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Post by Lavie on Feb 25, 2017 20:49:38 GMT
As I mentioned in another thread, I've hired artists to make us some official art for the site. (: Our artwork will be a mix of pixel art and digitally drawn art, but it will be brought together in a tasteful way and I'm super excited to start getting it implemented. Here's some preliminary sketches! I was given 10 sketches in total (existing and non-existent beasts) but I'm only going to tease three because I'm evil. (x INUGAMI REDESIGNWhy a redesign? Someone elsewhere mentioned our Inugami looks too similar to an Inugami from an anime. Not even sure what anime, but a quick google search did yield results that look similar to ours. I'd rather not risk any kind of legal battle over a design, so I asked my artist to use creative liberties in designing a new Inugami for us. (: I love the new design and can't wait to see this doggo finished! KITSUNEAnd of course here is our lovely kitsune! GRYPHONAnnnd it was hard to choose what else to tease (since they're all sooooo cool), but I decided on the gryphon! I had stricter guidelines for how I wanted gryphons to look and Bo nailed it! Once I have some finished pieces I will most likely tease one or two before we get them implemented on site. Hope you guys liked our little sketch art tease. Hype hype!
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Post by Thornes on Feb 25, 2017 21:56:53 GMT
.... *jaw drops*
This is way MORE beautiful than I could have imagined. I swear if the actual drawings are as great as these sketches and BSums keeps up with this kind of quality.. yes. I'm in! Definitely in! Damn! I can't wait to see the actual finished pieces, but these are so promising!
And evil you for not showing the other 7! Damn! These got me so hyped, I want more! ;v;
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Post by Hydrofang on Feb 25, 2017 22:26:41 GMT
These are awesome! I love these so much :) I'm really glad the Inu is getting a redesign, the one now just looks a bit awkward.
Also, are you planning on keeping these pixelated? I think they would look much better if they were images, rather than pixels. I can't wait to see the gryphon implemented in the game also... these are all so cool! Keep up the great work.
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Post by Lavie on Feb 27, 2017 18:37:33 GMT
So glad you guys like!
I am talking to Nik (our programmer) about how best to incorporate these. My vision is to have both the pixels and these drawings displayed on beast profiles, but we'll see. Basically I want the pixels to be used in places where only a small image of the beast is needed, like on player profiles, on stat lists, competition winner lists, things of that nature. Then we'll have these drawn images shown directly on the beast's profile perhaps in addition to the pixel, in the bestiary, and things like that. (:
I'm planning on making a mockup soon to show Nik what I mean, but pretty much when you click a beast's profile, there will be two main areas. Side by side or above-below. One side will have the large drawn image of the beast, and one side will have the smaller pixel sprite with the beast's stats displayed, like we have now. But of course I want to see what Nik thinks would be better since he is my partner after all. (x Maybe we will forgo the sprites shown on profiles Or get rid of them completely even, we'll see.
EDIT: Also, once we incorporate skins, the beast's original sprite AND image will both change to represent the new skin. So if you have a "Blue Kitsune" skin applied, both the kitsune's sprite and drawn art will look different. I'm really excited for it. (:
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Post by Magdalena on Feb 28, 2017 12:05:04 GMT
Sprites could be used for representation in battling, or other competitions/areas where it's not practical to have a full sized image! They could also be used for the World Map, to give examples of what beasts are from which areas, on a mouse hover or something similar. Just tossing that out there!
I'm really excited to hear about some of these changes, and the art looks great even in the sketch phase, so I really look forwards to the end results. c:
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Post by Thornes on Feb 28, 2017 14:22:18 GMT
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Post by andromeda on Mar 1, 2017 2:09:21 GMT
These look really amazing! Can't wait to see them once they've been finished
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Post by Lavie on Mar 1, 2017 18:20:43 GMT
Little update: Bo has shown me the lined sketches and they look so awesome! I've approved them to be colored so I should have some beautiful artworks to show you all soon! (x Thornes, thanks for that! I was going to make two mockups and I envisioned them basically exactly as you laid them out. That takes a burden off me haha! I'm going to submit these to Nik once we have our art! <3
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Post by Thornes on Mar 1, 2017 18:26:01 GMT
@lavie Haha no problem! Thought it might help I do feel like the second one looks more professional though, but it all really depends on how big you want the image to be to be honest.
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Post by Hydrofang on Mar 2, 2017 13:05:57 GMT
Lavie Oh wow, I can't wait to see the finished designs! This is actually really exciting and I bet a lot of work is being put into this. :D
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Post by Lavie on Mar 8, 2017 3:26:51 GMT
Finished Previews! Showing off my two favorite designs. (x Here we have the Inugami and the Kraken. I'm so in love and can't wait to get all the new beasts added!
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Post by jessi on Mar 8, 2017 6:27:44 GMT
Oh, yes, please. so beautiful. T.T I can't wait for these. Looks like I may need to start hoarding tentacles!
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Post by Hydrofang on Mar 8, 2017 12:49:07 GMT
Lavie Woah, these colors are really nice! I love these designs too they look so pretty! Would it be possible, if this blue model is going to be the finalized coloration, for the tentacles to be blue? They are red right now so it wouldn't make so much sense if *poof!* blue Beast!
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Post by Thornes on Mar 8, 2017 15:58:17 GMT
Aaah omg I love the inugami <33 And the kraken too of course, but the inugami is definitely my favorite right now!
One thing though, will these beasts get recolors too or will there only me one color for each beast?
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Post by Lavie on Mar 8, 2017 17:35:40 GMT
Hydrofang, yea, makes sense. (: I can change them to blue! Thornes, I'm glad you like! ^^ And yes, the "skins" feature will introduce different colors and other cosmetic changes. (: This feature won't be added for a while though, probably after kickstarter. Speaking of, we might release one small "fun" feature and then we're going to launch our kickstarter. In the meantime I'll be making a bunch of image assets for the kickstarter and brainstorming rewards so I may be absent for a bit, but it's for a good reason haha!
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