Art Direction

[MonstroUK]

Subject:
Future CnC Titles: The importance of new Art Direction

Description:
I personally believe the biggest change that needs to be taken with the CnC series via this reboot is the art direction.

I feel like the artistic shift the series made after Tiberian Sun and RA2 is what turned me off of the series most.

I don’t know if it was due to the nature of the Sage engines pipeline or changes made in the art department, but I really feel this more than anything signified the fall off in the series.

Please, please, PLEASE EA, make sure that whoever you having working away in the art department makes sure that the new CnC looks like nothing else in the strategy genre. If you do have to ape another studios style though, focus more on Relic than Blizzard.

Blizzard have that semi-super deformed look down pact (and I hate it), please don’t go in that direction.

Less bulky polygonal power armour, more post war Diesel Punk.


Positive Effect:
Make CnC stand out from the crowd, show people something they've never seen before, create brand awareness through fresh and unique visuals.

Negative Effect:
None! Out with the old.

[Moongrave]

So more streamline looks like Crysis or Tiberium armor and less American Footballer power suits

It works mostly for the Tiberium Series

The rest of the series have different looks entirely

[Kyang]

Subject:
Future CnC Titles: The importance of new Art Direction

Description:
I personally believe the biggest change that needs to be taken with the CnC series via this reboot is the art direction.

I feel like the artistic shift the series made after Tiberian Sun and RA2 is what turned me off of the series most.

I don’t know if it was due to the nature of the Sage engines pipeline or changes made in the art department, but I really feel this more than anything signified the fall off in the series.

Please, please, PLEASE EA, make sure that whoever you having working away in the art department makes sure that the new CnC looks like nothing else in the strategy genre. If you do have to ape another studios style though, focus more on Relic than Blizzard.

Blizzard have that semi-super deformed look down pact (and I hate it), please don’t go in that direction.

Less bulky polygonal power armour, more post war Diesel Punk.


Positive Effect:
Make CnC stand out from the crowd, show people something they've never seen before, create brand awareness through fresh and unique visuals.

Negative Effect:
None! Out with the old.

I'm not sure that Generals and Zero Hour really had a "semi-deformed" unit in the ranks. I'm guessing maybe the Spectre gunship was the one exception.

[Harrrr]

Subject:
Future CnC Titles: The importance of new Art Direction

Description:
I personally believe the biggest change that needs to be taken with the CnC series via this reboot is the art direction.

I feel like the artistic shift the series made after Tiberian Sun and RA2 is what turned me off of the series most.

I don’t know if it was due to the nature of the Sage engines pipeline or changes made in the art department, but I really feel this more than anything signified the fall off in the series.

Please, please, PLEASE EA, make sure that whoever you having working away in the art department makes sure that the new CnC looks like nothing else in the strategy genre. If you do have to ape another studios style though, focus more on Relic than Blizzard.

Blizzard have that semi-super deformed look down pact (and I hate it), please don’t go in that direction.

Less bulky polygonal power armour, more post war Diesel Punk.


Positive Effect:
Make CnC stand out from the crowd, show people something they've never seen before, create brand awareness through fresh and unique visuals.

Negative Effect:
None! Out with the old.

What?

Art direction for each of CnC's iterations post RA2 have been strikingly different. I think the most striking is RA3. I mean it's got to mean something where people single-handedly point out that game for the "cartoonyness". It stood out like a sore thumb from TS and anything else on the market. It's art direction, although controversial with the fan base, WAS unique and definitive. It certainly didn't look like a Blizzard game or anything else. It was also clearly different from TW and the BFMEII.

[=LEVIATHEN=]

What?

Art direction for each of CnC's iterations post RA2 have been strikingly different. I think the most striking is RA3. I mean it's got to mean something where people single-handedly point out that game for the "cartoonyness". It stood out like a sore thumb from TS and anything else on the market. It's art direction, although controversial with the fan base, WAS unique and definitive. It certainly didn't look like a Blizzard game or anything else. It was also clearly different from TW and the BFMEII.

True and I don't think it's a bad thing.While I agree with you (MonstroUK),I think that a more serious art style should be applied to the Tiberium saga or the Generals Universe,or some other new universe.But I like how cartoony RA2 and 3 are.It,as Harrrr describes,makes the game really stand out.

[Kyang]

What?

Art direction for each of CnC's iterations post RA2 have been strikingly different. I think the most striking is RA3. I mean it's got to mean something where people single-handedly point out that game for the "cartoonyness". It stood out like a sore thumb from TS and anything else on the market. It's art direction, although controversial with the fan base, WAS unique and definitive. It certainly didn't look like a Blizzard game or anything else. It was also clearly different from TW and the BFMEII.

Agreed here.

[Filipoo]

I'm not sure If I understand... and RA2 wasn't cartoony

[AthCom]

I didn't like the RA3 art. The rest was okay.

Just compare this one:


to this one:


I understand they wanted it to be 'wacky', but it's not to my taste. At all.
They have to get rid of the VFX unit outlining as well, it's fugly. (I know you can turn it off by turning VFX off, but that takes my eye candy away.)

[Coolness7]

Tbh Red Alert can stay as corny as it wants but C&C4 taking that art direction was just ****ing ridiculous.

[Golan2781]

Just compare this one:
[...]

to this one:
[...]

The first tank shown is way too low in contrast to be properly identifiable in the heat of combat and frankly it doesn't look very realistic either, just dull.
The second one is a comical but at least working depiction of a tank, both for visuals and more importantly gameplay.