Art of Among Skies preview
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Here's a preview of some artwork from Among Skies, a game concept thesis by Brian Harries, Clarke Nordhauser (North), Noah Ortega and Dan Martinez
This is a student project - We are graduating seniors from Ringling College of Art & Design 's Game Art & Design program; production for this project was started mid-August 2011.
Special thanks to guest critics Steve Hickner, Kent Seki, Lane Feuer, Seth Gibson, Jeremy Putnam, Justin Sanders (Neolight) and Elijah Wood.
Art by Brian Harries:
Here are all the textures for the blue fighter^ additionally, 3x256x256 + 1 256x256 cubemap were leveraged from textures Brian made for the environment.
Art by Clarke Nordhauser
These are all the textures for Clarke's assets (+Spec & Normal maps - images forthcoming)
Art by Noah Ortega:
Environments are still in progress and are a collaborative effort by the 4 artists; scenes were set dressed individually.
Set dressing by Clarke Nordhauser and Brian Harries:
Set dressing by Brian Harries:
Set dressing by Clarke Nordhauser
Critique welcome tx!
This is a student project - We are graduating seniors from Ringling College of Art & Design 's Game Art & Design program; production for this project was started mid-August 2011.
Special thanks to guest critics Steve Hickner, Kent Seki, Lane Feuer, Seth Gibson, Jeremy Putnam, Justin Sanders (Neolight) and Elijah Wood.
Art by Brian Harries:
Here are all the textures for the blue fighter^ additionally, 3x256x256 + 1 256x256 cubemap were leveraged from textures Brian made for the environment.
Art by Clarke Nordhauser
These are all the textures for Clarke's assets (+Spec & Normal maps - images forthcoming)
Art by Noah Ortega:
Environments are still in progress and are a collaborative effort by the 4 artists; scenes were set dressed individually.
Set dressing by Clarke Nordhauser and Brian Harries:
Set dressing by Brian Harries:
Set dressing by Clarke Nordhauser
Critique welcome tx!
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This is a student project? That's insane
Look forward to more updates and good luck with it all!
Great work so far, keep us updated!
I would think it would make and awesome RTS game though!
More Warhawk/Crimson Skies than anything else though.
Really loving the monolith mining ship!
@ambershee we do have our design doc from the beginning of development that we will put into a more finalized, sharable form to show process at some point.
The results turned out great mind you!
oh ma god
I am the character artist for the main hero character for Among Skies. Got around to posting it.
Crit welcome!
@ ParoXum we're in rigging right now so video is definitely something that's on the table.
Regarding texturing methods, another technique we used was floating geometry in Maya mapped to an alpha texture with detail and trim elements - like using a decal sheet that would come with a scale airplane model. This allowed us to get a lot more versatility and resolution out of a small texture sheet while only costing a few extra triangles.
More to come in the weeks ahead.
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Also, some fresh art
More process work to come - I know folks have been eager to take a look behind the scenes, and there should be more upcoming video; but for now here's some more new art.
that characters great Dan, If I may maybe come down on the AO in the diffuse a bit?
Again looks sick
We are only the second graduating class of Ringling's Game Art program; our education has focused mainly on 3d/2d art; character, environment, concept, as well as some random classes in game design and programming. Most tend to lean towards Environment Art. We are required to make a Thesis which is a game trailer... (imho = huge waste of time) This ends up being the focus of the last 3 semesters, one for preproduction (all mainly focused on an animatic for the trailer) and two for production. Among Skies will be Ringling's first actual playable game, accompanied by a trailer.
updated... enjoi
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We are all happy to be done with that stressful project!
The designs are all really unique as well.