Due to my lack of recent updates, I thought it would be time to share another sneak peak at "Surface Tension." Here is a zoomed in crop of two beach combers discovering something monstrous has come ashore on the midnight tide!
What could it all mean? Stay tuned.
Wow, that was so long ago now. There were two versions of SL - a really shonky initial PC version (don't recommend that!) and a total rewrite for the Playstation (then known as the "PSX"). I believe it was one of the first ever Playstation games released in the USA (around early 95, we actually coded it in '94). We started work on MediEvil in '95, just after Silverload. SL is a very crude looking game by today's standards!
ReplyDeleteThe backgorunds were hand drawn, by myself and two other artists - Jason RIley and Tony Heap. The characters were filmed with 'actors' and then key frames of animation were digitised and rota-scoped into the backdrops. I used some really crude software/hardware on the Amiga to do this, something I hooked my old video camera up to. It could only scan in black and white so we had to hand colour the animation frames! I honestly cannot tell you the name of the software/hardware combination I used. Blimey - this was around twenty years ago! :)
The backgrounds were sketched in pencils and then scanned and coloured in an Amiga art software package (forget which). They look a bit garish and low res' but for the time the game was made they look okay (93-94).
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