Let's say I have an artist who really likes modelling (and is quite good at it), but tends to get stymized at texturing. Not can't-do, just that isn't their favorite.
Hit with me aesthetics that are geometry-forward, that either minimize texturing, or favor broad-stroke texturing, or at least less focused texturing (so hard surfaces/generative akin to trimsheets or noise maps or auto-world-UV-texturing or etc)
It isn't that she do it or anything, I just feel strongly that you should build around what your team is best at and most enjoys, and I mean. There's no particular reason we gotta shove down the default path here!
@glassbottommeg there was an artist I followed on Twitter who did these low poly models with low res textures, but the textures lined up perfectly with the model, I think it was something about the scale of the texture matching the scale of the model, and it looked amazing
But I can't remember their name so I can't find an example, and it may not be what you're looking for anyway...
@glassbottommeg The TRON-like aesthetics I'm using really hinges on geometry first, with fairly simple textures to add highlights and simple details. That said, it also does somewhat restrict what sort of game you could do!
@JeremiahFieldhaven Yeaaaaah we've bounced off TRON a few times. It's a big favorite of ours, but like, the kinds of games that work with the aesthetic VS the kinds of games we end up making are in totally different zipcodes.
@aCrownOfMoths That's kiiiinda where she's headed too, heh. Like she's very good with substance, so I expect the end point will be semi-procedural, but that doesn't necessarily mean in-game, just, Substance doing Substance'y things.
@mcmartin Oh, good one! it's only looking back that I can draw a straight line between this and Ashen as largely the same style with different opinions about lighting. Kinda rad!
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