I wasn’t really sure of what I wanted my game to be the week before it was due. I just had a bunch of random ideas. I wanted to do stuff with flowers or maybe a garden, then I thought of possibly adding a magic mushroom. Either way I did know that I wanted to work with making my own clay models. I thought it was cool that some of the Doom characters were made from clay, and I thought that this way of making sprites would be easier than drawing them myself on Photoshop. It also gave everything in my game its own style. I started out by making things I knew for sure I would use like trees, fruit, a bush. Making these clay figures was fun and since I knew the sprites were going to be really pixelated, I didn’t have to worry much about details.
It took my awhile to figure out the best way to photograph the figures because lighting had to be bright but not be at the wrong angles because then there’d be shadows. Eventually I found the best technique that worked to photograph everything.
