secret door

rooster

Howdy all!

I'm developing an art style for my next project, and progress has slowed a bit lately so I'm hoping posting it online will give me a kick up the arse

the test scene I've started is some kind of secret entrance embedded in rock, beneath what might be a disused railway track:



the style I'm looking for is going to hopefully be unorthodox, I want a combination of gradients and unusual pixel art- with possibly quite abstract results. I have no idea if it's going to work or not but I need to stop procrastinating and get on with it

here's the start:



not too much to look at yet.. I really want a style with a pretty quick turnaround though since I need to be rolling out environments single-handedly

Oniram

looks like a very interesting style. ill be keeping an eye on this for sure.

SHEPEIRO

coool...
im just going to leave this here

rooster

thanks guys!
Shep- Proteus is awesome I can see why you'd post it, but hopefully as I progress you'll see I'm going for something a bit different

rooster

if these colours are looking kinda sickly, they're really more placeholder until I've got further down the line and can experiment with the mood of the scene. My plan is to add pixel art detail/patterns to the scene underneath the colours, to add some (abstract) surface detail

edit: testing- that changes the mood a bit doesn't it!

Chimp

wow that last shot changes it completely - and for the better!

rooster

going kinda nuts with the colours here:

aaronaton

like that last coilour scheme, kinda reminds me of Katamari on the PS3 for some reason.

rooster

cheers! ok enough screwing around with colour for now, going to see about adding some plants

Avanthera

Loving all of the pixelated gradients! Are you using a shader w/vertcolors to pull this off? or actual textures?

Great colors in the last one btw

Simmo

That last one looks great! Wondering the same as shrew, would love to know how this is being executed

rooster

shrew: it's nothing more than two textures overlaid using different UV sets. one texture has some gradients on it, the other some pixel detail

here's some flora, really helps it come together imo: (unfortunately, I had to ditch the blue fog because of alpha planes picking up fog) the scene's in unity now

SHEPEIRO

nice with the flora...

i was noodling on this while exporting...
just some thoughts on "lighting"

original below
top flipped sky gradient, darkened tree line, lightened foreground