What’s happening good people out there?! It’sa me, David
Houston weighing in this week on the Bala blog-o-sphere. I hope everyone is doing well out there where ever you may be. No matter how hard things get remember to stick you chest out and handle it! You'll only grow stronger from it in the end! Now that I've got my usual motivational rant out the way it's time to get down on some new art stuff!
So this time around I’m going to show you all the ways we’ve
been beautifying the tutorial level. With Hank and Angelica steady working on
the foliage and a new mesh for the environment, it was up to yours truly to
clean up the numerous architectural objects littered throughout the
forest. Behold!!
The general idea is that these are magical ruins of a sort
where Life Witch has been pent up for god knows how long, so they needed to
reflect some of that general wear and tear that would come from a land mark
that was just sitting there; so almost everything is littered with some moss
and a few cracks that would come with general weathering. I also put in a lot of gritty textures on the
rocks to give it a well…rocky sort of feel. It’s old; it’s simi-natural, so it
shouldn’t be clean! There’s also a lot
of wing like metal structures to help drive home the use of the wind power on
specific objects.
I also threw in a bunch of rune type engravings to show some
semblance of an ancient magical language and or culture. I looked into some
Egyptian as well as Celtic markings to draw inspiration for the engravings and
pretty much went from there. I also tossed them on things like the wind pedestals
and elevators to help draw attention to them as magical items and to help unify
them with the other “man-made” objects throughout our tutorial level. I think
I’m most proud of the large brazier pillars in our boss area; they have got a
lot of really fun markings on there that turned out pretty good! One more fun fact on the wind elevator is all
the grey parts on the surrounding rings and the magic circle are actually
transparent in the engine to help draw out that mystical feel!
Last thing I touched up was the wooden drop bridge as well
as the little raft that floats in our waterhole! I didn’t do anything that was
overly special here. I went in and added some deep dark lines to show the
groves in the wood as well some general shadows to help add some depth and
presence to the wood. Well that's enough for the time being kiddies! As the world of Bala turns onward, look forward to more good stuff soon.
So until next time...Wealth, Health, and Insight!
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