Share your art!

[Darkstar]

I'm not a great artist, I'm actually far from it.

Well, you're a better artist than I am. The number of respectable illustrations I've created in my entire life (including my avatar) can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

[Tempus]

There's some nice stuff in this thread. I forgot it existed! Here's two renders of a character I modelled for a game I'm going to develop:



Second render:

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Kin is a 3D side-scroller using the UDK. The player, an Australian Aborigine in pre-colonial Australia, treks with two others from his tribe* across the country to rescue his kinsmen from the Rainbow Serpent who tricked and devoured them. There is no spoken or textual dialogue in the game, instead the ideas, interaction, dreams and memories are conveyed visually in the sky.

• *Apparently "tribe" is a "'colonial concept' and gives rise to misconceptions of a society 'territorially defined...and controlled by the authority...of a chief or council.'" (Sandra Bloodworth) That author used "language group" instead.

Fun fact:

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I was originally going to set it in colonial Africa (which is the only period of Africa I know anything about) and look at colonialism through an African's perspective, but thought I lacked the knowledge and tact to pull it off.

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The art will lean toward being stylised, rather than hyper realistic. Throughout the game things will be perpetually silhouetted, as illustrated by some photos I took some time ago:



Additional photos:

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Here's a lighting test I did in the UDK. The stacked barrels on the left illustrate the silhouetting I want:

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