Powderfall Bluffs - Slime Rancher 2
Wooooo our first update since our early access launch, PowderFall Bluffs ❄️
For this area, I worked on the ambience and overall lighting for day, night, and caves with feedback from the team. It was def a struggle for a minute to balance everything, especially the snow. I really wanted this zone to have a quiet, dreamy, melancholy mood, especially at night. This area also had way more complex caves so that kit was given an update.
There is some reuse of assets I had made from earlier zones with new textures, like a few world assets/rocks and the grass.
This zone had tons of collaboration with the tech artists, and it was so fun to get to push that aspect more. Edward made some amazing snow deformation, and really pushed our ice material to react to light sources in fun ways. And the aurora!!! screaming crying throwing up
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Art direction -
Ian McConville: https://twitter.com/PolygonCherub
Concept + UI art -
Ray Bruwelheide: https://www.artstation.com/raytendo
Environment art -
Norma Martinez: https://www.artstation.com/esanany
Dillon Sommerville: https://www.artstation.com/handwiches
Character art -
Dan Venhardt: https://www.artstation.com/danvenhardt
FX + tech art -
Edward del Villar: https://www.artstation.com/puck
Luis Armstrong: https://www.artstation.com/luisarmstrong
Ross Kameny
Level design -
Chris Lum: https://twitter.com/coinopthinktank
A time-lapse to show the ambience lighting for this zone, as well as the big melted ice dome!
day ambience, melting snow encasement
night ambience, melting snow encasement
For this massive cave, I thought it would be really fun to add a huge fire flower that was melting parts of it. Ray gave a few concept options and we went with this shape that you could land on, or set a slime on :)
Luis made a fun panning fire material for the flower, and Harry added sizzle sfx when the water droplets fell onto it
marmoset render
worked on the cave ambience/lighting and cave kit. this tunnel leads up to the fire flower cave.
I had so so much fun working on this cave. It was bare bones to start, with some stone pillars. It was named mineral lake though and I went a little wild with some of Dillon's light assets.
sorry i just like this cave OKKK
rock kit with Dillon's ice material. these are used in every zone, but with a stone material.
cave kit minus a few large tunnels; this is the same kit used in other zones, with an ice material from Dillon + Edward. Worked closely with design on the kit. These could be scaled non-uniformly with a triplanar material, which made them super versatile
Forest area set dressing - day lighting. originally the trees (by Dillon!) were all red and we ended up adding some color variance which looked great
Forest area set dressing - sunset lighting
Forest area set dressing - night lighting