CAGD 495; Game Studio

Hello, my name is Angie Marquez, and I am the 2D artist for a game named KickBack!!  In this blog, I'll be talking about my experience so far in Sprint 2 for our game, what I struggled with, what I accomplished, and learned. To start off, I began with my first card, which was concept art for the attack of Enemy 1. I had a trial-and-error with this card since I wasn't really clear on what the attack was going to look like. I turned in a quick concept of a fireball since I had shown it in my Enemy 1 concept sketch. Turns out that my producer and designer had a different idea! ENEMY 1 attacks They had been thinking of orange energy balls to fire from both enemies! (I drew the other concept as soon as I turned in enemy 1 on Jira) I had provided 3 different ones for enemy 1 and 2 for enemy 2. Since Enemy 2 was going to have smaller balls of electricity, I decided to make them less busy than Enemy 1. I want the player to be able to see the design and shape of the electricity, other t...

Hello! I am Angie Marquez and the 2D artist for our game KickBack!! Starting off with a strong mood/reference page provided by my Developer and similarity comparisons for style and gameplay in other games, I helped envision the concept world of Kickoff. Before beginning, the idea of the world was to be dreamy and composed of pastel scenery of pink clouds and colorful skies, including POIs having contrasting elements like a suken city with buildings, cars, and bridges, along with a shipping port full of cranes and container ships. Building off of my Developer's pre-concept, I had made everything almost the same as what was provided to me, a few city buildings, and crates with a crane and a shipping shed. After submitting my Jira card and waiting for the verification, I started giving more thought to the composition of the Kickoff world. Though I had done what was asked and shown approval in person before coloring, I was not delighted with my work. Even though I knew I had some creat...