First Art Update: Designing Everie
Added 2021-01-29 18:00:03 +0000 UTCHere’s our first Art Update. We’re gonna show you concept sketches and how we’ve been able to design the characters and locations for the game. Our artist Pluz has been amazing at developing interesting and unique characters, along with helping come with exciting new scenes.
In our initial demo we'll debuting both Jukarya and Cyberia planets, along with our two female characters Everie and Elsie. This Art update is focused on Everie. She was originally designed to have a much larger visor on her head, which made giving her more facial expressions much more difficult. In the end we settled for a hybrid of the two, where the visor does have bulk but it’s easy for her to remove.
One of the biggest aspects of her design was adding lights on her along with visual seams to show the cybernetic aspects of her character. Though she is meant to be an android, her expression and feeling allows her to feel more human than most. Another aspect of her was the lights, originally her design was much more pointed but after some edits we came to a much more realistic and human looking body type.
Though her initial designs were good, it didn't quite match the style of the game we were going for so the artist went back to the drawing board. Her design evolved through the production of the game, and we believe the end result worked out extremely well for what Cyber Rift is going for.
(Aside from minor hair and color alterations this was pretty close to final)
Well that’s it for the first art update! Hope you guys enjoyed it. We’ll be writing at least one of these a month so let us know what you thought of it! Next month we’ll delve into Jukarya and the inspiration behind the next character Elsie.
