Maybe F2P model can save them?
is Neothesinger the same person as weirdoneo? cause hes korean and a singer. used to come to my fight night years ago, played chun & juri.
Same person.
Tangentially, how's your project coming along? There was a long stretch where I sort of lost track of GAF FGC but I've remained excited about whatever you and Q were working on and interested in hearing more.
Another indie fighting game. Between this, Cerebrawl, and Traf, I'm very excited about the future. I really am curious about your 2.5D artstyle.Got textures on the training stage now. Only a couple of character concepts left to finalize a bit over a two thirds are finalized in concepts. Textures and UV work coming along on cast. Goin into the other maps on the training stage to see what looks best in terms of specular, depth map, diffuse, yada yada yada just to test the look of the art in game. Same will need done on everyone else. Continuing the work on keyframe sketches to put into animation as I go. Aaaaaaaand being a complete wimp about getting around to redoing the UV work to put one dude into the game already whose old UV's I didn't like the layout of in Zbrush. Also being a wimp about unwrapping UV's on the first real stage that I finished modeling and posted to indie gaf. Here's an image thats sans some more stuff I need to add like trees and some plants that will glow as light sources in jars instead of normal lamps. Reason being is that first I wanna unwrap and texture the rest and then figure out whether to model the plants or just go with a drawing of them on a single polygon since its 2.5d cel shading and I might be able to make them look 3d without having to spend polygons and UV time on em.
Took awhile to convert to Blender from Maya and stuff too but it was worth the effort.
Still not posting character art
Things are goin in engine now with textures at least so its lighting time. I got held up for a few months due to work at the power plant goin huge on overtime, plus crew changes, and a house hunt. I'll be moving up again soon in the company so I may stall out again soon.Especially when I move. Its been a busy week of back and forth with Q working on one very important character concept and some some stuff on one of the main story guys.
Fun fact...one of the more important dudes for once in a fighting game is black. Also one of the coolest in the game. Thats all I'll say.
Is doing 2D graphics that much more difficult than 3D? Or is it a "it depends" kind of thing? Like how much easier would you say Skullgirls would be if it was in Street Fighter V quality 3D?Goal is to pull of the cel shading styles of Platinum Games stuff like Transformers Devastation or their new gorgeous Ninja Turtles game with an art style thats more my own thing. I tend to base my style off of stuff like The Darkness, Withblade, and old school McFarlane stuff. I have a baaaaaaaaad tendency to keep adding details to costumes because I just like detailing a lot.
This makes it just about impossible for me to consider hand drawn animation because of how long it'd take to animate some of the shit I design. Sucks because I LOVE the Skullgirls squash stretch and morphing stuff but I know I'd have to seriously tone down any cast based around those sorts of animations due to the issues that causes in 3d animation. Just a ton of extra work and potential handcuff glitching if I do anything that morphs or model swaps constantly. I'll do some things, but Skullgirls will forever hold a trophy in my heart for sticking to the pure drawn shit.
Sucks because I really enjoy hand animating stuff. I was working on a runner game in Construct 2 at one point. Here's an early unfinished rough of a run cycle I was gonna piece together for the character "Toku Dasher Kirin" before I just dumped the project and admitted I wanted to do a fighting game and needed to stop making excuses about why I should make other stuff instead.
And no, this character is NOT in the fighting game or in any way related to it. Just venting about how I miss doin 2d because it was fun. Looking at some of our current cast though...fuck hand animating them.
Basically the art will be western style comicbooks but with some stuff from anime style fighting games to play with. This year I should at least be able to test things moving in the engine soon...how long it takes to make their moves function properly with all the mechanics let alone game systems to implement is another thing I couldn't really tell ya.
This all sounds great. Thanks for the update!Goal is to pull of the cel shading styles of Platinum Games stuff like Transformers Devastation or their new gorgeous Ninja Turtles game with an art style thats more my own thing. I tend to base my style off of stuff like The Darkness, Withblade, and old school McFarlane stuff. I have a baaaaaaaaad tendency to keep adding details to costumes because I just like detailing a lot.
This makes it just about impossible for me to consider hand drawn animation because of how long it'd take to animate some of the shit I design. Sucks because I LOVE the Skullgirls squash stretch and morphing stuff but I know I'd have to seriously tone down any cast based around those sorts of animations due to the issues that causes in 3d animation. Just a ton of extra work and potential handcuff glitching if I do anything that morphs or model swaps constantly. I'll do some things, but Skullgirls will forever hold a trophy in my heart for sticking to the pure drawn shit.
Sucks because I really enjoy hand animating stuff. I was working on a runner game in Construct 2 at one point. Here's an early unfinished rough of a run cycle I was gonna piece together for the character "Toku Dasher Kirin" before I just dumped the project and admitted I wanted to do a fighting game and needed to stop making excuses about why I should make other stuff instead.
And no, this character is NOT in the fighting game or in any way related to it. Just venting about how I miss doin 2d because it was fun. Looking at some of our current cast though...fuck hand animating them.
Basically the art will be western style comicbooks but with some stuff from anime style fighting games to play with. This year I should at least be able to test things moving in the engine soon...how long it takes to make their moves function properly with all the mechanics let alone game systems to implement is another thing I couldn't really tell ya.
If folks dont stop changing specs on systems with iterative stuff like this and the rumored Xbox One models they may as well switch to PC. The one major advantage of consoles to developers is standardized specs and hardware. On PC there are shitloads of different graphics cards, processors and OS concerns for developers and its hard as shit to spot and fix all that stuff.
I see. So say if Capcom wanted to do Street Fighter V in 2D? How much harder would that be? Does 2D always tend to be more difficult than 3D or is that only because video game technology haven't caught up with the detail in films yet? I've heard from animators that it is actually easier to do 2D than 3D in a large scale production.
those arms
his stance is going to be weird as all hell isn't it
those arms
his stance is going to be weird as all hell isn't it