Week 4

 

This week i have been working further on the background, which is now three times as long. I have also reworked the colors that felt a bit too ”dirty” and did not drive the focus towards the player avatar enough, which the new colors does a lot better. The new line art helps with that as well, i have med it much thinner since my previous blog post. I added a diffuse filter to the background in Photoshop in order to make it feel more like it’s underwater and added a gaussian blur filter to it as well to make the foreground pop out even more.

There is also some concern about the pirate skeleton in the background image.  I did not think too much about its size in relation to the player avatar. I thought it might look somewhat more impactful and symbolic being the oversized. After getting feedback from other students, it seems that it might bother people that it’s not in actual size. I’m going to have to make a decision with the team whether or not the pirate is worth revisiting.

ipated. Much of these final effects have been premature as the there is some more clean-up to be done to the picture, but in order to get the background decent for the alpha, i quickly finished up this temporary version of the background. The line art still needs to be cleaned up and the background layer of the picture needs some more work in terms of colors.

I have also made the coin collectible that had to be in place for the alpha test. It had to be done quickly so that the programmers could implement it in the game, so i went straight to work without much reference research. For a golden coin with a skull on it to give it pirates touch. I put the coin on the background to make sure it looked nice, shiny and appealing in contrast to the rest of the map and the result was better than i had expected. It was supposed to be a place-holder coin, but it turned out to be popular in the group so we might actually keep it, though it might get revisited for better colors and if there’s time, an animation of it spinning

To be a bit self-critical, we, and me especially, need to be even better at distributing time and get things done on deadline. Looking forward, I will finish up the background and, make sure that a long needed style guide is in place.

 

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