Bloom's Fortress

It's finally finished! Now that it's all done, here's the video of the making of Bloom's Fortress: The Emerald Bell, Volume I.

Nighttime houses.

A new animation I made. I only recently started trying to use Photoshop to use animations, but I'm pretty pleased with how it's working out. I applied textures to each frame to make the eyes flicker slightly - still trying to get the glow perfect, but we can apply a glow effect in Unity anyway so I guess we'll try that and see what looks better.

Developing a typeface and animated text for the app. The typeface will be used for all the speech bubbles, with the text generated dynamically.

The reference image for the treehouse itself was from a folder of images of treehouses I had, the main one I used as inspiration previously had no attribution (I found it on some blog post like 'the world's greatest tree houses'), but thanks to Google's search by image function have tracked it down - it's from the cover of this book, The Treehouse Book by Peter and Judy Nelson, which I shall now almost certainly have to purchase.

A rough sketch of the fortress.

Monster.

Josie's house is near the harbour because of her dad being a fisherman.. And Ayo lives with his grandparents in a somewhat remote cottage near Sharp Point.

"The lights in the chamber come up as Westerby enters (flaming torches on the walls which burst into life?): now the queen is properly visible: she has a wizened, desiccated, bandaged body (sort of like a female Gollum), visible inside an almost-robotic (steampunkish) hollow copper suit of armour [...] Her head [and crown] is in an oversized spherical glass helmet with diagonal riveted seam, which is full of liquid, with trailing pipes plumbed into the wall behind her. The green glow of the crown lights her head and makes the life-support liquid glow."

Several layers of light and dark gradients give the effect of shadows and mist.

sketches of one of the monsters

Using a light colour and the 'soft light' blend mode in photoshop to paint light into a dark scene.