A vicious flower
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For this post I choose to focus on the designing and drawing I made this week of one of the enemies for our game. We have decided that besides the usual dangers that lurk in the world of an insect we should also have a flower that can shoot projectiles at our protagonist, and since the programers need to integrate the animation into the game it was time to create it now. The flower is supposed to be an enemy, so I wanted it to look vicious. Therefore I decided to draw a flower with pointy petals and sharp edges since that is perceived as threatening and dangerous as opposed to rounder shapes which are regarded as more friendly. I pondered back and forth over how strong colours to use and came to the conclusion not to use too distinctive colours on the flower and stalk themselves, not to make it too ”in your face” that it is dangerous, but with the shape of the flower and leafs and a strongly coloured thorn to still warn the player. To make the flower even more uncanny and make it look even more conciously vicious I decided to put a strongly coloured eye in read and yellow in the middle of the flower instead of pistils. Since the flower should be stationary and only the petals are supposed to move I decided to split the flower both in parts for a clipdoll animation with the stalk, leafs, thorn and flower as different parts for the programers to be able to animate it in Unity, and to be able to make a frame by frame animation. Another advantage of splitting the flower in clipdoll parts is that if we should reach the conclusion that the strongly coloured thorn would be too much removing it is as simple as just not using that sprite. The pictures below are an image of the complete flower with the petals open, and the spritesheet with the flower in parts.
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