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It's your job to concept and explore it, MR.CONCEPT ARTIST

All I'll say is that I've sunk 400$+ in my skin collection

I swear to god, we need a banana melee, or a melee that is just a sausage that has the glizzy ninja animation as inspect.

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If we could push every skin all the way to a Dragon level, we would, trust me!
I'd assume that it is mostly because we want to make skins for a wide range of price so people with different need can still get something they like, so we're keeping our scopes in check.
Also Preeti is really good at crushing our dreams, but don't tell her I said that <3

On a VFX side, the main limit that we have is gameplay integrity, making sure we're not making the skin pay-to-lose basically.
Also, we have a very low minimum spec bar for our art, so it is very important to make everything as efficient as possible, but I see it more as a challenge and a way to find crafty work arounds, like little brain puzzles!

I'd love to see it! We usually dont go back on released skinlines so we focus on new things, while also making sure we dont break anything though.
I feel like we keep pushing the bar up higher and higher with every skinline, and we're reaching a point where our older bundles don't feel as complete as the new ones. To me it just shows how much we've developed as a team <3

I say that if we ever do a bundle with all of these guns, it HAS to be called the "brrrrrr bundle".

For melee, I think in general the main thing that we keep in mind is always gameplay integrity. We dont want your 3P model to reveal your position more than the default knife. But usually, outside of this, we're ready to go wild since people spam their knife on pre-round and in moments where framerate isn't as important.

For me, the hardest skin to work on was Origin. Both because it was a very niche style to hit, and also because CASCADE IS SH** AT MAKING PERFECT LOOPING GEOMETRIC VFX

I've been bugging u/Gutterworks101 about it for a while!! I'd die to see a gun skin based on using the power of raw radianite crystals.

I don't remember if there was a specific reason why we chose the karambit. I know that when the choice was made, there were already 2 butterfly knives in the making, and we wanted to have something new, that players would be hyped about.

For me it's Ruination all the way, though I'll admit I'm biased lol

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Personally, the most challenging yet rewarding part of the process is working in tandem with the other artists on the skinline. It requires a lot of communication between the concept artist, modeler , animator and me to make sure that my VFX feels whole with all the different parts <3

I don't know the answer, I'm just here to pay respect to a fellow Guardian gamer <3

Sick work! Really good improvement on your first pass.

And yeah, you're right when you said that we don't care about blocking the crosshair when we inspect. We do everything we can to keep everything as clean as possible to not impact gameplay integrity, but inspecting is one of the few moments when we can actually go a bit crazier if we want to.

Love your stuff, keep at it, looks sick, and screw anyone who sh*t talked your work, keep having fun!

Sorry for the even later response!
You would be right yeah. The rotation of the ball is defined by your location in x and y in the world. If you could teleport with the gun equipped, you would see the pattern snap into a different position.

That's only for the movement! There is actually something in the shader to fake paralax to give more depth and a multi layer effect.

All props for the shader goes to Chris Stone! I'm just a VFX Artist lol