Game Art - Final Compilation

23/4/2025 - //2025 (Week 1 - Week 14)

Lim Yeng San (0366316)

Game Art / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylors University

Final Compilation

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Instructions
• Process Work
• Feedback
• Reflection

INSTRUCTIONS

Fig 1.1: The MIB for Game Art

PROCESS WORK

Week 1

I chose Bastion as the main inspiration for the project. I played through the game and documented the game study

Week 2

I compiled a mood board for the location and creatures

Fig 2.1: Mood board

Week 3

I sketched some bird variations

Fig 2.2 and 2.3: Early creature sketches

Week 4

I updated the bird design and thought of the concept

Fig 2.4: Updated bird concept

I also started drawing the protagonist character and weapons

Fig 2.5 and 2.6: Early character and weapon sketches

I also drew a thumbnail sketch for a cutscene

Fig 2.7: Cutscene thumbnail

Week 5

I started the 3D block out for the bird, drew a thumbnail sketch and updated the character design.

Fig 2.8: 3D blockout

Fig 2.9: Thumbnail sketch

Fig 2.10: Updated character

Week 6

I updated the bird 3D model in ZBrush, drew hero item sketches and updated the character, weapon and location

Fig 2.11: Bird 3D model update

Fig 2.12: Location update

Fig 2.13: Hero item thumbnail

Fig 2.14: Character and weapons update

Week 7

I worked on the weapon

Fig 2.15, 2.16 and 2.17: Weapon update

Week 8

I redesigned the bird

Fig 2.18: Redesigned bird

Exercises Final Outcome

Fig 2.19: Exercises PDF

Project 1 Final Outcome

Fig 2.20: Project 1 PDF

Week 9

I detailed the bird and drew the action sheet

Fig 2.21: Bird detailing

Fig 2.22: Bird action sheet

Week 10

I continued detailing the bird

Fig 2.23: Detailed bird

Week 11

I coloured the bird in ZBrush

Fig 2.24: Initial coloured bird

I then recoloured the bird in Substance Painter

Fig 2.25: Coloured bird

Project 2 Final Outcome

Fig 2.26: Project 2 PDF

Week 13

I started retopologizing the model

Fig 2.27: Retopoligized head

Week 14

I finished retopologizing the model. I did it manually and used the QRemesher add-on and decimate modifier to save time. I then baked the high poly models on the retopologized models.

Fig 2.28: Retopologized model

Week 15

I animated the bird in Blender and imported into Unity.

Fig 2.29: Animating in Blender

I drew a location from a previous thumbnail sketch and placed it on a cube 

Fig 2.30 and 2.31: Location and bird in Unity

Fig 2.32: Unity animation

I drew the concept art

Fig 2.33: Concept art

Final Project

Fig 2.34: Final project PDF

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FEEDBACK

Week 3

The bird legs are quite thin

Week 4

- Approved bird redesign

- The character designs don't match the style of Bastion

Week 6

Increase the size of the head of the character

Week 7

Make the axe silhouette a bit more pronounced

Week 9

- Add more details

- The legs are better

Week 10

Can colour the bird

Week 11

The colours are too washed, do the colouring in Substance Painter

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REFLECTION

This task was very challenging as it required a lot of knowledge in different fields. While it was a good challenge, it was very tedious at times especially during baking, retopologizing, animating the 3D model and placing it into Unity. It took a lot of referencing Blender and Unity forums and YouTube videos in order to fix minor and major issues. Although it was stressful, I'm grateful for the experience it brought me.

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