Shadow Lab Character Art

stevston89

I have been working with a small indie team on a game called Shadow Lab. It's a top down stealth game where you utilize various to avoid detection and hack terminals. You can find out more on the games blog. The are screenshots of the game and some videos to check out there. Anyways here is some of the work I have been doing on it.


Heroine ( 1,700 tris, 1x 512 Diffuse, 1x 256 Diffuse) :



Researcher ( 2,000 tris, 3x 512 Diffuse):






Droid ( 1,500 tris, 2x 512 Diffuse) :

luge

I feel like that robot has too much wear and tear... every edge has been worn on, just looks... weird. i'd dial that back a tad.

stevston89

I had to exaggerate a lot as it's top down and rendered out as 256 sprites. The wear isn't as overpowering in game. I do hear you though I didn't want that much wear, but I wanted it to show up in game.

luge

ok, that makes sense. carry on then lol

Yelle

Hey! Those look great. Can you show the UV of models?

Onmioji

Nice work.
But, i think, droid is too monocrome, more colors needed.

Joost

Cool characters! Your link doesn't seem to be working though.

Yelle

komaokc wrote: »

Cool characters! Your link doesn't seem to be working though.

It works for me :O

klamp

I really like the way these look, but since the in-game camera is overhead I feel like a lot of your hard work has gone to waste

Regardless, both the game and its art seems pretty cool!

Steve Schulze

Yeah, there doesn't actually seem to be any reason to do them low poly if they're going to be rasterised, either.

stevston89

@ Yelle - Thanks, I will try to get them up later today.


@ Onmioji - Thanks! I agree. I might be making a variation on the droid at some point.

@ komaokc - Glad you like them. Not sure why the link isn't working for you . Here is the link again http://www.sparkypants.com/about-shadow-lab/.

@ Klamp - Thanks! Yeah that did concern me. I original thought there would be more perspective, so you would see more of it. Though they only took between 30 - 40 hours each ( the droid took less) so it wasn't a huge waste.

@ Jackablade - It was time constraint based. I wanted to sculpt out characters, but they wanted to have them ready by GDC to demo. I decided to go with this method as it was much faster.
Edit: If you mean we should have raster painted the sprites, than the reason is we wanted to reuse animation as we have them on a rig system that can transfer pretty well.

Joost

Strange, it works now. Last night I kept getting a "forbidden" page. Probably a problem on my end. The game looks pretty cool

stevston89

@ komaokc - Thanks glad you like it

Crappuccino

Very good job on these, particularly the scientist. I really like the face texture. The hard edges defining the bridge of the nose look great together with the smoother gradients on the rest of the face. :poly121: :thumbup: