This week I have been focusing solely on textures. As I have many of them to do and not much time. I think my biggest struggle is getting the exact look I want. I have been looking at many types of reference but what I thought would be easy and pretty cool was they way they textured the characters in the game Kingdom Hearts.
To me it looks really cool, almost like they have covered up the seems with a darker colour giving off a sort of outlined look. So I did my own interpretation of this. As I am still learning and no where near Square Enix's quality....Yet.
So I have completed Jimmy, the Wizard but he just isn't complete without his staff. So this is what I have been trying to figure out. Mostly because his staff has a magic orb in it and, well that need to be extra special. I tried to find some tutorials on nice transparent texture but found nothing.
What I really wanted to go for was a jelly looking shader. Something with depth yet you can see through it and it has a bubbly inner.
Like Bob the Blob from Monsters vs Aliens.
Or something really cool like these images I found on Google images.
These really caught my eye, they remind me of pretty marbles. I guess you can say after all that, this is what I meant. I couldn't find something to do what I wanted. Then I remembered we could outsource some of our shaders, So to Creative Crash I went. I searched through all the pages of free shaders to find the one I loved. I actually downloaded several and tried them all out. I narrowed it down to 4 that I really liked.
This one was called Denfo_CyistalGlow
Blue_Glow
Gie_Shiny_Sagala
Red_Jade, I just made it blue as that is our theme for our Wizard.
I liked them all but my ultimate fave is the Gie_Shiny_Sagala, the way it glows and has that really cool transparent sections. Almost like ribbon wrapped around a bubble. I will have to show my team and see what they think, but I am happy with it.
Well This is what I have done so far, my next post will be about our first scene.
Til next time...
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