Generating (very fluid) landscapes

Also makes for some good psychadelic album covers

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They sure are talkative

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There's always someone that's faster

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While we're working to get the main lobby/Ranger Station set up, we've also been playing around with orbiting and fixed camera angles. The orbiting is ideal for spectating. The fixed ones... well, that's a secret

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We've got a Firewatch Tower! A member of our team just finished it for our game #CrimsonCountyForestService
With some luck you'll get some nice views from it... maybe more?

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Thanks to @arbuze.bsky.social for bringing my lovely birb to life

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Now you too can be bad to the bone

Anyway, after way too long, the skeleton's also finished. Just like with the Raven, base textures are all handpainted. Very painful... ow

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I realized, I never uploaded my #conceptart for our Cryptids here

It's not the full list, but some of the core designs that we've put some planning into for mechanics and scenarios

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Today are real bird hours

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One challenge that'll be interesting to solve for CCFS is seeing if we can get away with faux-volumetrics, while still adhering to the 90s aesthetic

Though this example is missing the surrounding fog

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The big stompey lad is finished. Well "finished" in the sense that he's textured and in the game. Still, I'm happy with how the result turned out

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Jacket so good, they made part two and three

Jokes aside though the new customization options were successfully implemented and we even get variations by tinting the textures, alongside wardrobe features

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It seems that Hikers in #CrimsonCounty will be followers of the everlasting DRIP

Jokes aside, someone in my team reminded me that I should finish this outfit

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When you look into the forest... do you think the forest looks back?

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You'd think I'd be done by now, but turns out manually painting the ribcage, spine and shoulder blades takes time

I do keep getting distracted by my music...

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*Bad to the Bone Riff plays*

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Incidentally, Park, Crimson and Sunless Ranger are also good names for difficulty levels

Though for now, these are mainly for promo purposes

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Though it wasn't intentional, it is rather fitting to start modelling the base human's skeleton in the spookiest month of the year.

Plus, it opens the door to have player's/NPC's skeletons comically light up when they get electrocuted

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Car's fixed. Put on your Scorpion Jacket and listen to some Synthwave... because now, You Drive

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Hmmm yes... Car

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"As a Park Ranger, your duties are to serve the community, preserve nature, uphold the peace... and keep the creatures of the night at bay..."

"We thank you for your service and sacrifice."

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The Cult continues to grow...

But yeah, most recent concept art for humanoid enemies in #CrimsonCounty

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Our Programmer - who also happens to have a mocap setup - had the idea of combining my hand-animated stuff with mocap parts for specific sections where a mocap performance lends itself to a better animation.
Here's the result:

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Because I apparently don't have enough feathers in my cap, I also started doing some animations for #CrimsonCounty, though for now they're mostly on the simple side, since I'm quite literally just a beginner

Also Animgraphs are literal lifesavers

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I'm sure people are going to LOVE these little guys

After all, people really like insectoids in their #horrorgames right? Especially when they have a giant proboscis to stab you with

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Tunnel Snakes Rule
(Disclaimer: there are no Tunnel Snakes in #CrimsonCounty)

Stylish Leather jacket for our NPC Hikers

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Some might arguably question my decision choices in regards to the monsters in #CrimsonCounty ... to which I say, yeah that's fair.

As long as it'll freak out players though, I'm quite happy

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Inside #CrimsonCounty, he is the Law

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Turns out making landscapes is quite the complicated venture. It's still a work in progress, but I do hope the pipeline we're imagining will actually work out
(ignore the sillier parts of the map, I get easily bored)

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No longer will players have to look on their bare arms, we've got sleeves!

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