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OK, so here\u2019s some development shots and various assets for our game, Kumiho <\/a><\/p>\n

This is my visual reference chart, the visual references that most influenced how the game looks. Ikaruga has a prominent role visually, even though I did play some Jamestown, Touhou 8 and Xenon II to get a feel for things. I used a 21 color palette which grew organically as I added more and more stuff. It\u2019s the strange shape at the bottom left of the timelapse. I also tried to keep with a vertical composition and Korean text, in its (less usual) top to bottom form, was a huge help in establishing the look. Korean and chinese drawings were also a big influence on the style.<\/p>\n

I always like to have reference for everything before I start to work. In this case there\u2019s background ideas, spaceship designs, photos of insects and stylized korean drawings.<\/p>\n

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Here is my timelapse.\nI used one main photoshop file to draw new stuff, so that I could see them relative to other assets. Essentially, a mockup\/overview of the game.\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

When something needed animating, I just copied it into a new file and went on from there. Cases in point:<\/p>\n

Long explosion. Again, Korean and Japanese art influenced the shape<\/p>\n

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the flappy wings of the squid boss. I realised, from looking at slow-motion squid videos on youtube, that the movement is essentially a sine wave. Even so, this took about 2 hours\n\"\"\nThe ship was my first animating challenge for this game. I had chosen an asymmetrical design, so left and right animations would have to be different, and not just a flipped over version.<\/p>\n

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The tentacles. This took 3 hours. Sine wave movement again, but these were harder. The two right tentacles are flipped versions of the two left ones, with a time delay of 3 frames, so that the movement looks more organic.\n\"\"<\/p>\n

Hope this helps,\nChristina<\/p>\n

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Tags: final<\/a>, game<\/a>, game reference<\/a>, jam<\/a>, journal<\/a>, post-mortem<\/a>, postmortem<\/a>, progress<\/a>, screenshot<\/a>, success<\/a>, SuccessStory<\/a>, timelapse<\/a>, unity<\/a><\/p>","time":"April 29th, 2012 4:21 am","title":"Assets and Timelapse","title_was_empty":false}