Jungle Magic
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You're lost in a maze of a jungle!
Find your way back to safety, but be warned that the locals don't take kindly to intruders.
Maybe you'll find some help...
* Up arrow: move forward
* Left/right arrows: turn
That's it! :smile:
* Blender 2.80
* Photoshop
* Krita
* Bosca Ceoil
* Unity 2019.1
* Rider
This was my first attempt at creating animated characters (or any animation at all for that matter), and I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out for a first go. All in all, the learning, experimenting, and actual execution of the character and animations took just over a day, with probably half that spent on a character I ended up not using! Oops.
I wasn't expecting to be able to pull off a game given that the character took up so much more time than I anticipated, but it all came together in the last few hours. I was hoping to spend more time on the environment art especially, but I'm still not a very fast modeler so I had to go with a simple modular/tile-based environment instead. It'd have looked amazing with some shrubs along the paths, and non-square corners - maybe next time I'll make it that far.
For the texturing I used a mix of Photoshop and Krita. This was my first time using Krita, and I found the wrap/tiled editing mode very useful! It also has some nice default brushes that made the creation of the ground textures very fast. With the selection of brushes I have in Photoshop, it still won for speed/quality of painting actual textures like the wood logs that make up the witch doctor hut, even though I then brought it into Krita to finish it up in its wrap/tiling mode.
The coding went reasonably smoothly with only a few small bugs during the development that were quickly resolved - no real head-scratchers.
Find your way back to safety, but be warned that the locals don't take kindly to intruders.
Maybe you'll find some help...
Keys
* Up arrow: move forward
* Left/right arrows: turn
That's it! :smile:
Screenshots
Tools
* Blender 2.80
* Photoshop
* Krita
* Bosca Ceoil
* Unity 2019.1
* Rider
Development
This was my first attempt at creating animated characters (or any animation at all for that matter), and I'm reasonably happy with how it turned out for a first go. All in all, the learning, experimenting, and actual execution of the character and animations took just over a day, with probably half that spent on a character I ended up not using! Oops.
I wasn't expecting to be able to pull off a game given that the character took up so much more time than I anticipated, but it all came together in the last few hours. I was hoping to spend more time on the environment art especially, but I'm still not a very fast modeler so I had to go with a simple modular/tile-based environment instead. It'd have looked amazing with some shrubs along the paths, and non-square corners - maybe next time I'll make it that far.
For the texturing I used a mix of Photoshop and Krita. This was my first time using Krita, and I found the wrap/tiled editing mode very useful! It also has some nice default brushes that made the creation of the ground textures very fast. With the selection of brushes I have in Photoshop, it still won for speed/quality of painting actual textures like the wood logs that make up the witch doctor hut, even though I then brought it into Krita to finish it up in its wrap/tiling mode.
The coding went reasonably smoothly with only a few small bugs during the development that were quickly resolved - no real head-scratchers.