Fae Farm - Azoria World Map
I had the honour of painting the map of Azoria that players use to navigate through Fae Farm. I was so excited to paint something that would directly make it into the game, but it's so hard to capture in one image how much time and careful thought was put into this; I think it took the better part of two months! I worked closely with our extremely patient Senior UI Artist Russell Vaccaro and under the direction of Derek Valerio , Katie De Sousa and Isaac Epp ?? GDC to try to create an image that would sit softly behind our UI and not overpower it, and could feel like it belonged with the other hand-made art that features so prominently in the game. They very patiently wrangled me away from making something too bright and colourful. The clouds were just as time-consuming--we nicknamed them the "Fog of Cozy" instead of a Fog of War but each cloud piece was drawn so that each section could be removed as you progressed in the game and uncovered more of the map. Each landmark was drawn as a separate Smart Object, there were quite a lot of adjustment and colour layers on top so I was constantly making changes and checking the results in a second window. The final image ended up being 6 Gigs and had over 250 layers! Total labour of love.
For full-resolution images you can see these on my Artstation here: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/rJ5WAL
Artist. Small Business-Owner. Wedding Expert. Bespoke Art Curator.
1 年Wow wow wow! I love the game and you did a great job with the artwork!
Creative Director
1 年Awesome work Kim! :D