Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]

So...we got:

Animation: 3 (Mark medicine-ball, Antonio the professional)
Art: 10 (Menze?, Nesler, Hector, Dimitri the Russian, Chinese James, Polina, Sean Minecrafter)
Audio: 1 (Justin Bell?)
Design: 8 (Cain, Sawyer, MCA, Ziets)
Production: 1 (Brennecke? or Urquhart?)
Programming: 4 (Weatherly, Brennecke?)
QA: 1
Total: 28

 

no rails on those stairs, unrealistically dangerous

Edair has a cross eyed derp face

Sword is out yet scabbard has sword in it

Aumaua are orcs with face paint

oversized weapons like Final Fantasy

tiny dungeons like Storm of Zehir

everything is grey and lifeless

Did i get it all?


in b4 i missed the "most crucial" one of all

 

Edairs elbows too pointy. Project Eternity 2/10.

 

The orcs look like frog-people.

 

Kien Tran - Forgot to add him. Last worked on Dungeon Siege 3.
Dimitri Berman - Well known for "Low Poly modeling." That's all I could find.
Polina Hristova - Last worked on Dungeon Siege 3 and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Rob Nesler - Been working in the field for 20 years. Previously with inXile, High Moon Studios, and Treyarch (COD!!!)
Hector Espinoza - Worked on DS3 last. Also worked on Van Buren.
James Chea - Working at Obsidian almost 4 years. Relatively new to the field. Junior Character Artist
Sean Dunny - Working at Obsidian almost 5 years.
Mark Bremerkemp - Alpha Protocol. Working at Obsidian 3+ years.
Antonio Govela - 5.5 years with Obsidian. Dude knows his stuff. Technical Animator.

So I still don't know if Menze is part of the team or not. Anyone else know?

 

Each time I read an update, I absentmindedly peruse the comments section... and each time I'm rewarded with drivel posted by at least one dimwit from the Obsidian Order with a LARP-y title.

 

In that case don't go anywhere near the Obsidian forums.Some threads are... painfull
http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/62891-im-hoping-pe-rekindles-my-crpg-lovei-feel-fatigue/

 

Well, per Rob Nesler, there are a few unfilled art positions left which will be filled after pre-production.

In regards to Menze, per Rob,

 

Reads post. Has heart-attack.

 

How do you make an Arcanum character so frail you get one-shotted by a wolf?

 

Bremerkamp was also Lead Animator of Vampire:Bloodlines

 

Yeah a lot of these artists worked on many titles. I just wanted to put up their most recent work and also their last names. This way, whoever is interested can look them up, look at their prior work, and see where the art direction would be leading to. We've got a lot of DS3 guys on the art team. Nesler has worked on a lot of different games and so I'm glad he's the director: he's got a lot of experience to draw from and that can be good (or bad). Govela has been working in the field for a while too, so from a techincal perspective I think they've got some good people. We can expect less glitchy graphics, for example. The whole cloth physics kind of shows this too.

Edit: Many of the older guys have been working in the whole RPG field for a while - they were first at Interplay, then some of them went to Troika, and then moved over to Obsidian. These older guys have been doing this for a while.

 

I wonder if this game is going to have Fallout-esque animated heads because the facial animation in Bloodlines was amazing.

 

http://brenze.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=0

Wow. Yeah, he's good. Why isn't he concepting the game? I'd much rather have him doing it.

 

They probably wanted to give young talent some airtime.
Yeah, I don't like the concept art either. But it's just concept art. It's not really required to be pretty; just give the 3D artists a good idea of the character / setting and how to model him / it. Doesn't mean I don't prefer good concept art.

Fallout 3 had great concept art at times, and we all know what that game is like.
Fallout 1 had concept art that ranged from terrible to amazing.

 

What're the space guys from?
Alien RPG?

 

Looks like it. He's even got an android girl in there.

 

Now that you mention it, he comments on the android chick pic and says it's not from there:

~75407 Feb 27, 2010
It's this concept from the Aliens RPG ? Too bad, it had great potential.
~Brenze Feb 27, 2010
nope. can't say any more than that

edit: also, the elf chick from the kickstarter pitch is on the second page. must be a pretty old pic...

 

wy

 

Pimp Prosper. He could do it.