{"id":104086,"date":"2019-11-20T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/354435"},"modified":"2019-11-20T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T21:01:00","slug":"video-inside-the-art-design-of-firewatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/20\/video-inside-the-art-design-of-firewatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Inside the art design of Firewatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2015 GDC talk <em>Firewatch&nbsp;<\/em>artist Jane Ng discuss the challenges of translating a bold 2D graphic style into the game&#8217;s vibrant 3D environments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During her presentation Ng took the time to dig deep into the nuts and bolts of creating colorful game environments which&nbsp;<em>feel&nbsp;<\/em>real and authentic to the player, even if they have a stylized or cartoonish look.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fantastic talk that offered rare insight into the design of a remarkably beautiful game, and now you can watch it completely free&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SdxQ3HlhTE8\">via&nbsp;the official GDC YouTube channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 2015 GDC talk Firewatch&nbsp;artist Jane Ng discuss the challenges of translating a bold 2D graphic style into the game&#8217;s vibrant 3D environments.&nbsp; During her presentation Ng took the time to dig deep into the nuts and bolts of creating colorful game environments which&nbsp;feel&nbsp;real and authentic to the player, even if they have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}