Brink Dev Diary - Art direction & concept art - Now with added HD Video!

MoP · Oct 2009

So Bethesda just posted a blog written by SD's Art Director, Olivier Leonardi - quite an interesting read, plus there's concept art there from our very own Tully.

Spacemonkey and I get a mention too!

Enjoy: http://bethblog.com/index.php/2009/10/08/brink-developer-diary-2-olivier-leonardi/

New dev diary from Lead Writer Ed Stern: http://bethblog.com/index.php/2010/03/04/brink-developer-diary-3-ed-stern/

Some posters from a recent press pack!

Video of crazy huge poster being unrolled at PC Gamer!
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HD Character customisation video!
http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/65171/PC/Brink/Trailer/Character-Customisation-Trailer/Flash-Video

Full HD downloadable videos from VoodooExtreme:
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/51825/Seventeen-Minutes-Of-HD-Gameplay-From-Splash-Damages-Brink

retleks · Oct 2009

Great read, great art!

JohnnyRaptor · Oct 2009

cool, looking badass

MM · Oct 2009

thanks for the link!

i absolutely love what you guys are doing there. wish i could work on something that cool.

Frump · Oct 2009

Yeah, good article. I agree with MM, it all looks great and that must be an awesome project to be a part of.

jocose · Oct 2009

Looks awesome.

TWilson · Oct 2009

A very clever system Paul!

Looking great guys!

CrazyMatt · Oct 2009

I'm digging the grafitti style art a lot. It's almost like the feeling I got when I first saw "mirrors edge" come about with it's first screens. I was like wha'...

Peris · Oct 2009

very nice read!!

Kevin Johnstone · Oct 2009

Looks great, love hearing the reasoning behind decisions regarding the look, I respect those that take that time, it counts in the end.

conte · Oct 2009

Tully's awesome.
just love the stuff.

Snefer · Oct 2009

Argh, just release the damn game already

The characters and customisation are the best looking in any game sofar IMHO. The only game where the characters seem to look COOL no matter what

Cheez · Oct 2009

Awesome ! Thanks for sharing

HellMark · Oct 2009

Great read. Thanks for sharing.

Thegodzero · Oct 2009

Sweet!

Rory_M · Oct 2009

thanks for the link! It's been said b4 but man, just a fantastic art style.

MoP · Nov 2009

Hmm, I guess there was an HD in-game video released today of the SMART movement system and some character customisation...

http://g4tv.com/videos/43012/Exclusive-Brink-Playing-Smart-Freedom-of-Movement-Preview/?quality=hd

(I get a "SEXPO" ad before that... thanks G4)

Ferg · Nov 2009

Muzzoid · Nov 2009

aw thats cool :O! Feels like mirrors edge in a little way which is a good thing for me!

Though northern hemisphere fall release? aw i was hoping for sooner.

Really cool guys one of my majorly anticipated games.

Ark · Nov 2009

Very mirrors edgy! This is what a lot of FPS's are missing with regards to transversing through the terrain.

Love the art style, btw!

Didn't want to see this though: http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1226

aesir · Nov 2009

so much want it hurts

Bal · Nov 2009

This is looking really great, the characters and environements are smooth.
But, no girls in brink?

katzeimsack · Nov 2009

wow, took you quite some time to release a video

spacemonkey · Nov 2009

katzeimsack wrote: »

wow, took you quite some time to release a video

Marketing master plan.. or something

adam · Nov 2009

Those characters look hawt. I also like the proportions on your environment assets. Even the caution tape has a certain shape to it that lends itself to the style of the game.

PS I typed this reply with my boner.

keizza · Nov 2009

man i am so IN!!!!

however....please fix the old doom walk anim. the gun bounces like mad when dude is creepin.
i've been waiting for someone else to hit up mirrors edge style navigation. do we have any news on how the navigation may be different from mirrors edge?

TheWinterLord · Nov 2009

Wow awesome! Cant wait to see more

. I think the gun and head wobbling is a bit too much now though....

I wanna play!!!!!!!t! !!

Lee3dee · Nov 2009

watching the Brink video, now I know what the VGA awards hidden trailer is ^^

JFletcher · Dec 2009

This looks bloody awesome.

turpedo · Dec 2009

That video was awesome! I can't wait for this game

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Great stuff MoP!

crazyfingers · Dec 2009

That SMART is an interesting system, I just hope you guys tie it to RPG elements so players actually level up jumping and climbing so it becomes a core ability that players grow into, balance, and customize over time rather than just an "easy mode" button. Maybe your character's particularly good at climbing so you know to use that button to scale vertically more often than other characters for example. But enough smarmy suggestions, game looks tight, thanks for the post!

fritz · Dec 2009

i'm hoping SMART is joined w/a classic jump and crouch button.

jocose · Dec 2009

I haven't been able to get those characters out of my head. The silhouettes are so awesome, so strong, incredible work, can't wait to see more.

glib · Dec 2009

That style of locomotion looks like it's going to need an extremely clear language of level design and layout to avoid frustrating moments to the player: "no, I expected to be able to slide UNDER that, not run through the sensor, I couldn't see it went all the way to the ground until it was too late".

Ambitious though, I like it.

ZacD · Dec 2009

I wish it'd preview the path in red when doing the long distance ones.

rollin · Dec 2009

hm, the smart thing is indeed an interesting idea.

MoP · Dec 2009

fritz wrote: »

i'm hoping SMART is joined w/a classic jump and crouch button.

It is. Basically you have the traditional jump/crouch buttons that you still use manually, and holding down the SMART button is analogous to using "sprint" in most current FPS games.

We just took the concept to it's logical next step by saying "well, surely if you want to sprint then you want to be going as fast as possible all the time", leading to automatic low vaults, mantles, and other more advanced techniques in conjunction with jumping/crouching at the right time.

Thanks for the feedback guys, it's worth noting that this footage is old (if anyone saw our original E3 presentation then they will recognise it) so we've come a long way since then, and everything looks and works even better now

Edit: Weird, missed this video before:
http://g4tv.com/videos/43021/Exclusive-Brink-Preview/
It's not HD but it does show some gameplay.

Snefer · Dec 2009

*fap fap fap*

metalliandy · Dec 2009

wow...this looks fantastic

I really love the direction of the art and the SMART button seems to be really intuitive.
Tully has done a great job with the concepts...I really love the Resistance-Character-014 piece...its very dynamic and has a real feeling of life.

The environment is looking groovy too...You must have made some massive changes to the engine...its another world, even when compared to ET:QW
This is idTech4 right?

As Keizza said, the walk animation seems a little jarring but im sure it will be improved before the release

Im definitely going to grab this one.

Farfarer · Dec 2009

The movement system looks great. I'd love to see more FPS games using this sort of thing.

Not such a huge fan of the Assassins Creed-esque "hold for magic freerun" button (although it makes sense in a fast paced MP game like this) but it's great to see it nonetheless.

And the art style is, as already heavily stated, fantastic

Slum · Dec 2009

Awesome. This stuff was shown at quakecon. The gameplay footage looks cool in that video, but was way cooler live

There's definitely some interesting stuff happening with Brink. I'm definitely looking forward to playing it.

rooster · Dec 2009

fuckin A!
thisll be on PC right??

spacemonkey · Dec 2009

PC, PS3 + 360

rooster · Dec 2009

jackpot!
you guys have seriously kicked it up a notch since quake wars.. qw looked great, but this is another level

MoP · Dec 2009

http://files.g4tv.com/videoDB/043/026/video43026/tr_brink_113009_exclusive_containercity1_walkthrough_HD_flvhd.flv

HD Container City walkthrough!

Ferg · Dec 2009

been watchin this for a while, big time do want. Also huge props to spacemonkey as the character lead.

Ark · Dec 2009

Awesome stuff, really love the colour, so different from todays next-gen greyish look. The area in the vid is particularly very impressive the way the blue sky contrasts with the reddish environments.

Slum · Dec 2009

Aw man they cut out the interrogation scene..that was good stuff :P

rasmus · Dec 2009

Looks cool, and bonus points for refreshingly non-braindead narration

Martin Henriksson · Dec 2009

Wow that container city video is just amazing. Really looking forward to this now! Must be an amazing project to work on.

ZacD · Dec 2009

I hate that the online communities are separated due to different consoles, I really don't like having to play a FPS on consoles just so I can play with my buddies. And I'm hoping for mods cause it is Bethesda.

kinda reminds of APB a wee bit.

Brink Dev Diary - Art direction & concept art - Now with added HD Video!

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