BGP: Second Post

This week I have been mainly going over assets, UV-mapping, lightmapping and re-assigning material ID:s to make the environment texturing easier and tried out a couple of texture setups to see what would work for the visual style we had in mind. It’s been a bit tricky, since it’s our first time working with 3D in Unity so every step is a bit trial-and-error. Nothing I’d like to show so far unfortunately but here’s a piece of promotional art for […]

BGP – Week 3

This week we have been focusing mainly on getting our coor loop to be playable (in a prototypy way). The core loop consists of going down to the surface, gathering some stuff like wood, stone and food, going back up and building and upgrading your villagers… I hope I got that right… Well anyway, this week I’ve been doing some various tasks.
Below you can see our settlers wearing some armor and backpacks. When you are about to go down to […]

BGP: First post

Having started off Big Game Project it’s inevitable to do an info dump or two on it. Last week I designed and started modeling the three interchangeable weapons for the main character. We knew we wanted one light melee, one heavy aoe and one weapon for the ranged attack so the design kicked off from there. We also knew the game was going for a pun- and reference-heavy humor so designing weapons like The Banhammer (sledgehammer) or The Good Game […]

BGP week 2

Alright, week 2. This week I mostly focused on the jungle. I made vegetation assets like bamboo, grass and trees and some rocks that the player can pick. Most of these assets will probably be improved upon at some point but at the moment we just want to get as much props as possible to test the game. I also started creating the elevator the villagers use to travel between the jungle and the floating islands.

 

Big Game Project – Week 1

This post is a little late is we are soon starting week 3 but I’ll take it from the start. The first week we mostly talked about the game, trying to further define the concept.
So, our game is a top down(viewed from an angle, like WC3 or Diablo) strategi game mixed with the survival genre. It is a single player game, where you manage your village up on floating islands. The people of the planet bellow moved up to these […]

GDC: Overwatch animation talk summary

Long time no see!
This post is for once not related to any classes but rather to my recent trip to another continent during which I attended a mixture of various talks, took some photos and scribbled down some notes, all which will be featured here in a pseudo-orderly fashion eventually.
One of my favorite talks was given at the animation bootcamp by David Gibson who spoke about approaching character animation in Overwatch, using the hero Mei as an example:

The first part of […]

3D-III Pre-production

It’s been a while!
Since the last update a new, animation-focused course has started, 3D-III. Our first assignment was to (in groups of three) create a pre-production package for a character of our choice. I work with Kim Teroni Borg (modeling main mesh and head, finalizing animations) and Nayomi Arvell (modeling of secondary parts, character background, texturing). My responsibilities for this project are concept art, rigging and skinning and blocking out the main character animations). We brainstormed and agreed that a […]

Testing Testing

Jag har startat en blogg och testar att lägga upp en post.
 

Concept Art – Week 6 + 7

So these past weeks we have been working on character design assignments for an Alice in Wonderland-themed car commercial about a woman from the ordinary world who falls/dreams herself into the colourful and festive Wonderland. We had the script and some simple keywords to work with but besides that it was very much up to us to find a style. So first off we assembled a moodboard to establish the overall direction we wanted to go for (go go Pinterest-powers, activate!)

I […]

Concept Art – Week 5

So during these past weeks in the Concept Art course we’ve been talking about character design, shot design inbetween the basics of art like perspective and colour theory. The good thing about that is that even if you’ve heard it before, you can always find something new to take away.
This week it’s been rendering and while the final assignment is to create and render our own character designs for a given script (which is supposed to be our own take […]

3D-I Character modeling and texturing

So it’s been a while since the last post. During that time we’ve been entering the world of character modeling and texturing, both very new to me. For our third assignment in the 3D-I-course we had to both work according to another classmate’s concept art and art direction as well as direct the person bringing our own concept art into 3D.
For my concept art I got this guy, named “Peanut”:

I discovered fairly quickly that some elements about this design, while […]

New lava monster

This is the week of our crunch. Next week I plan to dedicate to writing reports and maybe doing some small tweaks on the game. We have made some changes to our gameplay since the property system was not clear enough. Before we had four types of enemies and four types of items and that lead to some confusion. It was clear to most people that ice dealt more damages towards fire and vice versa but the connection between dead […]