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| 0s | hello everyone welcome to a very special |
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| 3s | Q&A focused on the upcoming violet is a |
| 6s | blue quest it's a focus on art and audio |
| 10s | so we are going to be joined by many |
| 13s | people during this stream and you're |
| 15s | gonna be seeing a little bit of an |
| 16s | insight into the processes of how we do |
| 18s | our concept art artwork itself |
| 21s | environment modeling animation and audio |
| 24s | so a little bit an insight to an area |
| 27s | that we don't really discuss much I |
| 29s | think that's safe to say here in regards |
| 31s | to runescape but something that we've |
| 33s | started a lot more we do the early done |
| 35s | just a few months ago of course and now |
| 37s | we're here with the violet is request so |
| 39s | first of all joining me to my left |
| 40s | Marty Barker and then to my right margin |
| 42s | nice pants so nice pants is gonna kick |
| 45s | yourself great mundane by the way so so |
| 48s | Before we jump onto the screen just |
| 50s | first of all what is your role Jagex and |
| 52s | what do you work on so I am a concept |
| 57s | artist on the team I've been on the team |
| 59s | for about one and a half years now |
| 61s | lately I've been doing stuff like the |
| 65s | writers of the apocalypse for the |
| 67s | Halloween event so yeah that's awesome |
| 72s | so are we good to throw on his screen |
| 75s | John so we're gonna kick this way so now |
| 77s | you can see the concept that now though |
| 78s | yes sir thank you very much so I would |
| 83s | just like to start out with giving a bit |
| 86s | of a shout out to all the beautiful |
| 88s | people that I met during reinfestation |
| 90s | yes this was my second year in fest and |
| 93s | I had an absolute blast I had a lot of |
| 96s | good art related questions during the |
| 99s | event so thank you for that and also I |
| 102s | would like to give a shout out to Neil |
| 105s | also mod a few sees he is actually the |
| 113s | one who has been drawing all of these |
| 115s | beautiful concerts that I'm gonna be |
| 117s | showing today so yeah let's just get |
| 121s | right into it basically for this type of |
| 126s | assignment which is a bit more like a |
| 129s | light-hearted sort of feel since it's |
| 132s | like a Christmas theme and all that |
| 134s | it's a nice break from getting and |
| 136s | getting this sort of thing like in in |
| 138s | contrast to all the dark and a lot of |
| 146s | that going on so this is a nice break |
| 147s | from that so basically that's one of the |
| 150s | main pillars for for this event like |
| 152s | basically the light-hearted playfulness |
| 155s | and like the warm fuzzy sort of |
| 157s | Christmas feels so this as you can see |
| 161s | are some of the initial sketches that we |
| 165s | did for violet I don't know how how much |
| 169s | people know about they know they know |
| 170s | violet such I think in God's to a |
| 173s | backstory and an overview we've had |
| 175s | ramen on shreem in the past actually |
| 176s | ramen he hasn't microphone so just |
| 179s | clarify we have a ramen who's just |
| 180s | decided to say this is gonna be his most |
| 182s | children remember so he's over the |
| 184s | corner somewhere nice and chilled out so |
| 186s | the war give me a backstory on minor |
| 188s | well sir what's the deal violet is an |
| 190s | orphan who was left in the land of snow |
| 192s | by some not very good parents and these |
| 197s | yetis found her in the woods covered up |
| 200s | in a blanket so they did give her a |
| 201s | blanket and they've decided to know what |
| 207s | [Laughter] |
| 217s | these decided to adopt violet and raise |
| 224s | her but they never told her she was |
| 227s | human they've always been worried |
| 229s | because she is you know human they've |
| 231s | raised her as a Yeti and violet has |
| 235s | reached 86 and she would like to go to |
| 237s | yes down but the parents obviously |
| 241s | worried because she's not due yet even |
| 243s | they don't know how she's gonna be |
| 244s | received and the player comes along and |
| 247s | you find out in the quest there yeah |
| 249s | yeah awesome thank you very much sir so |
| 255s | jamming on that like the the thing about |
| 258s | the age of violet that's kind of where |
| 261s | we started so we started doing some |
| 263s | drawings trying to figure out where do |
| 265s | you work |
| 266s | the design was and like we played around |
| 272s | the different range of Ages for her we |
| 275s | started out a little bit older but then |
| 278s | we sort of settled on there like five to |
| 280s | six years old and we realized there was |
| 283s | going to be a very small character so we |
| 284s | wanted to make sure that the shapes were |
| 286s | really readable and we used a lot of |
| 290s | warm vibrant colors for her palette |
| 292s | because the theme is some based in a |
| 295s | very snowy landscape so we wanted her to |
| 297s | stand out from the landscape and yeah we |
| 301s | played around or I should say Neil |
| 303s | played around the idea of her having a |
| 305s | fox tail which got cut literally and we |
| 312s | sort of integrated that into her hair |
| 314s | design instead so yeah she has these so |
| 317s | a huge ponytail so as a team at home how |
| 319s | do you all how do you guys get together |
| 320s | and decide now what's the best approach |
| 322s | for and how do we get from X Y X from X |
| 325s | to Y and so on and so forth so how does |
| 326s | that work process wise we Lutron's sit |
| 328s | down next to each other and chat really |
| 335s | these are someone who starts off with |
| 337s | sketches like yes done there then we |
| 340s | just put it in front of the team put in |
| 341s | front of the 3d guys I put in friends |
| 343s | developers and then we all sit down and |
| 345s | pick it apart basically also a second |
| 348s | set of sketches comes out that later on |
| 351s | so you get to the final version |
| 351s | presumably yeah okay that's basically |
| 354s | how it goes and eventually we end up |
| 357s | with something like this this is |
| 359s | basically the final design sheet for |
| 361s | violet and this sheet is very important |
| 366s | since it's basically what we send off to |
| 368s | the 3d artists to make the final model |
| 370s | and we also try to incorporate some of |
| 373s | the emotional or expression sketches I |
| 377s | should say just to help the animators |
| 379s | kind of bring life to the character |
| 381s | later on I'm sure they're going to talk |
| 383s | about more of the animation step that's |
| 385s | amazing and also we played around with |
| 388s | some ideas for snow particles fish she |
| 391s | has these huge ponytails that she could |
| 393s | drags along in the snow and they I'm not |
| 397s | sure if that actually made it to the |
| 398s | model but |
| 399s | so it's a fun idea and we like to |
| 401s | explore these things really early on and |
| 403s | then if we have to we'll just cut it |
| 406s | Indian so moving on to the yetis this is |
| 415s | a bit of a an interesting one because we |
| 417s | have chosen to go with a different |
| 419s | design than the current one and that's |
| 421s | already in the game is in the bottom |
| 423s | left corner correct so that one is |
| 427s | basically the more gorilla like sort of |
| 430s | brute force kind of character and we |
| 432s | wanted to go with something that have |
| 433s | has a little bit more character and hint |
| 436s | towards more personality and also that |
| 440s | kind of goes well with the with the |
| 443s | theme that we're going for like the more |
| 445s | lighthearted stuff so we can base these |
| 447s | new characters basically violets new mom |
| 451s | and dad make make a kit that will work |
| 454s | with some characters with a bit more |
| 457s | emotion I'm not sure I just find there's |
| 459s | something about seeing rigged up faces |
| 461s | that happy angry and sad in the |
| 462s | accompanying faces it just makes me |
| 464s | laugh I love it I mean it's amazing it's |
| 466s | not used to like create the chat heads |
| 468s | then don't you see in the dialogue or |
| 470s | was that separate the animators really |
| 472s | sure that yeah they're kind of |
| 474s | expressions we want the character to be |
| 476s | able to capture also and with with the |
| 479s | current animation rigs and stuff that we |
| 480s | use for the characters nowadays we can |
| 482s | definitely bring a lot more character to |
| 484s | the to the characters as well so here's |
| 491s | an example of a bit of a production |
| 494s | pipeline sort of things so basically we |
| 497s | draw a bunch of stuff we show it off to |
| 500s | the designers and the 3d artists and |
| 502s | they bring back feedback in this case |
| 505s | bernardo AKA multi clumsy did a bit of |
| 509s | an over paint on the initial design we |
| 512s | felt it needed a little bit more bulky |
| 516s | bulkiness a bit more fluffy and it says |
| 521s | friendly looking I'm not sure if I agree |
| 523s | with that difference between I mean I |
| 525s | think the one on the left a bit more |
| 527s | friendly looking than the one was right |
| 528s | personally but yeah but that that's one |
| 530s | of the notes and we kind of took the |
| 533s | note and brought it to the final design |
| 534s | and this is basically what we came up |
| 537s | with as a fan of the sign for the yetis |
| 540s | so this is the default one to the Latvia |
| 543s | yeah fluffy and nice and basically this |
| 547s | is a like a potential for like your |
| 551s | generic URI that we could fill the world |
| 553s | with that the older models could go to |
| 556s | this may be okay if you choose to go to |
| 558s | go that route awesome and then based on |
| 560s | that we also made the Dead and the |
| 562s | mountain versions as well |
| 564s | yeah just variations to to add to it so |
| 571s | that's basically it on the yetis and |
| 574s | then a bit of a side note kind of thing |
| 576s | this is this hasn't really made it into |
| 579s | production this time around but we felt |
| 581s | we should explore these I'm gonna try to |
| 584s | pronounce it I mean I'm not great I'm |
| 587s | not great hope Nowell no you're like no |
| 591s | please please tell me but basically |
| 595s | since these guys are very closely tied |
| 599s | to the yetis in in the Lord because |
| 602s | these are basically the guys to spit |
| 604s | song humans to make them yetis sort of |
| 606s | thing that's from what I've done and so |
| 610s | we chose to go ahead and just make some |
| 613s | initial designs for these guys as well |
| 614s | just because they're in just in case we |
| 617s | wanted to need them and even at some |
| 619s | point so basically just oh thank you |
| 623s | very much so everyone in fact they're |
| 625s | safe thank you two more nice pants for |
| 627s | that little a wonderful summary for the |
| 629s | concept that into otherwise it's |
| 631s | requests a little bit of a as you |
| 634s | mentioned a pipeline of how stuff starts |
| 636s | off in its initial concepts and makes |
| 638s | its way to kind of a final so we come to |
| 640s | my left now with mod D Barca what are |
| 643s | you up to sir so for the livestream I've |
| 646s | been asked to design a Christmas card |
| 648s | these are the Christmas based around the |
| 650s | quests so you can see yeah |
| 653s | I've started off with a few thumbnails |
| 655s | here of what's is it Trevor was the |
| 657s | daddy end |
| 659s | yeah and violet and they're having a |
| 662s | very unfair snowball fight that's my |
| 663s | idea so he's holding this massive thing |
| 666s | potentially crushing her and she's |
| 668s | running away screaming which is the I |
| 670s | thought that was enough so I usually |
| 673s | start off with a few thumbnails like |
| 674s | that just yet a few ideas down and pick |
| 676s | one and now I'm growing it up basically |
| 679s | just adding detail and get an idea of |
| 681s | the proportions and kind of how hands |
| 684s | are gonna work while holding a massive |
| 685s | snowball and expressions people are |
| 687s | gonna look kind of happy they're joking |
| 689s | around you know it's not gonna be so as |
| 693s | I mentioned I'll see the back of your |
| 695s | image the entire stream so what we tend |
| 697s | to do is stream for this is we |
| 699s | interchange sections and so we'll cover |
| 701s | another artist or animator and so on and |
| 704s | then we come back to him to kind of see |
| 705s | how its purpose is going but just as a |
| 707s | quick fYI in case people aren't aware of |
| 712s | so on lead concept for runescape so yeah |
| 722s | while so I'm actually doing more drawing |
| 726s | today than I usually get to since |
| 729s | becoming a lead this is why we do more |
| 731s | streams yeah also no I'm just gonna draw |
| 740s | along yeah I can't cut back to me later |
| 742s | and see how it's get awesome alright |
| 743s | next up we come over to mod Alex on my |
| 746s | rights |
| 747s | hello so um first formal Alex who are |
| 750s | you what are you doing here jack I'm a |
| 752s | senior environment artist and I was the |
| 754s | only environment artist on this project |
| 756s | yeah eleven and a half years down Wow |
| 759s | yeah okay yeah it's feels like it |
| 765s | this project in particular it did yeah |
| 769s | so before we jump in environmentally and |
| 773s | just couple fins to get out the way so |
| 775s | presumably a brand new environment has |
| 777s | been created but yes yes several yeah we |
| 779s | did yeah |
| 781s | there's quite a few new maps quotes for |
| 782s | this one about seven new environments so |
| 784s | if we look at projects window and this |
| 786s | is take a live Dungeness example how is |
| 788s | the dungeon |
| 790s | regards to how different is it working |
| 791s | on a massive project like le dungeons |
| 793s | versus a large project quest wise as |
| 796s | well it's blue Wow okay |
| 798s | it's the planning stage that's more |
| 801s | important than that one there's a lot |
| 802s | more to think about so you've wall |
| 804s | you've got a lot longer to work on |
| 805s | something like elite dungeons there's a |
| 807s | lot more planning and forethought that's |
| 809s | got to go into it where you can make new |
| 811s | things when you can reuse things a |
| 813s | project like this one was actually |
| 815s | timewise quite small one and he had he |
| 818s | was about four weeks to do all of this |
| 819s | so it was a lot of there's very few new |
| 822s | things in this it's all rehashed and |
| 824s | reused from elsewhere and they're all |
| 826s | simple tricks and nonsense |
| 829s | hopefully looks good end of the day |
| 831s | awesome well I mean Sri Sri Sri sure |
| 835s | well it's like let's do it alright here |
| 837s | we go see we've got their game up now so |
| 839s | I mean first of all the buildings I mean |
| 842s | especially this year personally like the |
| 845s | graphical quality environmentally wise |
| 847s | and so on this stepped up so much and I |
| 849s | mean it just shows me the scarce and |
| 851s | clothes looked amazing we had elite |
| 853s | dungeons we've had obviously so lack the |
| 856s | environment around the lost Grove and so |
| 858s | on it looks amazing excuse the plug so |
| 860s | okay I'm literally I'm just going it |
| 867s | looks I guess in essence what this is |
| 871s | the Arias that's all before here yeah |
| 874s | okay so this is and I've got to be |
| 876s | really careful not to yeah trying to |
| 880s | come up with ideas for this I've |
| 881s | realized that doing environment art it's |
| 883s | it's riddled with spoilers I can't |
| 886s | something to show that isn't just gonna |
| 888s | give the game away is pretty difficult |
| 889s | yeah but this is from the introduction |
| 893s | early part of the quest so we've got |
| 896s | this farmhouse here this will be will be |
| 899s | a Yeti house at the end of the day so |
| 901s | when I was told that this is what we |
| 903s | were going to be doing that we were |
| 904s | going to be using yetis and that they |
| 906s | need a house the whole I was freaking |
| 909s | out because I saw them in the previous |
| 913s | previous clips of this big gorilla type |
| 916s | thing and we've got nothing like that in |
| 918s | game but when they went through a bit |
| 919s | more of a friendly redesign |
| 921s | you know the law I was told about the |
| 924s | law that they were once humans that have |
| 925s | been turned into yetis the idea of an |
| 928s | abandoned farm mate was a lot more |
| 930s | plausible the idea that this was |
| 932s | probably aware that Yeti lived as a |
| 934s | human in its previous life but then it's |
| 936s | become overgrown overgrown the buildings |
| 945s | that it wouldn't use once it became a |
| 946s | Yeti so it's a bit more derelict and so |
| 950s | in regards to mobile if you have to |
| 952s | change if you have to specifically do |
| 954s | anything for mobile users at all is it |
| 956s | just a matter of this is the map and |
| 958s | then it goes elsewhere it's it's more of |
| 960s | a technical thing for mobile it's making |
| 962s | sure that we're limiting the number of |
| 964s | textures we use so that it's not yo |
| 966s | drawing too much powerfully so |
| 967s | presumably where you have all of this |
| 969s | draw distance on mobiles would be |
| 972s | optimized the actual assets themselves |
| 974s | have been switched out for a lot of |
| 976s | lower poly ones because we've got better |
| 977s | textures now the models themselves can |
| 979s | be lower poly so in theory it should |
| 981s | just be able to port straight across to |
| 982s | mobile and work absolutely fine but yes |
| 986s | I was saying about like shortcuts that |
| 988s | we took with this project and all of |
| 990s | these buildings were taken from a piece |
| 992s | of content that never got Reneau yeah so |
| 995s | from a few years ago now we we built all |
| 998s | these these kits of buildings they're |
| 1000s | never one life so I decide to do a bit |
| 1002s | of dredging and came up with these ones |
| 1004s | they've all been retexture to look |
| 1006s | slightly more wintery going for that |
| 1009s | hole we wanted a nighttime environment |
| 1016s | and and the blue to sort of it would |
| 1018s | accentuate the characters nicely the FTS |
| 1020s | being blue they'd they'd fit in really |
| 1021s | nicely but the fact that violets quite |
| 1023s | warm |
| 1023s | she should pop quite nicely in the |
| 1025s | environment so we went for blue but with |
| 1027s | these sort of glowing lights glowing |
| 1029s | windows tranq ray that warms or |
| 1030s | Christmas the aesthetic because for |
| 1044s | those players that like doing quests and |
| 1046s | just walking around and giving things |
| 1048s | yeah let's not eat yellow snow Wow okay |
| 1053s | it's always good to go around examine |
| 1055s | yellow snow tastes like lemon what it |
| 1059s | tastes like okay this kind of I guess |
| 1066s | ties it with a fun FEMA guess of this |
| 1072s | confirmed chat line of this story and |
| 1086s | now up loan it so obviously going |
| 1090s | spoiler territory is there anything else |
| 1092s | environmentally wise that's kind of |
| 1093s | being touched in this regard is that |
| 1096s | other little areas that go into it yes |
| 1097s | so I mean obviously this is only one |
| 1099s | part yes the quest there's a lot more |
| 1101s | sort of to where it differs from some of |
| 1104s | the larger projects where you've got one |
| 1105s | like massive sprawling environment this |
| 1107s | is like lots of little pocket |
| 1108s | environments yeah in order to do that |
| 1111s | we've created it's just yeah if I go |
| 1113s | here this is one map square and that we |
| 1115s | call an imposter square it's basically |
| 1118s | designed to line up with any of the |
| 1120s | other environments and could be instance |
| 1121s | in around anywhere to fill out the draw |
| 1123s | distance so it looks like so literally |
| 1127s | going it instead of going into that |
| 1128s | listing map editor and it's having to |
| 1130s | make so many squares for the disorders |
| 1134s | and so you can see here like you've got |
| 1136s | lots off in the distance trees mountains |
| 1138s | it's not very exciting but it was the |
| 1142s | fact that the area is a lot larger than |
| 1145s | it really is XT is the imposter only NXT |
| 1147s | can do imposter stuff right yes yes |
| 1149s | that's a nasty feature autopsy shows on |
| 1153s | top of this we've also reimplemented a |
| 1155s | lot of the surface world Christmas |
| 1157s | elements that we did last year I did be |
| 1158s | I was asked on Twitter to do run the max |
| 1161s | guild and out City so they will roll |
| 1163s | that out again yeah I already see it in |
| 1166s | game everyone it's sort of iterate on |
| 1169s | the the Christmas thing up for the game |
| 1171s | world by it's really simple it's like |
| 1173s | retexture for the trees so we're we've |
| 1175s | got some of the foliage textures click |
| 1178s | of a button you can swap it to a snowy |
| 1179s | version additional models like the |
| 1182s | presents underneath the trees have |
| 1183s | gotten the surface world are all added |
| 1184s | in |
| 1185s | but um yes we started to push that even |
| 1187s | further with the snow on the roofs of |
| 1189s | buildings that some I mean a perfect |
| 1192s | example of the imposter square so if you |
| 1194s | turn the camera towards this way they're |
| 1196s | like this there you go so that's that's |
| 1198s | essentially where the map square ends |
| 1199s | this farm building is on it's only one |
| 1201s | night square in game that's replaced |
| 1204s | with so just so questionable to hear |
| 1208s | some of the music or sound design for |
| 1209s | this quest we do have and we do have |
| 1211s | audio and NIT towards the end of the |
| 1213s | stream but it's up to mod slippers what |
| 1215s | he wants to show so well yeah yes a |
| 1218s | little bit of audio ok perfect we have |
| 1221s | an audio reveal as well very much |
| 1223s | awesome stuff but I mean again I think |
| 1225s | device I mean if we got a custom skybox |
| 1228s | here then as well as they'd like a |
| 1229s | dedicated skybox those are just a reused |
| 1231s | one it's a tweaked one I only can't |
| 1236s | remember which one it was Iraq saw in |
| 1241s | Mauritania I mean this guy painted a few |
| 1248s | of the stars and like ship to the |
| 1250s | position of the moon a little bit and |
| 1251s | just sort of took some of the hard edge |
| 1253s | out of it did you take the stars out of |
| 1255s | the front of the moon or the Stars on |
| 1258s | the front of the Moon the Stars I mean |
| 1269s | so if we just talk about environment |
| 1270s | itself so yeah is there multi multiple |
| 1274s | stage process and it's like concept that |
| 1276s | in that sense or is there is yeah it's a |
| 1278s | very prescribed series have to do I |
| 1281s | haven't got anything to show on for |
| 1283s | illustrating that but it would be a |
| 1284s | route initially start with a very basic |
| 1288s | block out you throw together a very |
| 1290s | simple height map so all of this without |
| 1291s | any of the ground textures on it and |
| 1294s | some basic cubes to work out the |
| 1296s | footprint of all the assets like the |
| 1297s | buildings and to work out what the |
| 1299s | blocking is going to be and then |
| 1301s | gradually that's iterated upon by |
| 1303s | replacing things with slightly more |
| 1304s | developed models and then the |
| 1306s | the final model sort of like a white box |
| 1308s | gray box flying last set stage process |
| 1310s | and then things like populating it with |
| 1313s | all things like trees and rocks and |
| 1315s | plants and things like that is the very |
| 1316s | last thing you do not well originally I |
| 1320s | would have done the lighting last but we |
| 1322s | wanted to get that in early so that the |
| 1324s | characters could work to it with their |
| 1326s | designs so that they sat right in the |
| 1328s | environment and didn't get lost awesome |
| 1337s | did you have fun working on a product I |
| 1339s | did yeah it was it was it was tight you |
| 1342s | guys asked for quite a lot yeah this is |
| 1347s | only a fraction of it and hopefully some |
| 1351s | things people really like yeah yeah it |
| 1353s | was a lot of fun to do I love doing |
| 1354s | Christmas outtakes so we're coming up |
| 1356s | obviously towards the half well just |
| 1358s | under the halfway point I hope you're |
| 1359s | all enjoying this so far because we we |
| 1362s | love trying to do these streams when we |
| 1363s | can and you know to give you a little |
| 1365s | bit of an insight as to how these |
| 1365s | processes happen so hopefully you enjoy |
| 1368s | Narberth thank you so much having |
| 1370s | awesome so as I mentioned we'll be |
| 1372s | checking back in through the stream with |
| 1375s | multi box let's go back and see how this |
| 1377s | little cards come along now I'm drawing |
| 1379s | as fast as I can but we are not gonna |
| 1381s | get done with this by the end of this |
| 1383s | stream this would tell for hours I |
| 1386s | probably will record this when I |
| 1388s | continue it back up oh really so yeah we |
| 1391s | might be able to make a video available |
| 1392s | is the process kind of thing if people |
| 1394s | are interested right now I've basically |
| 1396s | made a bit of sketch based on the |
| 1399s | thumbnail I've added in essentially a |
| 1402s | mask following the lines as a sketch and |
| 1404s | now I'm coloring it yeah Photoshop trick |
| 1409s | you can mask off any shape you like and |
| 1411s | paint within it without having to |
| 1413s | laborious lead go around every single |
| 1416s | detail so that's one of the concept art |
| 1418s | tricks we use every day just to speed up |
| 1420s | the process of doing this kind of thing |
| 1422s | that's one of the advantages digital has |
| 1424s | over traditional media and right now all |
| 1427s | I'm doing is blocking in very basic |
| 1429s | colors and values just to see how |
| 1432s | everything |
| 1433s | reads the idea being when I'm done with |
| 1436s | regardless of how much extra detail I |
| 1438s | add the overall image should look okay |
| 1441s | if it reads small it reads big basically |
| 1444s | is the idea everyone in chat I presume |
| 1450s | you all want to see a video of this um I |
| 1451s | will wait for the confirmation I'm |
| 1452s | pretty sure it'll be a yes but I mean |
| 1455s | what are you hoping to get done at the |
| 1456s | very least by the industry will have |
| 1459s | maybe some a shaded idea of what the |
| 1463s | carts gonna look I've jumped a color |
| 1464s | much earlier than I usually do just to |
| 1466s | get something interesting going it'll |
| 1468s | look like something oh and we carry on |
| 1476s | because this this is the by the way I |
| 1478s | love these dreams and it's constant |
| 1480s | moving parts and we get to show so much |
| 1482s | cool stuff so all right next up Maude |
| 1486s | Sparky so we bring up to the roof to |
| 1488s | screen hello we are on your screen now |
| 1490s | first of all sir summarize for us who |
| 1492s | are you what do you do you're Jax so I'm |
| 1494s | not Sparky and I am a junior characters |
| 1497s | I have been singing a few streams |
| 1500s | showing off characters looks incredible |
| 1504s | as a model Wow |
| 1505s | so yes this is what I've been working on |
| 1507s | for fast and one from the better those |
| 1510s | who went to runefest probably saw me |
| 1512s | texture now and when I started them fast |
| 1522s | [Laughter] |
| 1526s | we had a lot of people coming out at the |
| 1528s | start of the day and not see much nobody |
| 1530s | mo JC in there almost final things as |
| 1534s | yeah so this was based on the concepts |
| 1537s | done by yes he's gonna probably kill us |
| 1546s | we had the same one constantly but he |
| 1547s | shouldn't have such a complicated name |
| 1548s | there's money laughing yeah this one's |
| 1554s | great fun and the hammer especially was |
| 1556s | an amazing thing to work on something |
| 1559s | completely different looking we've done |
| 1561s | here quite like like goodness me know |
| 1565s | you can shoot as well |
| 1566s | speaking to the animators of |
| 1568s | moving correctly just to clarify you |
| 1571s | might be hearing whispering because John |
| 1573s | is just making sure that de Baca is |
| 1576s | getting the recording for you guys so |
| 1578s | yeah the whispering come from so don't |
| 1582s | you there's no creepy horror audio |
| 1584s | filter in the background here as we're |
| 1585s | going through those four he's just |
| 1587s | assisted him to sab record it's you know |
| 1590s | anyway Paul so we want to get you in |
| 1593s | here should kind of option camera a |
| 1594s | little bit yeah come up this back okay |
| 1596s | so just that through Sparky's right is a |
| 1599s | mop or baked goods to Pauline lead |
| 1605s | runescape animator how long is that |
| 1610s | there's a lot of veterans in the |
| 1612s | graphical Martines it's great that's |
| 1614s | also see the age alright so yes I find |
| 1619s | it they need to interrupt your flow by |
| 1621s | all means yes or a lot of that stuff |
| 1624s | since it's quite new in hair as extreme |
| 1627s | as making sure you know we've got a reg |
| 1630s | floor correct talking to the animators |
| 1632s | here and making sure that everything was |
| 1635s | in place to get the animations perfect |
| 1637s | especially they will started recently to |
| 1639s | do a lot more topology in the face and I |
| 1641s | think this is something you'll be |
| 1642s | touching on yeah he exists pushing the |
| 1645s | flesh states brushes a bit oh yeah yeah |
| 1647s | so making sure look like everything is |
| 1648s | wired to really sure a lot of expression |
| 1652s | where before this was probably about |
| 1653s | four four polygons and you couldn't push |
| 1657s | as far as sometimes wanted so as well as |
| 1662s | violet I'm not sure if it's been shown |
| 1664s | yet the model for I don't know let's do |
| 1669s | it this might be the first time reveal |
| 1670s | here so that's so awesome |
| 1678s | say this was made by yeah I mean this is |
| 1693s | I mean the model quality again I |
| 1695s | mentioned obviously the graphical and |
| 1696s | environment stuff in 2018 but I think |
| 1698s | this year in particular the models have |
| 1699s | just taken a huge |
| 1700s | step up in regards their quality light |
| 1703s | is that by any particular reason why |
| 1705s | this year it's kind of happened I've |
| 1706s | been we've been doing stuff I'm just a |
| 1708s | little off we've had designs on things |
| 1712s | just kind of come together obviously |
| 1713s | exactly as we designed it all at the |
| 1715s | same time yeah they're beautiful time in |
| 1718s | there it's tough yeah well it's an |
| 1721s | excellent mic placement there there you |
| 1722s | go nice positional microphone there I |
| 1724s | only got topology see Wow again as as |
| 1728s | things progressed we were able to put in |
| 1730s | a few more follies and just make sure |
| 1732s | everything is there like actual fingers |
| 1734s | that Bend correctly and don't just snap |
| 1743s | yes I mean it's it's not just kind of a |
| 1746s | added detail just for the character |
| 1749s | actually helps us an impatient types to |
| 1753s | be able to form the the anatomy of the |
| 1755s | body correctly before things would kind |
| 1758s | of intersect so if like an arm moved |
| 1761s | lower arm move up towards an upper arm |
| 1763s | maybe get too much intersection going on |
| 1765s | between the different parts but |
| 1766s | obviously yeah the the geometry helps us |
| 1768s | out as much as it doesn't make this |
| 1770s | character look good so I believe we may |
| 1774s | I mean there they are side by side and |
| 1776s | that looks amazing as it is so I mean |
| 1778s | it's pretty awesome we have videos |
| 1789s | awesome squeeze in nice its you're |
| 1800s | unprofessional yeah can we keep it on |
| 1803s | this cameras Johnson was what we planned |
| 1805s | it so these should open on the correct |
| 1807s | side I believe yeah so if we we get some |
| 1813s | others rule them just bear over some |
| 1816s | moment guys just setting the videos up |
| 1817s | so you can on Steve make sure they're |
| 1819s | shown in the best way which is the first |
| 1821s | impressions okay say alright we're good |
| 1824s | here John this |
| 1827s | being wrong again so I don't think I've |
| 1831s | been through the whole process and |
| 1834s | particularly fine detail before but I'm |
| 1837s | obviously aware of the fact we don't |
| 1838s | have that much time so I'm gonna kind of |
| 1840s | try and speed through this and try and |
| 1843s | explain to you the process of how we |
| 1844s | build up animations kind of layer by |
| 1846s | layer |
| 1846s | so my animators and I will start off |
| 1851s | with with really strong characters like |
| 1854s | this by having a design meeting so we'll |
| 1856s | gather kind of as much detail as we can |
| 1859s | on the kind of backstory the personality |
| 1861s | of the characters from the content |
| 1863s | developers and the quantum ice and the |
| 1865s | character modelers and make sure we kind |
| 1867s | of understand what the character is |
| 1869s | about from there we're essentially |
| 1873s | looking we discuss how what which |
| 1877s | animations we need and how we think |
| 1879s | they're going to link together and how |
| 1882s | they're going to play out what the key |
| 1883s | poses of the animation are going to be |
| 1886s | and their lot the storytelling poses so |
| 1889s | you are literally going through and |
| 1891s | quickly posing out all those poked all |
| 1895s | those positions that are required to |
| 1898s | communicate to you guys what the feeling |
| 1900s | of the character is and what the |
| 1901s | intentions of the character is and these |
| 1903s | are kind of the building blocks to |
| 1905s | giving a character an illusion of their |
| 1908s | own thought process though that what |
| 1910s | they're doing is is something that they |
| 1912s | want to do rather than it just being |
| 1913s | parts that are moved around so this is |
| 1915s | called the the blocking process and it's |
| 1919s | kind of like blocky on here if you look |
| 1921s | at this graph editor these are |
| 1923s | representations of how the how the |
| 1925s | timing and the positions of the poses |
| 1927s | are built up that's the very basis of |
| 1931s | the animation then we go into the |
| 1933s | breakdown so this is this is about |
| 1935s | adding the kind of overlapping details |
| 1938s | and the the kind of secondary poses that |
| 1941s | allow allow the keep allow you to show |
| 1945s | how you'll get from one key post to |
| 1946s | another so these are essential in in |
| 1950s | maintaining weight and showing the flow |
| 1953s | of a character and defining whether |
| 1955s | something's rigid or whether something's |
| 1957s | what kind of biological so you can see |
| 1960s | here little violet she's starting to get |
| 1962s | some of the additional storytelling |
| 1964s | keyframes in here and you can tell she's |
| 1966s | definitely trying to act like she's the |
| 1968s | Yeti just the mat animation anyway |
| 1969s | exactly it's pretty obvious she's trying |
| 1971s | to do a raw know some sort that's press |
| 1972s | sort exactly says we who's we've just |
| 1975s | spoke about we've got these extra facial |
| 1978s | details now which allow us to add some |
| 1980s | some extra facial controls and this this |
| 1982s | is kind of an intermediate level so far |
| 1984s | we're gonna be pushing this a little bit |
| 1985s | more in future content but we're |
| 1989s | essentially trying |
| 1992s | wow really trying our might the the |
| 1995s | characters emotion so as you can see |
| 1998s | think gradually build up there's more |
| 2001s | detail in more storytelling motion until |
| 2004s | you finally get to kind of a a smoother |
| 2008s | version of the animation with kind of |
| 2010s | added vibration here as she's screaming |
| 2012s | her little lungs out with their tiny |
| 2015s | cute feet which I can't get over see |
| 2019s | that's the kind of that's a very basic |
| 2020s | like rough overview of how the animation |
| 2023s | process builds up and that's between |
| 2025s | myself is lead and an animation team we |
| 2030s | sit together on we essentially go |
| 2033s | through each animation and designer is a |
| 2035s | team and kind of call each other out on |
| 2038s | what things are necessary what aren't |
| 2039s | well things are extraneous and try and |
| 2042s | push each other to get a better |
| 2043s | performance out the characters that we |
| 2044s | make so this one's a good example of |
| 2047s | sometimes the action is a little bit |
| 2048s | more simplistic kind of like a post |
| 2056s | treatment so if you can get a pose that |
| 2060s | kind of communicates exactly can we give |
| 2064s | what I need to gift that we seriously |
| 2066s | need to get that is amazing I love that |
| 2068s | so that was basically the the comedy |
| 2072s | epitome of the storytelling pose and now |
| 2077s | more biscuits animated this was sorry |
| 2080s | mod hing was the animator on the |
| 2082s | previous violet animation |
| 2084s | so this is a adding in again those poses |
| 2087s | that allow you to get from the key pose |
| 2089s | back to the idle pay so it can blend |
| 2091s | into the reminded me of dr. evil so he's |
| 2098s | actually pulling stuff out of his teeth |
| 2100s | and here we go this is incredible |
| 2104s | yes so it's literally when you're |
| 2106s | blocking out you are using steps curves |
| 2108s | which is a bit of a contradiction in |
| 2110s | terms but essentially they'll hold on at |
| 2113s | one pose until a certain say 20 frames |
| 2115s | and the animation and then snap to the |
| 2117s | next pose and then snap back and then |
| 2119s | you introduce splines so you convert |
| 2122s | those steps into supplies and if you |
| 2125s | essentially just curved transitions from |
| 2127s | one post to another and then you have to |
| 2130s | do work to make sure that they're |
| 2132s | leaving one post movie or quicker than |
| 2135s | they are automatically and that takes a |
| 2137s | bit of cleanup work and where you really |
| 2139s | put in the kind of performance and the |
| 2141s | put in the hours |
| 2143s | so that's Yeti so this is an example of |
| 2149s | because violet is obviously kind of |
| 2151s | aping her parents foster parents she's |
| 2154s | she's like you know kind of obviously |
| 2156s | growing up convinced she's the same |
| 2160s | initially the idea was to have a run and |
| 2163s | it was gonna be quite Bolton even see |
| 2164s | what I'm doing on camera here you know |
| 2169s | kind of running quite boldly and kind of |
| 2171s | aping the natural characteristics of the |
| 2175s | family but we decided that really we |
| 2179s | wanted a bit more of a contrast and |
| 2181s | she's so cute and so little in |
| 2182s | comparison who we actually went for |
| 2185s | maybe a little bit more of a |
| 2187s | conventional walk stroke run I mean she |
| 2192s | she moves at the same speed as there's a |
| 2195s | big Yeti NPCs yet she's almost running |
| 2199s | really and her gait so we went for a |
| 2203s | slightly more twee little girl run and |
| 2209s | I'm glad we did because it may be as |
| 2213s | kind of psychologically would have been |
| 2214s | more authentic if she if she was like |
| 2216s | properly |
| 2217s | of aping the parents it kind of I think |
| 2220s | there was enough of that with the raw |
| 2221s | and we wanted to make sure that we still |
| 2223s | kept that kind of human element so it |
| 2226s | was definitely a good move and quite |
| 2230s | adorable so that was a nod hangs hard to |
| 2234s | work on that beautiful little bouncy |
| 2237s | energetic walk in stark contrast to the |
| 2243s | lumbering walk so obviously you can |
| 2247s | immediately see the difference in weight |
| 2250s | I won't go for the breakdowns here but |
| 2253s | essentially we are dealing with two |
| 2257s | creatures of you know pretty vastly |
| 2259s | different masks different weight so |
| 2262s | things on this guy overlap more they |
| 2265s | slow down and ease in and out at the end |
| 2268s | of motions whereas little violets |
| 2271s | actions are like really immediate and |
| 2272s | sprightly and young and we thought it |
| 2278s | was kind of a nice imagining a nice |
| 2281s | narrative with like little violet |
| 2283s | legging it around and like you know the |
| 2285s | big parents like you know constantly |
| 2288s | chasing after you and I getting tired as |
| 2291s | they get into route their old ears so |
| 2294s | that's a very much so it's a lot easier |
| 2298s | to see when they're actually in |
| 2301s | locomotion moving forward it's kind of |
| 2304s | simpler to construct them on the spot in |
| 2305s | a cycle to start with but then |
| 2307s | offsetting them at the same speed that |
| 2309s | they will be moved in the game engine |
| 2310s | allows you to see the reality of what |
| 2313s | they'll look like in the game so just |
| 2315s | for we don't the last one will probably |
| 2318s | end at this clip and when we're done |
| 2320s | with this little section outline yeah |
| 2322s | ramen to answer some of the questions |
| 2325s | you asked about they're totally a quest |
| 2328s | legs and so on we'll get to that in just |
| 2329s | a few minutes so just bear with us I |
| 2332s | didn't want to interview and I thought |
| 2333s | no fun so yeah I mean last little video |
| 2336s | here you can see the the reality of the |
| 2340s | implementation and the engine is that |
| 2341s | these guys even though they're vastly |
| 2342s | different sizes move forward at the same |
| 2345s | speed as each other |
| 2346s | so you end up with a a walk |
| 2349s | on the left with a Yeti guy lumbering |
| 2352s | along in a bit of a labored pace but |
| 2355s | then you have little violet almost |
| 2359s | running to keep up really so technically |
| 2361s | she's going up walk speed in that |
| 2364s | calmness but obviously her gait is there |
| 2366s | more of a run and a scent lovely |
| 2370s | adorable little difference between the |
| 2372s | teeth when you see him going together us |
| 2374s | Wow I was not prepared for just how |
| 2377s | therefore you guys want to go into this |
| 2378s | that's I mean obviously it's amazing to |
| 2381s | see so we've just moved to a new stool |
| 2383s | so just moved admire and these are some |
| 2385s | of the first examples of our kind of |
| 2388s | foray into that it's also so which is |
| 2390s | obviously showing you know it's |
| 2391s | obviously showing it depends yeah we're |
| 2392s | ready getting more character in there |
| 2394s | but it's really out in the beginning for |
| 2395s | us but you know we're gonna be |
| 2397s | constantly striving to get a lot more |
| 2398s | character into the creatures more |
| 2401s | legibility in their folder creatures |
| 2404s | kind of going into my afro shaker for a |
| 2407s | refresh in that sense we definitely want |
| 2409s | to shake up a lot of stuff it's gonna be |
| 2412s | a long term yeah I mean it's a long term |
| 2418s | I mean as if every player in scope |
| 2421s | there's there's certainly plenty of |
| 2422s | content for us to get our teeth into Wow |
| 2436s | I think I mean again I just love how in |
| 2442s | depth or going into it's awesome like |
| 2443s | seriously the time and effort to wants |
| 2446s | to do this we obviously to do the video |
| 2447s | as well to show everyone on the stream |
| 2449s | about so it's awesome so yes and that |
| 2452s | was a modelling and animation but |
| 2455s | more sparking more pull be so everyone |
| 2459s | thank you so much John we just come to |
| 2461s | the big camera a second please Raman |
| 2465s | color questions this rattle is offered |
| 2466s | on the quest so |
| 2470s | I saw I'll just sit behind this chair |
| 2472s | difficult you're the quest the course is |
| 2475s | nervous just a novice quest have a tan |
| 2477s | lengthwise really lengthwise depends if |
| 2480s | you want to read everything |
| 2481s | I'd say about time ten to twenty minutes |
| 2484s | okay cool quiets no new requirements and |
| 2488s | then rewards you can share XP XP I saw |
| 2511s | the check Meno and talked through I I'll |
| 2515s | come back to you the men with more |
| 2516s | questions like that means off in the |
| 2518s | chat guys so multi back or back again |
| 2521s | what have we done since the last time we |
| 2523s | get back to you what more covering in |
| 2525s | basically it looks also the colors are |
| 2528s | incredible already thank you yeah it's |
| 2530s | one of the great things about digital |
| 2531s | you can just add loads of color whenever |
| 2532s | you like |
| 2533s | so because I want to do this quickly |
| 2535s | I've just focused in on their facial |
| 2536s | expressions and just try to give him a |
| 2538s | sort of well-meaning yet slightly |
| 2541s | pressive kind of face and she's |
| 2543s | obviously in on the jerk as well kind of |
| 2545s | so the both sort of smiling having fun |
| 2547s | yeah as soon as you focusing on the |
| 2550s | faces of the characters and their the |
| 2552s | way their shoulders and their arms are |
| 2554s | sort of oriented with their head so that |
| 2555s | gives you most of the story you're |
| 2558s | trying to tell and the rest of the pose |
| 2560s | is just follow on from there so yeah if |
| 2562s | you're drawing characters think about |
| 2564s | the facial expression and where the head |
| 2567s | and shoulders set and then you can |
| 2569s | basically draw the rest of the character |
| 2570s | down from there and it should follow on |
| 2573s | it's the best way to start |
| 2574s | I mean for what 45 minutes it looks |
| 2579s | incredible just before five minutes |
| 2580s | already |
| 2581s | Rama comes to be very quickly for some |
| 2583s | more questions yeah there's a little bit |
| 2586s | voice acting is always good top voice |
| 2589s | acting and there's a reason why I've |
| 2590s | asked my question we'll get to it in a |
| 2591s | few minutes and also is it Fritz pipe |
| 2594s | yes yes really and this is a permanent |
| 2597s | quest not an event quest is a permanent |
| 2600s | quest it the reason |
| 2602s | it's not so much Christmassy is because |
| 2604s | obviously you could be playing this in |
| 2605s | the summer summer at any point and it |
| 2608s | wouldn't really make sense for you to be |
| 2610s | like looking at Christmas trees and |
| 2612s | things so yeah it's a bit more seasonal |
| 2615s | as opposed to Christmasy how many points |
| 2622s | one okay okay so that be 101 quests |
| 2625s | points did we do yeah so so I mean how |
| 2635s | are you looking on the concept cars |
| 2637s | color going into it well I mean it looks |
| 2640s | great |
| 2640s | what texted me I'm having here yeah I |
| 2646s | mean I just had a little merry xmas kind |
| 2648s | of thing alrighty so I think we are good |
| 2669s | to do my last final sections before we |
| 2673s | wrap up here so very first time on this |
| 2675s | runescape stream I believe in a very |
| 2677s | very long time we have some from the |
| 2680s | audio team on here we have more slippers |
| 2682s | hello sir first of all I kind of spoiled |
| 2686s | what you do with jagex cuz I'm great |
| 2688s | that but in essence and you want from |
| 2690s | the audience because it anything in |
| 2691s | particular you working on the audio side |
| 2692s | of things like all the other people in |
| 2695s | the audio team ie I say why I do Ord |
| 2699s | sound effects I do dialogue and the do |
| 2702s | music so yeah we do all three of those |
| 2705s | things and we tend to work in a kind of |
| 2707s | more of a kind of Kanban way so you know |
| 2710s | jobs will come in and we'll kind of pick |
| 2712s | things that we like things we want to do |
| 2715s | some people might want to do some old |
| 2717s | school stuff some people want to do some |
| 2718s | rs.3 stuff and you know we kind of work |
| 2720s | on things as they come awesome so for |
| 2723s | the quest file that is blue and have you |
| 2725s | been involved in all of the elements |
| 2726s | nobody won this or only specific bits |
| 2728s | yet all of it everything everything you |
| 2730s | hear in this quest is from me oh so |
| 2734s | you've now set the bull's eye |
| 2736s | oh yeah Jagex slippers by the way it's |
| 2740s | just for when you play the question time |
| 2741s | how awesome the audio is right so I can |
| 2744s | already see on the PC here we have clips |
| 2746s | so yeah shall we should we do this are |
| 2749s | we gonna leave the concept that bothers |
| 2751s | plays yeah awesome that's perfect okay |
| 2753s | even better we're gonna have violet as |
| 2755s | blue music tracks playing as a okay yeah |
| 2763s | great so I just thought I'd first of all |
| 2766s | answer the question about voice acting |
| 2768s | yes |
| 2769s | so it's not a fully voiced quest but we |
| 2772s | do have a small amount of voice in there |
| 2774s | we wanted to give file it a little bit |
| 2778s | of a little bit of character through her |
| 2780s | through her voice so she she doesn't |
| 2783s | talk but she does have emotes that she |
| 2785s | does so when she laughs or when she's |
| 2787s | excited about things or when she's |
| 2790s | roaring we hear the Sandford doing that |
| 2793s | and to get those sounds we actually we |
| 2796s | got more days as kids in it was really |
| 2800s | sweet it was really nice we had to like |
| 2802s | in order to get them high enough to sit |
| 2804s | on the - you know to get to be able to |
| 2807s | reach the microphone we had to like |
| 2808s | create a little platform we just got |
| 2813s | them in there laughing and you know |
| 2815s | making something so I haven't I've got a |
| 2817s | couple of examples here that I can play |
| 2818s | if that yeah on the stream let us know |
| 2822s | when we play this if the audio is coming |
| 2824s | through just so we can make sure you can |
| 2825s | hear it guys do it if I hear that okay |
| 2828s | yeah I chewed it for the headphones but |
| 2830s | we'll wait to see if they can hear it on |
| 2832s | the fin just see ya oh my oh em gee yeah |
| 2838s | yeah they definitely pick me up yeah |
| 2841s | okay so that's one of her when she's |
| 2844s | excited we got another laughing well |
| 2847s | trying to bump the audio up a little bit |
| 2849s | John have you done that |
| 2853s | the balance that's fine we have multiple |
| 2856s | clips that we can play over again so I |
| 2862s | can hear it over there that's great I |
| 2864s | think I only bought three with me |
| 2866s | there's obviously more than that no |
| 2881s | that's fine I mean it's coming through |
| 2882s | okay based on the chat as well she says |
| 2884s | she reminds me a boo from Monsters Inc |
| 2886s | that yeah that was definitely when when |
| 2891s | I was sort of like going through it with |
| 2893s | more days and mod ramen like that's one |
| 2894s | of the sort of inspirations definitely |
| 2896s | that came up so that's a nicely bridges |
| 2900s | on to the other you know what I want to |
| 2901s | talk about next really which is the |
| 2902s | music so obviously we've got new music |
| 2904s | tracks for this for this quest and yeah |
| 2908s | there's so the the kind of the pitch |
| 2911s | that I the first thing I heard about |
| 2913s | this quest was it was gonna sort of be |
| 2914s | the John Lewis advert of runescape you |
| 2916s | know what is something kind of really |
| 2918s | kind of heartwarming and light-hearted |
| 2920s | and Christmassy and and I wanted to make |
| 2923s | the music something that was like like |
| 2925s | like you might get from a kind of family |
| 2926s | film you know that kind of a nice sort |
| 2929s | of film sound but but also something |
| 2931s | light-hearted and jolly that kind of |
| 2932s | really gave you the feeling of the kind |
| 2935s | of the mischievous tone of violet so |
| 2939s | I've gone for that and then but in terms |
| 2941s | of like the actual sort of sounds they |
| 2944s | went to go for and the actual kind of |
| 2945s | sound world I was after I didn't really |
| 2947s | want to go down the kind of jingle bells |
| 2949s | kind of route and you know Rudolph the |
| 2951s | red-nosed reindeer that kind of stuff I |
| 2952s | wanted to make it a bit more a bit more |
| 2955s | kind of orchestral something was maybe |
| 2956s | more winter than Christmas so I actually |
| 2959s | I bought a couple of examples of them of |
| 2962s | some things that I used his inspiration |
| 2964s | so the first one was from Marla's first |
| 2967s | symphony and this is the opening to that |
| 2969s | it's a bit quiet so so Anita might do |
| 2976s | are you hearing it for there I can hear |
| 2979s | it through here so you'll know when to |
| 2980s | stop okay that's fine |
| 2981s | [Music] |
| 2984s | someone can hear beeping I can tell you |
| 2989s | well that's from we won't be able to fix |
| 2991s | this during the stream we have to leave |
| 2992s | it unfortunately yes |
| 2996s | so that's yeah that's not me obviously |
| 2998s | that's the genius that is Gustav Mahler |
| 3001s | and then I also got some inspiration |
| 3003s | from Stravinsky from his ballet |
| 3005s | petrushka and this is this is a very |
| 3008s | kind of very Russian wintery theme this |
| 3013s | is so good I love the idea of |
| 3015s | introducing the chats the inspiration of |
| 3018s | this and then how do you bring it to a |
| 3019s | runescape style audio so I'm looking |
| 3022s | forward to this because I have no idea |
| 3024s | distractedly a Stravinsky attract also |
| 3026s | can't wait yeah I mean these are both so |
| 3029s | both these tracks of things you know |
| 3030s | that I listen to all the time you know |
| 3032s | I'm really into Castro music and so you |
| 3034s | know these kind of flavours are |
| 3035s | definitely you know something I wanted |
| 3037s | to aim for |
| 3038s | so just somebody's off just taken over |
| 3040s | the driving here am ii yeah this is so |
| 3044s | so once it's here to combine those |
| 3046s | things with the kind of like almost |
| 3047s | disney-esque sort of like jolliness so |
| 3049s | and I'll play I'll show you sort of the |
| 3053s | the beginning of the the main sort of |
| 3055s | feature track of this piece and this one |
| 3057s | that's gonna be on the splash screen and |
| 3058s | everything so login screen yeah |
| 3062s | so this one is there's like there's two |
| 3064s | main themes that run through this and |
| 3066s | for me when I'm composing like it's all |
| 3067s | about taking small seeds of ideas and |
| 3070s | growing them into something bigger so |
| 3072s | you kind of start off with a with one |
| 3073s | thing and then you add other instruments |
| 3075s | to it or you kind of change it a bit so |
| 3076s | it develops over time so the very the |
| 3079s | very thing the first thing we're gonna |
| 3080s | hear is this selfishly I do wish I could |
| 3089s | hear that's just that's the first theme |
| 3099s | this makes me happy |
| 3101s | this is happy music that's very much |
| 3104s | about you know that that's very much |
| 3105s | about you know violet doing her kind of |
| 3107s | like you know running around and had you |
| 3109s | know her kind of jolly vibe and then so |
| 3111s | the next thing we hear is that but we're |
| 3113s | going to add some more instruments into |
| 3114s | it |
| 3114s | oh wow you know those are those little |
| 3124s | bits and then and then we're gonna hear |
| 3126s | like we're going to hear about a few |
| 3128s | different times throughout the piece and |
| 3130s | sometimes it's sometimes it's played on |
| 3132s | the flutes like it is there and then we |
| 3134s | actually hear it in different you know |
| 3135s | and on other instruments at the time as |
| 3137s | well and then there's actually another |
| 3139s | piece in the quest where which one is |
| 3142s | that and this one where we actually hear |
| 3144s | it's the same theme but it's in it's in |
| 3145s | a minor key so it's got more of a |
| 3147s | nighttime vibe you did not put that |
| 3148s | soundtrack is that actually what's |
| 3150s | called in-game to say what it's cool |
| 3155s | yeah okay this one's called the best is |
| 3159s | yet to come there's also one here called |
| 3163s | time waits for snow man so we get the |
| 3171s | same same theme but this time it's in a |
| 3173s | minor key so it's more of a kind of |
| 3174s | nighttime vibe thanks coming back to you |
| 3185s | so come back to the main theme again so |
| 3187s | then like that's a we've got that kind |
| 3189s | of blinky punky flute theme and then |
| 3190s | there's also this this other main theme |
| 3192s | this is kind of the big catchy hook this |
| 3194s | is the bit because it's a quest it's not |
| 3195s | necessarily something that you know he's |
| 3197s | gonna get played like you know over and |
| 3198s | over and over again like raids or |
| 3199s | something so you kind of have to make it |
| 3201s | you have to make it instantly catching |
| 3203s | you can't just you know you ya you can't |
| 3204s | you can't get that kind of nostalgic |
| 3206s | feeling through the repetitions so so |
| 3208s | this is the main theme |
| 3220s | Wow |
| 3223s | [Music] |
| 3234s | it's |
| 3236s | [Music] |
| 3241s | I shouldn't talk during it is okay |
| 3244s | that's gonna talk overexcited that's it |
| 3246s | the string to hear about your Bay kicks |
| 3248s | off it kicks up so much Midway turn and |
| 3250s | it's not like the intro to like this |
| 3251s | epic movie that's about so that I mean |
| 3255s | that's one thing I like to do when I'm |
| 3256s | composing a lot actually is to kind of |
| 3257s | get that to get that to really reinforce |
| 3259s | the themes what you do is you introduce |
| 3260s | something like I did there ones on the |
| 3262s | string so just you play it on its own |
| 3263s | like to start with and then like you get |
| 3266s | this a really big crescendo the drums |
| 3267s | will come up and then you're all of a |
| 3268s | sudden it's being played on loads of |
| 3270s | instruments at once so it's you know so |
| 3272s | that so I really wanted to get that kind |
| 3274s | of warm feeling you know it's cold but |
| 3275s | it's warm it's you know heartwarming |
| 3277s | sort of sort of sound and then like the |
| 3279s | way that I've developed that over time |
| 3281s | is like so it changes key so we hear it |
| 3284s | in a few different keys so next time we |
| 3285s | hear it this is a bit lower so this is |
| 3289s | in I think originally tin at this one |
| 3291s | sounding do flats has one solo and then |
| 3295s | there's the the one we hear it at the |
| 3297s | end |
| 3299s | Wow it's gonna so this is kind of a big |
| 3302s | finale |
| 3302s | [Music] |
| 3309s | another this is stuff honestly we need |
| 3312s | to get what you want me to |
| 3314s | I love sex versus appreciate that yeah |
| 3318s | so I mean that's erm like think I think |
| 3321s | yeah I'll just show you this a couple of |
| 3322s | other tracks so then like this one from |
| 3324s | the beginning this is kind of really |
| 3325s | this is called little rascal and this is |
| 3327s | just like this is this is violet being |
| 3330s | really cheeky is reminding of my style |
| 3333s | anime episode of Tom and Jerry or |
| 3337s | something like yes they're really good |
| 3339s | it's a big it exactly and then we've got |
| 3343s | time waits for snow man and this one |
| 3346s | this is maybe a little bit more like the |
| 3349s | kind of sleigh ride II kind of jingle |
| 3351s | bells you kind of bye |
| 3352s | [Music] |
| 3372s | I kind of spoil myself by listening to |
| 3376s | the tracks just before the content comes |
| 3377s | out but I knew this was coming so I |
| 3379s | didn't want to do it just for like just |
| 3380s | so I could be like okay like what have |
| 3382s | we got here but it's just much I don't |
| 3384s | know it's just it's just instantly |
| 3386s | vibrant like happy themes and stuff and |
| 3388s | just I think it's really cool it's been |
| 3390s | like I mean for me like I you know I've |
| 3393s | I I knew as soon as I saw that this was |
| 3396s | coming out like I just knew that I had |
| 3398s | to do the audio and I was like please |
| 3402s | please everybody can I do the Christmas |
| 3404s | music and they were like okay fine even |
| 3407s | though I was already kind of like |
| 3408s | involved in yeah surely everyone wants |
| 3412s | to get involved in these well actually |
| 3414s | no we're quite lucky because there's |
| 3415s | some stuff going on in old school and so |
| 3417s | like a mardian and odd server I just so |
| 3422s | that's good you know we've got yeah we |
| 3424s | were able to share it out a lot but yeah |
| 3426s | I mean this I sort of thought I knew |
| 3427s | from the beginning I was like I really |
| 3428s | really want to do this and I thought oh |
| 3430s | I'm gonna you know I'm gonna you know |
| 3432s | I'm gonna really enjoy it and I have |
| 3434s | enjoyed it every second of writing this |
| 3435s | music has been you know just absolutely |
| 3437s | Brits come across wonderfully the team |
| 3438s | of the team have just done such an |
| 3440s | amazing job of making this quote you |
| 3442s | know making this quest of the art looks |
| 3444s | just incredible and the you know this |
| 3446s | tour was stories just lovely so yeah |
| 3448s | always want to do stuff this this kind |
| 3450s | of brilliant so do we see any of these |
| 3454s | tracks releasing anyway Spotify |
| 3456s | SoundCloud or anything like that |
| 3457s | is there any way they'll be able to hold |
| 3459s | of these that is a good question I don't |
| 3462s | actually know how that's handled to do |
| 3463s | with the Spotify stuff that's the |
| 3465s | question that I went that won't be |
| 3466s | anything to do with with no yeah I mean |
| 3469s | obviously it will be there in you know |
| 3470s | in the game input in player and then |
| 3471s | it'll no doubt end up on various |
| 3473s | people's YouTube choice do you say if |
| 3476s | you've got any kind of any feedback on |
| 3477s | there the things you like or don't like |
| 3479s | about the music then you can certainly |
| 3480s | go on them on one of the youtube |
| 3482s | channels and just you know we often sort |
| 3483s | of keep a beady eye on what people are |
| 3485s | saying on there oh yeah obviously you |
| 3487s | know send me a message on Twitter |
| 3489s | Jagex jagex lipids that's the one oh man |
| 3492s | so I mean is there anything else at all |
| 3496s | I mean I was so good we haven't talked |
| 3501s | anything about sound design as well |
| 3502s | obviously so you know we do we do all |
| 3504s | the sound effects |
| 3504s | I mean I can't really say anything about |
| 3507s | like the specific sounds that we made |
| 3510s | because that will kind of give away you |
| 3511s | know the way the the quest but like one |
| 3513s | of the things that's a bit different |
| 3514s | about working on quests as opposed to |
| 3516s | working in like on raids or skills and |
| 3517s | that kind of stuff is that you and you |
| 3519s | have very bespoke things you know little |
| 3521s | things that only happen once that you |
| 3524s | know the sort of you know like it's like |
| 3527s | point-and-click kind of thing and you'll |
| 3529s | get a little text box saying this thing |
| 3530s | happened or you know this things |
| 3531s | appeared in your inventory whatever so |
| 3533s | they actually sort of visually happen on |
| 3534s | screen they're just more kind of like if |
| 3536s | they happened in theory and so you |
| 3538s | really need to use the audio to kind of |
| 3539s | make it feel like it happened you did |
| 3541s | this thing to this tree or you did this |
| 3543s | thing to this item or whatever you're |
| 3545s | essentially a storyteller but without |
| 3547s | the video right yeah exactly you're |
| 3549s | using that audio to get across what |
| 3551s | you're trying to trade absolutely and I |
| 3552s | think I think when you're working in |
| 3553s | quests that you know that there's |
| 3555s | there's no it's never more important to |
| 3557s | tell stories or something it is when |
| 3558s | you're working on quests so that's one |
| 3559s | of the things really great about doing |
| 3561s | that as a sound designer Wow so as you |
| 3572s | might have seen as we're going for the |
| 3573s | audio in the background mods debark has |
| 3576s | been cracking on with the Christmas card |
| 3580s | so before we wrap up but on the stream |
| 3581s | house how are we looking on this it's |
| 3585s | I've got about three hours left so to do |
| 3593s | the card itself what do you actually |
| 3594s | have left to do just like I have no idea |
| 3597s | the best ways to approach these kind of |
| 3600s | things is to sort out your design early |
| 3602s | first get where your lights and your |
| 3604s | darks and your saturated colors and your |
| 3607s | warms and cools are then render for |
| 3610s | hours and hours are now candlelit all |
| 3611s | that's nice if you don't do the initial |
| 3616s | kind of architecture of the image first |
| 3618s | you'll end up the rendering something |
| 3621s | for ages then realizing it's in the |
| 3622s | wrong place I'm going to move it so yeah |
| 3624s | basically you've seen the initial stages |
| 3626s | of making an image this is basically |
| 3627s | still sketch I'll still move things |
| 3629s | around and stuff |
| 3631s | and then it will be basically two to |
| 3633s | three hours of going in tiny details |
| 3635s | like this |
| 3637s | and just kind of doing that smoothing |
| 3639s | things that refining refining making |
| 3641s | sure the light plays off them nicely and |
| 3643s | all this kind of stuff |
| 3644s | it's kind of zen-like but not very |
| 3645s | interesting to look at I mean I mean I |
| 3648s | think the chat I I think I think they'd |
| 3651s | find it interesting to look at |
| 3652s | unfortunate we don't have a four stream |
| 3655s | avoids John Mayer might kill me we are |
| 3659s | recording this so fingers crossed we'll |
| 3662s | have a kind of a time-lapse of how it |
| 3664s | goes around so we'll see but apart from |
| 3668s | that I mean I absolutely love these |
| 3670s | streams |
| 3671s | I don't think we did it enough light |
| 3672s | giving an insight to the our processes |
| 3675s | you can't set about your environment |
| 3676s | your modeling your character out yes so |
| 3679s | many different so many different pieces |
| 3683s | that plug into it's just incredible then |
| 3685s | for the first time in a very long time |
| 3686s | it's not ever of course how many audio |
| 3688s | most of us from audio showing how the |
| 3692s | tracks come about with the inspiration |
| 3694s | for Eddie Gotham and then also giving |
| 3695s | you guys a preview of that it's all |
| 3697s | shaping up quite wonderfully by that |
| 3700s | it's blue Raman releases when is it |
| 3703s | release December 2nd specific taper |
| 3704s | December 17th |
| 3706s | ok look forward to this quest a weird |
| 3715s | content development at and audio all |
| 3719s | there in all its glory but apart from |
| 3721s | that everyone please let us know if you |
| 3723s | love these kind of streams because that |
| 3724s | your feedback is very important and you |
| 3726s | know if there is appeal there we will |
| 3729s | try and do them as much as we can but |
| 3731s | apart from that will end the stream and |
| 3733s | say thank you so much for watching it's |
| 3735s | been an absolute blast on behalf the |
| 3736s | audio content and our teams take care |
| 3740s | and have a good one take care and have a |
| 3742s | good one |