In this case by our splendid Lead Artist/Wood Carver Maria Svenningsson.
The inhabitants of Sancourt – the small town in our story – were meant to look like live toy figurines, carefully carved by someone. We wanted to channel that feeling of having created your own diorama world and exploring it as a child, the tiny world coming alive as you play. There’s also the tactileness of leaning closer to listen in on the conversations going on in town or putting silly hats on people (thanks to our Lead Programmer and Producer, Sebastian Strand.
Thanks to our Programmers, Kristian Dam and Katharina Wunder, the Ghost Giant can lift off walls, roofs or rotate whole houses, take a huge crane and use it as a fishing rod or grab a big rock and throw it over the woods. Which, as a bonus, made Patrik Häggblad (the programmer responsible for making our game run smoothly) very happy. The style also helped to optimize the game since, instead of making high polygon models with fancy materials, our Environment Artist - Leo Brynielsson – just focused on painting yummy textures with a handmade look. There are lumps of papier-mâché for foliage and painted cardboard for buildings - with thumbtacks, nails and tape keeping it all together. The world has a very crafted look and feel to it, and that was always a common denominator throughout the development of the style. Our VFX Artist André Jönsson put a lot of effort into making effects which make the connection between you and Louis feel both more real and magical. From there on it’s up to you to figure out how to earn his trust. You lean closer and poke him, he screams and runs away to hide behind a rock. You’re real, big as a hill and scary as thunder. In our new VR adventure you get to experience that precise moment when you meet the young cat boy Louis! You’re right there in his world, in the shape of the Ghost Giant.
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