Potato pirates; Forth Update
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It is time for the fourth blogpost! Last week, i wrote that we had to redesign the map, the game level because it did not fit our design for the enemies and the avatar plane. They didn’t look like they came from the same world which was a major flaw. In addition, i explained the problems i encountered and what my goal was with the map. My main goal with the map was to make sure it looked like a landscape, with different levels of terrain. Thus far, I have spent over 40 hours in total on designing this map and i feel….kinda…done with it. However if i look at it tomorrow, im sure ill find something im not satisfied with. The map consist of two cities, one large river, a lake, a mountain, some cliffs, forests and more. The trees, cliffs and houses are tiles so it was easy to manage them. And at the same time, we fulfill one of the criterias for the assignment, we have to use tiles. However, the last few days, I have concentrated on getting the cliffs and mountain to look good. They are, in my opinion, the most important components of the map because they will affect the feeling of level difference the most. I have never drawn a mountain from a bird view perspective before starting with this map. It was a challenge to say the least, to make it look good anyway. I failed fast and more times then i care to admit. My main tool for drawing is photoshop. But this time i actually used a program that’s called Sketchbook and i actually like it better. Even if it does not have nearly as many uses as photoshop, i like the feeling better. Moving on to the the artefacts, I tried, looking on pictures of mountains but i did not feel like it helped. I was stuck a long time but suddenly i actually made something that looked good. So what do you know, stubbornness issues actually pays off sometime. I realize that i dont go in so much in the technicalities when it comes to drawing. Im not a technical drawer unfortunately and its something i have to work on. I have however a good eye for when something looks good so i rely much on that. So this post doesn’t give you as readers so much valuable information, tips and techniques, but i hope you enjoyed reading it anyway.
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