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Dev: pestibug
Position: character / level modeler and concept / texture artist
Howdy all, here it is, the 5th blog from Pesti, and what’s this week topic?
Well I thought long and hard about it, and I settled on something that will appeal to a large part of our future male player base, ladies, you’ve been warned ;) .
ZOMG!!! BOOBIES!
This weeks topic will be in part about the Spellborn Boobies ™. Yes, and for that we’ll have to go back into the past a bit when I started on Spellborn.
You all know me talking about level stuff, but before that I was on characters and did most of the groundwork on them. Later other people have tweaked my work, optimized it, expanded on it, but they still kept the basic shape of the models almost exactly as they where (thank you so very much guys).
So, what is important to keep in mind when you model for a mmo? Limitations, polycount, texture size, texture count all those things. Eventually this leads to the one important thing. Balance. Yes balance, where do you put the most detail, well, in the boobies of course! :D
Yes, these guys, we all know ‘em. Love ‘em. Need ‘em
Now you may wonder, why?! Well, because it’s just a thing that most players notice, see how often there is talk about it in any forum: They should be bigger, they should be smaller, perky, droopy, bouncy, pointy and even the, slider to control boob size.
Well we have none of that, in fact we didn’t want those amazing gravity defying boobs, just good looking natural(ish) looking ones.
These Spellborn ladies gladly posed for us, they asked to be flat-shaded and without textures to keep their identities hidden.
Big ones, small ones, round, square…. TOO MUCH!
Too prove this is a hot topic, let me demonstrate by what happens when you model a female character and a male character.
Female character, now, normally people drop by my desk all the time, chit chat, questions, comments, it’s usually quite a crowded place.
But when modeling a female, it’s bloody rush hour ALL day long! And they all look and comment: “pesti, I think they should be bigger. No they should be smaller. Dude, have you ever even seen boobs?! They should be closer together!”
And of course the famous: “Thought you wanted some coffee.” (never drank so much coffee in my life.)
Now lets look at what happened when I modeled the males.
Right, can you hear the howling wind? And see those tumbleweeds blow by? Exactly, no one around. (insert sad music here)
Anyway, it’s something I always find quite amusing when I think of it. Rest assured tho’ female models, male models they all get just as much love from me. I mean the ladies want something too, but that’s for a future blog ;) .
On a bit more serious note though, yeah sure so there was a lot of talk about the female models, but we all agreed they shouldn’t turn into these amazingly unrealistic parodies of women. I mean, people want to have a choice to play what they want, and not everyone wants to be the ‘hottest of the hottest model’.
So you can choose from a range of models, skinny, athletic, burly.
And NO not all of the polycount went into the boobs, we’ve equaled it out nicely I think.
Well, a blog that’s a bit different than my usual stuff, but Pesti doesn’t shy away to reveal all that goes on behind the scenes. Think of me as your personal ninja reporter ;) . On a side note, I normally stress on the effort we put in making it all historically ‘accurate’, but it this case I think you’ll forgive me. If not, oh well, I’m only human.
To close it off, a wallpaper I made when I did characters and which was a popular one on my desktop, exclusive for gameamp, and in different sizes:
1024 x 768
1152 x 864
1024 x 960
1280 x 1024
Enjoy!
This weeks quick highlight music stuff:
Modest mouse, Good news for people who love bad news Marilyn Manson, Lots of his stuff
Curve, Come clean |
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