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Bonus: Crossworlds - New Janey and Debbie designs

Added 2016-06-02 13:52:35 +0000 UTC

You might remember I made an attempt a while back to create designs for a couple of the Crossworlds characters. Not for any definite purpose, mind you, but I kind of thought if I came up with good designs then it would bode well for maybe one day doing a re-release of the CW games with some images. I decided that the designs weren't quite good enough - particularly the Janey one - and after I made the upgrade to Iray rendering I found the characters came out looking pretty horrifying. It was an uncanny valley nightmare that I won't ever show you guys in case it haunts your dreams. I honestly don't even like looking at it for fear it will totally turn me off the characters.

Anyway, I was playing around with the Janey model and I made some fairly radical changes - tweaked facial features, tweaked body shape, a new skin texture, new rendering settings and a new hairstyle (although the hair is still based on the style described in the original game). I think the results are much better, but I'd still appreciate feedback on the design.

The Debbie design is more subtly changed, but the changes were still pretty important, including some improvements to a specific, important area that you can't see right now. ;)

Oh, and I'll reiterate that this is still not for anything I'm planning to work on soon. I have loads of work on my plate without considering programming and illustrating a Crossworlds re-release right now, but I think it could be interesting at some point in the future if I find the time. Consider it a trial balloon.