Randos, Crowd Characters | Psychonauts 2 [WIP Post]
Base Rando and early exploration of the hair, skin, and outfit colors in Substance
Base Rando design by Nathan Stapley ''Bagel''
Nathan Stapley ''Bagel'' color pass over my model
Bagel's color pass over my model
Example of the different skin and hair colors
Matching the head and hair color throughout and documenting them
In-game Render
Hollis Casino Randos
In-game Render
HQ Admin Randos
In-game Render
HQ Agent Randos
In-game Render
HQ Maintenance Randos
ABOUT THE CHARACTERS
The Randos are the townspeople, the crowd characters who fill the levels of Psychonauts 2. Each level had different outfits for them. For example, the admins were used for the HQ. The rigs were set up so that we could swap heads between different body shapes, which gave us much more variety.
MY PROCESS
We created a lot of concept art, and it was based on employees in the office. Sam did the concepts. We used to call these characters “Randos.”
I made the first model, which became the reference for our outsourcing company to follow in order to build a bigger crowd. I also had a chance to sculpt severals of the heads, then later I also created the set of textures that they should follow. They created the outfits for the different body types.
When they sent back the models and textures, I went through all of them during our polish pass and unified the colors. We had a set of colors for each skin and hair color , so everything had to match properly.
The rigs were made by Adam Kelsey.
[3D model will be added]
[More details will be added]