I made them with coffee stirrers and a square section of balsa (5mm I think). At first I made small cubes one by one but it was a pain in the butt, so I switched to gluing strips on the balsa, and THEN cut the balsa. Real time saver.
I recently made some box with tarps on top, and tried something new: glasses wet wipes. They are perfect, very thin but extremely solid, they become really soft when washed and wet with PVA or mob podge, and are easy to put in place.
I painted them with inks and mod podge, which gave them a shiny finish, perfect to imitate plastic.
What do you think?
Something you might like! During development I made a full on launch sequence, but in the end we didn't use it as it failed to fit in the game flow. We only use 2 shorts shots in the initial recreation of the series intro.
Remaking the cockpit interior was a lot of fun :) Even if it appears for like 0.5 seconds in the game :')
Hello everyone! Following the Viper Mk2 I've made a montage of all our Raptors variants. Hope you like it! I enjoyed making these a lot.
If you're curious they are ships from our latests game, Battlestar_Galactica_Scattered_Hopes.
Hi everyone! Here are pixel art Vipers. The first and second are canon ships (Viper Mk7, Stealthstar), while the next 3 are non-canon, orignal designs by me (Gazelle, Wolf and Falcon).
It was a real pleasure to make them.
Hello everyone!
Now that the game is out I can FINALLY show the assets I made. We went for a low poly / pixel art direction for the ships, because we like it and also because the ships are generally very small on the screen.
In our previous game (Crying Suns) I made the ships with a technique I'll call "sprites stacking", just a sandwich of sprites to give some depth when they rotate. For this production I had to step up my game and make everything in 3D.
On the technical side, we used normal maps to bring some depth to the texture, that I painted by hand. With a reference palette it's really easy to do.
Now meet the Viper Mk2, the base fighter of the game. He's a brawler, brutal at short range, and quick to get from target to target.
What do you think?