Common Art: Basic Shapes Re-design

Re-Design of Nintendo's Super Smash Brawl 64 Star Fox

 

First Project in Unreal Engine 5: 2D Sprite

 

For our first UE5 project, we created a game level out of a retro pixel sprite for a player to walk on and interact with, while also learning about connecting new materials to imported geometry.

I chose Skitty (the best Pokémon) as my sprite; specifically, the sprite art from the game "white 2", because it, along with black 2, was the only series of Pokémon games that had fully animated 2D sprite art in battle. I hope to return to this project and animate the "pixel" geometry to move like the in-game animation.

That's a big cat

It was fun to jump into a new program and learn on the fly, but a reminder to self: when creating blueprints, select Harvest Components. More importantly, when the Blueprints window comes up, you must SAVE AND COMPILE your new Blueprint, otherwise, it will eat your assets and disappear.

So that was fun to figure out.

Here is what the sprite looks like in the engine

Artist Roadmap: August 2023

 I use the Research Tab/Research Area of this blog to document a Clear Idea of where my career and art is heading and where I want to go as an artist.

Projecting Out Past Graduation:

Overall Career Goal: While I would not be adverse to working in AAA game development, the size of the team is less important to me than the working environment that the team cultivates. I want to become a member of a respectful, passionate team that believes in themselves and their other artists, producers, and programmers. Ultimately, I want to work in the film/animation industry.

I would like my future role to be an animator with a focus in character animation, but I would also like to explore the possibilities of technical animation for real-time and film. I am also passionate about lighting for animation, and using lighting principles in compositing for animated or live action films.

Inspiring Reference: https://www.artstation.com/pthorsen/collections/2450789