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Description I have long been a fan of visual novels, and their backgrounds and art direction, so I was thrilled when I was approached with a commission to develop a series of backgrounds for the in-development visual novel, "Errant Heart".

For those not in the know, visual novels are a type of adventure game, mostly popular in Japan, where the player follows a written story and makes choices which lead the story into multiple branches. The graphics usually consist of high-res static 2D character sprites and background images.

The story of Errant Heart takes place mostly in the fictional town of San Moritz, which is based around an Italian town in the 1940s. I ended up doing a series of 7 exterior shots of different locations seen throughout the town. Each image has 4 variations, depending on time of day and weather, making a total of 28 images which were produced over a period of 3 weeks. Each background was created using a combination of 3D and digital painting.

You can find the full set of backgrounds that I produced elsewhere in my gallery.

As of this writing the visual novel is early in development and does not have a set release date. I encourage you to try it out when it comes out.

All images are ©2010 Pseudome Studio LLC. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
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Comments: 23

GilgaPhoenixIgnis [2012-05-31 09:18:30 +0000 UTC]

Really good.

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Kashilicious [2012-05-18 11:19:44 +0000 UTC]

Pardon me for asking this here. I just bump this deviant.

Can I ask whether I'll use this as a references in my storybook? I've been having troubles making my background that looks like these kind of styles. I love this styles but the drawing part was a bit hard.

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owen-c In reply to Kashilicious [2012-05-18 14:36:24 +0000 UTC]

It depends what you mean as a reference. It's a commission work that I don't own the copyrights of, so the image cannot be similar to it but of course you could make something in a similar style or subject.

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Kashilicious In reply to owen-c [2012-05-19 13:25:38 +0000 UTC]

Like perspective view of this art. More towards the perspective studies of reference.

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pixelbudah [2011-04-23 21:05:00 +0000 UTC]

I love these , they are so amazing, fantastic work!

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tobgt [2011-04-23 10:55:37 +0000 UTC]

amazing colors& lights . is it rendered by vray or mental ?

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owen-c In reply to tobgt [2011-04-24 03:47:31 +0000 UTC]

I use mental ray for everything and sometimes the default renderer
I have Vray but I haven't really had the time or patience to learn it in part since it renders so slow.
I find I have more control over colors, etc with simple renderers

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bluefootednewt [2011-04-07 19:32:21 +0000 UTC]

This reminds me of the concept art for the Pixar film Ratatouille!

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Trutze [2011-04-07 19:25:51 +0000 UTC]

the colors and the lighting looks so good in these images - beautiful

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Alfazil [2010-02-14 18:59:29 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful! I love how you showed it at different times of the day.

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maView [2010-02-11 15:45:47 +0000 UTC]

great, just great!

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ARCHIEXELENT [2010-02-08 04:09:05 +0000 UTC]

i want a cofee..!!!!!
Very nice concept..!
very nice render..

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ShengDaFlashPRo [2010-02-06 02:43:05 +0000 UTC]

damn! nice work! captured the different lighting perfectly

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akeli [2010-02-05 00:45:45 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This is amazing!! I hate to ask this on a picture...but do you do commissions publicly? How much do you charge to do concept work like this?

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owen-c In reply to akeli [2010-02-05 01:25:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks; I generally do take commissions, send me a note for more information.

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aidenke [2010-02-05 00:31:11 +0000 UTC]

I love it! The look, the feel of the cafe... VERY cool!

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dtownley1 [2010-02-04 22:29:53 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful colour work dude. Very nice touch with the closed umbrellas in the night scene.

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Forever-cat-lover [2010-02-04 19:48:11 +0000 UTC]

aweesome - i absolutly love these kinds of drawings
You drew it really well^^

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owen-c In reply to Forever-cat-lover [2010-02-05 01:28:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks... though it's actually in 3D except for the trees and some other details.

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Forever-cat-lover In reply to owen-c [2010-02-05 09:49:23 +0000 UTC]

oh right - well it's really pretty nontheless

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ReaGaladriel [2010-02-04 18:16:50 +0000 UTC]

The images are beautiful!!!! And I adore that kind of games (like broken sword),,,beautiful!

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owen-c In reply to ReaGaladriel [2010-02-05 01:30:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, these ones are a lot less interactive than the western adventure games like Broken Sword but I like those as well.

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ReaGaladriel In reply to owen-c [2010-02-08 11:54:35 +0000 UTC]

I know,,I went to youtube to see what visual novels are,,but on first look reminded me on Broken sword,,,the earlier version

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