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2D ART / 2025
IllustratedGameAssets
A parallel art direction test: the same catalogue of objects painted with brush-rendered volume, warm bounce light and hand-placed foliage, to see how far a style change can travel without redesigning the game.
- Illustration
- Painted Assets
- Props
- Characters
- TOOLS
- Photoshop, Procreate
- PIECES
- 8 illustrations
- FOCUS
- Light & material
- ROLE
- 2D Illustrator
CHALLENGE
The project needed to know whether a painted look could carry the same readability the pixel set already had.
APPROACH
Rebuilt each object from the same silhouette, kept a single key-light direction across the set, and held value separation between prop and background so nothing needed an outline.
OUTCOME
A directly comparable painted set — crates, alchemy table, signpost, door, well, furniture, wizard and merchant — usable as an alternate art direction.
