Making magic with Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom effects

The PS3 is still in its fetus stage, about to be born. That’s why when Alex Carbonero and his team were making the effects for Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom, they had to make ends meet with the PS3 engine, because at first there wasn’t any effect tool yet.

This was their first task: to create a pipeline for effects so that the design engineers wouldn’t have trouble towards the end of game development cycle. Eventually, they were able to create the tools to make the simplest effects to the more complex ones, from flame torches to luminescent blasts.

When it comes to effects, their team had to deliver effects through the laws of physics and/or magic. Tough luck, huh? But conquer it, they did. Their most common elements included smoke, fire, water, electricity, and light. For more elaborate effects, the artist simply needed to make some concept art and break it down to individual particles for the elements to be combined. From base elements to complex woven patterns…

It sounds like magic, but we’re thinking, these artists truly are magicians in their own profession.

 

Pre-Order: [Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom]

The PS3 is still in its fetus stage, about to be born. That’s why when Alex Carbonero and his team were making the effects for Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom, they had to make ends meet with the PS3 engine, because at first there wasn’t any effect tool yet.

This was their first task: to create a pipeline for effects so that the design engineers wouldn’t have trouble towards the end of game development cycle. Eventually, they were able to create the tools to make the simplest effects to the more complex ones, from flame torches to luminescent blasts.

When it comes to effects, their team had to deliver effects through the laws of physics and/or magic. Tough luck, huh? But conquer it, they did. Their most common elements included smoke, fire, water, electricity, and light. For more elaborate effects, the artist simply needed to make some concept art and break it down to individual particles for the elements to be combined. From base elements to complex woven patterns…

It sounds like magic, but we’re thinking, these artists truly are magicians in their own profession.

 

Pre-Order: [Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom]