Before you start to make a 3d model out of a concept art you should have made some different versions so you can chose the best one. Here are 5 versions of the troll that Nixi made before we chose to go with troll number 5 (bottom right). We might include some of the other versions later in the game, but that’s mostly up to if we get the time to do it : )

-”Once upon a decade, the great Pig gods bless the strongest Pig in the forest with immense strenght and size, at this time the grey trolls send out their bravest hunter gatherer to bring home a great feast for the village.

It’s eat or be eaten in this grand tale based upon the true story of David vs Goliath.”

This is a 3d rendered movie that I (with little help of Stoffer) made yesterday just for fun. So it’s not a official release movie for PoH or anything that will be appearing in the game. The 3d models though are the once we use in the game.

It’s been a while since my last contribution to this blog and I know that Jens is very mad with me. I can hear it in his voice and now my fear of facing that anger is forcing me to write. Luckily he works from a distance so there still might be time left before he unleashes his great anger upon me. Better get started.

Last week I worked with several things; enemies, the gem system and the start menu. Today I’ll show you the final concept of the very first two enemies the player will encounter, the forest troll and a mount animal. You might recognize the troll from some of my earlier sketches. I’ve polished it and thought about its behavior.

The troll can come as one or riding on the pigs back. When mounted you can hit him so that he dies and falls off, this will change the way the pig acts and it will go berserk and start charging wildly across the screen. The player will unfortunately not be able to use the pig as a mount. That would look funny though.

* Jens comment *
I never get mad at you Trixi ; ) I only frustrated :p You have to ask/tell the people around 10 times before they start to blog. Then when they do, you get 10-20 posts to sort out. The “blog rule” here at DataBox is that each person should post 0.5-1 post/week. This so the people reading our blog knows what we’re up to.

Would be cool if you could eat that nice little piggy and gain heath from it after you killed it (guess I put that on the “wish/reject” list :p)

And so it’s Friday again. Some people look forward to this day. I, on the other hand, feel a bit concerned. I’m not a workaholic or anything, it’s just that the release party for Exhaust is coming up tonight and it probably will involve consuming alcohol with insane people, such as my colleges. I hope no one dies.
Anyway, this week I devoted most of my time to design enemies. Mainly some enemies that’s in the forest.

Kristofer and I discussed what could work and we agreed on some sort of small trolls equipped with wooden clubs. Said and done, I drew a couple of sketches which you can see below.