Knights: Spiral Islands Art dump
Hey guys, uhh its been a long time!
Figured id come out of hiding from under a rock. With much help from some friends in the industry iv come back to life, So I am going to leave it at that and see what good or bad things you guys have to say about the project my new little studio is cranking out.
So the game is called Knights, and the first episode is called Spiral Islands, our focus is to develop the relatively small episode that is Spiral Islands, then releasing, instead of attempting to complete an entire game in one go.
There is not a whole lot of information about knights floating around, so feel free to ask me any questions you like, id be more than happy to explain.
Heres a short blurb about it on playgroundstate.com
So anyway, enough talk, Here is some pictures, Ill be getting some high resolution pics up of the scrapper soon since a few people have been requesting it. but for now, here is this, enjoy.
Scrapper In-game Shots
Scrapper Rig
Also, Here is one of the scrappers animations.
Scrapper Low poly and basic difuse texture
Weapons for the Knights.
Carcenite weapons. (yes, the crabs have guns, i know, how cool is that, they are also pirates)
The Knights concept art for now, aspects of him are subject to change, but this is prettymuch the design at this point.
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRVoJVoG08"]Also, We are having an online fundraiser! on February 15th, so please watch this video to learn more and stay tuned[/ame]
^^^ watch to see my ugly mug talking ^^^
All things knights and playground state can be found at http://www.playgroundstate.com
Also check out our poster - and feel free to print this and post it wherever you want
Check out the QR codes on it with your phone.
Here is a link to the high resolution poster
Any Help i can get in spreading the word about the online fundraiser would be amazing! if you have any ideas, suggestions or tips, let me know, and if your willing to re-post the video anything, or hang the poster anywhere, i would love you forever.
Thanks for reading.
Barry
Figured id come out of hiding from under a rock. With much help from some friends in the industry iv come back to life, So I am going to leave it at that and see what good or bad things you guys have to say about the project my new little studio is cranking out.
So the game is called Knights, and the first episode is called Spiral Islands, our focus is to develop the relatively small episode that is Spiral Islands, then releasing, instead of attempting to complete an entire game in one go.
There is not a whole lot of information about knights floating around, so feel free to ask me any questions you like, id be more than happy to explain.
Heres a short blurb about it on playgroundstate.com
So anyway, enough talk, Here is some pictures, Ill be getting some high resolution pics up of the scrapper soon since a few people have been requesting it. but for now, here is this, enjoy.
Scrapper In-game Shots
Scrapper Rig
Also, Here is one of the scrappers animations.
Scrapper Low poly and basic difuse texture
Weapons for the Knights.
Carcenite weapons. (yes, the crabs have guns, i know, how cool is that, they are also pirates)
The Knights concept art for now, aspects of him are subject to change, but this is prettymuch the design at this point.
[ame="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmRVoJVoG08"]Also, We are having an online fundraiser! on February 15th, so please watch this video to learn more and stay tuned[/ame]^^^ watch to see my ugly mug talking ^^^
All things knights and playground state can be found at http://www.playgroundstate.com
Also check out our poster - and feel free to print this and post it wherever you want
Check out the QR codes on it with your phone.
Here is a link to the high resolution poster
Any Help i can get in spreading the word about the online fundraiser would be amazing! if you have any ideas, suggestions or tips, let me know, and if your willing to re-post the video anything, or hang the poster anywhere, i would love you forever.
Thanks for reading.
Barry
Replies
Speaking of guns
Do you actually play as this guy aswell or do you control just the knights?
And you look like Wil Wheaton in the video
Just to throw some suggestions at you here, I like crab monsters, but this guy is a little busy. I get lost and a little confused looking at it, especially around the head area. Does this creature have eyes? A mouth? I can't figure out where they are. So you might want to clear up some of the detail.
The gun it's holding also looks very out of place. It doesn't seem to fit the crab monster and comes off as feeling like it was just stuck on there.
Also, just personal preference, but have you looked at pictures of blue crabs for texture ref? Seems like it might be cool.
Sorry if you posted your wip earlier
Also, I can't tell if the video is a joke? I would remove the awkward shots of just you standing there. Is there any reason you chose to shoot by the water and outside?
I wish the best of luck to you dude, seems like quite a thing to attempt. Are you worried about not being able to hold up to your promises at all? I'd imagine there's a limit you're going to reach at some point where you can't expand, or maybe you overestimated your texture or polycount budget. That's what I'd be concerned about at least. PS. Your poster doesn't seem to be working.
I hope you guys are very successful with your project. The art seems like an evolution on the Eon style with chitinous crenelations on the characters.
I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
Btw, how's your brother doing?
looks awkward with the guns tho, might be just me.
It's weird because on one hand it's one of the cleanest crab monsters I've seen but it totally does feel busy... I wonder if it's the white speks on the blue shells or that maybe there should be more of a color change in the blue as you get closer to the head. Like a deeper blue for the shells on the legs and gradually lighten it to the turquise that you have as you get higher? I would say same for the white - maybe more pink in the belly and gradually more white towards the head and claws.. maybe that'll help the shapes read better when they overlap?
I don't know - its awesome, so clean, so cool!
Think making the eye stalks red would help center an area of interest... cause right now like what other here are saying, it's a pretty busy model.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1763303301/knights-spiral-islands
go check it out!
Kickstarter Video
Lee.
Shit.
I must admit, yes, he is a little busy around the head... maybe a couple relatively smooth areas to really contrast the highly detailed areas?
Are you doing any special setups on your shaders for him in unreal...or keeping the K.I.S.S system on him?
We did it, got an environment to test everything in, finally, woo. Thanks largely to a new team member on knights, John, hes a mad man. he makes my art look better than i coulda hoped.
Can i suggest perhaps posting this over on reddit.com/r/gaming. They are nuts about indie developers.
Thanks so much everyone for the tips/feedback, much appreciated
when i have some time and am not swamped with contract work ill properly respond to everyone, i love hearing feedback, as some of you know, its been a while since iv shown anything to anybody at all, hah, tiz nice
talk to you guys soon, and thanks for the support!
and Xoliul! your the best, thankyou for the support!
You may want to think about adding a forum to your page also
Good luck!
whats that sunnagun upto?
yaaaaa, the audio is crappy, sorry about that, hah
thanks for the tip, ill probably snag one for the next vid
oh also, the forums are in progress, going to need them soon, also a good tip
haha, oops!
Cool stuff man, funny thing is that I actually had to ask per if that was really you haha. another funny thing is I never pictured you looking like that, dunno why, but again, I imagined per to look like a badass Viking, imagine my disappointment
anyhow, cool looking stuff man, good to see you back on PC, it's been a while haha, looking forward to seeing more !
The crab guy sculpt is pretty mad on its own, but the texture adds a lot of extra structure. Love the color scheme. How long did you spend on this?
Hjalp! Jag ar fisken! Du har en alg!
anyway, yea, i useto play like halo 2 on XBL with per, and i could almost hear his viking muscles rippling thru the microphone... thats what i told myself anyway.
in my heart hes a viking, thats all that matters
Peppi: Thanks!
on the crab sculpt? i dunno a few weeks atelast, i just used the standard brush, every shapes intentional, none of its just noise or brush trix.
and thanks for the warm welcome guys, my first post was slightly nerve wracking.. i thought "what if they dont like me, what if im not cool enough.. WHAT IF THEY STILL THINK IM PER!"
the first video you posted though reminds me of Steve Holt's campaign video in Arrested Development. :] no offense. the community outreach will go along way though. (is that baffin island?)
btw, as far as you're not hyperna everything is ok)))
is what baffin island? where i was on the beach? its my front yard actually
Conte: sure, ill post some flats sometime soon when i have time.. Whos this hyperna? :O
hah