Seekers of Skyveil: Joon

4th drop of Elodie Games Art Blast, introducing Joon, Armada Gunner, our handsome gunslinger.

Concept art work done by Natalie Pellmann and Ky Bui !

https://www.artstation.com/foxcrusade
https://www.artstation.com/kybui

Shoutout to:
Billy, my lead
Sean-Paul, our art director
Banks, THE boss!

First explorations by Natalie!

First explorations by Natalie!

This is the direction we decided to go with, didn't change much since.

This is the direction we decided to go with, didn't change much since.

Final design by Ky Bui

Final design by Ky Bui

Final design by Ky Bui

Final design by Ky Bui

First proxy model

First proxy model

Game camera views

Game camera views

Posed proxy model for mockup UI art and portratis

Posed proxy model for mockup UI art and portratis

Temp portrait art for UI

Temp portrait art for UI

Lobby screen pose prototype

Lobby screen pose prototype

Face and hair development

Face and hair development

Refined model

Refined model

Gun reloading prototype, shoots from energy cells

Further face development followed by overpaints from Natalie

Further face development followed by overpaints from Natalie

More work on the face before it was changed

More work on the face before it was changed

Trying new semi-realistic direction with face and proportions

Trying new semi-realistic direction with face and proportions

Anatomy pass

Anatomy pass

Mostly finished sculpt

Mostly finished sculpt

Final highpoly

Final highpoly

Final highpoly

Final highpoly

Baking parts in Marmoset toolbag. No-groups baking workflow

Baking parts in Marmoset toolbag. No-groups baking workflow

AO, lightmap, specmap bakes

AO, lightmap, specmap bakes

Wires!

Wires!

Region separation for color themes.

Region separation for color themes.

Joon in UE4 with colors applied

Joon in UE4 with colors applied

Joon base and red color themes.

Joon base and red color themes.

Presentation pose exploration

Presentation pose exploration

Promo art render, posed highpoly from Zbrush with basic polypaint

Promo art render, posed highpoly from Zbrush with basic polypaint

Thanks for watching, stay tuned for another Art Blast some time later!

Thanks for watching, stay tuned for another Art Blast some time later!