{"id":43,"date":"2016-04-09T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2016-04-09T14:20:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T18:20:40","slug":"thumbnails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/09\/thumbnails\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbnails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we work with illustrators, we\u2019re still using much the same process as <a href=\"http:\/\/kingofdragonpass.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/art-process.html\">we did with King of Dragon Pass.<\/a>\u00a0We first get a thumbnail sketch to figure out the basic layout of the illustration, then get a more refined pencil sketch. We\u2019ve also been reviewing\u00a0an inked version, and then a colored version. Some of these terms are no longer as literal as they were back in the 1990s (more artists are using a digital process, so there may not be actual pencils or ink pens involved), but the same basic idea of refinement is the same.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I\u2019ve found a bit different in this project is what different artists consider as a thumbnail. I had never seen color used in a thumbnail before, but two artists have done so. And some of the thumbnails are\u00a0very polished.<\/p>\n<p>A few artists will also produce a lot\u00a0of alternatives (in one case, a thumbnail was so different that it generated a new scene).<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a representative sample, from five of our artists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/KG_thumbs-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/KG_thumbs-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/KG_thumbs.jpg 382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-48\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/s221-s222-s143-thumbnails-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/s221-s222-s143-thumbnails-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/s221-s222-s143-thumbnails.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S93-300x176.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S93-300x176.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S93-768x450.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S93-1024x600.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S93.jpeg 1070w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/59-flooding-thumb5-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/59-flooding-thumb5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/59-flooding-thumb5-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/59-flooding-thumb5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/59-flooding-thumb5.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S006t-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S006t-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/S006t.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I chose these to show the range of detail. Some of these may not actually end up in the game. But they\u2019re all perfectly good thumbnails that start the process of illustrating an interactive scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we work with illustrators, we\u2019re still using much the same process as we did with King of Dragon Pass.\u00a0We first get a thumbnail sketch to figure out the basic layout of the illustration, then get a more refined pencil sketch. We\u2019ve also been reviewing\u00a0an inked version, and then a colored version. Some of these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/09\/thumbnails\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thumbnails&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sixages.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}