For the HD version of Stellaris, our team had to create all new high detail icons as the original ones looked too muddy when scaled up to 4k.
I used big blocks of colour, dark lining and sharp contrast so when the paintings were scaled down they would be crisp and clean.
I used big blocks of colour, dark lining and sharp contrast so when the paintings were scaled down they would be crisp and clean.
Here is another painting from that project- again, big blocks with dark outlines so they would scale down and become crisp, easy to read icons.
I think Jack and I did like a few hundred? It was a lot.
This one looks so proud to be graduating!
Aaaanyway, the point is if you are painting for icons, paint bigger and use contrast and large blocks of value and color to make them read well.
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None of the paintings are great when you look at them at the resolution they are painted in, but I always had a duplicate of the photoshop window zoomed way out to the game size.
This allowed me to paint and be confident the end result would read well.
This allowed me to paint and be confident the end result would read well.
Anyway, buy Stellaris.
Absolutely zero profit goes to me... it's just a cool game. K?
Absolutely zero profit goes to me... it's just a cool game. K?
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