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传统绘画在手机游戏上的10种使用方式

发布时间:2016-06-23 16:32:10 Tags:,,,,

作者:Junxue Li

术语

“传统绘画“指的是执行2D图像的传统方式,如水粉画和油画,即美术师使用画笔和画布所创造的内容。你可以参考迪士尼和吉卜力的作品。

在电子游戏发展初期,因为内存和显示设备的限制,传统绘画都不能直接被用于游戏中,通常只会出现在磁带的贴纸上。例如下面这些好看的插图:

illustrations(from gamasutra)

illustrations(from gamasutra)

而现在,早前的美术形式被赋予了“数字绘画“这一新名字。也就是现在的美术师是使用压感笔在电脑上画画,而不再是在纸上创作。不过在我看来这只是换了新工具而已,这些画作的本质和外观并未发生改变。以下便是我们的艺术总监Claire Liu的两幅作品,一副是画在纸上的水粉画,一副是数字画。我不会告诉你们哪一副是手绘画哪一副是数字画。你们可以猜看看。不过我想强调的是它们并无差别。

illustrations(from gamasutra)

illustrations(from gamasutra)

当我们进入手机游戏时代,强大的硬件便解决了种种图像局限性,传统绘画找到了进入游戏领域的方式,并且老少游戏玩家也都对其伸出了欢迎之手。实际上,人类总是很难感到满足,所以游戏开发者必须想办法创造更多丰富打图像到游戏中。而今天,不管是传统绘画还是数字绘画在游戏中都具有无数使用方式,以下我将列出其中最受欢迎的几种。

海报

首先所有游戏类型都需要海报。

平台游戏

早前平台游戏中的关卡主要是由一些重复的拼贴所构成。而现在多亏于硬件的发展,我们可以看到许多使用自由形态且永不重复的图像所组成的内容。例如全新的《雷曼》系列便是非常典型的例子。

跑酷游戏

实际上,2D跑酷游戏便是平台游戏的一种。因为这种类型的游戏现在非常流行,所以我觉得有必要提及它。让我们以《蓝精灵史诗跑酷》为例,这是一款非常华丽且突显于众多2D跑酷游戏中的游戏。现在有很多人希望通过创造这类型游戏而快速获取收益,因为这类型游戏往往是基于叫简单的美术风格。

益智游戏背景

关于益智游戏,我指的是你在一个屏幕上解决谜题,一旦你满足获胜条件你便可以转向下个关卡的游戏。关于这类型游戏我们拥有三消,泡泡射击,纸牌等类型。通常情况下这类游戏的关卡背景都是些简单的画面。大多数情况下游戏中间部分会被游戏组件所覆盖,其绘制风格通常都是以简单为主。

益智游戏地图

我们永远都不会低估地图在创造简单的益智游戏所缺少的世界感和冒险感所发挥的作用。于是每一款益智游戏都拥有能够让自己更吸引人的丰富地图。

冒险游戏

我们永远都不会忘记在获得线索后在许多奇幻场景中来回穿梭的刺激感以及使用钥匙开启全新道路的兴奋感。这类型游戏的美术师永远都不会吝啬对待游戏图像,对于某些游戏他们甚至会选择先在纸上画好图再将其扫描到电脑上。

纸牌交易游戏

这是在全世界都大受欢迎的游戏,不管是西方还是东方的美术师都会创造出与自己的文化紧密相关的角色。

寻物解谜游戏

这类型游戏曾一度很受欢迎。其主要游戏玩法便是去寻找隐藏在华丽背景下的物体,整体过程是受故事所驱动。像《刑事案件》和《神秘视线》系列都是非常受欢迎的寻物解谜游戏。

RPG环境

这是一种拥有一定历史的游戏,其由像素和拼贴组成的复古图像风格仍具有吸引力。但是我们却难以停止对美丽的自由形态的环境的渴望。

等距建筑

等距建筑被广泛运用于许多游戏类型中,包括管理游戏,城市建造游戏,策略游戏等等。现在在大多数这类型游戏中,建筑都是基于3D预渲染。我们很难再找到一款基于传统方式去绘制建筑的游戏。而《商店英雄》便是其中的少数例子。

结论

绘画是一直陪伴着人类的一种艺术形式,我想人类是永远都不会对它感到厌倦的,而它在游戏领域中的应用也会随着技术和市场的发展不断发展。这是永远都不会过时的东西。

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10 Applications of Traditional Painting in Mobile Games

by Junxue Li

Terminology

“Traditional Painting” refers to the traditional way of executing 2D artworks, for example Gouache and oil painting, artists work with brush and canvas. You can think of Disney and Ghibli’s works.

In video gaming’s infancy years, due to the limits of memory and display devices, traditional paintings couldn’t be used directly in games, perhaps their only application is on the sticker of cassettes. For example these Amamo’s beautiful illustrations:

These days, this old art form has a new branch dubbed “digital painting”. For artists paint with stylus on a computer, instead of on papers. In my eyes, it’s only a matter of new tools, this art is unchanged to its essence and appearance. Below are two paintings executed by our art director Claire Liu, one is Gouache on paper and another digital. I won’t tell you which is which, you may guess :) My point is that they are no different.

Upon entering the mobile gaming era, powerful hardware have removed the graphic limitations, that rich classic style painted graphics find their way into games, and are welcomed by players old and young. As a matter of fact, human desire is insatiable, and game developers tend to feed more and more luxurious artworks into games. Today this type of paintings – either created traditionally or digitally – have infinity number of ways of use in game, here I would only list a few popular ones:
Posters

First of all, all types of games need a poster.

Platformer

 

In old days, the levels of platformers are made up by repetitive tiles. Today thanks to the hardware, we can enjoy the luxury of using free formed-never repetitive paintings. The best example might be the new Rayman series.

 

Running games

 

To the essence, 2D running games is a sub-type of platformers. And this genre is so popular these days that it deserves a specific mentioning. Here we can see the Smurf Epic Run is exceedingly gorgeous and stand out among the crowd of 2D runners. For today way too many people want to make fast money in this genre, coming up with simple style graphics.

Puzzle Game background

For puzzle games, I mean the type that you solve puzzles in a single screen, and upon winning condition is met that you are moved to the next level. We have Match 3, bubble shooter, solitaire, etc etc in this type. Typically the background of the level screen is a neat painting. While the center part of it is occupied by gaming pieces most of the time, the painting adopts fresh and simple style.

 

Puzzle Game Maps

We may never underestimate the map screens’ power of creating a sense of world and adventure which is missing in simple puzzle games. So every puzzle game has richly designed maps to make itself more engaging.

You can find in my last article the best map screens in mobile games.

Adventure Games

We may never forget the thrill of going back and forth across many and many fantastic scenes after a cue, and the excitement of opening new pathway by a key item. For this genre artists never grudge the most luxurious treatments, and for some games they even go to the great length of painting the graphics on paper then scan them into computer.

Trading Card Games

This is a genre welcomed around the world, and artists in the East and West alike produce character designs deeply rooted in their cultures.

Hidden Object Games

This genre was very popular for some time. The main game play is to find listed objects in beautifully illustrated scenes, and the whole process is story driven. Famous titles including Criminal Case F2P game and Mystery Case Files series.

RPG Environment

This is a very old genre, and the retro style graphics made of pixels and tiles still have their appeal. However we couldn’t be stopped from asking for beautifully illustrated free-form environments.

Isometric Buildings

Isometric buildings have wild application in many genres: management, city builder, strategy , etc. Currently in most of these games, buildings are made by 3D pre-render. It’s really difficult to find a game in which the buildings are painted in traditional way. Here is one, Shop Heroes.

Conclusion

Painting is an art form accompanying mankind from his infancy up to now, I think humans would never tired of its enchantment, and it’s application in games would only evolve with the tide of technology and market. It would never go obsolete.(source:gamasutra)

 


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