NBA 2K25 Paintball Launcher Designs

Paintball launcher concepts I did for Visual Concept when they were working on NBA 2K25's minigame, Gravity Ball. In the earliest blue sky phase, it was going to be this wild, fun, sort of cross between American Gladiators and paintball with nods to Smash Bros gameplay and the wacky style elements that pop up in Fortnite. Our goal was to create these super scifi paintball launchers. Anything to move away from reality - from a gravity glove that fires giant paintballs, to paintball cross bows, to weird paintball clip designs. It was all in there. Bold colors were a must as was showing the paintballs in the paintball clips. We made sure to shoot for designs that were cool but also some that felt goofy or silly. To tie them into the world of the NBA, we even added promotional flare add-ons to some designs.