Truly Hand-painted Textures

echofourpapa

The other thread about new texture tools vs tradiontal art got me thinking, does anyone know of an example of a truly Hand-painted texture set in a game? Like the UV layout was printed and then watercolored or inked over then scanned back in.

I wonder what kind of result that would get.

remotecrab131

That might be cool but it will be super un-practical.

Will it look good? I have no idea.

aFungusAmongUs

i'd imagine it would look exactly the same as what you could achieve using software, it'd just take more effort, and mistakes would be a lot more costly to your workflow. and to my knowledge there is only 'Cuphead' that has taken a fully hand drawn approach, but thats a 2d game so not exactly what you're talking about

echofourpapa

That's still pretty close thought. I can see seams/tiling being very difficult.

ZacD

I saw a chameleon that was textured completely by hand, wish I could find it.

tadpole3159

I think cuphead on xbox one is all hand made and then scanned in or something afterwards

the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional cel animation (hand drawn & hand inked!), watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.

You can see some of the pencil animations here
http://jake-clark.tumblr.com/tagged/cuphead

Edit:
here's a physical model of the background from the dragon boss fight


and here it is in game

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUIDELbuYnw[/ame]

echofourpapa

Wow, that's taking it the next step, real world modeling.

Shrike

there was this amazing looking game on steam with all hand modeled environments, can't remember the name but it looked very intense with the real life lighting and props
You played some kind of small guy in a toy-ish world ? A story driven game I think but Im not sure, but definitely worth the effort , looked really mind blowing maybe someone reading this knows and can post the link

Also some airplane shoot em up game from France with real props , looked pretty cool too, but also can't remember the name sadly

'Edit: Looked up a lot on Steam and google but to no success.

Edit2: For a small project a couple years ago we used assets painted with ink and scanned them in, but nothing super high production value, cleaning up the scans was most of the mess, but with some photoshop actions I made most could be automated (Refine edge, contrast, cutout etc etc)

Eric Chadwick

Did you ever see The Neverhood? Kind of in the same vein, created in the real world as stopmotion.



[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt5arzRgsds[/ame]

RyanB

I experimented with pastels for a 2D/3D platformer. It's just too inefficient for production even in the super rough early stages.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGlQXeFpONM[/ame]

Hirnwirbel

Shrike wrote:

there was this amazing looking game on steam with all hand modeled environments, can't remember the name but it looked very intense with the real life lighting and props

Could it have been The Dream Machine? I really liked the look of that one. Must have been a huge effort to make though...

RN

If I'm not mistaken the backgrounds for Prisoner of Ice (PC, Mac, 1995) were all hand-painted in oil or gouache.