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Spellbound Entertainment AG (Black Forest Games)
Junior 3D Artist January 2012 - April 2012 Intern (Art Department) August 2011 - December 2011 Project: Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams Unreleased prototype Duties: - modeling and texturing lowpoly assets - placing objects in a game engine |
Run, jump, dash, and twirl your way through Giana’s twisted dreams!
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced hardcore platformer with dual worlds that Giana will morph between as she seeks to escape. Use your skill, your speed, your brains, and your powers to defeat the horrors that populate her two nightmares.
With intuitive controls and smooth gameplay, you’ll be able to leap right in and start helping Giana progress through her opposing dreamworlds. Cute Giana moves with speed and grace, twirling past hazards and adversaries with a light touch and gentle heart. But, Giana isn’t limited to soft solutions. With a quick morph her punk side comes out to play, full of raw attitude and a powerful dash to crush obstacles that block her way!
Plus, when Giana morphs, she doesn’t just change herself, but also her perception of the entire world. As the world changes, so too do her interactions with it, revealing different paths and dangers and a wide range of fantastic tools that Giana can utilize. The dream also conceals gems, and the truly adventurous can find secret areas and greater rewards deep within.
Amazing worlds await you within Giana’s dreams! The vivid colors and astonishing graphics coupled with the wondrous morph create an experience unlike any you’ve had before. You’ll swim. You’ll glide. You’ll travel by bubblegum, super bouncers, conveyer belts, blocks, rocks, and even ride turtles. You will travel through clouds, trees, castles, and caves with more danger, magic, and all around fun than you can shake a spikey bracer at!
Want more? Wasn’t getting chased by hordes of angry creatures, stung by jellyfish, stabbed by spikes, crushed by stones, burned by fire and dissolved by acid enough for you? All right then, we should probably mention the epic Boss Battles too! Gigantic creatures from the depths of Giana’s most horrific nightmares are here to play too. Seriously, these guys are just plain brutal. And you’re going to need to master everything you’ve learned to have any hope of defeating them!
© Black Forest Games
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is a fast-paced hardcore platformer with dual worlds that Giana will morph between as she seeks to escape. Use your skill, your speed, your brains, and your powers to defeat the horrors that populate her two nightmares.
With intuitive controls and smooth gameplay, you’ll be able to leap right in and start helping Giana progress through her opposing dreamworlds. Cute Giana moves with speed and grace, twirling past hazards and adversaries with a light touch and gentle heart. But, Giana isn’t limited to soft solutions. With a quick morph her punk side comes out to play, full of raw attitude and a powerful dash to crush obstacles that block her way!
Plus, when Giana morphs, she doesn’t just change herself, but also her perception of the entire world. As the world changes, so too do her interactions with it, revealing different paths and dangers and a wide range of fantastic tools that Giana can utilize. The dream also conceals gems, and the truly adventurous can find secret areas and greater rewards deep within.
Amazing worlds await you within Giana’s dreams! The vivid colors and astonishing graphics coupled with the wondrous morph create an experience unlike any you’ve had before. You’ll swim. You’ll glide. You’ll travel by bubblegum, super bouncers, conveyer belts, blocks, rocks, and even ride turtles. You will travel through clouds, trees, castles, and caves with more danger, magic, and all around fun than you can shake a spikey bracer at!
Want more? Wasn’t getting chased by hordes of angry creatures, stung by jellyfish, stabbed by spikes, crushed by stones, burned by fire and dissolved by acid enough for you? All right then, we should probably mention the epic Boss Battles too! Gigantic creatures from the depths of Giana’s most horrific nightmares are here to play too. Seriously, these guys are just plain brutal. And you’re going to need to master everything you’ve learned to have any hope of defeating them!
© Black Forest Games
Job description (english)
Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams - In 2011 I made my first experiences in the game industry as an intern at the art department at Spellbound Entertainment AG (now known as Black Forest Fames).
My main task during this three month internship was it to place objects in a game engine (Vision Engine) for an unreleased AAA title. I and three other artists built a historical city, whereby we only used already prepared assets. Besides the placement of buildings, we had the possibility to engage creatively in the arrangement of the city, by creating small shops, market stalls and old fashioned pubs. After a few months and the extension of my contract, my field of responsibility expanded and I modeled my first 3D objects for Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams. I could convince with my work, so Spellbound forwarded me as junior 3D artist at the beginning of 2012. During my time as 3D artist I worked exclusively on Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams, a fast jump'n'run/side scroller game, which plays in two different dream worlds, a good and a bad one. Thereby I did most of the modelling and texturing in 3dsMax and Photoshop. Because the objects have to morph into the other version during the transition to the other world, the special challenge was to model two differently shaped and textured objects with the same vertex and polygon count. After five months as junior 3D artist at Spellbound Entertainment I unfortunately had to leave the company because of insolvency proceedings. With about half of the team Spellbound Entertainment founded the company Black Forest Games and released Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams in October 2012. |
Job Beschreibung (deutsch)
Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams - Erste Erfahrungen in der Games Industrie machte ich im Sommer 2011 mit einem drei monatigen Praktikum bei Spellbound Entertainment (jetzt bekannt als Black Forest Games).
Im Rahmen des Praktikums war es meine Hauptaufgabe für einen nicht veröffentlichten AAA-Titel Objekte in einer Game Engine (Vision Engine) zu platzieren. Im Team errichteten wir eine Stadt nach historischem Vorbild, wobei wir ausschließlich bestehende bzw. vorgefertigte Assets verwendeten. Neben dem reinen Platzieren von Gebäuden, hatte wir später die Möglichkeit kreativ an der Gestaltung der Stadt mitzuwirken, wobei wir beispielsweise kleine Läden und Marktstände sowie Wirtshäuser erstellten. Nach ein paar Monaten und einer Verlängerung meines Vertrages, erweiterte sich der Aufgabenbereich und ich durfte meine ersten 3D Objekte für Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams modellieren. In der Einarbeitungszeit konnte ich mit meiner Arbeit überzeugen und wurde somit zum 01.01.2012 als Junior 3D Artist übernommen. In der Zeit als Junior 3D Artist war ich ausschließlich am Projekt Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams tätig. Ich modellierte fast nur in Autodesk 3dsMax und texturierte in Adobe Photoshop. Die besondere Herausforderung hierbei war es, Objekte zu erstellen die den gleichen Polygon - und Vertext Count hatten, aber trotzdem grundlegend unterschiedlich aussehen. Dies erfolgte aus dem Grund, dass Giana Sisters gleichzeitig in zwei unterschiedlichen Traumwelten spielt: einer "Guten" und einer "Bösen". Beim Wechsel zwischen diesen müssen die Objekte zur anderen Version morphen können und daher zwei unterschiedliche Texturen haben. Durch die verschiedenen Fähigkeiten die Giana in den Welten hat, wechselt man während des Spiels stetig die Welten um alle Hindernisse und Kreaturen zu meistern. Dies bringt eine einzigartige Dynamik in das Spielerlebnis. Nach etwa fünf Monaten als 3D Artist musste ich Spellbound Entertainment auf Grund von Insolvenzanmeldung, und der damit verbundenen Kündigung, verlassen. Spellbound Entertainment gründete mit der Hälfte des ursprünglichen Teams Black Forest Games und brachte Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams im Oktober 2012 auf den Markt. |
Objects which I've created
Used programs:
3dsMax / Photoshop / zBrush / Topogun / xNormals
3dsMax / Photoshop / zBrush / Topogun / xNormals
Giana Sisters - Twisted Dreams (launch trailer)