Ming's Duty: produção visual de personagens para videogames

Abstract

This Graduation Project Paper discusses about the process of character visual development for the original game Ming’s Duty, addressing the use of concept art as a tool to develop each character’s design and the process of animation production to be used in the game. The paper also tackles over techniques and patterns used in both parts of character visual production, taking other games as research references of these techniques. The final research brings the process made of the illustrations and animations for the game project. The paper has as the general objective the concept art development of 10 characters and the animation production of 7 of them. As specific objectives the research has the development of a base story for the game to take place in; the establishment of the game’s mechanics; the analysis of other videogames as references; and the development of characters visual exploration and animation.