Nova final promotional art

NOVA

I finished Nova's promotional art for the mock up Kickstarter. I decided to re-design the butterfly to look more like it would fit within the environment. I tried out painting reflections of the pink grass and Nova's color reflecting on the butterfly. I'm quite happy with the result :) Onto designing NOX now!

Nova for kick starter

NOVA

I finalized nova's design and started coloring in her pose. Still trying to figure out how to do the shading for her design.

Nova pose for finalized mock up character thing and research for Lit Review

NOVA

I tried out different poses for Nova and decided to go with this one. I think this shows how Nova is curious as well as friendly.

RESEARCH

I really like this article but sadly, it is not academic :(

Nick Bilton

I found a few more but they are not specifically about what I want for my research question.

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=4&sid=293cb4c0-8c65-4b82-95e7-4afba57474c8%40sessionmgr113&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=84616484&db=anh 

http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=293cb4c0-8c65-4b82-95e7-4afba57474c8%40sessionmgr113&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=100785575&db=anh

Lux Promotional Art

LUX

I spent yesterday and today working on Lux, I refined some details (his proportions) and added more detail. I want to have 3 promotional artworks for the game, one of Nova, one of Lux and one of the machine. The backgrounds will likely be in this amount of detail...

Kick starter page mock up planning

PLANNING

I started thinking about which pictures/gifs I will use on my mock up page and where.

Planning, Kick starter and Nova final design

PLANNING

I continued some more planning for the Pledges and Rewards on the Kick starter mock up, looking at different kickstarter pages, I decided to use the Pledge system where the backer gets an additional reward as well as the previous ones.

I also looked at how to do the Stretch Goals, I got some feedback that it could be interesting to continue playing the game once it finishes, looking after the new life on the planet.

NOVA SKETCHES AND FINAL DESIGNS

Did a few more sketches for Nova, trying out different proportions and how to incorporate the owl design more as well as trying out butterflies as well.

Some more Research, Planning and concepts for Nova

SOME MORE RESEARCH

I looked at some more Kickstarter pages. Frans showed us Jotun, which was really useful in terms of style and how it was presented as a whole. It made me very interested in the game, the trailer had the director voice over and his speech was very interesting. I will use that trailer as my main resource!

PLANNING

I continued doing some more writing and planning for the Kickstarter mock up page. I will leave it as it is now and as I produce concepts, I will change things around as I come up with more ideas for the game and concepts.

NOVA CONCEPTS

I played around with Nova's design and added bigger hands to her, The big hands make her look more like an explorer I think. I still want to play around with them to find a way to make them look more interesting. I also found that Nova resembled a Bird a little, I looked at Owls and tried to incorporate them into the design, not just because it looks cool but because it would also make sense for Nova to look more animal-like so that Lux wouldn't be scared of her.