FINALLLLL pRODUCTT?????QUE??

 OH yeah THIS is what we need!! a good night time shot with a campfire illuminating an area of the arena shrouded in shadow by another pillar!! 

Im really proud of this setup honestly, you may notice the added campfire and skybox looking EXTRA nice.. I did not actually make those assets, i got those from the unity asset store, and honestly im glad i did, i dont think i couldve made something to this quality given my skill level.

I feel like it all came together really nicely and Im quite proud of myself for that, whilst i didnt get to add all the features i wanted, this project is only supposed to look nice, which i think i did!

I feel as though i was able to transfer my art style into 3D nicely too, that was something I wanted to get across pretty well, and i think i pulled it off.

MMMMMMM LOOKIN TASTY

YASSS work them ANGLESSSS and USE THAT LIGHTING UGHHHHHHH MMMMMMM

im obsessing over how nice this is looking so far. You may notice in  the bottom image, he is actually on an arena type thing.. I modelled a nice looking Pillar lookout thing and added a few more scattered around to add to the environment a bit. It has a light in the middle of the one he is standing on im thinking of adding like aaaa campfire or something??? maybe???

that skybox has gota have some work done with it, may try something more dynamic with the final lighting setup...

 

some IMPROVEMENTSSSSS!!!

 

I gave his face more Tris!! know what that means??? MAKEOVer tIMEE!!!

I COMPLETELY re-did his textures, from top to bottom! he now has some long gloves to match his boots and a more detail, lax face and honestly im pretty proud of this one!!

ALSO!!:: i exported his cloak as part of the same bundle as his body, as time went on it felt like the whole "cloak jiggle physics" thing wasnt gonna happen, so i attached it to him all rigid like. The mixamo animations dont actually look too bad on it so im not complaining too much

He's in game!!

 

Here he is in all his now CEL SHADED glory.. this was painful so now im going to go nap for 69 hours because my bones hurt. Before i do a FEW THINGS!! :

The map is going to be on a giant pillar, the pillar right now is just a default cylinder.

He doesnt have his hood here, I want to give it some jiggle physics so it needs to be a separate game object, but thats fineee, and by that i mean a problem for FUTURE me.

Hes animated now! Found this website ---> https://www.mixamo.com/#/
honestly an ABSOLUTE life saver, this should make things a HECK of a lot easier with the character animations!!

silky smooth texture goes MMMMMMM

Here! he is in all his textured glory! well... glory IS a word isnt it? Itll do for now, but I think these textures will need some updating before the end of the project.. I designed them with cell shading in mind.. once i figure out how to actually DO that, but hey, thats where the fun is right?

 

So handsome he should be a model! oh wait..

Here we go! Bringing him to life poly by poly. This is the final model for his main body and his sword. I may adjust how they look later on, after they've been textured, Ill post again!

 

New Project Time!!! Project Spellsword!!

This is a character I have had in the oven for a while now, always thought itd be cool to make a lil game thing with him in, so for this project, he is FINALLY going to be the star of the show!!

 

Final Product!

Here is a screen recording taken by Jack showing what the final product (for now) looks like along with a few minutes of gameplay

 

Final Character Design! - George Andrews

 

Not much more to say than what I said previously, I added a few new patterns and shaded it to look more 3 Dimensional!

Final Character Design (?) - George Andrews

This will probably be the final design, I really like how it came out. I could perhaps give it a bit more detail but overall, I'm happy with how it came out. I didn't want them to appear they are wearing some kind of uniform, I took heavy influence from the character design of Boba Fett from Star Wars, getting the cape underneath the equipment on his back.

Rather than using a jet pack of sorts to manoeuvre through zero gravity, I gave him rocket boots for easier control of his trajectory. I don't imagine this would play much a part in the gameplay as they would only be able to be used in short bursts to move through an area, meaning if there is gravity they'd provide a slightly higher than average jump height at best.

I'll see if I can't add a little bit more to the design before deadline day.

 

More Helmet Designs - George Andrews

I like both these ideas, but I'm a particular fan of the one on the right

may adapt design further

 

Final Build Artwork - Georgi Aleksandrov

 Very atmospheric artwork by Georgi of the final thing built by Jack, looking very dark and eerie. The harsh shadows contrast well with the cheap looking bright strip lights illuminating the space, making an unnerving vibe for the viewer

More Helmet Ideas - George Andrews

I decided to try getting some general shapes for the helmets and ended up finding this nice design with a kind of flattened rim around the bottom and a bigger visor area. The big open visor was nice, but I wasn't sure what to do with the rest of the helmet with the larger dome visor. I may try and incorporate designs from an existing helmet type to finalize the look, as whilst they're looking alright so far, they seem rather plain, and could have some more detail added.

 

Menu Screen - Jack Venn

 A very nice looking menu screen that Jack put together. Not fully textured but already has a spooky vibe about it. It will have the standard menu buttons like a Play button and an Exit button, probably towards the bottom left of the screen.

Faceless Protagonist No Longer Faceless - George Andrews

I figured a good way to design the character's suit would be to first decide who would be under the suit. Before this point I was designing a faceless, genderless space farer for the player to take control of, but I decided to try and design a person behind the mask as it were. This is who I came up with, a 40-50 something man who clearly suffers no lack of experience with the exploration of strange space vessels. I may try and incorporate this into the final design.

Whilst I am happy with how the face has turned out so far, the suit I added to the design needs serious work, I may try a few more helmet designs to then base the rest of the suit on, to get a solid theme down.

 

Outer Space - Jack Venn

 Here we have where Jack added in an exterior to the map the player occupies, two skylights open up to 2 different suns in the far distance, one being red and the other being blue with some floating bodies out in the foreground.

the difference outside each window implies that the each window looks out to a different point in space, as no suns could normally exist as close together as these ones seem, working more on the space-warping non-Euclidean geometry shenanigans happening. 

Medieval Suit Design - George Andrews

Here, I took inspiration from a more medieval styled helmet, and tried drawing out some concepts based on this style, along with finding a good theme for the rest of the armour. Sadly, most of it was lost due to software crashing, but I was still able to get this design down which I am rather fond of. I'm unsure if this design will go anywhere or if I should scrap the idea for something else. For now I'll continue on with different ideas and see what truly sticks.

 

Space to Planet Teleportation - Georgi Aleksandrov

 Doorway in a mountain range that appears to be on some kind of planetoid, rather than on the space station illustrated by Georgi. Entertaining the idea that perhaps the player can go to and from the orbit of this planet by simply walking through a doorway, using this trippy technique to make the seamless transition. 

Fancy Strip Lights! - Jack Venn

 Some cool lighting that Jack added to the warehouse! As well as it being a bit more populated with props and such.

The Warehouse and the Fuse Box - Jack Venn

All the models created by Jack have been compiled into this big warehouse scene, meanwhile the picture puzzle has been swapped out for a fuse box puzzle instead. It's basically the same puzzle but much more thematically fitting with a space ship.