One detail that stuck in my head was that the world of The Banner Saga always has long shadows, as if the sun was constantly setting and the world was caught in this state of decline as the light ebbs away. We were lucky enough to watch a BAFTA stream with Stoic Studio where they explored some of there narrative process and thinking and it was fascinating.
It brings the feeling of beloved tactical games to a high-definition era with gorgeous hand-animated artwork and a degree of depth unprecedented in the realm of free games.
#THE BANNER SAGA ARTWORK PC#
The cherry on the cake is the parallax created by the foreground trees. The Banner Saga: Factions (or simply Factions) is the premiere multiplayer role-playing strategy game on PC and Mac. Finally, the clean pure red banner brings some focus and visual harmony to the scene. So for example, they have something incredibly big, like a massive face carved into a rock taking up 1/2 of the screen (large shape), then some much smaller, tighter detail like little people at the bottom (small shape), and then something in between like the trees (medium shape). Particularly striking is the use of scale, whereby they utilise the large/medium/small composition rule to great effect. The Banner Saga does a very similar thing. Most of the images are high-resolution, so be sure to click on the gallery icons. This, in combination with an effective distribution of detail, helps create some amazing pieces of art. This article contains concept art gathered during the games development. Often he’ll use dramatic shadows or negative space to conjure up striking compositions. His work is extremely bold and graphical, utilising simple colour palettes (nearly always with black, or something close to black) to create high contrast images.
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