Week 22

Modeling, modeling how art thou modeling

With the asset list written out for people, a task me and my team mate Amber took on, it was time to assign tasks. Dan our main character artist is on Alice duty, while Denzil our secondary engine and character artist is on mini assets and blueprints. Braden is a UI and assets man, who is ahead of the game and currently unwrapping. Luke, who must hate our constant "could you model this please" by now, is well, modelling. Amber the engine whisperer is trudging through our final layout and modelling a few environment features like ceilings and floors (thank you team leader!). While little old me is texturing (joy of joys), minor correction for models and doing all the dirty work like "could we just move this plane down a bit".

As may now be an obvious statement we are in fact on track, something that is almost unsettling. I think the turning point was finalising the style guide and having regular sanity checks with our team members.

My life has been made much easier on this project, while half my time is spent correcting, hue shifting and lighting advising; it's also keeping things coherent. Something that is both ambitious and has major transition in both style and colour, needs very tight art direction to succeed. To my surprise, it is me and Amber together that have answered the door of art direction when it came knocking.

Here's to answering the door that knocks, here's to talking mice, here's to Alice in Wonderland and another 150 years of nonsensical story telling.
Time for a Good week said Freddy... and it was.