Des infos sur les choix de design de certaines unités du jeu
Le site DeviantArt regorge de superbes illustrations. Du côté de StarCraft II, sachez que Phill Gonzo, qui bosse chez Blizzard sur le célèbre RTS, a mis en ligne pas mal d'images d'unités et bâtiments du jeu accompagnées de commentaires à propos de leur développement.
Si les images sont connues depuis longtemps, les propos sont très intéressants, à l'instar du Terran Science Facility que vous pouvez lire ci-dessous. Si vous aimez en savoir plus sur certains choix effectués au niveau du design des unités Terran, Protoss et Zerg, n'hésitez pas à parcourir les pages dédiées aux autres unité, même si c'est en anglais.
The Terran Science Facility was on my wishlist of Terran buildings I wanted to personally see return in Starcraft 2. For a short time it was on the multiplayer tech tree in Starcraft 2 until it was eventually replaced by other buildings such as the Ghost Academy and the Fusion Core.
During the Wings of Liberty single player campaign, it briefly returned as the buildings that needed to be destroyed during the dropship level. Unfortunately, after the artwork was made the map was revised and the Science Facilities were replaced by the Data Core building artwork.
Thankfully the Science Facility finally returned and even unlocks the secret mission in the single player campaign, it's in the bottom right of the "Media Blitz" campaign map.
I was very inspired by the work of the Project Revolution mod team when I made this model. Project Revolution created a Starcraft 1 mod in Warcraft 3, and alot of the artwork they made is pretty impressive. It was very interesting seeing how they defined some of the shapes from the vague Starcraft 1 sprite artwork. When the Science Facility was finally built in 3d, I took the lead from many of their shapes while updating the artwork.
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