We wanted the black goo to be some kind of materia that was connected the netherworld/the other side/the place between time and space (and that black liquid is present when you open the rift that breaks reality after meeting the grim), but during tests we found at that a lot of players didn’t see the little black tears, so we decided to change them to red – Which is kind of fitting too, as the mylings are ghosts of murdered children. In the game, drips signal where mylings are hiding, and for a long time those drips were black. In one of the tests a myling is crying some black liquid. At first they were supposed to look a lot more human, then we decided to blend in some roots and sticks (don’t ask!), until we went for the final more “ghostly” mylings. The view/perspective is inspried by the Ace Attorney games. We really wanted to avoid the classic idle animations that you see in most games, where characters seem to have a really hard time to stand still. Too make her feel alive, we made a set of different expressions, very subtle eye movements and blinking, and she even has a breathing animation that is very very subtle. We also wanted her age to be left to the players imagination, so she couldn’t look to child like or too grown up. It was important that she wasn’t too pretty or too cute, but players still needed to feel a connection to her, so she had to feel charismatic. We didn’t want players to read too much into her clothing the first dress looked a little too “worky”, while the second felt a little too posh. We didn’t even have a concept for Stina, her face worked from the first test, but finding the right type of clothes was harder. Visually, Downton Abbey was an inspiration! We wanted him to be mysterious, and we knew early on that we wanted him to not feel evil or scary. He didn’t change a lot from his first concept, but he went through some iterations in which he either looked too psychopathic, too evil or too cute. Human bodies + animal heads = FUN, so we knew early what we wanted to do with the Brook Horse. This post contains some spoilers, so be warned! Time for another round of Year Walk making-of pics! Let’s look at some characters this time.
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