Soon…. and more Couches
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We have BETA tomorrow and here I am writing a blog post, I don’t have time to both do this and be ridiculously nervous at the same time! My artist work this month has mostly been to rework some of the old props into more variants of the same things. This includes re-arranging some desks with different things on them such as typewriters, telephones, radios and stacks of paper. This was quite easy since it was mostly dragging around older artifacts and arranging them differently. But I also made some things that took a bit more time. One of these was a stricter, less comfy looking couch. So back to the swamp that is 1950’s taste in fabric color. I started out with finding one of the reference pictures I did not use while doing the red couch. To each his own but something about that thing just rubs me the wrong way, I feel it tries too hard to be a couch and not enough to be comfortable. And I don’t like the color. After finding that thing again I proceed to open up my old red couch as seen below.
After playing around with the color adjustments for a while I decide that it looks too soft with the fuzzy highlight and decide to remake the cushions with a flat green color to make them look, well flat. During this stage I also made new arm rests for the couch since the old version had armrests made out of wood. Then I re-drew the outlines, split the back cushion into segments and added the gap at the lower edge of the seat cushions to make them feel hard and to distinguish the shape a bit from the other couch where the cushions mashed together into a seamless edge. After that conferred a little bit with my teammates and decided to add the highlight next to the shadows to make it feel even harder and sharper to further differentiate it from the old one. I give it one last look over and relies that one of the seat cushions in a pixel wider than the other two fix that up and it is ready to go to the QA. So, here we have the final pixelated, uncomfortable looking product!
I think it turned out pretty decent but it took way more time than it should. For instance, after I had finished and med the pixel check to make sure the cushions were all the same size I realized that I had made every seat cushion green and reinforced the highlights one at a time, If I had made one and then copied it I would have saved time and avoided the possibility to even make that error. I also think that I should have saved pictured while making it so that I would have material for this, one would think I would have learned by now… Well anyway, back to worrying about tomorrows presentation, have a good one, a good one of whatever it is you want. As long as it is legal. And you can afford it. //Max Nordlund |
