Venture Arctic Animal Concepts
by Andy Schatz · 06/09/2006 (8:58 pm) · 10 comments
Our intern, Ryan Peterson, just finished up his internship yesterday here, and I thought I'd show off a little bit of his work. He mostly worked on concept art for Venture Arctic.
The art style for the game is inspired by traditional Inuit sculpture.
A couple of the sculptures we referenced:
www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca/images/sculpture/A3829_t.jpg
www.canadianarcticproducers.com/Pangnirtung/Pangnirtung-images/stone-sculpture-p...
Again, these are intended as modeler reference, not fully painted concept work. Concept work in general is intended to establish overall tone and color pallete, whereas these turnarounds are intended to be direct references for the modeler.
The animals as modeled are between 100-500 polys, total.
The art style for the game is inspired by traditional Inuit sculpture.
A couple of the sculptures we referenced:
www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca/images/sculpture/A3829_t.jpg
www.canadianarcticproducers.com/Pangnirtung/Pangnirtung-images/stone-sculpture-p...
Again, these are intended as modeler reference, not fully painted concept work. Concept work in general is intended to establish overall tone and color pallete, whereas these turnarounds are intended to be direct references for the modeler.
The animals as modeled are between 100-500 polys, total.
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#2
How is the gameplay in this title going to compare to Venture Africa?
06/09/2006 (9:42 pm)
These sketches look great! It makes me want to go to art school =)How is the gameplay in this title going to compare to Venture Africa?
#3
Midhir- Actually, it's going to be quite different. You are still trying to achieve animal quotas and the animals will still be autonomous, but the activities you do are entirely different. I'm gonna write up a long blog post about it soon, so I'm not gonna give away too much just yet. Suffice it to say its very different and interesting and cool and fun. I really went back to the drawing board on a lot of things after Venture Africa.
06/09/2006 (10:00 pm)
LFoster- Canadians will be harmed during the making of this game. COunt on it.Midhir- Actually, it's going to be quite different. You are still trying to achieve animal quotas and the animals will still be autonomous, but the activities you do are entirely different. I'm gonna write up a long blog post about it soon, so I'm not gonna give away too much just yet. Suffice it to say its very different and interesting and cool and fun. I really went back to the drawing board on a lot of things after Venture Africa.
#4
There going to be Moose, Caribou, and Grizzlies as well or are you primarily focusing on the Arctic Circle ecosystem only?
06/09/2006 (10:10 pm)
This looks interesting - I loved Venture Africa, looking forward to watching the development of this. Especially the art direction in which it will take, since my wife is 1/4 Alaskan native (Aluit though, Inuits are far north AK).There going to be Moose, Caribou, and Grizzlies as well or are you primarily focusing on the Arctic Circle ecosystem only?
#7
www.xest-net.org
I've only got the 1024x768 res versions up but maybe they'll be some use as reference or concept for you. I'm sure you've probably got an archive of pics you need anyway but just in case, here's the ones that maybe of use, there's probably more I just can't remember them off hand! ;)
The 1st set of Canada photos has some from Toronto zoo at page 21 there's polar bears
The 2nd set of Canada photos has pictures from the Canadian museum in Ottawa with a fair amount of Innuit stuff, page 25 and 26 of the gallery have some arctic wolf pics. Around 25/26 you should also be able to find some Elk/Moose/Caribou/Muskox/Whatever the hell other weird creatures Canada has lying around.
The 4th set is just general Canadian winter, page 7 and 8 have huskie pics but that's about it.
The Norway pictures are from Narvik in Northern Norway, a little way inside the arctic circle in October last year, unfortunately I failed miserably at getting killer whale photos, the blighters move too fast and with only 3hrs a day daylight getting the right lighting conditions to snap the little beggars is quite tough ;)
That's all I can really think of offhand, the Arizona pics have some authentic native American (navajo) paintings on pages 12 and 13 but it's a different style to that of the Inuit really so really wont be much use.
Anyway, certainly looking forward to venture arctic, I'm generally an avid run round with a shotgun blowing as many people away as possible type when it comes to gaming but I have to admit venture Africa had me hooked so I'm definetely looking forward to venture Arctic ;)
06/10/2006 (1:23 am)
Andy, I don't know if it's any use but I have a bunch of my photos up from my various travels in the last 12months at:www.xest-net.org
I've only got the 1024x768 res versions up but maybe they'll be some use as reference or concept for you. I'm sure you've probably got an archive of pics you need anyway but just in case, here's the ones that maybe of use, there's probably more I just can't remember them off hand! ;)
The 1st set of Canada photos has some from Toronto zoo at page 21 there's polar bears
The 2nd set of Canada photos has pictures from the Canadian museum in Ottawa with a fair amount of Innuit stuff, page 25 and 26 of the gallery have some arctic wolf pics. Around 25/26 you should also be able to find some Elk/Moose/Caribou/Muskox/Whatever the hell other weird creatures Canada has lying around.
The 4th set is just general Canadian winter, page 7 and 8 have huskie pics but that's about it.
The Norway pictures are from Narvik in Northern Norway, a little way inside the arctic circle in October last year, unfortunately I failed miserably at getting killer whale photos, the blighters move too fast and with only 3hrs a day daylight getting the right lighting conditions to snap the little beggars is quite tough ;)
That's all I can really think of offhand, the Arizona pics have some authentic native American (navajo) paintings on pages 12 and 13 but it's a different style to that of the Inuit really so really wont be much use.
Anyway, certainly looking forward to venture arctic, I'm generally an avid run round with a shotgun blowing as many people away as possible type when it comes to gaming but I have to admit venture Africa had me hooked so I'm definetely looking forward to venture Arctic ;)
#8
Ian- Hey thanks for the reference stuff! It's neat to see your photography! Really, Google Images is the ultimate reference for this sort of thing, but I enjoy looking at photos like this anyways. Those Arctic wolves are pretty cool creatures. The ones you got really have a coyote look to them, but white. Interesting.
Thanks everyone for being excited about it. I promise it will be cooler than Venture Africa!
06/10/2006 (2:53 am)
Mr Lesko- Mr. Freeze will also making an appearance, in level 3 he will consume a CanadianIan- Hey thanks for the reference stuff! It's neat to see your photography! Really, Google Images is the ultimate reference for this sort of thing, but I enjoy looking at photos like this anyways. Those Arctic wolves are pretty cool creatures. The ones you got really have a coyote look to them, but white. Interesting.
Thanks everyone for being excited about it. I promise it will be cooler than Venture Africa!
#9
It was awesome to be in GameStop today and see your game on the shelf! The cover art is awesome! I like my owning my copy of games with boxes. I'm old school. :P
06/10/2006 (4:53 am)
@AndyIt was awesome to be in GameStop today and see your game on the shelf! The cover art is awesome! I like my owning my copy of games with boxes. I'm old school. :P
Associate Logan Foster
I know Pascal will ask this, since he's such a twisted dutchman, and I better beat him to the punch before he asks and screws it up. Can we have Polar Bears that attack Canadians that hide out in igloos? If so I can guarentee you that Pascal will buy a copy :)