CAGD 495; Game Studio

Hello all! I'm Angie Marquez, and I am the 2d Artist for the game KickBack. This sprint had a slow start, but we picked up the pace this week after the kickoff on Thursday. This sprint, it was mostly UI elements that were needed and a few VFX things.  Starting it off, I was prompted on my card to create a "UI Memory Shards" so that our player feels secure in how many shards they collect in-game. I had to get inspiration from the shards that will float in-game, just using the main shard as the iconic piece of the shards. This is a 512x512 PNG for now; if any issues occur in-game with sizing or quality, I will have to export as SVG. After submitting that, I began working on my next card for the in-game speed boost. This one was tricky; I made about 4 versions, but my lead designer decided on this one. For this arrow, it had to be exported as an SVG. I create most of my art in Procreate and export to Photoshop in case I need to touch up, so that the layers are rasterized. Bu...

 Hello all, my name is Angie Marquez, and I am the 2D artist for KickBack. This sprint was smooth and not too jampacked. Although I had a hiccup at the end, I'm confident I can get back on track and continue to bring my best to my team. During this sprint, I primarily worked on VFX items for our game. First, I had to complete the enemy attack to implement in time for our first build. My producer and main designer, Angel and Matt, told me they had chosen one of the concepts I had drawn previously and wanted me to refine it in a 2048x2048 space. I had a few different refined versions, but this was the final one. There are 4 different paths of electricity, so that in Unity, it will rotate them around and create the electric effects. I hope the glowing effect from my brush doesn't look too odd in the game. Electricity is so fun to draw; the wildness and unpredictability of it are sometimes hard to grasp. I soon found out that drawing from the wrist helps so much for unpredictable b...