2D Art :3

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Painting the Polygons

Tools: Clip Studio Paint, Unity

Description: Turnaround of three objects with drawn-on texture maps

Feedback: I wanted to go for a very old, dusty/rusty look . As the base cube, I decided to choose a rusty metal box texture. I contrasted the saturated orange rust onto a metallic green box. For the cylinder object, I made a soda can that is covered with dirt. Lastly, I made the long box a book that is tattered, and the cover worn off. I think the object I struggled the most with was the cube as if felt very flat. After importing the texture into Unity, the box didn't really seem metallic. I'm not sure if it would improve if I had edited the texture I had drawn, or change the material texture itself on Unity when working on an actual games.

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In-Game Scene

Tools: Clip Studio Paint, Unity

Description: In-game scene of a conversation between Jo and a little girl

Feedback: I was inspired by the isometric 2.5D view games such as Hades and Disco Elysium and wanted to do something along the lines of it. As for the scene, I wanted to capture the dialogue between characters, which could be seen from a cutscene or dialogue prompt. I struggled on differentiating layers from each other. For example, I wasn't sure if the shadows of the characters sitting would belong to the character layer or background layer. While I could simply create a multiply layer on CSP, this wouldn't work in Unity. Additionally, because there is a text box pop-up, I wanted to dim the main screen to draw attention to the dialogue. As a result, I added a vignette and also an overlay. But since I added the overlay as a "multiply" layer in CSP, I had to get rid of it and just add a square sprite in Unity, change the hue, and lower the transparency to create the same effect. I'm not sure if there is a more efficient alternative to creating shadows and overlays in games.

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Character Design

Tools: Clip Studio Paint

Description: Key Art of Jo in her workplace

Feedback: I decided to choose the first key art sketch as it was more representative of the environment she lived in. The key elements I wanted to portray were her laidback personality and her cluttered workplace to emphasize her hardworking nature. I also wanted to play with angles so I avoided just placing her at the desk and working on a project from a front or side angle. In the final composition, I placed the camera high up, angling down towards Jo, who is leaning back and looking upwards. Additionally, I wanted the character to feel less like posing and rather caught mid-action. Therefore, I ended up choosing a pose where she is leaning back to rest, with a wrench in her hand as she is taking off her bandana.

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Sketchbook: Key Art Composition

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Character Design

Tools: Clip Studio Paint

Description: 4 expressions and 3 snippets of daily life

Feedback: For the expressions, I wanted to capture the main three emotions (anger, sad, joy) on top of her neutral, resting face. As for the full-body art, I tried to showcase her daily life and personality: a hardworking mechanic who is also popular among children. I had a lot of fun in this assignment as it was challenging to draw full-body figures AND draw them in a way that shows personality.

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Character Design

Tools: Clip Studio Paint

Description: Jo (24F) is part of the reconstruction movement that aims to rebuild the destroyed city. She used to live here with her family, but had to relocate after her house was destroyed. Now that it's 10 years later, she has built up mechanical skills that helps her build and repair machinery in the city.

Feedback: Out of the three blackout designs I created for this character, I decided to move on with the second design because I was really drawn to the unsymmetrical silhouette and personality. I felt that the first design was too stereotypical and the third one felt more like a fighter character found in League of Legends than a mechanic. I struggled a lot translating the blackout design into a turnaround as I felt that the appeal of the design was mainly in her silhouette and posture. I spent a lot of time trying to showcase her personality through her clothing and colors despite being in a neutral pose.

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Environment Design 2

Tools: Clip Studio Paint

Description: A final render of an abandoned diner

Feedback: I wanted to make the diner look as abandoned as possible through the broken blinds and boarded up windows. However, as my world takes part post-apocalypse, I wanted to make it seem as if the customers of the diner left haphazardly, leaving behind food and drinks, grabbing essentials from their backpacks, and knocking over cups and bottles in panic. One thing I struggled with was establishing a central point as the scene felt really cluttered and it was hard to adjust lighting. I tried to draw attention to one of the booths by adding highlights to it, but I don't think it stood out too well.

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Environment Design

Tools: Clip Studio Paint, Blender

Description: 2 blockouts of an diner an abandoned diner under renovation.

Feedback: The world I have created is centered at a post-apocalyptic city that's in the process of being rebuilt. I decided to choose a familiar public space to show its abandonment. I started constructing the diner in Blender by mapping out its layout through cubes and drew over the guide in CSP. When designing the interior, I added details on top of the basic diner furniture to show its age and decay, such as broken window blinds and exposed rebar in a hole in the wall. I struggled the most with translating the 3D guide into the render as it was difficult to gauge the relative scale of objects. As a result, I had ignore some of the guides and draw over them.

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Sketchbook: Logo

A logo of Steelworks, a construction company in charge of reconstructing the ruins of the post-apocalyptic city.

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Making Many from Few

Tools: Clip Studio Paint

Description: 10 different characters from different face shapes, faces, and hairstyles

Feedback: A major inspiration for this assignment was from my experience of creating Miis on my Nintendo Wii. In my assignment, I decided to divide the features into three parts: face shapes, face types, and hairstyles. I also tried making very distinct variations for each feature so none of the character would look similar to each other. The feature I had the most fun with were the hairstyles as I was able to make references to game characters :) In contrast, I struggled the most with face shapes because the more distinct shapes (pear, diamond) seemed unnatural with my art style.

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Sketchbook: OC

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Patterns from Particles

Tools: Clip Studio Paint, Unity

Description: Visualizing the feeling of stubbing a toe into an abstracted visual synesthesia

Feedback: Designing the four sprites were pretty easy as I wanted to depict the feeling of pain and anger. Therefore, I had many spiky and messy shapes. I think the most difficult part of this assignment was creating the particle system to the depict the feeling of stubbing a toe. I played a lot with each particle's speed, color, and fade to create shapes that bursts randomly and shapes that flow from the center of the screen.

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Sketchbook: Fantastical Packaging

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Pixelizing Monstrosities

Tools: Clip Studio Paint

Description: Pixelating Cauco

Self-evaluative feedback: Transforming the character I drew last week into a pixelized version was really challenging as I usually don't draw pixel art. I thought that it was especially difficult drawing my character in 8x8 and 16x16 as the characters has many triangular shapes, which was hard drawing in pixel.