Hello everyone!
Following our previous post, we're ready to show you a bit of what we have been working on behind the scenes. For the core concept of our game, we wanted to create a highly stylized experience that you could lose yourself into.
To achieve this effect, we looked into traditional eastern styles of drawing and painting, and landed on a style that we instantly fell in love with: Ukiyo-e.
Ukiyo-e is a genre of japanese art where artists draw and paint on woodblocks, most commonly depicting female beauty, kabuki actors, and even history and folktales.
Image 1 - Katsushika Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa, 1831
This style of painting had a huge resurgence in the late 17th century in Japan, although most of the pieces were monochrome or had small amounts of color in them. It was only in the middle of the 18th century that the more colorful woodblock prints started gaining popularity, peaking on the late 18th century
Image 2 - Hishikawa Moronobu, late 1670s or early 1680s
Image 3 - Utagawa Toyoharu's Perspective Pictures of Places in Japan, circa 1772-1781
Finally, in the 19th century, ukiyo-e saw a late flowering and went back to depicting scenes of animals, plants and landscapes, in order to suppress displays of luxury.
Image 4 - Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Suikoden series, 1830
Image 5 - Utagawa Kunisada's Dawn at Futami-ga-ura, circa 1832
With all this, our artist was able to create a mockup screenshot that tries to encapsulate this traditional and awe-inspiring artstyle, here you go!
Curious about the frog character on the mockup art above? Head over to our Twitter to take a better look at it!
See you all next post!
