Didn't have much time to work on the project since I'm preparing to change countries for my new job. Even so I'm pretty happy with where it's going, I'm finally enjoying creating again.
#MotionDesign #GameDev #VectorIllustration #Mosaic #AfterEffects #AffinityDesigner #MusicVideo #WIP
Testing radial arrays + animation + shading.
#WIP #MotionDesign #Animation #MusicVideo
Funny also to see how my 3D experience is influencing my new usage of After Effects (left it out for a few years while I was learning #3D and #gamedev) : multiple viewports, arrays, modifiers, normals...
But man, manipulating the pixels directly is so freeing. No meshes, shaders, rendering order...
Testing the production pipeline between #AfterEffects and #AffinityDesigner. I'm used to draw with both so for now I think #Affinity will be used for main vector shapes then port them to #AE to continue drawing for proper control of #Animation and #PostProduction.
#WIP #MotionDesign #Illustration
Past days were stranger : as soon as I decided that #gamedev wasn't for me, a company hired me for... gamedev 😅 But I'm pretty happy with the new life ahead of me.
Spent a bit of time shifting my musical project so now I'm back to my roots : #Vector #Illustation and #MotionDesign
#IndieDev #Art
Now I'll just do illustrations and animate them in simple music videos. The game will be for later once the album and its visuals are completed.
6/6
... other formats of expression I can develop and I think they'll honor my passion better so I'll focus on those.
I don't feel proud of giving up yet again, but I think it's important to know what needs to be kept and what needs to go.
5/6
Maybe it's just not for me. Yes I can reduce the scope once again, but at this stage what's the point of making some watered-down version of my game ?
I want to invest this precious time and energy into creativity, not technicalities and problem-solving. My project still has many...
4/6
... experienced, or that the scope is too large, or that my workflow needs refining.
Now the contrast is obvious : When I play music, draw illustrations, it feels natural, fun, I make actual progress and it nurtures me.
When I do gamedev, it feels like a struggle that just keeps piling up.
3/6
When I started 5 years ago I thought gamedev would be the perfect sum of my artistic goals : musical and visual expression in an interactive saga. I learned programming, engine, tech art, shaders, 3d and so on.
It's been a constant struggle but I kept thinking that it was because I'm not...
2/6
I decided to walk away from #gamedev for my musical project. Like many times before, as soon as I reach the dev part of the project it just feels like endless debugging and compensating for the lack of tools that I'm used to have in graphic and motion design. I just don't enjoy it.
1/6
Spent 2 days making my own custom importer for TexturePacker sprites since their addon only imports AtlasTextures with no 2D PBR support.
Now it imports all spritesheets and creates Sprite2D PackedScenes already populated with PBR maps.
#IndieDev #WIP #GodotEngine #TechArt #2D #GameDev
I'm not too happy about all the switching and hesitating but it's part of a bigger train of thoughts about how I want to express myself and publish my art. The game is only a part of those things and I really want to find the right way to make art, enjoy it and find time for it.
I hope I will.
- I don't need precise tempo syncing by using a beatmap
- My artstyle is 2D that relies transparency and masks
- I want this game to also be on the web
- I want to focus on illustration and not animation
All of that led to switching from #UnrealEngine to #GodotEngine once again 😜
3/4
Semi-static illustrations in the background of a semi-procedural rhythm gameplay. Goal of the game is to be a marketing platform for my songs and that's it. I enjoy making songs and pictures, not programming and debugging. I thought about how to maximize art and minimize code, and it led to :
2/4
Been reconsidering the scope of the game. Lookdev revealed complexities that I wanted to avoid (translucency cost, radial math, platform limitations...). So I reflected on how I should go about it and went back to the original concept :
1/4
#indiedev #wip #game #lookdev
Great ! Thanks a lot ! It's nice to see 2D Unreal get a bit more visibility. I started doing 2D with it back in 2020 and it was already pretty fun ! I even did some experiments with Control Rig and cutout 2D characters and everything was working great.
#wip of the day : adopting a more #animation centric approach by using simple tricks for rotations and scene building. I'm removing more and more stuff : lighting, translucency, procedural placement...
Still trying to find the right look and workflow 🤞
#indiedev #gamedev #2D #rhythmgame #mobile
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Finished re-reading - Hell's Paradise - by Yuji Kaku. What a blast ! God-tier story and art, I love how he weaved the themes of strength and weakness in the plot and character interactions, just lovely. Both subtle and epic ! And the character designs 🤌✨
#manga #review
Goodness #lookdev is rough. A brawl with shaders, mobile performance, sprite masking, fake lighting, scene depth in forward rendering, texture quality and coding radial rotations.
Painful to compare the clean 2D look and the resulting game visual. I need tolerance.
#indiedev #gamedev
What a long week
- switch from #3D to #2.5D pipeline
- #2D #illustration export > draw normals > pack to spritesheet
- local version control setup + rethink project folder structure
- #UnrealEngine project setup for #mobile
- #Blueprint for radial array (angles madness 😵💫)
#wip #indiedev #gamedev
I checked both unreal fest in 2024 and didn't find the 2D topic. Do you have a link please?
Oh? No haven't seen this one, I'm surprised they talked about 2D that's great to hear! I'll go check it out now thank you!
I worked with 2D a bit a few years back, I don't think much changed since but I'm curious to experiment. I'm also curious about how much I can optimize for mobile.
Been in limbo between #2D and #3D workflows these past days. Doing vector art in #Blender is powerful but I get lost in the technicalities and don't get inspired. 2D is my cozy place, so I'll take it straight to #UnrealEngine and bring in 3D techniques progressively.
#indiedev #vectorart #gamedev
2/2
This pipeline is taxing if I need to redo stuff so maybe a blend of curve drawing + modeling + procedural texturing would be a good fit. Also I'm not too happy with how geometry nodes works compared to #UnrealEngine, I think I need to jump into lookdev sooner than I thought.
#indiedev #wip : So I brought the 2D scene into #Blender and the pipeline #vectordrawing > export texture > cutout each 3D mesh element > instantiate with #geometrynodes lacks flexibility. Iteration isn't good so I'm considering drawing curves directly in Blender but I need to test first.
1/2
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Aya... My heart melts everytime I hear this song. Such a beauty.
#ff7remake #gameost #ost
youtu.be/lhb2ePyiIB4?...
Indeed. Had a crush on her when I was a teen.
