Sorry for not posting in a while.
Usually I don’t make any concept art. I just have an idea (or make a super simple doodle) and jump straight in. Impressionistic 3D modelling!
But – Sometimes I make a rough concept. Here’s an example:
click clack clock picture to make it bigger.
What’s this? An easter egg?
If you find ten of these in the game something good will happen. Maybe.
Happy Easter!
Last summer it was decided that ilo and milo needed some kind of story. But how would it be presented? The initial idea was to have kids drawings, but that felt somehow like it had been done a lot of times before. So I came up with the idea of presenting it through photographs of stuffed ilo and milo dolls. We contacted Margaretas Dockskåp here in Malmö. They agreed to make the dolls.
Margaretas Dockskåp
Newly born ilomilos, on their way to the office!
Finally home!
We printed out big pictures of backgrounds and props on some nice glossy paper, to create a little stage for our photos.
Working hard, hardly working
Behind the scenes!
Picture, before color correction and stuff
Final story picture. This looks shopped…
Fabric-ilo prototype (hence the weird colors) to get the shapes right. The legs are a bit to big…
Ok, been slacking with this blog for a little too long, so let’s do a round-up of what’s happening in the project!
Right now we are working on a number of different things.
Martin is as usual busy creating (mind bending) levels.
Johan has finished some camerascripting, co-op stuff and is now working on touching up menus – fixing transitions, making animations for icons and stuff like that.
Björn coded behaviour for a new creature and a new placeable cube. He’s currently working on system to log data from user tests and system for unlockable secret stuff (and one of those secret things is awesome. Will return for more info when time is ready).
Carl is working on set dressing the levels – Placing and animating props.
Daniel have done a lot of new sounds – voices for creatures, storysounds, menu blips and blops. He’s also composed songs for the tutorial puzzles the story.
… And I (Simon) have been creating co-op specific assets, fixing and touching up the last menu assets, writing texts (manuals and boring stuff like that) working on the story sequences, and getting in some cameos from other games in to our game (more on that topic later…).
Fredrik and Kim are visiting GDC to talk with people and do some ilomilopimping.
Also! Some links! Clicky clicky!
1up has a preview on ilomilo! (… one thing though: the video is showing an unfinished level with no props whatsoever)
Swedish community loading.se has got some exclusive ilomilo screenshots!
Alright then, See you later.
click pic!
A nice little render effect, called ambient occlusion, recently made it into ilomilo. As mentioned in an earlier post, all textures have occlusion baked into them, but now characters cast nice occlusion shadows on all objects in the level.
Some of you may not know what Ambient occlusion means. Well neither do I, but this is what wikipedia told me:
“Ambient occlusion is a shading method used in 3D computer graphics which helps add realism to local reflection models by taking into account attenuation of light due to occlusion. Ambient occlusion attempts to approximate the way light radiates in real life, especially off what are normally considered non-reflective surfaces.”
So basically it just makes things look nice.
These two characters decided to join the ilomilo universe this week.
I guess I could tell you what purpose they serve, but wouldn’t it be more fun to find out for yourself when you can play the game?
Some very early doodles of cubes, just to get som basic ideas of settings and stuff. Actually, these doodles are probably one of the first things I made for the ilomilo project.
When I look at them now I realise that much of these ideas made it into the game.
Might as well post a screen. This one is from a tutorial level. Here you go:
Sometimes I prefer to do stuff the old fashioned way.
It’s also nice to have an excuse to get away from the computer every now and then.
Click to see a bigger version.
Interview with Fredrik and Simon on Radio Speltorsk! It’s only in swedish.
Click here to listen to the show! The interview starts about 14 minutes in or something like that. Don’t miss the music from the game after the interview.
Also, here is a bonus screenshot:
These are some really early designs for creatures in the game. Click for a bigger version.
Only the bouncy thing and the plunger actually ended up in the game, while the other ones morphed in to other designs. The cross dressing gentleman and the unicycle dog are my personal favourites.
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