{"id":1161,"date":"2010-08-15T02:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2010-08-15T02:45:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T07:45:57","slug":"liquisity-2-art-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"Liquisity 2 Art Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanheadzoom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanheadzoom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanheadzoom.png 600w, https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanheadzoom-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chubigans asked me months ago to make blog posts for the site.\u00a0 Usually I&#8217;m working on secret stuff, so it&#8217;s a bit hard to just go nuts and post confidential material.\u00a0 Granted, he gave me the option of posting <em>whatever<\/em> I was working on currently &#8211; but I&#8217;m pretty sure the other developers would be pretty upset if I started posting their secret projects on another dev&#8217;s site.\u00a0 Many months and Catch 22&#8217;s later, I caught the flu and decided to make a piece of art for the full version game that I would simply post up to the site.\u00a0 Since<em> Liquisity 2<\/em>&#8216;s final look is no longer under wraps, it seemed like a good idea.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Every piece of art for <em>Liquisity 2<\/em> was painted in exactly the same manner.\u00a0 I am not an inherent painter.\u00a0 Sketching it out first makes me feel too committed to the original line drawing and I tend to color by number and forget there&#8217;s an overall painting that needs to be done.\u00a0 So I work it like a sculpture and chip away at chunks of color and block in general shapes instead:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanstep_montage.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1164\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanstep_montage.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"346\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanstep_montage.png 600w, https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanstep_montage-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s hard to see what&#8217;s happening in the middle 3 steps; there are subtle decorative elements going just above his head which you can see in the final and the zoom.\u00a0 The piece is <em>very<\/em> loosely based on Mayan relief sculpture.\u00a0 This was done in about 2.5 &#8211; 3 hours (maybe less &#8211; my cat needed his human slave and dinner somewhere in the middle of that).\u00a0 I spent longer on this one since it&#8217;s not just a rock texture or an ambiguous plant shape.<\/p>\n<p>This was for fun.\u00a0 (I&#8217;m not sure if we&#8217;ll use it for the final.)\u00a0 My current art production list is just me shooting from the hip.\u00a0  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanhead_finishtut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1162\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanhead_finishtut.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanhead_finishtut.png 600w, https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mayanhead_finishtut-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chubigans asked me months ago to make blog posts for the site.\u00a0 Usually I&#8217;m working on secret stuff, so it&#8217;s a bit hard to just go nuts and post confidential material.\u00a0 Granted, he gave me the option of posting whatever I was working on currently &#8211; but I&#8217;m pretty sure the other developers would be pretty upset if I started posting their secret projects on another dev&#8217;s site.\u00a0 Many months and Catch 22&#8217;s later, I caught the flu and decided<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/?p=1161\" class=\"read-more\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[32,16,84],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-maker","category-liquisity-2","tag-concept-art","tag-games","tag-liquisity-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vertigogaming.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}