Sue and the Shoe

Here we are,

I am happy to introduce the character of Sue, a young gifted shoe designer who dreams of bringing her brand of shoe to life !

Sue is the main character of a management game I illustrated, and the challenge here was to bring together all the charcateristic traits of her personality : the enthusiasm of being freshly graduated, the creative energy of the artist, her taste for fashion, the cleverness of the manager.

The second challenge was to feel her evolution as she was growing her brand and expanding reputation. We wanted to keep the funny and positive universe of Crazy Frie that was already present in "Stupid Quest" : we can find this touch of originality and of humour in some details.

I had to translate in drawings the shoes of the two brands "Sue and the Shoe" and "Relife". As the game design is quite cartoonish, we didn't want explicit matte textures on the objects. We didn't want to use photos for this point. But for shoes, the textures are the main part of the design, you can't do without it. So I tried to find a line, a way to clean up the drawings without losing the feeling of the textures. Some are smoother, some have more definition and details. 

Another part of my work that gave me an unexpected amount of fun was the beta-testing.
The game is a management game, and the word "management" was scary to me !
But I actually started to play, and discovered the easy mechanics : I passed the first level with quite easy pleasant mechanics. And then, for the next levels, I've found myself searching for a smarter strategy to get the best results, and it was very exciting.

Here is the link to the free game :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crazyfrie.sue