Hello Everyone I will continue to be working on Heart of the Forest! I thought I would blog about the process over the 15 weeks. 

Pitch for the game:   

 The Heart of the Forest is a 2.5D adventure platformer for PC. 

You play as a red capped mushroom, asked by the Forest God to help fight against a Corrupted God, find, and return the Heart of the Forest before the corruption takes over

I will mainly work on 3D and 2D environment assets and the animations for the character and NPCs.

Last week I worked on creating block outs for the 3D assets I was assigned too and creating a sketch for the 2D sprites

Concepts for the statues

Mushroom House & Statue Block outs

2D Sprite Sketches

Team

Designers

• Charlie Brazil
• Paige Dowsett 
• Brodie Maddren 
• Zachariah Navarro-Bustos 
• Bilal Jalil
  

Artist

• Jesse Lazzaro
• Hayley Brooker
• Azshwyn Sibley 
• Holly Thompson

Programmers

• Nghia Do 
• Nick Connell 
• Jazmin Fazzolari 
• Lewis Comstive 

For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a game idea with a group of people. The game is about a mushroom who must go on an adventure to save the forest from corruption and avoid enemies along the way.

For this project, I worked on creating concepts for the characters and environments I also made some sprites for the environment.

Here are some concepts for the main character.

NPC Concepts

Enemy Mushroom Concepts

Sprites

Last year for my course we were put into groups and tasked to make a game I got to do the background art backplates, which I really enjoyed doing. So I've decided I want to get better at making Environment art concepts. 

So I've decided to make a mini blog of the pieces I create.

For this one, I followed along with one of Victor Staris tutorial videos https://www.youtube.com/c/VictorStaris. I changed it up a bit, I wanted it to be like a dragon had awoken after being summoned by these ancient ruins and was coming to investigate the ruins.

I've been wanting to paint a maned wolf for a while now I think they are so cool looking so I found this really fun.

A Knight trying to return to his kingdom.

Concepts I didn't Finish

A traveller realising the mountains he walks upon are alive.

A traveller meeting a sleeping dragon will it awaken? 

This one was an exercise we did in class we had 30 mins to create an environment from a blockout image the theme was abandoned ancient Aztec.