Lottery interfaces:   Merry Starts   Let's Go   Sport Festival   Patterns on Ice  

The making of the Sport Festival lottery interface

Overview   Process  

Getting some paper lottery tickets.

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Reading the rules and starting to generate ideas. It has to be about winter, since the lottery is related to the Winter Olympics in Sochi. We come up with a snowball fight. What if we throw snowballs at animals and win prizes? The art director likes the idea. Drafting the concept and presenting to the client.

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The client approves. Starting to draw. First, the background.

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Sketching the fir trees.

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Nope, not quite what we need. Drawing the trees again and placing them on a snow field.

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Simultaneously making sketches for the characters.

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Art director: They look like they’re from Soviet cartoons. They have to be more modern.

Making new sketches.

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Art director: Nope, wrong again.

Inviting another designer to work on the characters.

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Art director: Can they maybe have different poses? Right now it looks like a bunch of criminal mugshots. Also, they are too dark and gloomy. There has to be more fun and joy, like in pinball games.

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Art director: This is seriously fucked up, they look like thirsty beggars.

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Art director: The fox was better. Continue in that style.

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Art director: That’s better. Make sure they have different poses: some can be sitting, some can be laying down. Don’t be afraid to make them stick out of a snow pile. Add more fantasy, more playfulness.

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Art director: Now make the beaver and the bear look different, as well as the fox and that weird red animal, and it’s an OK.

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Art director: All good, except for the thug snowman.

Replacing the thug snowman with a dog and showing to the client.

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According to the scenario, the animals will have to be covered in snow. Poor guys.

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Burying them in snow.

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Looks bad. Freezing them instead.

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All right, it’s done, sending to the client. Who replies with an idea, “Let’s have it so we need to shoot the animals like at a shooting range!” Interesting, sure, but would require full-scale modification of the game. Piling up ideas.

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Deciding to make it as simple as possible. The Start button now has a sight.

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Adding a table with stats of the previous draw on the side.

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Choosing the latter option. Creating a bunch of helper graphics.

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The client sends the sounds. Launching.


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