If we all agreed, we all want this as a collectible sitting on my desk, then we were moving forward." "'How would this look on my desk?' Was something imagining, or we heard more than once. Most of the time we were encouraged to explore. What do you think? Are you cool with this overall direction?" And yeah, it was a fantastic relationship. We have kind of these check-in points, but we share very early sketches with them, get kind of a buy-in, like, "This is the direction we're heading. "Working with DC on these suitstyles, I mean, it's a partnership for sure," says Evans of that relationship, "and it starts in the early stages of the character designs. This relationship apparently wasn’t a restrictive one though, and instead encouraged experimentation. You tend to get like more passion, it just flows better for them."ĭesigning the suit styles for Gotham Knights was a true collaborative effort, with DC of course having its own input. "Įvans explains the benefit of this approach: "I feel like you get awesome results when you ask someone for their own kind of personal style a little bit. So that give us a sort of like the initial confidence to talk to them, and then to reach out. "For instance, the Beyond one, the artist, his portfolio was already looking, I would say, 70% close to what we were looking for. Montréal team came up with basic philosophies for each suitstyle, then went looking for people who could interpret those in their own way. Outside artists were picked not just for their raw ability, but for how applicable their existing work was. So for us, it was really interesting to see each artist's personal taste and their take on the suitstyles that we chose for them." And then the next day we'll get something from Korea, for instance.
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So we would get a work-in-progress update from one artist, say from Germany. "That was very exciting for us," adds associate character art director, Jianli Wu, "just because several of those different suitstyles were happening at the same time. found these artists, contacted them, and then we ended up having artists from Germany, France, Korea, Japan, US, all contributing to generating ideas for these suitstyles." "We basically looked on the internet, various websites, various people's portfolios, various social medias. We started with our internal team, but we also searched for a bunch of artists that would have styles that kind of synced up with what we were looking for. "So I think we took an approach that was pretty unique to this project. "We knew we wanted to create this wide range of suitstyles with a lot of distinct looks," explains character art director, Jay Evans. In order to get as many varied and eye-catching designs as possible, the character art team looked far beyond their studio walls for inspiration. You don't want to end up with a Red Hood that looks sketchy because you made bad fashion choices. "And to do that, we wanted to make sure that you always looked cool. "We wanted the liberty to make suitstyles that were different from one another enough that they all had their own really strong personality," continues game director Geoff Ellenor. "Player expression for us is very important," explains creative director Patrick Redding, "but we wanted to make sure that we could harness that in a way that allowed for a degree of clarity and unity to the look of all of these different suits and suitstyles." Key to the philosophy around all of these sets is that while elements of their look can be customized, you can’t mix and match pieces between different suits. has reiterated that there will be no microtransactions in the game, although the 'Beyond' and 'KnightWatch' sets are currently tied to the Deluxe and Collector's Editions of the game. There will be 11 different suitstyle sets in Gotham Knights at launch, making up 44 individual suits in total (not including transmogs). We’re showing off six sets of suitstyles and one transmog set in the gallery above. First, it’s important to realize that Gotham Knights makes a distinction between suitstyles (suits that come with cosmetic and stat changes) and transmogs (suits that are purely cosmetic, and applied like skins).
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