Post by PedroDev in Game Art - @the artists, what did you use, what did you learn, what inspired you?

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This is my first jam as an artist, i was a bit scared because it's not my usual role, but I think it turned out well! As I'm not good at drawing, I thought it'd be better to use 3d models and a good toon shader (which I did myself). I got inspired by games like Zelda the wind waker because it looks amazing. But honestly to do the character I thought of my father who's also called Juan. Also we wanted the character to look cool, we came up with the idea: a surfer astronaut. This is how it turned out looking:

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462969

Aprilkind5 years ago

This looks nice! I like the space surfer idea (I guess everyone would love to surfe in space ;) !

Can you explain to the game art noob that I am what programs you used? How long did it take you to create the art?

PedroDev5 years ago(+1)

of course!! It would be cool if I could say I used many professional programs, but the truth is that I only needed two, blender and Photoshop. I only used photoshop for some textures when needed as many models are vertex painted.

I coded the shader for unity by hand, but based on previous work on blender, basically I traduded a shader done with blender shader editor to code for unity. I used this video as tutorial for making the shader in blender (in blender yoj don't need coding and it's very intuitive)

Aprilkind5 years ago

Waaah thanks! This is so informative and helpful! :D