How Clash: Artifacts of Chaos Uses Traditional Techniques to Look Like an Animated Illustration

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On February 9, 2023

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Video video games can use many various kinds to create a novel feel and appear. For Conflict: Artifacts of Chaos, we knew from the start that we needed to make use of a really colourful and non-realistic one for a lot of causes: to set it other than different video games within the style, to permit us to stylize and exaggerate the animation and coloration palette, and to approximate the illustrations and punk-fantasy artwork that impressed the creation of the world within the first place.

Stylized rendering is a robust device that highlights that “What to attract?” and “How to attract it?” are two completely different questions. That is the third time we’ve got visited the surreal world of Zenozoik and its primitive humanoid animal inhabitants, however it’s the first time we’re approaching the “how to attract it” with a very completely different approach!

There are various methods we may have gone, and we examined a number of completely different kinds earlier than touchdown on the one we used. By selecting what to simplify and what to magnify, you get very completely different results. One of many extra attention-grabbing kinds we examined was a painterly thick brushstroke look (above). It allowed very expressive shapes, a messy virtually impressionistic look, and was actually very completely different.

We ultimately determined towards this fashion due to the extreme simplification it produced: our artists at all times needed so as to add extra small particulars to characters and environments, particulars which might probably not shine on this impressionistic fashion.

The rendering fashion we ended up going for known as hatching, or crosshatching. It’s a drawing fashion that creates shading and conveys lighting by drawing carefully spaced traces. The nearer the traces are collectively, the darker the realm will seem. This fashion is commonly utilized in conventional drawings, illustrations, and comedian books, and offers the art work a hand-drawn look. This method allowed us to realize an illustrated fashion whereas nonetheless preserving element.

By separating the lighting info and conveying mild depth and element principally with the ink pencil linework, we are able to deal with coloration as a separate layer. This enables us to make use of extra synthetic coloration schemes which might look unusual in a practical rendering fashion however really feel in line with the look of an illustration. Violet and orange skies, characters with blue or yellow pores and skin, orange grime, cyan and inexperienced mineral deposits within the mountain partitions… we deliberately use saturated colours, or coloration mixtures laborious to search out in nature to convey it is a completely different world.

One of many primary challenges to make the hatching fashion work was to ensure that it labored at completely different distances and completely different ranges of element. It’s not simply drawing traces on the surfaces, as a result of what works for small particulars up shut may not work for a mountain at a distance. Additionally some options have to be preserved extra fastidiously, like character eyes that are a spotlight level and should at all times stay nicely outlined and sharp. The linework must be constant to look prefer it was all achieved with the identical device.

Lastly, whereas we’ve got designed a really particular search for the sport, we nonetheless selected to allow configuration choices for gamers to personalize the look. Gamers can select a cleaner look or add and take away results. We even left in a comic book ebook impressed black and white mode, which isn’t preferrred for readability, however continues to be very cool to play with!

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