What does 'Overpaint' actually mean?

[Khtugg]

Hi,
in the patch notes viewed in the news it is mentioned Shelly and a couple of enemies will have their sprites 'overpainted'. What does that mean? Redrawn? I'm just wondering

[Gila]

I wondered about that myself. Here's comparison between 1.02 (left) and 1.10 (right) graphics of the main character: http://gila.deathmask.net/various/if_102_110.png

Wendigo and Centipede graphical touch-ups are also very noticeable. Brute and Skinjob are less so.

[Khtugg]

Thank you very much

[Retodon8]

So they don't have to create all the many sprites from scratch (front view, multiple frames of (walking, shooting, jumping, crouching, melee) animation, side view, again multiple frames, behind view, multiple frames, diagonal view, multiple frames... they create a 3D model that they animate and rotate and create a whole bunch of screenshots of.

The old sprites for Shelly and some of the animation were basically those screenshots as is. They are a bit blurry due to the relatively low resolution. In the new version the artist added lots of love and pixel artistry to add contrast, details, and make them look really nice.

This is an article about the art of the game: https://3drealms.com/devblog/dev-blog-2-art-ion-maiden/

[Khtugg]

And thank you as well, Retodon8

[Gila]

Cheers Retodon8, that was an interesting read, same for other Dev Blogs they have there.