{"id":2583,"date":"2025-02-17T11:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2025-05-15T03:02:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:02:19","slug":"making-etas-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/2025\/02\/17\/making-etas-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Eta’s Turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Art Programs used:<\/strong> Paint Tool Sai 2, Photoshop<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. I use SAI 2 as my main art program. For the character Eta, Parker (the creator of the game idea) had already drawn out what the character would look like in their GDD. I decided to trace the artwork but shade it slightly differently, and also create a turnaround of the side and back so it would be easier for me to model this character. I also took some inspiration from Katamari Damacy to see how I could shade the character.
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    2. After I\u2019d traced the character, I started making the lines so that I could accurately draw the proportions in the turnaround. I used the SAI ruler tool to align the character and the lines, which helped me a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    3. After drawing all sides of the turnaround, I decided to do subtle gradients instead of flat shading, inspired by Katamari Damacy. I think it isn\u2019t too obvious, but it adds a nice effect to the character.
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    Final Turnaround<\/p>\n\n\n

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    4. The original concept of Eta is a toon-shaded spirit who is tasked to save the Earth after the Spirit of Creativity is captured. For my character concept art, I made it slightly more shaded, using gradients to give a subtle colouring effect to the character.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I asked Parker in class whether he likes the subtle colour gradients of the character, and he said it adds a nice effect to the character.
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    This is a short idle animation concept I made with Photoshop. I used this as the basis to create the 3d model for Eta. I used Photoshop to create the layers and EZgif to animate. <\/p>\n\n\n

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    Art Programs used: Paint Tool Sai 2, Photoshop Eta Colour Palette (3d) I decided to change the colour palette because the 2. After I\u2019d traced the character, I started making the lines so that I could accurately draw the proportions in the turnaround. I used the SAI ruler tool to align the character and the lines,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ea3g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}