Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Updated Art

To the left, you can see art from our first build of Kansei. The initial plan was to use the same sprites for the returning characters for the sake of consistency, but as we worked on it, we quickly changed our minds. Deji felt that her art had improved enough that she wanted to redo the characters. Looking at some of the feedback we received, we decided to update the art style to something more mature and fitting for a murder mystery, so Deji changed the style and the color palette to have a darker feel. As this game has a good deal more exploration than the first, my plan was to use 3D backgrounds to generate all the environments, but after getting the first few done, I wasn't terribly enthusiastic about how it meshed with the sprites. Once Deji updated her art, the 3D backgrounds were completely inconsistent with the sprites, so I switched back to 2D. The current build (pictured on the right) is, in my biased opinion, much better than our first go. I'm really excited by the way this game looks, and I hope that you guys like our updated look as well.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Her art has definitely gotten much better.

I think though that her style of drawing is still a little too bright. But sooo pretty nonetheless!

I'm very very excited!

Anonymous said...

super cool. Thanks for all your hard work! I'm glad you stayed with the 2d. I think it looks nice!

Bailey said...

I didn't even notice the first one was 3d, but I definitely like the new style, 2d is much better! Just one question, does that mean that it will take a lot more time because Deji has to make new backgrounds amd character art?
New art definitely! Can't wait!

Yuki said...

I really like the new one better.
I looked at the two images before I read the blog post and I was thinking "The one on the right is better". And then when you said that it was the one being used, I was happy.

Ayu said...

@Bailey, the development time for this game has been a lot longer, mostly due to the art. We've got a couple other artists on the team helping to fill out and take care of some of the backgrounds, though. bo_o

Eve said...

Oh I don't know if I'll be the only one to say that but I really didn't like the emotions(especially the eyes of the detective) in the new drawing. But it is definitely clear that the background is better in 2D and the coloring will more suitable to a murder mystery VN.

I don't know if I'm being a wise ass but that's just what I had to say!

Ayu said...

There's nothing wrong with saying what you think about it, even if it's different from what other people feel. ^-^ If I didn't care about your opinion, I wouldn't post anything. XD

Eve said...

Oh thanks :D
I know one of them is a detective and the other is a mysterious antagonist but I like the cute look of the characters in VNs. That's probably why I am feeling the first one is better(in case you were wondering :P)