Battle Arena 2

Texturing the battle arena was the next logical step. 

For the art style of the arena I decided on doing something a bit different than normal texturing. At the time of deciding apon the art style I was influenced by the ascetics of the Telltale games like the Wolf Among Us, Walking Dead, or Tales of Borderlands games. I was also influenced by games like Borderlands which used the same art style. 

The Wolf Among Us

Because this art style was comic book style, which didn't use realistic textures, most of the textures had to be painted over or drawn over in photoshop. This was actually a very fun process because it allowed me to get creative when working with the textures to try and achieve the comic book like art style. 

Borderlands

When making the textures look cartoon I found out that the best way to make the textures smooth-ish comic book style was to apply a smart blur filter onto them. Simply put, this meant that the textures then became a slight bit burred, and thus looking almost painted. Because of this effect most of the images used in texturing looked almost like something out a Telltale game. 

The next part was to add detail onto the textures so they didn't look bland and empty. Using textures and brushes in photoshop, I added little details to each texture like cracks or dirt. This was to make each object look almost worn or used in a way. 

Well Texture

The last part of making the textures was to add black outlines near the edges of the textures to finish off the intended comic book effect. However with some textures black outlines were not possible as they would negatively effect the texture. This was mainly a problem with foliage or textures that used Alpha channels, as the black outline would make the texture look smaller than expected.

Box Texture

In the end the textures turned out nicely and looked cartoon-ish like I wanted. Some textures were made from scratch while some textures were made with images that were found on various sites on the internet.