Building Worlds for Big Robots

1. Building Worlds for Big Robots The Art Process used on Transformers (PS2) Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

2. Pre Production Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

3. Pre Production • Design • Game Design defines world, scale, content, style etc Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

4. Pre Production • Design • Game Design defines world, scale, content, style etc • Concepting • Sketches, Reference material, Style Guides, Plastic Worlds Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

5. Pre Production • Design • Game Design defines world, scale, content, style etc • Concepting • Sketches, Reference material, Style Guides, Plastic Worlds • Memory • AI, Animation, Sound, Polygons, Textures, effects, shaders Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

6. Pre Production • Design • Game Design defines world, scale, content, style etc • Concepting • Sketches, Reference material, Style Guides, Plastic Worlds • Memory • AI, Animation, Sound, Polygons, Textures, effects, shaders • Timeline (stress’ometer) • Time vs content/creativity, Aiming for the sky vs falling back to Earth. Stress = mistakes Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

7. Fundementals Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

8. Fundementals • Poly Distribution • Defined by Draw distance, Detail vs Content, Silhouette, Lighting (vertex or per pixel), near or far playing distance. Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

9. Fundementals • Poly Distribution • Defined by Draw distance, Detail vs Content, Silhouette, Lighting (vertex or per pixel), near or far playing distance. • Texture • Style, lighting, compression, using vertex and material colours Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

10. Fundementals • Poly Distribution • Defined by Draw distance, Detail vs Content, Silhouette, Lighting (vertex or per pixel), near or far playing distance. • Texture • Style, lighting, compression, using vertex and material colours • Lighting • Vertex - per poly = more polys, dynamic – per pixel = less poly’s but more textures and passes. • Defines mood, Atmosphere, Emotion, Visibility … • Direction, Orientation, draw player attention, interest Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

11. Fundementals • Poly Distribution • Defined by Draw distance, Detail vs Content, Silhouette, Lighting (vertex or per pixel), near or far playing distance. • Texture • Style, lighting, compression, using vertex and material colours • Lighting • Vertex - per poly = more polys, dynamic – per pixel = less poly’s but more textures and passes. • Defines mood, Atmosphere, Emotion, Visibility … • Direction, Orientation, draw player attention, interest • Collision • Simplify, integrity, accuracy, loding Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

12. Considerations Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

13. Considerations • Colour Theory • Palette defined by Style guide (Art Bible) Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

14. Considerations • Colour Theory • Palette defined by Style guide (Art Bible) • Space • Gamezone. Time between gameplay elements • Tight corridors, vast halls, rolling hills • Objects within space • Cluttered rooms – barren fields Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

15. Considerations • Colour Theory • Palette defined by Style guide (Art Bible) • Space • Gamezone. Time between gameplay elements • Tight corridors, vast halls, rolling hills • Objects within space • Cluttered rooms – barren fields • Culling • Cell and Portal, Occlusion, Sphere tree … • Changes building methods Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

16. Candy Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

17. Candy • Shaders • Material • Reflection, refraction, bump and normal map, glow • Light • Movement, Colour, Intensity Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

18. Candy • Shaders • Material • Reflection, refraction, bump and normal map, glow • Light • Movement, Colour, Intensity • Animation • Background (mesh) • Machinery (pistons, cogs), wind, birds • Texture • Waterfalls, monitors, city lights Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

19. Candy • Shaders • Material • Reflection, refraction, bump and normal map, glow • Light • Movement, Colour, Intensity • Animation • Background (mesh) • Machinery (pistons, cogs), wind, birds • Texture • Waterfalls, monitors, city lights • Effects • Particles, vector (electricity) Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

20. Candy • Shaders • Material • Reflection, refraction, bump and normal map, glow • Light • Movement, Colour, Intensity • Animation • Background (mesh) • Machinery (pistons, cogs), wind, birds • Texture • Waterfalls, monitors, city lights • Effects • Particles, vector (electricity) • Interaction • Tagging, burning, breaking, exploding – Players changing the worlds Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

21. Pipeline Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

22. Pipeline • Efficiency • Speed of compiles vs motivation Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

23. Pipeline • Efficiency • Speed of compiles vs motivation • Tools • Off the shelf • Professional, Worldwide Q&A, Stability, writing plug-ins • In house • Streamlined for project, fast updates • In game • WYSIWYG, fast Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

24. Objective Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

25. Objective • Stand back • Be brutal if you have to • The 3D world is not set in stone Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House

26. Objective • Stand back • Be brutal if you have to • The 3D world is not set in stone • Quality Assurance • Bug fixing • Outside opinions • Focus testing • A fresh look at your world Speaker: Garth Midgley Copyright Atari Melbourne House