The bristles of the brooms (besoms) that Koume and Kotake fly around on, has two layers to give the simple shapes a nice layered effect in-game. I'll have to make a test build to see whether or not it will also look good in-paper, though...Stay tuned!
it'll look good.the stick might be a bit tough with the crookedness, but it still looks pretty cool. And will Kotake just be a recolor of Koume?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think I will keep it simple, and make Koume and Kotake recolours of eachother, to emphasize the fact that they're Twin Sorceress Sisters. ;o)
ReplyDeleteThe sisters are gonna own so hard! I really like what you've done so far. Are the broomsticks gonna be in 3D? Like, the stick will be 3 or 4 square tubes glued together? I'm interested in seeing how you will tackle the bristles, will they be 2D with double sided textures?
ReplyDeleteI really want these to hang from my ceiling :D
Yeah, the broomstick itself will be in 3D, it will look much nicer than a 2D one I think.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm still not sure about the bristles... The 2 layers look nice ingame, because they're moving around all the time anyway, and in the virtual world they blend together very nicely. But in a motionless paper model, it will look very different of course...
The gap between the two layers and the fact that it's hollow kinda destroys the "illusion" that the bristles of twigs or straw are densily packed together like on a real besom... It would look much nicer if the bottom would be closed, so you can't see inside anymore I think (but not in a boring way like a simple yellow pyramid on the bottom of the broomstick... ;o)
I haven't test built it yet, but to be honest, I'm already thinking about doing it differently...
Maybe it might work if you made a couple of spiky shaped 3D wedge-like pieces for the bristles... kinda like the Moomba doll's tail, but with a piece of tabbed paper to close it, the textured side valley folded and glued inside... hopefully you understand what I'm talking about, haha, because it's hard to describe! But whatever you end up figuring out should be good anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat's actually kinda what I was thinking too! ;o)
ReplyDeleteIf this doesn't work out, I will make the ends of the bristles a simpler shape, so I can more easily create a piece to go inside of the bristles to close the open end, because the ends are so uneven now, that it would be very difficult to get a nice fit for a piece that would go inside...