It's clear that the concept process is a lot more complicated than anyone first imagined. Tonight, I'm going to finish up talking about the process, and give you some hints at what's coming up next. But tonight, it's time for new art and artists... oh, and Hawkules's second tier!
Everyday this month, I'm offering a new Concept101 post with new art, new sources, and a new look at the concept process. On the first day (Preceding Darkness and Death), I talked about how and where KingsIsle went looking for artists, and showed Xavier Garcia's Valencia art test, and planted seeds about a past or future Valencia.
The End? Not Exactly.
While I'll be covering animations and visual effects today, and calling that good for my explanation. There are further steps to creating areas, enemies, NPCs... whatever it may be. Sounds have to be collected, voice actors recorded, dialogue typed, etc. But this is as far as I'll be going.I've got a video for you of KingsIsle animations. You can watch it here or on YouTube, but no matter where you watch it, turn it up to High Detail, with the quality at 720p or 1080p. That'll give you the best possible picture, as these are already low polycount items, so they aren't crystal clear to begin with.
Questions to Consider
Here's a few things that I found curious, and I'd be interested to see what you thought about.- Could the glitch in which Wizards hold their staff through their arm possibly be due to this original run design?
- Why can't our wizards have staff animations like that!?
- Who decided how the Water Moles danced?
- Why were Grandmother Raven and Dworgyn given a run animation?
- Why were Pirate101 weapon animations designed on Wizards? Is this why we see wizard outfits when things aren't loaded?
- When is Hawkules going to get that epic outfit?
- Is is just me, or have we never seen those Private Mills and Ulysses?
Finished Products
Artists of all types, including Visual FX artists and animators, work hard to create the finished products we see in-game.
I wanted to share another of my favorite artists with you, as well as one who has some photos of finished products available for you to view. Nik does good work, and has done art for the Avalon and Azteca expansions, as well as much of Pirate101. Take a look at his site HERE. Bryan Panting is responsible for the finished location shown up top, and has one or two more on his site HERE.
Here is a question that I should ask Blind Mew very well but he could say his usual thing to us when we ask about future stuff in the story for Pirate101, but Subodai had a casting animation, will it be a one of the Buccaneer boosts or one of the buccaneer abilities/spells that blocks x% from most of the weapons?
ReplyDeleteI hadn't considered that.
DeleteI can't say for sure, but it looks like some of these are from future updates, so it's quite possible that he'll get some sort of spell. I don't know what he has now, but if he got something, I'm guessing it'd be a block x% of damage.
It could also just be extra like the Dworgyn walking animation.
The video is private.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is currently offline. Should be back up within the hour.
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