Week 4 – To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome for the blog of this week ! As you noticed already in the title, I will talk today about all the work I’ve been through this week to draw some sprites for dead enemies. (I’m sorry for all Conan’s fan who thought that according to the title I was going to talk about Conan, but the cake is ALWAYS a lie. So, this week I was in charge of drawing some sprites for the 2 types of enemies we already include in the game for now, which are the blue sardine and the angry red sardine. I first started drawing the blue dead enemy in Photoshop and I tried to make the enemy a bit bumpy to bring out the fact that it is dead. I also thought that making it more flattened could also bring out a feeling of crushing and thus of it being dead. For the eyes, I tried to make them smaller with the enemy looking more dull since it is supposed to be dead. I have chosen to make the fins smaller and gave the impression that they are falling as if the enemy could not bear the weight of it any longer. As for the colors, I used the same 2 different blue I used for the enemy frame and added 2 more colors on top of it with the help of the Mixer Brush Tool. Thanks to that tool, I was able to mix the blue with two different shade of green : a pale green for all the fins and a green more yellow/brown for the rest of the body. The reason why I did that is to make the body look kinda rotten and past and here again, improve the feeling for the player that the enemy is know dead. Here is what the final blue dead enemy look like :
For the red dead enemy, I did pretty much the same thing as I did for the blue one. But for that one I did two samples, one without the Mixed colors on the dead body : and another one with the green color mixed to it once again with the Mixer Brush Tool : Now you can compare them both and in my opinion the second pattern looks better because of the green added that gives an impression of decomposition to the dead body. But I guess it is up to one subjective point of view to decide on which one is better ! And that’s all for today, thank you for reading, Axel out ! /Axel  |
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