Our key animator Maria Kercher has transformed Haro into a witch for Halloween!
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#halloween #art #witch #broomstick #pangolin #lacuna #indiegame #indiedev #cartoon

Akili here, bringing you something from Diogo and Alex!

This is a background from the beginning of the game. The player will be able to catch glimpses of the mountains flitting past the train's windows while exploring its interior.

From the get-go, we knew we wanted to create rich environments that supported our characters. Everything has a reason and a purpose for existing, and the BGs are no different.

Gwyn here!

Yesterday's Twitch stream was really awesome! This is how far I got on the piece I'm working on for The Story We Wear, the book I'll be paneling for with my co-authors in November at CTN. You can find out more at The Talking Threads.

Special Chat Guests:...
Akili Pomian, writer
Kai and T, research volunteers

The greats aren't the only animators that like to play with costumes! Gwyn here~ I may be art director for Lacuna, but I'm also the costume designer, and knew early on that I wanted Josh to have a real pair of Haro's signature harem pants to play with in real life.
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Although Haro's pants are made from a buttery silk called "charmeuse" in the game world, I decided it would be best to use a more structural fabric for Josh's pair. This polyester allows for Josh to freeze mid-m...otion and study his pose, while actual charmeuse would naturally puddle.
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This fabric lets Josh see more structural light and shadows too. Although it doesn't behave like the actual fabric we've designed for Haro's harem pants, it provides him with more important tools. In a month or two, when we start doing final animations for her, I will build Josh a better pair out of silk charmeuse so he has a complete range of visual aids.
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My MFA thesis critique was conducted by Kate Bergh, the live-action costume designer for Disney's Hercules and Pocahontas feature animations. With seasoned industry techniques in my bank of tricks, we are ambitiously pursuing fabric movement, asymmetrical design, and costume evolution throughout Haro's journey.
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#bts #2danimation #indiegames #gamedevelopment #animation #costumedesign

Josh here, lead animator.

When traditionally-animating for a video game, it's best to avoid fully rendering animations right away. Having rough animations in early development allows us to quickly find out what isnt working with the movement, and how we can tailor the animation to the actual gameplay.

For example, let's say we created a beautifully polished animation of Haro crawling. Such fluid movement, yay! But put it in the game engine and suddenly we find that she needs... to be lower to the ground to avoid obstacles... time to go redo that entire animation.
Creating "roughs" helps us avoid these painful situatuins.