A Brief History of Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space by Developer, Fabrizio Zagaglia (Part 5)

OK guys, here we are, present day with my dev diary. Someone of you are already playing the game while I’m working on new levels. But I can’t tell you too much about that, better to avoid spoilers!!!
So, I think that I will show you the evolution of the creature you will meet in the beginning of your adventure. It is a really lovely creature: one-big-eyed, an angry mouth in the middle, two funny claws which can be used to cut your feet, a couple of dinosaur’s legs with some pretty nails. And, obviously, a funny tail in the back. Ermm… well, not exactly a tail. A tentacle.
Ivan calls it Oculus Peculiaris Sauris Tentacolus.
I call it FUFFI.
In this picture, you can see the evolution of the sweet beast, from LONGY 1 (more than ten years ago, when I was a very young Z4G0… Z3G0) :D I produced it with a Cinema 4D , rendered it to be used in the LONGY 1’s 2D environment.
Please pay attention to the (absent) antialiasing, and the dark pixel on the border! I was a really young dev…
Anyway, after that, when I began moving to 3D, I used (mas o menos) the same model in 3D real time. Well, the crude 3D real time is not so beautiful, if you don’t pay attention to a lot of cosmetics. So, I did cosmetics for monsters.
Not enough. You know, when a monster goes to the beautician, it is never satisfied, it will always say “my tail is too short”, or “my jaws are too opaque”, “I want more mortal claws” and so on. The normal complaints that you hear when you go to the beautician.
So, I worked heavily on the different parts, also on their animations, to keep the creature cheerfully lively. Lots of cosmetics!
So, keep in mind when, in the game, when you get the desire to hit its poor big-eyed-head. It is only a little, sweet, funny pet with some tentacle and claws, at least!
Remember this when it goes to eat you!
OK… back to work for your favorite game! :D