Original Game Project: The Unknown Hero

[JIII]

what program are the final renders going to be in

[Brassfire]

Character portraits will probably be done in Poser and then Photoshopped so it doesn't look so Poser, but might be done in any 3D program.

Portraits will be more like an artistic poster of the character, with a background symbolizing their personality, station in life, role in the game, preferred element, etc. Almost like a psychic impression.

Actual character models for animation into sprites will need to be importable into 3dsmax, as we have one animator already who uses that program. He isn't too good at modeling but can animate pretty well.

For the scenes and scene items, again, as long as it looks good, it doesn't really matter once it's rendered, if you want to do a complete scene. Though it should probably be Max again for consistency. We have one scene artist who got a contract in another town for a couple of months, so he's on vacation from this project for a while (paid work is definitely the priority), but he uses Max and is good.

Since there's a lot of terrain and a fixed viewpoint (north is the top of the screen), a lot of the trees and stuff will be textured planes.

What would you be most interested in helping with?

(I have to say I'm not an artist, so any suggestions for how to handle the work would be appreciated.)

[Brassfire]

Note - I am currently doing:
Concept art, even though I'm not that great (look in the gallery and see for yourself!)
Textures - I'm actually better at this than at concept art. ;)
Music (all the music, I'm definitely half-decent in this area)
Writing (most of the writing for story, dialogues, quests, events, etc...)
Gameplay design (combat and skills, magic is done by a team member already)
Building a php/mysql system with one other person to keep track of what is done and what still needs to be done, and who did what, so everyone gets proper credit

There are a couple of members who can do art already, and we are using some textures and modules from Virtually Historical with their permission.

Right now, to begin testing, we need:
1 interface
1 scene
1 character sprite
2 character portraits
7 items

We have half-decent concept art for:
4 exterior scenes
1 interface

The engine accepts *.tga files with an alpha channel, so it really doesn't matter what program is used to make the scenes, as long as it looks good. Character animation will probably be in Max, so items the Hero will handle will need to be in *.3ds

[Brassfire]

We now have two 3D artists, one of whom is doing sketches for items, small models, and scenes. The other is working on the interface art.

Character artist(s) are still needed. We can't make the sprites and portraits until we have some good concept art. (My sketches are REALLY not that good.)

Best,
Chagall

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