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Any progress on this?

This is better than avatar quest for balance

Wow! Thank you for this - it’s really helps - I’ve been struggling with composition for years - do you think you could create learning videos that break down in practice these concepts that we can put into practice? Sometime I feel like I want to build complex and sophisticated compositions but then it’s just gets too much for the eye- it’s becomes difficult to distill and stop back the elements.

Heyy, I just watched your video about the ATLA game and I loved it. Have you made further progress with it?, I'm recently getting into game development and I was thinking about learning unity and eventually doing something like that. I don't know how long it would take but we'll see

As a gamedev struggling with 3d art this video was amazing, keep up the great work man :)

Super informative and well edited. Thanks!

Wow. Such quality in a random vid suggested by KZfaq. I very rarely "hit the red button" after seeing one video, but here I will (especially after seeing that you also have a video about "why your game doesn't stand out", which is exactly what I'm wondering about before making my next game. Good job!

Your analysis of why those things work in those particular examples is probably correct. However, I would very much caution against treating these rules as gospel. Sure, trickery is good for when you want players to have a specific experience. But too much, and it ends up feeling shallow and streamlined. Games, that are famous for the depth of their open world and immersiveness of exploration, break those rules more than follow them. They take effort to figure out - which is part of why it feels meaningful and satisfying when you finally do.

Great content. How can direction be used in rts games where maps are symmetric for 2 players?

To be fair I think you're giving pro 3D artists a little more credit than they might deserve (as one myself). I do most of this process subconsciously. For the most part it wasn't even anything I actively learned, it just came from experience - both from playing games and working on them. A lot of what you talked about is what I call "the art of clutter" where you make seemingly meaningless objects fill out the space and engage the player without them acknowledging it. Composition is a big one too. Yes it's something you can teach, but most artist I know would agree that they were just sort of born understanding it - which I think applies to a lot of art subjects like color theory and shape language too. Also I think it's important to mention that while Stray wasn't a AAA game, it was certainly a AA game - with a budget of over 1m and nearly 30 people working on it. I know obviously your main point was that a single person can make great art, and while I definitely agree, I just think using Stray as an example isn't the best because probably 95% of indie teams are less than 5 people with virtually no budget at all. The video was good though - I'm not hating or anything, I just thought I would throw my perspective out there.

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Thanks for sharing your story, it really gives me inspiration!

This video is awesome. You use a lot of terms I have never heard of. All I ever knew about game art was pixel, pallet, modeling, materials, and tiles and textures. You gave me a lot of processes to look into.

how you make projectile attack pls gimme script

I don't know why people who can draw art always say their work looks bad it looks good to me your old art looks good sir because it's original

I wonder if your avatar game will be better than elca's avatar game am still learning unity but as soon as I master the basics I will attempt a similar project

Game Jams sound like so much fun! Definitely going to look into some!

Yo dude this is sick! Aang's animations look really good. And those trees look gorgeous. Really excited for this, thank you for sharing.

This was very educational, dude!

Id like some more bending like blood/water bending.

I’m checking My spam right now and always from now on!!!

That really looks amazing. The attack animation could be a bit better though😝

so much info in under 10 min!

Great video, dude! I learned a lot from this, and there were lot of good examples.

How can you use BOTW in the thumbnail when it is the farthest thing from an indie game lol 😆

I use godot :( hope it gets some attention in the future

bruh. My eyes are just drawn to the mountains in that bob ross painting

That second example of your old art at 1:24 looked fine to me. Better than anything I can do.

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I think the cel shading already looks good but his face feels kinda off to me, the lips seem a bit big, that could just be because it's not animated yet tho. Other than that maybe using fewer bands for the cel shading and editing the normals could look better too, kind of how guilty gear or cyber connect 2 games do it. Other than that I'd love to see gliding of some form in the game, it's one of the coolest traversal methods in games for me.

I enjoyed the video, but for a tutorial aimed for indie devs there sure is a severe lack of indie game examples (particularly 2D).

I wish you showed what your portfolio looked like at the time! I'm trying to get jobs in the gaming industry but I keep being met by rejection after rejection. Working on passion project is cute, until sallie mae starts asking for her money....

Just what I was looking for, thanks

This is Gold, your insights, detailed explanation and great video editing to convey the points is outstanding. really appreciate the effort you put in this video, Thank you and keep making awesome videos

Great channel bro, I found it by accident. Nice job, subbed

Quality content ✅ Entertaining ✅ Bob Ross ✅ Clean voice over ✅ Call to actions ✅ Learned something new ✅ +1 Subscriber ✅ Keep creating this quality content mate, the community needs it!

Really like the grass sway and those elephant ear plants in the lower right corner! Was this made with Unreal or Unity, or something else?

A tip: For honest feedback, you can use Everypixel Aesthetics (or any similar AIs, are there?) to rank your game's screenshots / marketing materials for awesomeness. I have found out my friends and internet commenters to be too kind with their feedback 😂

That's either lies, or he no longer works at Blizzard for using their brand identity for promoting his YT channel...

I call bs. Blizzard would never allow using their brand image to promote random junior employees' YT channel...

it's a good vid

I love story telling of all forms, and that includes environment. I envy people with the gift for it. I am a programmer at heart, but I look up to people like John Lassater for their ability to touch people with every detail of their story. You are very impressive and I appreciate the advice. I hope to work with talent like you one day! Edit: hahaha you brought up story telling later in the video!

Hey man! The video is great, but I'd really suggest changing the background music for future videos. It's vibe feels wrong and it's also very repetitive in a distracting way. It's easy to see you've put a lot of effort into making this, so keep up the good work :)

I love Avatar. Good memories of watching that show so much as a kid. Good luck on your project man! (also the souls series is my favorite game series of all time) Edit: You are a very talented artist!

1:13 for me it was the green one cuz its green idk xD

This is good stuff. I am working on a rendering engine and will keep these things in mind.

such a quality video. im a fan

man thanks for posting this in indie FB group, youtube is kind of miss sucks on feed so I miss this kind of valuable video. thank you, btw the golden ratio and focal similar approach of what blizz did, because I'm top-down guy I love this kind of camera setup. again thank you!

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