A sprint finished and a new one coming up

TASK COMPLETED:

My job was to come up with more concept art for the main character so that we could get to a more finalized look.  That is what I did (see picture below).

QUALITY OF WORK:

I believe the quality of my work was good. Cristine seemed pleased with the concept art for our main character.  I did less drawings this time around, but instead just tried to focus on getting one good character design that combined all of the elements that Cristine liked from previous iterations of the design.  I'm pleased with our final design.  I think I will have to simplify her a little bit for the actual in-game sprites, but this is a good concept for what she will look like.

DID I DO ANYTHING EXTRA?

Yes.  The first extra thing I did was create a still sprite from the concept art to give to the programmers so that they can just use it as a quick stand-in for the main character.

I did one other extra thing. I may have mentioned this before on the blog, but I am producing and directing a short independent animation project over the next two semester.  In order to complete this animation I am using a pipeline to get the work done.  I have about 3 other people working with me on this project.  Someone designs that characters, then someone draws the keyframes, then someone draws the tweens, someone inks the frames, someone scans all the images in, and someone colors them on the computer. The extra thing I did this week was discuss my animation pipeline with Cristine so that we can try to adapt it to work with our process for creating art assets for this game.  Because we are using different methods of animation for this game project, our pipeline will be slightly different, but we can at least use a similar method to what I'm using in my other animation project.

EXAMPLES OF WORK DONE

---NEW TASK---

After talking to Roger, Cristine has decided to change the way we are doing sprints (this is probably a good thing).  First we will collect examples of what we want our game to look like (using the internet, and playing similar games, etc).  Next we will use the gathered art to create our concept art for the game.  Then we will finally come up with some sort of finalized concept art for the game.

That means that for this next sprint, I am working on gathering ideas for what all of the NPC characters will look like (this includes: guards, civilians, the main villain, sub-villains etc).  If I want to do something extra I can start on actually drawing some concept for these NPCs.