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

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Hi April! We usually make 2D games, the one time we made a 3D game was really too much for us, so this time we decided to create a 2D game using pre rendered 3D graphics, inspired by Donkey Kong Country and other games from this era.

Another inspiration was Prince of Persia for DOS, mainly because of the camera angle and "chamber like" style.

We mixed both art styles and applyed to the game theme: A mystic Atlantis like puzzle platformer where you need to switch your only one power crystal to use your 3 abilities.

So here are the examples:

And here is the outcome:

here is the link if you want to play it!

https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2019/rate/462457

Aprilkind5 years ago

Love the donkey kong take on game art! I guess this is a really nice compromise when it comes to 2D/3D game art (and like I said in the cute character thread, I think your dog is really cute :D).

Could you explain which programs you used and how your workflow looked whilst creating the art? This would be awesome. :)

Sabiarts5 years ago

Thanks! :)

After the brainstorm session, the 3D artist started modeling the dog using 3DS max. He used previous images from other games that we made as references for the 3D model.

At the same time I drew fast concept arts using photoshop just to explain to everyone on the team what the game should feel and play, with UI and player sizes, some colors and effects.

The final thing before implementing the arts onto the game was to create the textures to put on the 3D model. That was done by the 3D artist using Affinity, who also placed the camera on the 3D space to render the character in all animation frames (run, jump, idle and dash) and the platforms.

We used Unity2018 to create the project, so we imported the assets and edited the final bits in there. Unfortunately we didn't had time to add the chatacter's final animations until the deadline, but we have a newer version (Android included) ready to be posted as soon as the rating period ends.

If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask! Thanks for being interested!

Aprilkind5 years ago

Thank you for being so informative! Getting a glimpse at all the different workflows and possibilities is really interesting and broadens my horizon so much! :)

Sabiarts5 years ago

You're welcome, I hope to see you growing, keep going!