Thank'eh, Josh.

I've finished enhancing Gil's textures:

Crosspost for attention-whoredom:

That's a very good thing to bring to mind, Sundown. Hopefully I can get it to be intuitive; It seems like it'll be a bit clunky.

Also:




I've also decided that the shader with the rim lighting I was using is terrible, as it makes the characters all muddy and hard to read. I've got someone working on a new shader, which will be a painterly version of your average cell shading.

Something kinda like this, hopefully (Though with cleaner edges)

His knees look a bit low; Do you draw out the body beneath the cloths first? That helps immensely with the anatomy.


Redesign!

 Is his left arm beginning at the elbow? It's terribly short compared to the right, which seems a bit too long.

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What's the biggest issue that protagonists of cosmic horror stories face? Going insane from all that "beyond the veil" stuff.

What does one have to have to go insane? A human mind. Usually in a human brain.

So one can avoid going insane by... Not having a human brain.

How can you have a decent protagonist if they've no brain? Robots.

Android protagonist!

Sorry, my wrist died before I got to the leaves on her tree-broom thing.

Or you could do what I did and get your practice in by actually making the game that you describe, bit by bit.

The final effect is quite nice, Willy.


Moooooooody.


monitors sure are inconsistent. How's that?

Tried my hand at normals, making some cobblestone via a long and arduous process involving sculpting, baking, and painting:

Are the skeletons with pants stronger than the skeletons with full plate?

There was a feature on Gamasutra about this. It's pretty good:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132801/action_adventure_level_design_.php

Bam.

That's all done by hand, man.

Will we be continuing with the animating once you've finished them all?

You and your self-portraits, Koffee.


That one guy used to not be as cool:




But then he slew a dragon and was granted its soul, resulting in:

Noice, Koffee.



Here's a dude:

 A survival-horror game who's protagonist is actually a character from an action-RPG the dashing hero from one of those old swashbuckler flicks..

Nice effect, there. I'd like to get a similar one on some semi-transparent outlines for my character here.



Is she painterly enough to warrant a canvas overlay?

(The sword looks far better in motion, as most things do.)

Should I make the heroes' victory animations headbanging for that?