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[ness io kain]

I distinctly remember seeing this in the past, but I don't recall being very excited about it at the time.
I am now excited! Officially.

By the way, are all of those notes about "dating sim elements" jokes? Because if they're not, that's amazing.

[kyn]

By the way, are all of those notes about "dating sim elements" jokes? Because if they're not, that's amazing.

I'm pretty sure the game is a full-fledged cyberpunk erotic game.

^{If not, I'll be severely disappointed.}

[Razorb]

great great art i must say! got urself another fan!

[J. R. Hill]

I have no clue what Big-O with a sombrero thing is but it's awesome.

[Pineapple]

This looks great.

[MattF]

Wow, the first image in that first post reminds me of a dream I had starring a robot and cat. They could combine together though...



Looking good!

[kinnas]

So after a schoolyear of downtime it's basically a reboot with new art direction, an altered concept and Mika (oh now it's confusing, should I call you Mika or skyy here?) redoing the engine from scratch. These past quick 'promotionals' or mood paintings or doodles are a part of the shift but that's more to do with the themes I want in the game. I guess I'll write up some new information to be added into the first post with that.

So the most obvious thing that's changed can be summed into a beautiful beautiful slogan to be spraypainted onto flags and on the back of your leather jacket which is "Fuck pixel art!"

I'm much more comfortable with a loose painterly style anyways.



This is the quick test I put together in Tiled (Now not in javascript anymore! Thank god for that!) with a quick new handpainted test tileset to see how well it translates over and how it works exactly. This is just basic geometry right now but the hand-painted aspect should come across more as I do objects and stuff to decorate the levels, chairs and statues and whatnots. Looks pretty I okay I think.

However things didn't go too well with repainting the animations for i, here's the first couple of horrible horrible tests I did with that, embarrassing stuff but it's fun to check out the progress.





Oh yeah! I also redesigned I a little bit. I simplified her down so I don't have to do left-right animations for everything and arranged her colour patterns around so they make a little bit more sense to me now. It's not terribly important but I guess her arms now both work as cannons and hands can come out when needed. (Ignore the runframe there, just another embarrassing work in progress shot)



After the terribly depressing endeavour of trying to find a new style for animations I took a weeklong break and came back to approach the problem in a more intelligent fashion and started doing iterations. The topmost one is basically a select tool solo which I think looks too cartoony and vectory, the middle one is the closest to what I envisioned in my mind, a kind of a loose cocky painterly style but I had a hard time getting it to work and it looks absolutely dreadful here, the bottom one is me tidying it up a little to see how that would work.



After some more fucking around I finally arrived at a stylization that looks pretty okay for now. Now I just need to spend a couple of weeks tweaking the animation cause I don't really know how to animate and I'm just winging it as I'm going along.



Still somewhere in my mind I picture it a lot looser, like a moving impressionist painting.

Oh and this is the last piece of art I did for noise before the downtime, I don't think I posted it here?



It's a quick sketch for how the architecture works in this world, it's a bit more gamey and interesting than the phallic blocks of windows standing shoulder-to-shoulder next to eachother approach which is in fact kind of boring.



Also:
Curse you Tigsource for having such a stupid forum engine that decides the forum template is more important than the content! Is it too annoying to keep scrolling to the right to see the pictures? I should probably rearrange the image materials so they fit better to the arbitrary annoying moods of the forum.

[Inanimate]

I'd suggest redrawing each frame individually if you want a more 'painterly' aspect, and encouraging it to not follow the exact same lines; it would give it that 'doodle' look, where everything subtly wiggles.

[Bremze]

I usually refrain myself from white noise posts, but I have a soft spot for games that try to hit a more painting-ish look. The art is amazing and I can't wait to see more.

[Ishi]

Will she somersault-jump like Samus?

[Almost]

Loving that rat style.

[skyy]

Also I'm juggling work and two projects so a bit slow on the updates but shit is being made (yes, shit, not magic ). More on the other project as it progresses.

[tim-bo-jay]

When can I buy this as a large wall poster? >_> I'll admit I may have fallen in love with it and want to do unspeakable things to a poster version...but that isn't important! <_<

[Aquanoctis]

That stuff is so inspiring Kinnas. I really like the new art direction. And what do you mean you don't know how to animate? That's looking pretty great to me. One thing to improve it would be to try and convey the weight of the object of bit more. For example, making the parts where her feet land on the floor longer, to portray the fact that she shifting her weight around.
Keep up the awesome work guys! 

[Ego_Shiner]

honestly i would dig this so hard if it was part painting, part pixelart but the painting is great too


*nuuuuuuuuuuuudge*

[hyperduck]

Mika knows I love you anyway, but I think re voicing it is necessary. I love you, Kinnas.

[kinnas]

Thanks for all the kind words and feedback! I'm gonna fuck around with the animations and styles a little bit more but... guuuuys, I'm sorry but I'm gonna go and pick up my (collectors edition  ) copy of Štarka Zwei now. Behold as work screetches to a halt and noise is lost in time forever.

[skyy]

Ishi: To be fair, I have no idea will she somersault when she jumps. She did no do that before but maybe now that everything is changing?

Also I really love the idea of "moving impressionist painting" or how ever kinnas described it earlier. Sounds just too epic. Makes my mind go boom. Was working on the project yesterday, should have something ready for kinnas in couple of days. Hopefully.


EDIT #1: I've been making progress with some tool blahness and soon should have something for kinnas, oh joy   After that I can FINALLY start working on the actual game. Heh. That should be fast and once I get this tool stuff out of the way I should make progress quite quickly since the basic building blocks are there already. Just a matter of putting them into another language.

EDIT #2: Shame on me, I was d~~k punching myself for hours because of a simple mistake: misplaces files to ../Application/Library when they were supposed to be in /Library.   Work continues.

[Melly]

All of this is looking amazing.

[Ishi]

d~~k punching

Read that as "duck punching".