Game Assets being made

Today I worked on making a simple low poly window based off an image of New York apartments. I also made a grate for the side of roads. The idea was that this would be part of a modelling kit that can be placed around the city to add low level detail to certain areas.

Asset Image Refs

I've spent this morning gathering some relevant photos of balconies, doors, grates, and windows that are all art deco. I made Trello cards for everyone so that we can have all this research in one place to talk about what we're doing easily.

To keep to the low poly style our group has decided on for the game I selected art deco designs that were simple. The idea is to make assets that we can drag and drop into scenes. A modelling kit if you will. I chose to focus on more art deco elements in this city of different designs because I'm interested in the strong shapes that are made with art deco design. I think art deco as an architectural style would translate very well to low poly modelling. We plan to model in maya, assemble the building in another maya file, and then take it into unity after that is all done.

I'd like to see what other images people have to determine if the images I've selected to model would be fitting for the city. I think it will be fine as long as I keep my choices simple.

I'm thinking ahead excitedly to making unique smaller assets for our setting. Making some plant pots and rubbish bags next to bins would be fun.

Planning for Assets

Had a talk with the group about making assets for our game Neon/Noir. We've made a timetable on trello and put up some cards so that we can write some asset ideas down for what we'd be interested in find ref pictures for to model.

Inspirational Artists

• Skottie Young
• Sean Galloway
• Tradd Moore

Chats with Jerwin about art are good

Lady One is Ready!

I used the nurb curve technique to make this. I'm happy with how my drawing translate to the wire form, I think it efficiently conveys what I want in a style than I can call my own. I encountered the problem of having the normals flipped. I've never comes across flipped nurb normals so I googled how to fix the problem. You go into the modelling tab and into Surfaces>Reverse Direction right at the bottom of the popup window. I also discovered that if you don't have a little nurbs circle to do Surfaces> Extrude and/or select multiple curves at once it doesn't create the polygons in the right way. The object/curves also have to be quite big so that the polygons aren't inverse which is why the maya grid seen in the picture above is super tiny. I found this process pretty fun.