If Spelunky and Mario Galaxy had a lovechild..

Binke

Hi guys, long time lurker, created account to post, never posted, forgot login credentials, created new account and so on I'm currently a freelancing concept artist.. been working in game companies in both sweden and japan.

I have posted this on other online communities like deviant art, but I thought i'd share it with you guys as well. I love Spelunky, but I always wondered if it could make the jump into 3D, and I immediately thought of Mario Galaxy (which i also adore). It felt like the most logic way to go



If you guys are interested in seeing some more of my stuff, i got my website at http://www.tonyholmsten.com and also a sketchblog at http://tonyholmsten.tumblr.com

Looking forward to be posting more stuff here!

cheers

jimpaw

Fantastic work!

Neox

make it happen!

Greg DAlessandro

Looks great man. How did you pull off the perspective? I'm curious what the workflow was to create the perspective as well as the lighting. Thanks.

Binke

Glad you guys like it.

Yourname942: I did a quick 3D mockup first in Modo, and applied some basic lighting to it (mostly just to get shadows correct), and used that as a template, and painted over it. Here is the mockup render i used:

Wesley

Oh shit! I saw this retweeted a little while ago (by Derek Yu!) and thought it was awesome. Really amazing work!

ambershee

Out of curiosity, what happens to the cubes at the poles?

Binke

Wesley: Thanks! I was flattered that he liked it!
ambershee: I'm not sure what you mean with cubes by poles, do you mean the square shaped lamps sitting on the poles, or do you mean the actual... "north/south poles" of the sphere?

Bal

For a second I thought this was a real thing (some kind of Spelunky 2 announcement) and my brain almost exploded in pure ecstasy.

Great piece of art! You've really captured all those nice little details that make Spelunky such a brilliant game, I love these kind of pieces where you can really spend time looking at each little detail.
I started a spelunker sculpt a while back, makes me want to go back to it and try to finish it.

Francesco Segala

Nothing but amazing!

OhNoo Studio

Great one!

ambershee

Binke wrote: »

Wesley: Thanks! I was flattered that he liked it!
ambershee: I'm not sure what you mean with cubes by poles, do you mean the square shaped lamps sitting on the poles, or do you mean the actual... "north/south poles" of the sphere?

I'm trying to wrap my head around the deformation of cubes around a sphere. Would there not be increased pinching towards the poles?

Neox

if you used a quad sphere as a base there should be no poles? :P

Binke

Bal: it would be awesome if it was real Thanks
Francesco: cheers !
OhNoo: Thanks!
ambershee: Oh, hm that is.. possible, I'm no 3d wizard haha. But I think if you use custom shapes on the cubes and don't follow any kind of repetitive pattern its not that noticeable. I attached a screenshot of one of the poles.

huh... this attachment came out weird... ah well if you click the link it works.

ambershee

Neox wrote: »

if you used a quad sphere as a base there should be no poles? :P

Instead you get pinching where the 'sheets' that build it meet

(It's a lot better for this kind of thing of course!)