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Following the monthly livestream development update, I interviewed Bardtic about everything we had just seen. It was an awesome 30 minute conversation about everything Ashes of Creation and Intrepid Studios. They showed up multiple new race models, including the Vek, and Dunir. The art styles were not exactly the same, and we discuss what that means for the game going forward in this highlight clip.
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I am 100% for the more stylized look. Take that artist and pull together a team meeting and go, "this, this is where we are going with everything from now on."
All that visual fidelity on the Dunir is lost the second you pull that camera back 5 feet.
Now only will the stylized version have more longevity, IMO it will look better, and be able to convey model features better at a distance. Which most mmos aren't played with a God of War camera. The visual fidelity holds up so well there because the camera constantly allows itself to be up close and personal with kratos and boy.
So in Ashes case I'd love to see them just extend the artists responsible for the Vek and olive branch and let them do a few renderings of another race or two and gauge community interests and attitudes toward it.
Im BIG Dwarf fan. I think itd looking cool. Defo not all Dwarfs will be same looking. Some customization will be ad. Beer belly!!!
i think you got the right of it with how they still got work to do to make the vek look more realistic as you said its definitely a time thing to me a dwarf is a Dense being so i hope they can have a belly and ripped limbs at the same time
Honestly I quite like the Dunir model as well and expect future passes to give a more real feel to the Vek. Even the Ren'Kai have the more real look imo in this most recent pass so we'll see.
~HT
Somehow the Vek are the race I never knew I needed.
I'm honestly not seeing the disparity of artstyle, Refinement perhaps.
They need to pick ONE art style and use it, using multiple styles is really bad for the game because the inconsistency makes it look bad and turns players and potential players off from the game. A friend of mine actually had this problem.
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I had this mismatched feeling even before. Like with those goofy mushroom thingies or the flower monsters. They felt too much, especially with some of the environments, like in that video about the Unreal Engine update. Same with some of the spells.
Oh hell yeah, beer belly dwarves!
Game is all over the place, big mess really. I don't believe in this game until I see it on release day.
Definitely prefer the realistic version.
Hopefully this is an early pass on the Vek and in game models are more conservative
Keep in mind, stylized graphics do age better.
I think this is simply the difference between artwork and final model.
If those are actual models with actual lighting and textures I am rather sure it grounds itself.