some WIP on this one. taking some time to experiment with design of the gorgon character. decided to remove extra arms. made overall slimmer and gave colors similar to a king cobra rather than teal. Couldn't get her face to something I liked so for now I consider a shawl. But not totally in love with her design yet. I…
Will share a workflow here because was difficult to figure out: How to add tattoos to a 3d character? The first and probably most obvious choice is to use stencils in your texturing app and just manually paint the tattoos. Problem with this is that any tattoo which wraps around something like arm becomes very tedious as…
@iam717 I appreciate the insights. The glitchy side to side movement is a bug, or rather a fault of the the AI code that I'll clean up a bit later. Basically they are deciding where to go every 1/4 second and if they are already locked to a decision they will then override this - it's order of operations needs tuned but…
I've got two variants of the satyr blocked in. Keep in mind this is preproduction type of work - in addition to exploring basic theme and style for art, I am also developing the overall assembly line. I decided to add an additional satyr variant. I had a skirmisher and a charger, but I decided to add an archer as well.…
edit: anybody has any critiques for these illustrations I'd love to hear them. "Finished" this illustration. There are a few bits of detailing I'll poke at here and there, like making some of the horses faces more distinct. Also moved the text to a separate layer so its more modular. I might settle on a different text logo…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpx770Nnh58 Okay, here is mostly complete blockout of the level. Some portions are still pretty sparse, but I am content with each engagement, general difficulty and pacing, and overall flow of the level. The last section (the wooded path from agora to acropolis) is no combat and I might…
First steps of the harpy taken care of. A basic model with focus mostly just on silhouette, and a rig. Animations over the next few days, and I probably wont bother with textures and refining the model until after the level art is completed. It seems much easier to make decisions about the design of characters after having…
Frustrating previous two days. Its not an art update, however could help somebody avoid similar issues and maybe for somebody looking for a job at game studio it might give some notion what sort of stupid issues you might see from time to time. So first big issue was that I was trying to solve a little issue where my root…
Tested out maya live link with unreal and it's pretty good to be able to preview animations in real time. But feedback is a bit choppy so its really only good for blocking in. Little details don't read at all. Not sure if it really speeds things up or not, but definitely nice to get some immediate feedback. Character…
a lot of work done on the character controller but probably still a few more days to complete its overhaul. notably, I changed the dive from root motion to act more like traditional jump. it consist of three separate animations, a begin, a looping middle, and an end. This way the distance of the jump can be configurable…