tiafernandes

This was the final week in my project, and as such, I wanted to take the time to organise all of my pieces and format them for presentation. Having one week to do this was part of my plan as of my Week 8 Project Update, and I finished all necessary work in good time so that this was possible.

Quill






I also created a short profile for Quill, akin to the kind of profile that many games include on their promotional websites prior to release.  Otome Yusha is an example of this.

Rae




I also created a profile for Rae, giving some details about her and her integration with the story.

Cyra




Again, I created a profile for Cyra. I did not include any details that would certify as story spoilers in this profile, as I thought of it as something that would be shown to potential players prior to the game's release.

Cast
I put all three characters together in this cast image, with Quill in the foreground. One of the pieces of feedback I had recieved in sessions was adding a simple background to illustrations to set them off neatly, so I added a drop shadow to the profiles and the cast images.

Rae's Lance




Cyra's Staff




Eventide Environment


The final environment images feature the illustrations with the paper texture I was recommended to add. I really think it helps the overall image look less flat, so I am glad I decided to add this after feedback.

Attribute Bubbles/Icons


User Interface



Logo

During this week, I moved on to creating clear illustrations of Rae and Cyra's weapons, as I had more time after finishing the model sheets for each character. I simply took the earlier sketches I had used for them, and linearted and coloured them in order to have a clear, clean-looking reference without the odd angles featured in the illustrations I had used them in before.


This would give any other person drawing the weapons a clear idea of how to draw them and what kind of proportions the head of the staff and lance are at, as it is quite hard to tell in the full character illustrations due to the angle and motion in the illustrations.

During this week, I finished Cyra's sheet. I retained the transparency I used in the other two sheets, so that their wings and shirt could be visible to anyone else drawing them. I also finalised their eye design, keeping the same warm yellow I used in their hair in the pupil, but filling the surrounding areas in with a dark red-black gradient; although I had used purple as the 'night' attribute bubble colour, I thought that purple would throw off the design, and used a warm colour instead.

Now that I had finished the model sheets with time to spare, I went back to UI. Since I now had Cyra as another example of a recruited character, I set about creating a screen that would show after the player completes a story which lets them recruit a character. (Although many mobile games are gacha these days, I wanted to create a game concept with no gacha mechanic, and so I resolved to allow the characters to be recruited after playing a special stage; after the story reached a point where the character could be recruited, the stage would unlock, and completion would play a flashy animation which would notify the player that a character had been recruited and was now available in their party).

The main things I wanted to convey in this recruitment screen were as follows:
a) A sense of satisfaction for achieving something notable,
b) The character which had been recruited,
c) The recruited character's attribute,
d) That the character was available for use.
Although this sounds like a lot for one screen, I was able to incorporate it all quite easily.
I utilised the paper texture again in order to keep consistency. The character's illustration is shown with their attribute bubble serving as a background, letting the player know which attribute the character they recruit is aligned with. The "New Recruit!" notification in large font would clearly notify the player they had recruited a new character, and the light effects and sparkles (and I would imagine the background rays coming from the centre of the screen slowly rotating, too!) would give the player a sense of satisfaction and let them know that they had achieved something relatively major.

During this week, I finished Quill's model sheet.

During this week, I completed Rae's model sheet. It features her design from the front and the back, as well as a closer view on her eye design, and colours for her hair, skin, eyes, clothes, and accessories. This would allow other people to draw her design accurately and gives a clearer view of the length of her tunic and hair without the confusion of the intense dynamics I used in her illustration.

After this, I used the same background layout as I created for Rae as a base for Quill's sheet. Quill is quite a lot shorter and a little rounder than Rae is (since Rae is made up of quite long ovals and cylinders), so I tried to keep Quill shorter than Rae is in her sheet in order to illustrate the height difference. (I don't think Quill is particularly short for a teenager, on the contrary - I just made Rae quite tall and lanky in comparison. I think this kind of look makes her feel a little bit awkward in design, and paired with how I imagine her to be smiling all the time, it gives off the 'airheaded princess' vibe I was looking for).


Similar to Rae's hair, I kept the back of Quill's scarf translucent in the back view; this allows anyone else drawing them to see how long the scarf is without missing other information on the back of their outfit (such as the position of their belt or where their shorts finish).

During this week, I finished off the character illustration for my third character. I think she turned out quite well, and the line width is still varied to give a little bit of depth to the character illustration. Although this illustration was done a significant number of weeks after the other two, I kept referencing back to them to keep the style consistent (i.e. keeping the number of colours used to shade the skin consistent, the way the hair is shaded with a solid line at the top and gradient at the bottom consistent, etc).

Following this, I began to struggle, as I had gotten through everything I had intended to do during the mid-project update. After a quick think on how I could productively spend my time from here on out, I set out to create model sheets for the characters I had already created, so that the designs could be viewed clearer and from not just the front, but also the back; I also decided to include a list of colours and details for the characters' eyes, as I tend to stylise each character's eyes slightly differently.

I started off with Rae, and drew out the lineart for her design. Though her hair is long, I made it so you are able to see 'through' it in the reference, so the length of her hair and the back of her outfit are both apparent.