?!"

Just to show that I haven't stopped doing the typical linear and shaded images during my bit of a break (and during the creation of Vermilion Crescent), here's...well...a typical one from me. Yet another one of THOSE shaded pencil sketches.

'Zombies Ate My Neighbors' was a classic (its pseudo-sequel 'Ghoul Patrol'...less so) of the 16-bit gaming times, released for both the SNES and Genesis. The title says it all: 2 teenagers (Zeke and Julie) with a ton of makeshift weapons and gadgets try to save their neighborhood from a horde of classic and movie based monsters apparently created by the evil Dr. Tongue. It was an incredibly complex (and long...and fun) shooting/exploring romp. I'd recommend you take a try of it if you haven't yet. ^^

As for the pic here? An obvious pun on the game's title featuring the female character, Julie. Some tricky motion/perspective of water-gun toting Julie as she's in mid bounce off a trampoline in the background and trying to clear her landing space as she blasts away, kicking. Apparently she lost her sneakers to a rabid wolfman or something...

Pardon the somewhat banal background of enemies and items from the game, but I'm sure the focus is on Julie there anyway. 😉 ZAMN forever!

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As an aside, you'll probably note some difference in the scanning of linear/shaded images compared to the ones before I, eh, vanished back in April. Among other reasons for that 'break', one included my previous desktop finally dying. I'm using a new laptop for now but for some reason the same scanner doesn't work as well with this machine, hence the difference in scanning. Also lost most of my image programs in the crash...

There are quite a bunch more images like this saved up that I've done over the 'silence period', it wasn't all Vermilion the whole time. 😉

 

[C.A.B.]

Great stuff, Khali.

 

[Lauren Tyler]

I remember the first time I rented this game, when I told my dad the name, he cracked up. Then again, it is kind of a silly name. But I digress.

You know, I'd have to say that it's a good thing zombies don't have taste buds, since Julie's shoes are probably rather smelly from her running around in them nonstop. So it's kind of a blessing that she's barefoot now, since she can air out her feet.

 

[milagros317]

I just love the point of view, with one sole right in the viewer's face.

Great work, Khali.

 

[Khali]

C.A.B.:
Thanks very much. ^^

Larcen Tyler:
Yeah, it's a very witty title for a very fun game.

Milagros317:
Heh, well, it kinda got cut off slightly, but there's the face of a surprised looking Zombie at the bottom-left of the page (I'm not sure HOW it got so cut off in the scanner, seriously) which, well, is probably the target of this stomp-off-the-trampoline-bounce. 🙂

 

[milagros317]

Milagros317:
Heh, well, it kinda got cut off slightly, but there's the face of a surprised looking Zombie at the bottom-left of the page (I'm not sure HOW it got so cut off in the scanner, seriously) which, well, is probably the target of this stomp-off-the-trampoline-bounce. 🙂

I didn't see the partial face down in lower left corner. While I wouldn't want to be kicked in the face by the magnificent Julie, I would love to be that close to her bare sole so that I could beg for her permission to lick it.