Stylized Low Poly Game Assets

This Game Jam was special, as we had great Art-Direction by Quackles3D. 

The general style-guide was: whacky, cartoon-ish assets, as Low Poly as possible. It was a lovely experience to work in this style! And i think the results fit together quite well!

We used an atlas of gradient swatches, as unified palette for the whole game. Ties everything together nicely, and turned out to be a pleasant workflow, especially for a Game Jam! Also this made it, easy for me to create 3D-vegetation, which is compliant to it's environment.

With these circumstances in place, this Jam was great exercise of working along a style guide. 

For the actual modeling here, I used a mix of procedural and manual techniques, applicable to the stylized nature of these assets.

The Color-Swatch/Gradient-Atlas workflow we agreed on, gave opportunity to create color-variations for 3 UV-Slots, whilst retaining high performance. As the game was already very colorful, and I knew that my assets going to be around a lot, I've opted for colors which are not to intrusive. For the UV-variations, I kept it mostly simple and adapting to the big picture. Creating variations, rather then introducing a lot new colors to the already colorful palette.

A great technique to gain variance out of an individual asset, in a way that has only minimal impact on the performance of the game.