Sticks and stones. So many stones
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So, it would appear I am stuck doing backgrounds again. Marvellous. This is, what, my fourth time doing this? Out of four game projects I have contributed to? It is not that I mind. I do not, really. I do like drawing backgrounds, plants in particular, and with this underground alien cave setting I get to play with a lot of interesting stone shapes, glowing crystals and bioluminescent plant life. No, I don’t mind making backgrounds. It just feels like I’ve painted myself into a set role and seem to have trouble deviating from it. Oh well. Maybe next time. During the weekend, I finally managed to finish this picture. The environmental concept. It took me far too long. Two weeks on this is not acceptable.
At least it looks alright. That glow-effect turned out better than expected, and the crystals did not end up too shabby-looking either, if I do say so myself. Still. Two weeks. I have to speed things up. Point of annoyance: as I was working on the background, the character concept changed, and I did not see it until after the fact. The colour-scheme had changed, removing the teal and focusing on more on dirty browns and greys with mainly orange lights. If I had known that beforehand, I would have coloured the flora differently. Oh, well. I will probably be doing the actual assets too anyway, so I can simply make them in more blue and teal colours then. It is a bit annoying, but I can work around it. Did prefer the idea of blues and greens being the dominant colours in the level anyway. The last couple of days have been fairly productive, so there is that. I do have my days, rare though they may be. Started making general rock shapes to build the level yesterday. Only got flat colours so far, but I am proritising getting shapes enough to use for our pre-alpha that is to be demonstrated on friday morning. Shading them properly and giving them texture is secondary at the moment. Several flat-colour rocks is preferrable to a single, nicely shaded rock, at this point. At the time of writing, I have made 13 different rocks. Hopefully, that will be enough for now. I intend to spend the rest of the week adding some basic shading onto them. Note to self: contact the Student Health Department as soon as possible. Friday, preferrably. It has become abundantly clear that I cannot properly manage my own time. To make things worse, I have been disassociating really badly lately, zoning out completely for hours at a time. There are days I can barely remember what I have been doing that entire day. I need help sorting myself out, and quickly. This is getting ridiculous.  |
