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The art of The Dark Crystal

The art of The Dark Crystal 
 I participated in a project called Everything is a remix, I chose the 80s film The Dark Crystal and decided that I would adapt the film into an adventure game.
I first did some rough sketches of ideas.
 After doing some sketches of enemies, a hero character and environments I then recreated those sketches using photoshop.  
 I then created animations to see how the enemy and hero character would look when part of my game and when performing specific actions. 
During the process of creating my game, I also looked at different colour schemes. 
 I then did sketches for items the player could use to replenish their health. 
Here is an animation for a slug enemy which shoots spikes from its body. 
 I began to create animations for specific things like enemy attacks and the movements of my scarecrow hero when he uses specific weapons. 
 In the final animation I made my Skeleton Spider perform the attack of hitting it's legs on the ground.
 I made my scarecrow hero stab with his sword and raise his shard of the dark crystal into the air.
 I also began to design the grassland environment and cave environment which I planned to feature in my game. 
Below depicts how my game would function if it was a coded game. 
Here are some sketches of my animations.
 

The art of The Dark Crystal
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The art of The Dark Crystal

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