Following the long-awaited arrival of Patch 8 for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3, the Dungeons & Dragons-flavored RPG's final update, art director Alena Dubrov💝ina reveals that Larian Studios originally had a very different art style planned for the game – once a "ca♛rtoony" one, in fact.
Speaking to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CD Projekt Red, the studio behind RPGs like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyberpunk 2077 and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher 4, Dubrovina says as much in a new .
"We actually changed design direction at least two 🧸times," the art lead recalls. "And it was not just polish, but it was like a complete turnaround. And at first, we tried more stylized approaches, like I would say even a cartoony approach to match it closer to what we see in D&D books and D&D art."
That's when Larian moved onto the more realistic visuals closer to what Baldur's Gate 3 fan♛s now 🀅know and love. "Then we tried a little bit of a more realistic, grounded approach, but then still keeping the stylized feel," explains Dubrovina. "Hard to describe, easier to show, I guess."
The studio wasn't satisfied yet: "And then we did some 🎉t🌜rials with cinematics and we thought, 'It's going to the right direction,' but we still weren't happy."
Throughout the process, 𒁏the art director says, "there was no concrete plan in pre-p𒊎roduction." Larian was simply "exploring in pre-production" and "trying things" as the style evolved, having "no idea, like, where, what we want to do," as Dubrovina puts it. She details the thought process each dev had at the time while designing the RPG: "Yeah, I want to make something cool, but we don't know how."
It's certainly a funny thought – the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 companions in a more cartoony style – and I wouldn't be opposed to seeing it myself, especially after witnessing similar, probably more extreme energy in videos like the official 澳洲幸运5𒁏开奖号码历史查询:B🐲aldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 animated short and its equally impressive preceding entries. I am, however, admittedly more than pleased with what Larian ended up releasing in the end, aesthetical🧸ly. Astarion is perfect as-is, after all.
After spending years with her head in various fantastical realms' clouds, Anna studied English Literature and then Medieval History 🎶at the University of Edinburgh, going on to specialize in narrative design and video game journalism as a writer. She has written for various publications since her postgraduate studies, including Dexerto, Fanbyte, GameSpot, IGN, PCGamesN, and more. When she's not frantically trying to form words into coherent sentences, she's probably daydreaming about becoming a fairy druid and befriending every animal or she's spending a thousand (more) hours traversing the Underdark in Baldur's Gate 3. If you spot her away from her PC, you'll always find Anna with a fantasy book, a handheld video game console of some sort, and a Tamagotchi or two on hand.
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