Ascendancy

Various pics from the game development process. The first and last piece are drawn from my imagination with no reference - just cos. Character developments needs a whole heap of work....


I wanted to push an identity and design for the overall feel of the game. As some of you are aware, the stuff the other guys had for presentation just wasn't up to scratch and I told them as much. In a nice way. Which may have got two of them in particular slightly heated. I pulled the a3 poster below together in a day so it's a rush job as I had to design and create a logo, produce the character shown and stitch it all together in Indesign with the texture also. I was prepared to create a whole series of these, but they insisted on using their own concepts, which is like chopping off your nose to spite your face. But hey, the display wasn't to shabby at all and they did a wicked job of pulling it off. This game probably won't see it past the end of this year, but the learning and what I've taken from it is priceless - mostly stuff to do with management and processes/systems to create a functioning team environment.



Adios amigos, hope things are cool with y'all
Stu

unfinished experiments......

Think I screwed it up. Rusty in black.

I tried to do some drawing in Melbourne. Mostly collecting free magazines to draw from there. In order, firstly it's Michael Vater, Clare Bowditch, some model and Zeren. That's a hard one cos he simply couldn't keep still.

again

azazel

Just got painter, trying it out.

face

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faces

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too tired to do much tonight... thanks for the advice ned.. is the new robes and background better?

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more progress

Here's progress, its kinda finished, but not. Something still doesn't sit quite right with me, I think I need to pull the mountains together a bit more. It's also suffering from being done in two seperate pieces, so I don't think it's ever going to gel properly, oh well.

*edit*
Here's a revision. I'm pretty happy with the piece now, touched up the snow and made the lighting on the mountain more correct, cooled down all the background colours and added a sunrise to give at least some warmth. Squeezed the levels on the character and added more rim highlights in red. I think the image now pushes and pulls where it should.

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Hope everyone is having good holidays

The beginnings of some cover art, based on my new 'HellWar' project.
Very early stages.

Heres the WIP of current thing I'm working on. Background still needs to be done, but I figured I'd post up the rest in the meantime.
I really should get this done, but I keep wasting all my free time. Stupid holidays.

And more people should be posting, although if you're not posting you're probably not reading this either, so..... Do it!