Hey all, I haven't really updated lately. For the past 6 months I've been part of a game team at school. The project is called Mekazoo, it's a 2 1/2d side scrolling platformer. There are 3 different characters, a pelican, a snake, and a frog that you switch between at different points of the level. We've been going for a DK kinda feel and it's really been getting there. It's a ton of fun and I'm really enjoying how it's turning out!
I am the modeler for the project and I've made quite a few art assets this semster. We've kinda completely changed our art direction and we needed a ton more assets to populate our level properly.
This was a concept image I was given to work off of at the beginning of the semseter.
These are the models I've made off of that concept
And these are the models after they've gotten a texture pass from one of our texture artists. (The pink/dark blue mushroom was something I made before I was given concepts to work off of, hence why it's not on the concept sheet and styled slightly differently)
The flowers don't have textures yet, I've just been modeling tons of new things for the game and I'm really happy with how it's been turning out. The idea for the first level is a trippy kinda psychedelic forest. All the mushrooms have glow maps on them and I think it looks real great in game.
I'm enjoying this project and playing the game has started to be pretty fun! I wanted to keep playing it over and over even though we only have 1 level at the moment!
2nd, I finally graduated! I've been done with Digipen for a whole... 2 months! I finished in December.
I've been doing Product Testing at Nintendo since May, since I needed a job with only one class and that's a simple low stress job that I could do with school. Now that I'm done though, time to work on getting an art job!
