Borderlands redesign
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Well borderlands has a tottally different art style now wich i think is awesome!
i wasent feeling the old gritty stuff they had didnt have me interested in the game at all, but with this new look they peaked my interest!
i wasent feeling the old gritty stuff they had didnt have me interested in the game at all, but with this new look they peaked my interest!
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As an artist, this new style has been a total blast to work on after doing photo-realistic stuff for the past several years.
not sure how much I am allowed to say about this so my only answer is "not really" to both your question and commment.
It's not concept art.
When reading comments and articles on other sites, it's funny how limited the terminology of some gamers can be.
Any game with painterly textures = TF2
Any unique shaders (falloff, phong, etc) = Cell Shading
I like the new artistic direction !
They appear to have been surgically attached to her trapezius'.
Love the new look. I love the growing trend to take current-gen tech and applying to something OTHER than hyper-realism.
This is one of the nicer cel shading methods you can use, becuase it really does look stunning in motion.
That, and any game that has even ONE PERCENT like Crackdown in it has to be good, ebcuae Crackdown is one of theb est and most fun games this gen. FACT.
whats that? her ass ? her forehead?
errrr ... it's not really, exactly "cel shading" but it does look stunning in motion
The model looks almost flat shaded on the cover with a texture that looks like it took no more than 15 minutes. I really hope it looks very different when they show it all together as in game footage but I have pretty low hopes. Possibly being over critical due to my attachment to the genre (or in this case a nearness to the genre), but I really dont want to see this kind of thing pick up as the next trend. Fallout 3 did enough to damage post-apocalyptic games.
As far as being an "artistic cop-out," I can tell you that it takes much more artistic effort and ability to hit this style than "photo-realism."
I do look forward to seeing how the environments turn out for this, they could possibly save it (for my personal tastes of course).
Anyway I'm glad for the new style, can't wait to see how it will all turn out!
I think what he was saying is that it is less *time consuming*, but you need artists that know what they are doing. It can be hard to pull of the style, that is where the difficulty comes in, but if you have artists that can do that, i think it could be easier AND less time consuming than realism stuff. As far as singular assets go at least.
I think the major difficulties come in when you're talking about overall art direction. How do you get an entire team of artists to create cohesive assets for a very particular style like this? How do you get your effects and lighting to match up in the same style? Etc...
At the end of the day, only people who have actually done both styles and could tell you which is easier/harder to do here are the people who've worked on both revisions of the game. Without seeing the assets up close, knowing what effects are being used, and hell producing assets for both styles for this specific game, its just plain silly to try and say which method is easier. So i would tend to take Astro's word for it when he says this style is more difficult to pull off.
Way to stand out against every other generic realism based game.
Now here's to hoping the gameplay will be fun.
at some parts there is even no ducts (all mouse painted ?) and for example the head texture is obviously drawn in a higher res. but with the same line thickness. Imo. a bad cover art
Yea, not sure what we could have done about that, the hamster was all tied up painting our geese.
Crackdown had some amazing running/jumping climbing and crap shooting, worse melee, and laughable driving. Its probably the only game where finding the collectables is really fun...but thats the only part of it that is really fun.
I dig this style and I like the push away from photorealistic rendering in action games, so I'm all for more games adopting this sort of look.
In game shot. I like it. Looks like it would be a fun style to work with. Maybe we can get some more specific info on the art side of things from anyone working on it here.
I think this link has a better resolution than the shacknews one.
http://www.borderlandsthegame.com/images/screens/full/borderlands_ss1_full.jpg
Afro samurai
not the best of games, but it seems to have a similar style just not as finnesed as borderlands.
*edit- not trying to derail the thread, but in the name of bad ass video game art- these some SWEET character renders in this gallery:
http://www.tempsketches.blogspot.com/
Overall impression is 'okay', but what part of this was supposed to be exciting that Afro Samurai, Valkyria Chronicles, and Team Fortress 2 haven't already done better?
..oh, hey!
I agree with acc's assesment. Additionally, is the girl undead? She lives on a desert planet and she's not just pale, she's BLUE. Not exactly an oxygen rich environment? She better be some kind of Ghoul or something for that complexion...
Feel free to nitpick our WIP all you want. I'm pretty confident we'll be seeing some high graphics review scores once we're on the shelf ... hell, high scores all around for that matter
As far as Lilith and her skin tone goes, Sandbag, you are assuming that she is a normal human that has spent her entire life on that planet. Not the case.