SOMA

MM

Hi everyone, here are my little contribution to SOMA game art. I am really proud to have worked in this game. Congrats to the guys at Frictional Games.





Concept and Art direction - Frictional Games
Highpoly, Lowpoly and Textures - Mashru Mishu

Texelion

Day 382, still waiting for the first image to load... is it just me or are they way too big ?

Poinball

Nice work man !

@Texelion - No on my side it load very fast

Stinkfoot

Man thats disgusting... Great work!

dpadam450

I don't see any images either. I don't think anything is actually trying to load right now either. Just a blank post.

Stavaas

Really great work! Loving the game btw, been a fan since Penumbra!

Doomathon

Wow some real spooktastic stuff there! Really great work, may have to check this out..

WarrenM

Images are broken.

MM

WarrenM wrote: »

Images are broken.

hmm, that is weird.

i checked and everything looks fine from my end and from different statistics sites as well as proxies.

even thumbnails show the images loading:

http://www.shrinktheweb.com/reqstatus?status=1&hash=b8d1f700b36e4713d51a3b4562cb9617

Sir Apple

Works fine for me, awesome work man!

HitmonInfinity

I gotta muster the courage to play this game. Looks fantastic. And great work, MM!

xChris

Sick work man! Did you polypaint those first couple of characters? Love the colors

Bek

Awesome stuff! SOMA is probably one of the few games where you can't get a good look at the character models in-game; it's almost strange to see them clearly in renders like this.

As a side note if you've got SOMA installed the supersecret.rar in the game's folder contains tonnes of concept art (inc the character's in this thread), design documents, level plans, some WIP footage and so on; definitely check it out! (The file has a password you can get by playing the game or through google...)

Additionally all of the game's meshes are in .dae format in the game's folder, nothing seems to be hidden away from the curious mind, which makes a great learning resource. The frictional people are awesome like that.

lildragn

Hiya guys, instead of starting a new thread I asked Mashru if I can contribute here, so it's sort of a SOMA art dump

These lil guys were initially modeled by Jeremy Smith and I created the textures and updated them with the Quixel Suite 2 beta

lildragn

Here are the arms you see throughout the game. Again retextured with the Quixel Suite 2.0 beta

They're a few more images on my Artstation

lildragn

And here's Robothead retextured in Quixel 2.0 beta

Ahoburg

Some of these creatures look positively disgusting. Nice work!

skyline5gtr

Nasty, looks awesome

HitmonInfinity

Thank you for reminding me to pick this up. Should be fun to play around Halloween.

Awesome work!

pour.quoi

Nope...nope...SO MUCH NOPE!

So weird complimenting work that's meant to be horrifying. Its like "Yes, I was absolutely disgusted; even threw up a little. Great job!"

As expected though these are all really well executed models, especially transitions between organic and mechanical parts. Unnervingly good.

_Kratos_

I am playing it at the moment! You guys rock! Nice work here!

yaschan

I'm enjoying the game. Absolutely fantastic art direction and character design. Then, game makes good use of the darkness and the fact that imagination will fill out the blanks. It's scarier that way, but also kind of pity because the monsters are absolutely gorgeous. It's often the silhouette that seduces the mind to imagine.. for example the first sight of the "disco ball man". That combined to the animation and brilliant sound design.. AWwwww.

_Kratos_

yaschan wrote: »

I'm enjoying the game. Absolutely fantastic art direction and character design. Then, game makes good use of the darkness and the fact that imagination will fill out the blanks. It's scarier that way, but also kind of pity because the monsters are absolutely gorgeous. It's often the silhouette that seduces the mind to imagine.. for example the first sight of the "disco ball man". That combined to the animation and brilliant sound design.. AWwwww.

Absolutely agree on this! Sound design is really nice, very creative use of it. Whish more AAA paid more attention to sound!

[HP]

Holy crap, that looks awesome! I'll pick it up this weekend.

Btw, game's website is down: http://somagame.com/

kernersvillan

Siiiiiiiick!

why_pack

Awesome work, would like to try out the game, but i want to know, are there jumpscares?

Joopson

why_pack,
while I haven't played through the whole thing yet, I'm a couple of hours in, and there hasn't yet been a jump scare.

There are definitely some "Oh crap, run!" moments, though.

somawheels

Awesome work. I clicked this thread because my real life name is soma... ahaha it looked like a message to me.
wana play that game now. Never played a horror game before.

JunkieKong

Awww yiss, started playing this the other day and my soiled undergarments should be ample evidence that its an amazing horror game. Those creatures are so good/terrifying - you guys did a great job.

lildragn

Cheers guys! It's funny I never played a Frictional game myself, but I'm enjoying SOMA quite a bit, makes it even more special for me

The Rizzler

Played the game as soon as it came out, loved every minute. Congrats on the enemies, they look so interesting and completely outclass Amnesia's nasties

At one point I found myself stuck on a blocked staircase with hoof foot guy in front of me, I couldn't escape and he couldn't get me so I shone my flashlight in his 'face'
But yeah when I got a better look at him it only made it worse. Most tense part in the game for me, again nice job