Sweater Girl Adventure

pekoe

I've been slowly been accumulating ideas for a large 3D project and I thought it might be fun to document my work online.

The Project:
I'm building three environments for a game (the game idea is a bit hard to explain, but it makes sense in my head)

Right now I have the character model built (codename: sweater girl) I'll be trying to capture the same style in my environments:



I've drawn some concept images:





And here are the three environments I plan on modeling (really rough, more of mental note paintings):


Ok, now I just need to get to work!
Also, any tips or advice about the workflow of creating game levels would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

P442

Looks cool! I like the simple style, but feel you could add some subtle and minor details here and there.

pekoe

Thanks! Yeah, I agree. I was thinking that maybe I could create some in-game rim highlights. I've seen it used before, I just need to figure out how I would go about that.

P442

what engine were you planning on using?

pekoe

I'll be using Unity

P442

sorry, never used Unity

gregs

There's a rim lighting example in Unity's surface shader documentation: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/SL-SurfaceShaderExamples.html

pekoe

cool, thanks for the link!

S2Engine

Very cool, great style! If you're using Unity you might also want to look into the node-based shader editors like ShaderFusion and Strumpy, depending on your workflow it might be easier to develop that way.

jmt

The art looks very good, but there isn't that much advice that we can give you without an explanation of the game. There are so many types of games and the design/execution of everything is a lot different. I'm guessing it's an adventure/puzzle game from the art you showed. You should get used to explaining your game because if you want people to play it, you'll have to convince them that it's a good concept. If you get your idea from your head into some design documentation, you will likely realize a lot of things that you didn't think of before. That will also happen thoughout development and as other people play your game.

YoutLeaderVal

This looks cool. A pouch might look good on this character. I'm imagining her running, and I think a simple pouch bouncing lightly against her thigh would flesh out the design. Maybe a more defined collar bone, too. And I'd experiment with multi-colored lighting in the game: a red glow cast over her sweater and her hair would be very pretty.

P442

updates?

vavavoom

love this! can't wait to see updates on it

Natland

Hey,

This is so cute! I really like where this is going, it reminds me of animal crossing a bit.
Your character model is great but I agree that it could use more details. One of your concepts has lines and a small ammount of shading on her sweater, I think if you stuck to the colours in your concept it would be stronger aswell.
Can't wait to see more.

-Nat

Tigerfeet

Oh she's adorable! I love the simple, bright style. Come on updates

pekoe

Sorry for the lack of updates! I've actually changed gears quite a bit and am working on a totally different game idea (a better one I think) and I'll probably start a new thread when I have some more content, but for now here's some concept art.

JR

Beautiful artworks. They made me remember of Erwin Madrid: http://www.erwinmadrid.com/personal.html

Even if you change the idea, plesae don't change the style, it's pretty cool.