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Stellaris Dev Diary #186: Necroid Ships & the Art process

Hello everyone!


My name is Fredrik Toll, and I am the Art Director for Stellaris. For this week's dev diary, we wanted to give you an insight into the development process of creating the ships for the Necroids Species Pack. Lets dig right into it!

Designing a new Ship Set


After settling on the theme, the first thing we do when embarking on designing a new ship-set for a species pack, is going through the core ideas of the species pack with our internal team of concept artists. In this case it was centered around the theme of death, and the various species who have cheated it. After the brief, we had everyone write down their association and ideas for this theme to know what everyone is thinking. This allows us to align more what its all about, share ideas, and inspire each other. By doing that we are able to highlight what is more important and what does not fit with the theme. After this we do a search for visual reference to use in the concept process. These can be anything from patterns, statues, tiny objects, to buildings, whatever inspires us visually in connection to the theme. We look mostly for shapes, but also materials. Architecture is usually a great source of inspiration, they have great shapes, and a scale suitable for ship details. We try to avoid using other existing ships as reference since we want to develop something original, not just a variant of others, though they can still be a reference, if only to show what we don't want. For Necroids we looked a lot at Art Deco and brutalist architecture, tombs, pyramids, as well as skulls, fossils and many other things. After reviewing and discussing the references we start sketching, going wide, anything goes. Sometimes they align a lot with our references, other times ideas come from nowhere, its all part of the process. This leads to a whole lot of Ship designs ideas. Here are a handful of those.
Ultimately we settled on these two references as our direction. They felt like something far away from existing ships, as well as fitting well with the theme.

Developing the Style


These ships are only the start though. Once we have chosen one of the styles we did in our initial look development. We have to flesh out what those mean. These are just side-views, they do not tell you everything you know, in fact, opinions of how to interpret it can differ significantly. So we need to figure that out, as well as adapting it for the demands of the game, such as having sections, having turrets etc. Usually we start with the Cruiser, since its a good mid-size ship close enough to all ships sizes that its relevant for all designs. You also have a fallback option, if it turns out that it looks too big, you can just use it for the battleship. If it turns out too small it will be the destroyer or corvette. Here you can see a few of the concepts from the process. It looks pretty straightforward, but it takes a lot of back and forward before we nail it down.

Creating the Concepts


Once you have the style narrowed down, its time to make all the actual concepts for each and every ship. Even though the style is figured out, each ship is a bit unique and each of them present new challenges, and new parts of the style to figure out. The civilian ships are different from the military ships. Each of the military types ships has a different size, and the style differs significantly from the corvette to the juggernaut. Each of the civilian ships has a very unique design and they have more in common with some stations than they do with each other. The construction ship and the mining station often share traits, as do the science ship and the research station.

Here are two different examples.


The science ship for instance, has a much more high tech appearance than the other ships. The process is made easier though from the work we have done on previous shipsets. Some standards have been set, the science ship for instance usually has a more cool appearance with a more streamline almost racing type ship. This helps us know where to aim, and apply the style on that. Sometimes it's pretty straightforward Lets take the example of the Science Ship. First we start by making a couple of rough versions, then choose one of those versions, then make some more versions based on that one. We then continue the process by once again choosing one of them, refining the details to finish the design, and in the end we create an asset sheet. The asset sheet is for the 3D artist to model, and know where to apply which material. It speeds up their work a lot and makes sure everything is consistent.

If you wish to see more art examples of the Necroid shipsets and read more about the art process, check out the forum post here!


[ 2020-10-01 11:54:07 CET ] [ Original post ]

Stellaris
Paradox Development Studio Developer
Paradox Interactive Publisher
2016-05-09 Release
GameBillet: 10.50 €
Game News Posts: 542
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive (119848 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Public Linux Depots:
  • Linux [153.28 M]
Available DLCs:
  • Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers eBook
  • Stellaris: Plantoids Species Pack
  • Stellaris: Leviathans Story Pack
  • Stellaris: Utopia
  • Stellaris: Nova Edition Upgrade Pack
  • Stellaris: Galaxy Edition Upgrade Pack
  • Stellaris: Anniversary Portraits
  • Stellaris: Synthetic Dawn
  • Stellaris: Apocalypse
  • Stellaris: Humanoids Species Pack
  • Stellaris: Distant Stars Story Pack
  • Stellaris: MegaCorp
  • Stellaris: Ancient Relics Story Pack
  • Stellaris: Lithoids Species Pack
  • Stellaris: Federations
  • Stellaris: Necroids Species Pack
  • Stellaris: Nemesis
  • Stellaris: Aquatics Species Pack
  • Stellaris: Overlord
  • Stellaris: Toxoids Species Pack
  • Stellaris: First Contact Story Pack
  • Stellaris: Galactic Paragons
  • Stellaris: Astral Planes
  • Stellaris: Expansion Subscription
  • Stellaris: The Machine Age
  • Stellaris: Cosmic Storms
  • Stellaris: Grand Archive
  • Stellaris: Rick the Cube Species Portrait
Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand strategy genre with space exploration at its core.

Featuring deep strategic gameplay, a rich and enormously diverse selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has engaging challenging gameplay that rewards interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels.

Etch your name across the cosmos by forging a galactic empire; colonizing remote planets and integrating alien civilizations. Will you expand through war alone or walk the path of diplomacy to achieve your goals?

Main Feature
  • Deep & Varied Exploration.
  • Enormous procedural galaxies, containing thousands of planets.
  • Explore Anomalies with your heroic Scientist leaders.
  • Infinitely varied races through customization and procedural generation.
  • Advanced Diplomacy system worthy of a Grand Strategy Game.
  • Ship Designer based on a vast array of technologies.
  • Stunning space visuals.

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  • OS: Ubuntu 20.04 x64
  • Processor: Intel iCore i3-530 or AMD FX-6350Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 or AMD ATI Radeon HD 5870 (1GB VRAM). or AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 or Intel HD Graphics 4600Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 12 GB available space
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