10 week game project

This week I have worked with doing the parallax background. The one image above is a test of how it might look in the end. We want something like mountains at night with a moon in the back. And use dark colors to get the feel we want for the game wich is lonely/melancholy. We want it to have a cartoonish look and the world it takes place in is old China and Japan, so we take inspiration from their culture, art and constructions.

To achieve this I make lit all in SAI, it’s a brilliant software for line art and works perfectly to what im working with. So do the front part I use a big sized brush and press lightly with the pen so I get a more interesting form on the mountains. And then I add a flat base color to the mountains, we don’t want to much details on a background, but there will be more details like maybe some lit up peeks because of the moon and darkened areas where the light don’t reach.

Doing the mountains in the back is almost the same process, I did line art and then applied color. But as the wont be as frequent as the front ones they are separated. And to get a better feeling and being able to move them around a little more freely I added clouds or mist at the bottom of them. That gives it a little more cold feeling and we can then reuse them if we want to and just place them in a different order or behind each other.

The moon was made almost the same, I did the line art in SAI, I made several different ones and then discussed with our lead artist of what we should use. Then when we chose one I put a base color on it and then did some details with a darker color. Then for the background of the parallax I added some mist (that I still need to work on) to get a feeling of being cold and lonely.

Later I will add more stuff to the background like houses, so it feels like you can see a village far away and trees, maybe a forest.

And we will probably need background for were you are in the game so I will have to make several different backgrounds, rocky, mountains, forest, village, hills, and even maybe lakes or hot springs. I will also add clouds that will be moving in the background.

Next time im probably gonna talk about trees or level design.

Here’s the two moons that I worked the most on in a higher resolution.