Week 2 – From Pirate’s chest to bubble gun
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Oyez, Oyez people from game design and everyone else ! Today I’m going to talk about both the conception of a chest and its animation and (as an extra) the conception of a bubble gun, the gun that our Main Protagonist will use as a basic weapons shooting bubbles. I was assigned to draw a chest that would contain some of the power-ups the character would loot. So, for the design of that chest, I actually immediately thought of pirates and their buried treasure. While I easily came up with the chest as it is I had kind of a hard time to find an appropriate design for the top. I knew I wanted to make it look like a pirate chest, but I was wondering of what would be the best choice between a skull with a hat or a skull with bones. After a while and trying it both to see what looked better I finally chose to pick the skull with a typical pirate’s hat. For the color of that chest I first colored the main chest in brown since it’s the color of wood. About the inside and some part in the top of the chest, I picked some golden yellow to bring out that it is a wealthy chest and therefore attract the attention of the player. The two other colors I used are Red and Blue, Red because it’s a pirate chest so it may have some blood on it, and blue to underscore the fact that the chest is underwater. After having colored everything I added a little some saturation to the chest to make it darker and more like it was underwater for a long time. This being done, I then had to make an animation of it from closed to open. Thus, to do that I used Photoshop and moved the top of the chest with the tool that keeps perspective When you’re moving it. It wasn’t really easy to do (especially to move it as I wanted) but I finally managed to get in the end something more or less correct. Here are all the sprite packed in a sprite sheet : And here is a little preview of what the final result looks like (it actually looks better in unity but I couldn’t import the .anim file so I made a .gif with ezimba.com to at least have something to show you) That’s it for the chest, now let’s talk a bit about the bubble gun. With my team mates we decided that the main character will shoot bubbles so I made a simple water gun like those I used to play with as a kid (and you certainly did too, if not I am sorry for you :p -nice rhyme though :>-). I first made it with warm color like pale yellow for the main gun, pale red and dark blue (to create a contrast with the pale blue background). But a fellow of my team told me that our main character was yellow so that could be kinda confusing if they were both the same color. So I changed it to green and a mixture of green and yellow. And here is the result :
That will be all for today, thanks for reading and see you next week ! /Axel  |
