Comments on: Petunk Week 2: Creating a distinctive look

By: Petunk Week 3: Putting it all together | Another Early Morning

Petunk Week 3: Putting it all together | Another Early Morning — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:41:24 +0000

[...] for another weekly update. Since last week I’ve been hard at work integrating the artwork I created with my game engine. The results I’m ready to show you include the basic game [...]

By: Create Great Looking Game Artwork Using Paper

Create Great Looking Game Artwork Using Paper — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:00:45 +0000

[...] I’d like to share a little bit of the process behind the artwork for Petunk. I believe the style is attractive and distinct, and the best part is I was able to do it without [...]

By: Alex Schearer

Alex Schearer — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:35:48 +0000

Thanks twood, I would like to write more about the process behind the art style in the future but you're intuition is right. At points I tried to scan all of the pieces in individually and then stitch them together using Photoshop but that didn't yield as nice a result. A lot of the nuanced shadows and textures created by physically layering the different elements were lost in Photoshop.

In the end I've struck a balance between constructing things separately and constructing scenes as a whole. I think with more experience I might be able to move the balance slightly more towards doing things separately and then integrating them in Photoshop, which would reduce the cost of producing each asset. Regardless, I'm quite happy with the results shown above!

By: twood

twood — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:31:03 +0000

love the style… I probably would have ended up mimicking cutouts in photoshop and not produced nearly as nice results as you got using actual materials!