How we make background art + Wallpaper mini pack (Patreon)

👑 How we make locations in Becoming a King 👑

Hello, dear princes! A lot of you were wondering if we use AI in our game, and in today’s post we will describe our art pipeline in detail - and show you how we make background art as an example! It’s locations that create the unique atmosphere in Becoming a King.

🎨 From idea to background art

Every picture begins with technical specifications. There is background art for gameplay and for story purposes, and these specifications are made with the help of a narrative designer, project manager or a game designer This guarantees that every background is both aesthetic and functional.

Then, a talented artist starts their work, makiong the first sketches. To increase speed, we use AI at this stage - our artist generates concept art, combines variants that they like and works on missing details. This is how the sketch looks before detail work:

 After mixing and matching to get the perfect generated art, the artist fixes some inconsistencies in the drawing, uses photobash techniques and refines the sketch with the help of a lead artist. Look how the background changed since the last step!

 Background art requires trmendous attention to detail. Dependindg on its function, there might be chibi- or fullscale-models present on the background, so it’s imperative that it all looks well together.

 🔍 Perspective 

One of the many difficulties in making backgrounds is perspective. It requires a special mindset and a lot of time to make it just right. This is how working on perspective looks like:

 ✨ Final touches 

After all the technical moments are fixed, the artist adds more detail, texture and color, turning a sketch into the final location. Depending on the complexity of the location, one background art might take from 5 to 12 days of work 💦 And now for the final art:

 🎁 Bonus: Wallpaper mini pack We’ve made this special mini pack of wallpapers for you, with all the beautiful sights from the world of Becoming a King ✨

You can download the mini pack with this link: https://cdn-legacy.lust.so/marketing/Becoming/builds/Becoming_A_King_locations_wallpaper.zip

But that’s not all! We want to continue making these packs. Next time, we’re planing to make a character mini pack that will be available to patrons with Baron tier and above. Stay tuned to not miss this exclusive content!

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