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🕑 Added 2021-05-30 08:04:24 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
This week I've been working on the Kitchen-background, and I wanted share some of my progress with you.
So here you can see a GIF of the steps I took to make this illustration.
As always, I started with a rough sketch, then did the linework & finally I added the colors.
But in this case I had to do an extra round of sketching to detail the designs of the robot-hands. Now I find it a fun challenge, to make the designs mechanically work. However, by doing this, I often end up with rather clunky, silly machines. But I kinda like that :)
The kitchen also has a window, which looks straight into the Biogarden. (If you take a look at the map, you'll see how they are connected.) Now, I didn't draw the entire garden again, but I imported parts from the Biogarden and made a new composition from that. This keeps the garden recognizable & saves me some time as well :)
Well, the next step is breaking up the illustration in parts, so I can export them to the game.
Some of these parts are items you can pick up, and others are needed for animations. In this case the robot on the left will be cooking something, while it's moving around a bit. So I had to break it up in 3 parts.
This GIF is an overview of the parts that I will be exporting.
Well, that's it for the Kitchen. But I also worked on some other art this week, like the inventory-items. I won't tell to much about what's what, but maybe you can already guess what you are looking at? :)
Allright, that was it for this week. I'm looking foreward to the poll results & I'll be sharing more art soon :)
All the best!
Robin
PS. Thanks to the growing number of Patrons, I am now finally able to take the first steps towards expanding my one-man team :) For a short while now I've been collaborating with Rob, my new programmer, and he has truly been a great help so far! It's just really nice to be able to share the workload a bit & it looks like it will speed up the production as well.
Now this means a lot to me, and I realize very well, that I could never have gotten to this point, without your support. So I'm very grateful for it & it really allows me to make the most of this project. And that's just awesome, so... thank you once more, for I really, really appreciate it! :)
Comments
BadWizard
Absolutely thanks for the info, keep up the great work
Robin
Hey BadWizard! Well, for the moment Steam will get less but bigger updates, for various practiacal reasons (so in the end you get the same game content there). If you like to know more about this, you can find a pinned topic on the Steam discussion page about this. But this might be just temporarily, depending how the first update on Steam goes. I hope this helps :)
BadWizard
Great game but i seem to be missing content on my steam version. Any thoughts?
Robin
Thank you so much Jan-Pier! That's actually what I wanted to go for; so I'm really glad that shows in the game :)
Jan-Pier Dijkstra
Really enjoying your work. This is like a crossover between Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry.
Robin
Haha, thanks Satyrsfaction . I just really like cozy spaceships :) And when I saw, I placed the kitchen next to the biogarden (it's been a while since I made the map) I just had to add that window :)
Robin
Thanks again Bad Spider! :)
Robin
Thank you Poet! I greatly enjoy the art-proces myself, so I galdy share it with you all :)
Robin
I suppose it would make sense to give them plastic hands instead...or maybe just install a dishwasher. But this looks more fun right? :)
Robin
Oh wow, thank you BINMERC, I'm happy to do it! :)
SYH
The Helping Hands have dish gloves? Of course they do. :D
Amazing work! Thank you for the update!
Looking great, as usual! I really enjoy posts about your process. It's fascinating to see how you create the art for your game.
BadSpider
Looking great Robin, great work :) and I really like the gifs ;)
Satyrsfaction
Wow - that the kitchen has a window with the green in front of it - that takes away the cramped feeling you get in most spaceships. (even if you are only in it virtually). Awesome 😃
