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A look at everything behind making a video game about small toy soldiers.
A Small World: Making of the Microverse
How is the small (or giant) world of the Army Men made? What would their perspective of the world be like? Is physics different when your are small size? These and more questions examined in detail to help us think about how to create and design not only how the giant world visualized from the perspective of a small plastic soldier, but how this world actually works.
Making the Microverse, Part 10: Flags, Identity, Nations and Factions
Flags, logos, and other visual representations are powerful tools in graphic design, serving as symbols that convey identity, values, and messages of groups, nations, factions, and communities. Let’s explore these elements from a graphic design perspective, focusing on representation, iconography, and the meanings behind various design elements and their users. Army Men Nations flags Flags … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 10: Flags, Identity, Nations and Factions
Embassies in other worlds
The Toyverse thrives on the belief that every toy has a soul, a tiny spark of magic. So in the Real World, the world that ties all toys to a common origin, is so bigger that contains a few “embasies” from the other worlds, officially recognized by some toykinds and some of this worlds. So … Continue reading Embassies in other worlds
Making the Microverse, Part 6: Concept Art & Storyboards
There are many ways to make conceptual art… The points to take into consideration for our Army Men concept artists: Conceptual art is an artistic and simplified sketch in which the conceptualization or idea is more important than the drawn/conceptualized art. Ideas prevail over their formal or sensitive aspects so that the artistic aspect of … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 6: Concept Art & Storyboards
Making the Microverse, Part 5: That music sounds familiar…
… So here we go with an in-depth study on the soundtracks of the Army Men franchise games… Soundtracks are an indelible mark on a franchise’s identity. They are very important when creating a sequel video game to a franchise as established in collective knowledge as Army Men. Sounds and Music Samples all around the … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 5: That music sounds familiar…
Making the Microverse, Part 4: Weapons Malfunction
To work or not to work, that is the question Weapons will work in a very particular way in Army Men Revolution. They will work normally in the worlds they come from, but will stop working in other worlds, or will be nerfed. In this way we ensure that the seemingly weak plastic weapons can … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 4: Weapons Malfunction
Making the Microverse, Part 3: Shades of Plastic
Tone, hue, or tonality: the degree to which the visual color stimulus can be described. The Army Men armies in our project, especially in canon and in Army Men Revolution, will have different shades within their own ranks, just like plastic soldiers in the real world. Photos courtesy of Caenen Meltesenhttps://instagram.com/caenenmeltesen Over the years, the … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 3: Shades of Plastic
Making the Microverse, Part 2: Animal Warriors
To make an incredible video game sometimes you need to do a lot of research A pigeon fighting a plastic soldier sounds ridiculous, until you see it with your own eyes… High speed. Precision. A weight of 250 Gr (9 ounces or 0.6 pounds). After watching this video, you don’t have to use much of … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 2: Animal Warriors
Making the Microverse, Part 1: Miniaturization secrets on Cinema!
Before 3D design and video game design, other talented artists had to face the challenge of making small beings look realistic, and showing giant environments from their perspective. In this first part of this series, we will reveal some of its ingenious secrets, knowledge that will help improve the experience of the small world of … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 1: Miniaturization secrets on Cinema!
World Building: How the Army Men Toyverse works?
The Microverse, (or Toyverse) as the Army Men call it, is shrouded in mystery. Is it the result of mysterious magic? Is it the collective imagination of humans? Is it simply a simulated world? We expanded and built a world that itself was never explained in detail, and that’s probably part of its appeal: maintaining the mystery.
Embassies in other worlds
The Toyverse thrives on the belief that every toy has a soul, a tiny spark of magic. So in the Real World, the world that ties all toys to a common origin, is so bigger that contains a few “embasies” from the other worlds, officially recognized by some toykinds and some of this worlds. So … Continue reading Embassies in other worlds
Making the Microverse, Part 4: Weapons Malfunction
To work or not to work, that is the question Weapons will work in a very particular way in Army Men Revolution. They will work normally in the worlds they come from, but will stop working in other worlds, or will be nerfed. In this way we ensure that the seemingly weak plastic weapons can … Continue reading Making the Microverse, Part 4: Weapons Malfunction
Mirror Worlds: Different worlds or the same worlds but during different times?
Plastic World’s Dawn Land is an almost exact copy, a mirror, of a place of the same name, but in the Prehistoric World, or vice versa. Upon entering this place from the respective portal, the user arrive at an almost identical place, as if it were the same place, but with the original statues like … Continue reading Mirror Worlds: Different worlds or the same worlds but during different times?
3D Designing a Toyverse Videogame
Some of our… theoretical articles perhaps?, about how we designed the Army Men Toyverse in 3D. From the creation of textures and photography, to how we create and imitate the “Real World” (the one we live in, not the one of the videogames) and everything behind what the Army Men’s Plastic World should look like, which in fact IT IS a plastic world.
Designing the Army Men in 3D, Part 1: Recreating from Reference Images
What is more difficult than creating a character from scratch? Recreate a pre-existing one from low resolution images Something extremely difficult is to imitate a 3D model only with poor quality reference images. It is a tedious and slow job, much more difficult to do than creating a character from 0, at least from the … Continue reading Designing the Army Men in 3D, Part 1: Recreating from Reference Images
Army Men Toyverse 3D models
3D models Showroom Characters, vehicles, weapons and other 3D models for the project. Below is a series of galleries showing some of the 3D models for Revolution and the rest of the Army Men Toyverse projects. Characters Vehicles Making of 3D models & 3D printing Weapons Objects
Revolution assets library
The assets of the game will be a lot, but for the most part they will be the same three-dimensional geometry with different textures, as in the case of the Real World assets. We will try to make each door, each wall, each window and each wooden furniture different, using an algorithm that will modify … Continue reading Revolution assets library
3D models Showroom
Characters, vehicles, weapons and other 3D models for the project. Below is a series of galleries showing some of the 3D models for Revolution and the rest of the Army Men Toyverse projects.
