The Art of Tsardoms news

Here at Tsardoms we value both historical accuracy but also artistic impression. When a faction is created first our historians use various historical sources to create a roster. After that they write detailed descriptions of each unit including dress, style, clothing, heraldry, materials, accessories, weapons, type of armour, different upgrades and finally they find useful images from varios sources ranging from church paintings, frescoes, historical re-enactments, reconstructions, artistic impressions etc. In the next stage our artists use all this information and images to paint various impressions of how the unit should look like in our mod. Next, the modellers create models of the unit based on these impressions. Finally, the skinners take the model and create the skin of the unit and make the final touches.

As you can see there is a long process from unit concept all the way to the final unit.

Below we present this very progress for the Bosnian Spearmen unit

First our historian for Bosnia matija191 wrote the description of the unit. Next our artist Thinkerman painted the concept art of how they should look like

Then Hrobatos used various parts and skinned the actual unit with the variations

And here they are in the actual game

As always, this unit is still a work in progress so it will be improved and will likely be of higher quality in the final release.

Here are some more concept arts drawn by Thinkerman for the mod

Roman Soldier

Bulgarian Bolyars

Balkan cavalry

Bosnian Crossbowmen

Bulgarian Bolyar

Tsar Lazar

Pronoia

Bulgarian Tsar
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You can visit Thinkerman's deviant profile and see his other art here Thinkerman.deviantart.com