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The Game Development Process: The Game Art Pipeline

The Game Development Process: The Game Art Pipeline. Introduction: Remember the Constraints. Year 2098, Macrosoft will release FunStation 3000, 14 million terabytes of RAM, quantum-holographic drive with near infinite storage, processors at the speed of light

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The Game Development Process: The Game Art Pipeline

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  1. The Game Development Process:The Game Art Pipeline

  2. Introduction:Remember the Constraints • Year 2098, Macrosoft will release FunStation 3000, 14 million terabytes of RAM, quantum-holographic drive with near infinite storage, processors at the speed of light • Game developers complain not fast enough • Game artists must be creative inside confines of technology • All disciplines: engineering, design, sound • But often constraints biggest on artist

  3. What's a Pipeline? • For our purposes • The sequence of operations required to move art assets from concept to the finished product • The Art pipeline • Concept • Creation (modeling, texturing, lighting) • Conversion • Asset management

  4. Pipeline – Concept • Napkin-style • Detailed design treatments • Prototypes • Maquettes (a small scale model) • Animation sketches / flipbooks • Mockup models • Texture mockups • Architectural layout

  5. "Napkin-style" Concept Art

  6. Paper UI Prototype boxesandarrows.com

  7. Digital UI Prototype designersnotebook.com

  8. Pipeline - Creation • Commercial / third party tools: • 2D tools: Photoshop, The Gimp, sprite editors, HTML/browsers, Flash... • 3D tools: 3D Studio Max, Maya, Lightwave, Blender • Homegrown tools • Specialized animation systems • Tools that simulate key game features (UI layout tool, etc.) • The game engine

  9. Assets for 2D Animation (1 of 3) eberlein.org/euphoria

  10. Assets for 2D Animation (2 of 3) cvrpg.com

  11. Assets for 2D Animation (3 of 3) aniway.com

  12. 3D Studio Max gamedev.net IMGD 1001

  13. Stages of a Model

  14. Texturing and Accessories garagegames.com

  15. A Model, Textured zbrush

  16. Character and a Skin (1 of 2) secretlair.com

  17. Character and a Skin (2 of 2) cresswells.com

  18. Pipeline - Conversion • Putting the assets into the final form • Export from modeling to custom formats • File type conversion • PSD to TGA / JPG, for example • Compression • Collection (zip files, pak files, etc.) • Testing in the game • Debug / fix

  19. Asset Management • How do you share the production process across time, space, and content creators? • Source code has many tools -- "solved" • Data/Art is harder • Not easily merged • Dependencies not obvious • Relationships complex • Some commercial systems are trying • Typically a combination of: • Homegrown tools • Convention and process

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