In the last few weeks we’ve been adding the final art touches to the island. Now that we have all the content locked down, Deanna, one of the architects, is reviewing all the structures we created and make sure they are as correct as possible. Even though they previously designed …
Final day and a lot more little things to polish than I expected. Every time I got something fixed another problem would pop up. We got everything in a good state for E3 but there are quite a few more ideas we want to try for the castle visuals, probably 2 or 3 …
Getting close to the end of the week. Most of the key detail has been added to the walls and I feel, if we had to send this build to E3, it wouldn’t be terrible. We managed to get in some really nice framing details that I won’t spoil here but …
This was a very productive day but visually less noticeable. A lot of “invisible’ stuff got done like collision and occluders to make the area decently playable: The center building is now complete and we got the layout for the ruined walls so the major task for tomorrow is to …
Here is the progress for today. Detail has been added to the rest of the walls and towers as well as windows and other smaller features. We’ve had some discussions about the style of the battlements so those might change tomorrow or after. Here are the new modular pieces that were …
Since we have only one week to get the entry area ready before E3 I was thinking it could be interesting to have a post at the end of each day to show how we are progressing. It will balance out the high programming post count we’ve had the past few days and …
Last week was the Game Developers Conference (GDC) here in San Francisco and we were invited to talk about the art of “The Witness”. I decided to shift the talk from any technical aspect, since there are already plenty of those, and tried to focus instead on our thought process, …
It’s now been over 5 months since I joined The Witness team as an artist and I would like to share a bit of my experience on the project coming from a “big studio” as well as the most recent work I’ve done. Just before I left my last job …
Hi, I’m Shannon and this in my first blog post about The Witness. I’m currently the only 3D artist working on the game and this post is about game trees… both the ones I’m making and game trees in general. I’ve worked on trees for games over the years, and …