I was looking at my old sketch book and found the very first concept of The Human Gallery. Luckily I also have early builds from the game so I thought I could share you a small image of it's evolution.
So yeah, this is the first one. I remember lying on the sofa watching TV and sketching this while at it. Below you can see the sketch, the first tech-demo and the last image is how it turned out.
I'm very happy how it turned out!
But yeah, basically the character is made of pieces: Head, torso, shoulder, arm, hand, bag, oil lamp etc. Those are separate images. I'm not much of a coder so it took me a little while to make everything work smoothly! You use mouse to control the arm and the oil lamp, so everything needs to move and rotate fluently.
Also the background, you can see couch, some sort of newspaper, curtains etc. They are separate objects and not baked in the background. This allowed me to build a shadows system that looks great, especially in the game when everything is moving. It looks very lively! :)
As I mentioned, I'm very, very happy how the game is looking. I'd like to think it looks very unique and I hope people can appreciate the effort! It would have been A LOT easier/quicker to do pixel graphics. This is not a dig to pixel games as I think well made pixel graphics can look amazing and immersive! Just want people to appreciate the effort! :)
I could go on and on with the subject... Maybe next time I'll write about audio work. Or maybe music and composing! I don't know yet, but stay tuned! :)
Looks so cool :) I would love to see the process of how you go about creating backgrounds and the Characters. I can not for the life of me make out how exactly it is done although i'm guessing it's a mixture of painting and photo-collage. I think the Painter is probably a photograph, maybe of yourself? (His face looks eerily similar to the main Character in Silence of the Sleep ;)) Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteHi Joel! :)
ReplyDeleteNice to see some activity here! I will most definitely write about it at some point. I'm actually trying to stay away from the photos, though I have a few props I've used photo as a template.
Painter, nope, not me! Though in Silence of the Sleep it's pretty much my silhouette. But here I'm doing most of the animations in real time, so no pre-rendering.
Thank you Joel! :)