Port to Port

a Concept Pitch

Port to Port was a concept we pitched for project Show Me at HKU.

The Team:

Lea van der Cruijsen [Developer]
Ethan van Hasselt [Designer]
Elias Malinovskaya [Artist]
Nicolas Perez Scheele [Designer]
Cielke Sonsma [Artist]
Lex Vermeulen [Artist]

The Voxel Art

I knew as soon as we started with the project that I wanted to work on the Voxel Art. I've loved pixel art for a long time, so this also seemed fun!

To the left and right of this textbox you can see my first two little experiments I made in MagicaVoxel.

For the actual project, I got to make the boats, the island and some of the buildings! + the Logo which I decided to make in Voxel Art as well!

The Boats

voxel art - galleon

boat mockup in aseprite - galleon and caravel

voxel art - caravel

Then we realized we fully misunderstood the scale we were supposed to work in so I got to remake the boats

Updated galleon mock-up

Galleon MagicaVoxel progress

Updated caravel mock-up

Caravel MagicaVoxel progress

Galleon rendered in Blender

Caravel rendered in Blender

The Logo

Mockups

Work in Progress in MagicaVoxel

I was also in charge of designing the logo! For this I looked at a bunch of logos/titles from different games, to see how they did it & what makes an interesting logo.

I decided to go for a Voxel Art style, to tie it into the rest of the game. The background with the planks was inspired by the ships in our game, to give it that boatsy feel.

Finished Logo Render

The Buildings

Warehouse block-out

Plain warehouse

Fish warehouse

Fish warehouse - alt colors

Fish warehouse - colors we settled on

Fish warehouse - expanding

Fish warehouse - finished with decor

The Island

Honestly, I think I did something quite funny (and smart) to work on the island.

We only had to make a fake screenshot, so it didn't have to be optimized at all, and we just needed a small part of it.

So I found an online height map of.. the world. I found something that looked slightly interesting, which was a random Italian coast, and used that as a base. Imported that into MagicaVoxel, and then added colors.

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