Features
Part of the draw of a leaderboard feature is the satisfying “plink” of receiving an achievement.
TOP: A colleague and I created a system and template, allowing for immediate production of an array of achievements indicating the completion of various feats.
BOTTOM: Achievements just for the Greatsword. An analysis of achievements of earlier weapons led to the finished icons.
New World’s Journal is one part quest tracker, one part tutorial, and also one part lore. I was humbled when a colleague and I were singled out to contribute to the latter’s illustrations.
Seasons 1 and 2
Each Season in New World means the generation of a slew of assets; this image features assets (from Seasons 1 and 2) that are in some part generated in-engine – but often require an artistic eye to manipulate pose/lighting/camera angle, etc.
Whereas some Season assets are created from scratch or by manipulating imagery.
TOP: Hatchery – the Hatchery villain’s face is used for both the point of interest icon on the map, and a variant look was used on the Seasonal Trial screen.
Tent – sometimes it pays to make your icons modular – we only needed the top of the tent.
BOTTOM: These are mostly from images. Behold how a stock image of photosynthesis becomes a blob… add some bumps, some specular highlights, and depth… and we have verdant essence. (The pâté is not nearly as fun to talk about, go figure!)
Events are somewhat like miniature Seasons – sometimes based on a holiday or an in-game celebration. Here you’re seeing bits of Winter Convergency and Springtide Bloom.
Events
Sometimes the challenge is fitting everything within the format. I kept the black-rectangle on the right image to show off that sometimes you can overlap if you do it with some artistry.