Scrap Pirates – Week 5

Greetings!

I hope the red day of May 1st is a good one. Myself, I’m sitting in school, painting rust!

This week I have made the top extension backgrounds and keep my fingers crossed that I now am finished with the background tiles. I have now started making decals to place on the walls to create some more variation and life i the background. I managed to figure out how to animate my fan/turbine asset and am now studying dirt, rust and other types of deterioration that might be suitable in our game environment.

To study photos of rust in comparison to how it’s been painted in games such as Deponia, they can look really different. There is a depth of understanding that must be gained before one can create it on their own. That is what I’m currently doing right now, exploring my way to creating a type of rust effect that looks good together with our environment. Keep in mind that the rust that is shown on the picture is not finished yet. The rest is finished, though; and a player avatar for scale.

As it is right now, it can easily be recolored to a green hue and be used as some kind of algae growth. I’m playing around with the shapes and the transition/blend of different tones in the rust texture. The value and saturation will also be tweaked to melt into the environment better. I’ll probably gain an in-house title of Dirt Master by the time that I am done with these decals.

Until next week!