Holo everyone!
We're looking for an artist to draw a few arena "halves" along with the background for our 3d artist to use as a reference.
I will try and give you an example in crappy mspaint sketches and hope one of you amazing artists will be up for the task. We figured having good-looking 2d versions rather than just sketches could be useful to showcase on the website and other places so we're looking to hire one of you for it.
The idea
Based on which healer you're playing, your "half" of the arena will be a bit custom to represent your class; Ocean, Forest and Light. So we'd need a background outside of the arena to fit in with all 3 versions and it to not be "too different" so it would stand out too much from the other half if they're playing another class.
Let's say the arena has these dimensions:
We'd need a certain "place" where the healers can stand and give orders and cast their heals from and the creatures would be inside the arena.
If we assume the healer to the left is Ocean and the one to the right is Forest, the arena halves would differ where there'd be some "pools" of water here and there, maybe a few ocean things like shells, sand, etc. While the forest side would include more forest things like plants, flowers, roots, etc.
The important thing is that the "borders" would for instance be brown color to represent ground so the arena has to start matching a little before it gets to the exact middle part so it wouldn't look too much like a straight exact line between the ocean side and forest side.
This example would be something that'd take a bit to draw even as a sketch so I'm hoping you're able to follow my points by text (we can of course get into more details later and revisions, etc, if you're chosen for the job).
The arena shouldn't "look" like it's as circular as in the example sketch above but naturally form a circle to give the creatures room to fight in.
The other important part is that the outside of the arena has to have a theme as well without favoring any of the 3 classes, so I figured maybe they're somewhere near a lake in the background, a little bit of forest and then also some futuristic cities in the far away background. Point is that the "end" of the circle has to also naturally connect with the rest of the background no matter which class's half is being represented at that time.
Keep in mind that the halves of the arena can switch sides, some times u can have the same classes on both sides, etc. But these additions are better to look into later.
Either way, we're looking for someone who has experience with "background" artwork so we'll be tagging the winners of the background contest we hosted to give them a chance to apply first but we will be considering all valid entries. Please do include links to your portfolio or previous work of what is being requested (anime-style background)
@deddywox @victoradebiyiart @solumviz
We'll be offering $200 in Hive/HBD for 3 class variations of the arena halves + the background (we'll require a 360 background but the full version can be sketched and not in as much detail as that "one shot" we'll be using for website, etc)
In the future we'll be looking for more customizable arena halves and backgrounds (for instance when playing during the night, etc) so stay tuned for that and please contact us in this post if you're interested and feel free to let us know what you think of the idea in general!
We'll discuss details with the artist we choose for the gig, thanks!