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January
The work in December consisted of fleshing out the prologue to Ether One and working on the hub world for the game. The shot above shows the hub world in a very bare form. Me and my fellow artist James sat down and planned out how we could make the environment more interesting. We discussed [...]
11
January
Development Continues… I continued to create the new harbor area, in the next month we planned to put out a gameplay trailer so I had a few weeks to completely finish this area. The shots below show continued development. I then had to move on to creating the second part of the mining area as [...]
10
January
Using the Mining environment assets I created some test scenes to see what kind of caves shapes can be created using the one rocky wall mesh. The results below show that a lot of natural open spaces can be created. Small Vertical Slice Pete was planning to upload Ether onto Steam Greenlight and wanted to [...]
9
January
Concepts for new level After the release of the trailer and a bit of a break from development I was drafted in to create some concept art for a new level. I was working from the levels block map which Pete created in UDK using the BSP brush. Using the block maps as templates I was [...]
10
August
For more info on Ether please visit www.ether-game.com. In this speed paint our resident Environment Artist, Oliver John Farrell, uses a block map created by our designers to concept a piece of environment art. The piece of art produced is for an environment in Ether that is named ‘The Case’. Music for the video is [...]
27
April
Ben talks about audio recording, a hugely successfully Northern Game Dev Meet Up and answers some of your burning questions on self funding, big hurdles, perfect sundays, Christoph Lehmanns face and what the right term for a doughy, bready ball is.
14
April
Pete talks about the project from a developers point of view and answers some of your burning questions!
6
April
Ben talks about the latest screen shots of Ether, helping the game development community in the North West and White Paper Games trip to Birmingham and their attendance at Launchconf’s Meet the Game Press event. He also talks about future dev diaries and question time!
5
April
Quick post to follow up the first screen shots of Ether that we presented to you the other day. These are shots from an early part of one of our environments showing a dark and spooky harbour town based upon Cornish history and culture. We have lots and lots of work to do over the next coming [...]
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March
After a lot of hard work, design and planning we can finally reveal to you the first screenshots showcasing the distinct art style of our game in development, Ether. After many different iterations and experimentations of the art style we are extremely happy with the direction our creative artist, Oliver John Farrell has taken. As [...]
