Mod_West

We've changed many old areas! This isn't new or something we shouldn't be doing
- Duel arena
- Many houses in many towns ( for construction contracts)
- Clan wars -> Giant Hill
- Ferox Enclave (as well as other parts of the wilderness)
- Ruins of Unkah (Pretty sure this was just desert, could be wrong)
- Kourend has had extensive changes, but perhaps that's different as it's new

The game is a live-service and on occasion we need to dip into the existing maps and make changes. This house wasn't used for anything and now it adds something to the world rather than just being scenery. These changes are approached cautiously as some areas are much more iconic than others, but if a building isn't being used it's quite literally free real-estate :D

I personally find it strange that all this time the nameless hairdresser has had a monopoly on the heads of Gelinor and it's time we broke it up! First we hit his rather extreme prices and now he ha...

Thanks!

We've actually not thought too much about it! Last time we lead with a cape design which in hindsight was perhaps a bit too forward... I think it will ultimately come down to whichever is chosen and we'd probably want a colour combo that hasn't been see before. Blue and brown works really well for Sailing, Shamanism and Taming are perhaps a little more abstract. A yellow base would be nice as that would be quite unique, although quite loud. Quite fond of a dark grey myself, but not sure which that would be most suited for.

If I remember right, it was mod Jed who was running that project and he only asked art for rewards. I thought it was a little strange lore wise but was probably very busy in another project to worry too much. The rightful backlash basically gave me and Ghost a free pass to make some cooler looking bosses, regretful we couldn’t have just done it that way to begin with… projects were managed quite differently back in those days

This isn’t the plan 🤔

That area is quite dull currently 🤔 the mountains act as a nice way to transition from the forest - great ideas!

Pretty sure we interviewed someone for CM once and then turned them down after seeing their chat logs… If it’s from a long time ago it’s probably fine but if it was that week you might have an issue

Ghost has been contracting for us for years :D he mostly handles animations and fx nowadays. He did all the animations for the TOA demi-bosses, so Akkha, Zebak, Kephri and Ba-ba were all Ghost :)

Sorry if I came off a bit blunt, I see too many comments claiming that "nobody asked for this" when that's never the case and it tends to rub me the wrong way. Even if there weren't complaints, having a consistent asset for humans is more important, especially when the edge cases are so few. I believe it's only the knights of the round table and the guards in Keep Le Fay that utilise those animations and models and they were the initial prototypes for the human model rework that came with HD in 2008.

Perhaps it is a small and petty complaint to address but it feels worth it to me. I don't take feedback personally, you've got to get used to it when you've been working on the product for as long as I have :P

You didn’t notice and you didn’t complain, but that doesn’t mean others didn’t. We don’t do things unless there is feedback from the community and we spend a lot of time looking at the feedback. It also only took a couple of hours and to the art team, that’s worth it for more consistency when it comes to the in-game human assets, especially ones that are seen so frequently.

Thanks! It turned out better than expected, inventory models are always quite fun to make :D

IIRC it was 2006scape, 2007 was chosen as that was the earliest backup available when Jagex decided to put it to a vote

haha, it's fine :P most artists likely cringe a little looking back at their early pieces

yeah, not my best work >.<

The inconsistency annoys me a bit but the ornament kits pretty much solve that issue. Lava battlestaff if pretty iconic so I can't see that asset ever being drastically changed :)

Similar issue but made worse by being a texture :D there's something we can do with textures to make them slightly brighter but it doesn't quite work with untextured polygons :/

They should be as useful as the boots >:(

It's an issue with a lot of capes as the player model is lit from the front when in-game and I wanted an even lighting when showing off the asset to the players :D

Beautiful renders :D Love how you’ve posed the bosses!

I see a good idea, I get to work :D