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New design pieces. Very pleased!
Elder71
New design pieces. Very pleased!
As you folks know, our Kickstarter campaign launches on Monday (August 24th, 2015).
Although I knew getting everything prepared for it would mean a lot of work (work I was enthusiastic to tackle) I learned a little lesson about underestimation.
Of course, everything's in place. It's all be proof read, polished, reorganised, rejigged and tweaked to (hopefully) as close to perfection as possible.
I'm very happy with the designs I put together for it, so I wanted to share with you guys:
First, the character bios:
One area where Omnis is a little weak in terms of content at the moment is artwork. We've got Oksana Kharitonova on-board now as our dedicated character artist, but in the interim I've done my best to make use of the sprites:
A big part of my approach to making the KS page look good was having graphics for titles instead of plain text. It's a common approach on KS, but there aren't many who make their titles animated!:
(this is a 50% resolution version)
And, finally (though there's lots more on the page itself), I decided to make pretty versions of our pledge rewards:
I realise these images a little big and unwieldy for a blog post, but I really went overboard on resolution to try and guarantee the best quality when they were uploaded to Kickstarter.
That's all from me, folks.
Hope to see you on Monday!
-S.E
As you folks know, our Kickstarter campaign launches on Monday (August 24th, 2015).
Although I knew getting everything prepared for it would mean a lot of work (work I was enthusiastic to tackle) I learned a little lesson about underestimation.
Of course, everything's in place. It's all be proof read, polished, reorganised, rejigged and tweaked to (hopefully) as close to perfection as possible.
I'm very happy with the designs I put together for it, so I wanted to share with you guys:
First, the character bios:
One area where Omnis is a little weak in terms of content at the moment is artwork. We've got Oksana Kharitonova on-board now as our dedicated character artist, but in the interim I've done my best to make use of the sprites:
A big part of my approach to making the KS page look good was having graphics for titles instead of plain text. It's a common approach on KS, but there aren't many who make their titles animated!:
(this is a 50% resolution version)
And, finally (though there's lots more on the page itself), I decided to make pretty versions of our pledge rewards:
I realise these images a little big and unwieldy for a blog post, but I really went overboard on resolution to try and guarantee the best quality when they were uploaded to Kickstarter.
That's all from me, folks.
Hope to see you on Monday!
-S.E
Game Design
Artwork by Kate Bystrova
Just a quick one today, sharing a fantastic new ensemble piece of the main OMNIS cast by my friend Kate:
You can find her on twitter here: @ekatemari
More updates coming soon! (The official artwork of Skyler by Oksana Kharitonova is on the way!)
I'm also planning to do some live pixel-art in the form of some sprite design or tileset making, so if you'd be interested in taking part in that I'd really like to know!
S.E
You can find her on twitter here: @ekatemari
More updates coming soon! (The official artwork of Skyler by Oksana Kharitonova is on the way!)
I'm also planning to do some live pixel-art in the form of some sprite design or tileset making, so if you'd be interested in taking part in that I'd really like to know!
S.E
Announcement
KICKSTARTER LAUNCH DATE
Two announcements, folks:
Uno:
AUGUST 24th - KICKSTARTER LAUNCH DATE!
After a false start a while ago, we're re-announcing this and sticking with it this time!
The original rethink/delay was all about giving ourselves some extra time to work on promoting the game and the campaign. We've got our ducks in a row, now, with a strong plan in place.
We could still use your help, though. Please help spread the word around! Every inch of support makes a big difference.
A link to the campaign page will be up nearer the time!
Zwei:
CHARACTER ARTIST - Oksana Kharitonova
deviantart
After a long search and a staggering amount of submitted talent, we're excited to let you folks know that Oksana is on board as Elyn Studio's resident character artist for OMNIS - The Erias Line.
She'll be creating in-game avatars for the characters as well as busts and full-body designs.
We'll have samples of her work on the game to show you soon!
For now, here's a rough sample painting of Nadime she provided with her application (shown with her permission, of course), to give you guys a little taster of what she's bringing to the project:
Uno:
AUGUST 24th - KICKSTARTER LAUNCH DATE!
After a false start a while ago, we're re-announcing this and sticking with it this time!
The original rethink/delay was all about giving ourselves some extra time to work on promoting the game and the campaign. We've got our ducks in a row, now, with a strong plan in place.
We could still use your help, though. Please help spread the word around! Every inch of support makes a big difference.
A link to the campaign page will be up nearer the time!
Zwei:
CHARACTER ARTIST - Oksana Kharitonova
deviantart
After a long search and a staggering amount of submitted talent, we're excited to let you folks know that Oksana is on board as Elyn Studio's resident character artist for OMNIS - The Erias Line.
She'll be creating in-game avatars for the characters as well as busts and full-body designs.
We'll have samples of her work on the game to show you soon!
For now, here's a rough sample painting of Nadime she provided with her application (shown with her permission, of course), to give you guys a little taster of what she's bringing to the project:
Progress Report
The whole motley crew remastered.
The final, completed round of sprite improvements :) Not a lot to say about them, except that the new versions obviously take a lot longer than the old, but the results are worth the quadrupled workload, I believe.
Progress Report
Skyler - remastered sprite.
SKYLER - REMASTERED SPRITE
Continuing to develop sprite samples to act as proof that the sprites will be hugely upgraded in the full version of OMNIS:
Old vs New:
(a higher res version of her main sprite is available on our Facebook page.
I'm aware that the new versions still aren't perfect and could, at the very least, do with some arm-lengthening.)
Also, here's a link to the promised 'Orphan's Running Animation' upgrade - which I have to say for myself is a vast improvement.
I've included the current version for comparison, though the difference in quality makes me cringe a little.
For full effect, please look at the current version first :)
CURRENT DEMO VERSION (imgur)
NEW, UPGRADED, FULL-GAME VERSION (imgur)
S.E
Continuing to develop sprite samples to act as proof that the sprites will be hugely upgraded in the full version of OMNIS:
Old vs New:
(a higher res version of her main sprite is available on our Facebook page.
I'm aware that the new versions still aren't perfect and could, at the very least, do with some arm-lengthening.)
Also, here's a link to the promised 'Orphan's Running Animation' upgrade - which I have to say for myself is a vast improvement.
I've included the current version for comparison, though the difference in quality makes me cringe a little.
For full effect, please look at the current version first :)
CURRENT DEMO VERSION (imgur)
NEW, UPGRADED, FULL-GAME VERSION (imgur)
S.E
Progress Report
Orphan - remastered sprite.
The graphics in the demo are placeholders.
When I was a one man team, I had to keep things simple in order to keep the workload sane and get the demo out before I reached my 80s.
Now I can finally show you guys what Orphan really looks like (sprite-wise). It's still a work in progress, but here he is, looking a lot less blocky and cartoonish.
Same head, though - I like his head.
Orphan remastered:
I made this to showcase on our Kickstarter campaign, as a demonstration that the sprites (and battlers, correspondingly) will be improved.
Animations - walking + running - to follow!
When I was a one man team, I had to keep things simple in order to keep the workload sane and get the demo out before I reached my 80s.
Now I can finally show you guys what Orphan really looks like (sprite-wise). It's still a work in progress, but here he is, looking a lot less blocky and cartoonish.
Same head, though - I like his head.
Orphan remastered:
I made this to showcase on our Kickstarter campaign, as a demonstration that the sprites (and battlers, correspondingly) will be improved.
Animations - walking + running - to follow!
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous
Creative Excercise
Created these as a little creative exercise and thought I'd share.
Before I knew what I was doing, I'd saved the image as "Pixies.jpg" - "pixies", in this case, is apparently a cutesy corruption of "pixels". Thank you brain.
Please banish all notions of 'gnomes', 'fairies' and other mawkish folklore favourites from your perception.
I've quickly come to think of them as possible in-game representations of collectable action figure key items. Like Bobbleheads from Fallout 3, or the Soldier 1/35 from Final Fantasy 7. It's just an idea at the moment
SE
Before I knew what I was doing, I'd saved the image as "Pixies.jpg" - "pixies", in this case, is apparently a cutesy corruption of "pixels". Thank you brain.
Please banish all notions of 'gnomes', 'fairies' and other mawkish folklore favourites from your perception.
I've quickly come to think of them as possible in-game representations of collectable action figure key items. Like Bobbleheads from Fallout 3, or the Soldier 1/35 from Final Fantasy 7. It's just an idea at the moment
SE
