Tag: characters
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Dev-log 4.4 – Art Updates
Hello and welcome to another art update. This week we are starting with updates on characters from the artist majikarpette .in this sprite you can see the shipyard’s cook, Maelle. In most gamedev studios, the role of concept artist, character designer, and writer are separated. But For us, it makes perfect sense to let the artist…
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Dev-log 4.1 2D characters
Advisors character art update In The Shipyard, the advisors are a group of 8 yardies who are your friends and fellow shipwrights, sometimes they give you advice. They will be displayed as lowpoly 3D models, but also as 2D pngs for dialogue and be present in illustrations for events. All of the art above by majikarpette And…
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Dev-log 3.8 Lowpoly
🎵It’s too late, topologize.🎶 Before any rigging can take place (or UV mapping for that matter), the high poly sculpt from Sam Proctor needs to be optimized. I like to think of the lowpoly as a 3D papercraft version of the model, which in flattened view will act as the paper canvas on which we…
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Dev-log 3.4
We got another fun emotion sheet from @majikarpette ! This time we’re showcasing the anarchist welder Voltairine. These 2D portraits will later be rendered in color and used for simplistic visual-novel style dialogue and notification about events. The embarrassed emote could be used to tell the player “Hey y’all, coppersmith workshop is on fire!” Here’s what…
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Dev Log 3.2 Haast sprites
Dialogue portraits : Haast In this series of sketches by @majikarpette , we see captain Haast and his various emotes to react to player choices/dialogue. Haast dislikes any new technology because of a “innovative” container fixation system that ended in a deadly accident. So you could be in the tech tree spending your research point, and…
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Dev Log 2.3 Choosing art tools
Why do some of our artists sculpt on a 5 watts ipad or android tablet, instead of a 100 watt desktop with a neat GPU in Zbrush? It’s like asking “why do we swim?”. It’s joyful, to be lightweight, to exercice, to prove what is possible. The app we use for sculpting is called NomadSculpt.…