When working on i-board and Big Day Out activities, the process is that the programmer normally does most of the work before the activity goes across to the artist, and then it comes back for final tweaking. So I normally mock up some ‘cheap’ graphics whilst I’m programming to work with until Stuart or Jack work their magic. Sometimes, I’ll grab some placeholders from Google, and sometimes I’ll just draw some stick men… Anything else just looks demented, as is the case of my mutant cows for a farm simulation I’m working on…
They’re almost scary. Thankfully, they look a whole heap better when they come back from the artists….