Spring促销重点：资产商店发布艺术的原型
Find your new favorite assets during the Spring Sale, happening now at the Asset Store. Get 50% off over 500 tools, complete project packs, 3D art, and more, including some of our most popular assets. Meet one of the Asset Store’s most popular publishers, Protofactor, to see just how much hard work and skill goes into creating amazing, time-saving, AAA-quality art assets.
在Spring促销中找到您最喜欢的新资产，现在就在Asset Store中进行。 享受500多种工具，完整的项目包，3D美术等等的50％折扣，其中包括一些我们最受欢迎的资产。 与Asset Store最受欢迎的发行商之一Protofactor会面，了解制作令人惊奇，省时，具有AAA质量的艺术品的辛勤工作和技巧。
“Since I was a kid, I’ve always loved stuffed animals, figurines from tabletop games, action figures, animals, monsters and dinosaurs,” says Rodolphe Langlois, the lead 3D artist and CEO of Protofactor, Inc., a small 3D studio and Asset Store publisher. “There is an infinite combination of forms to combine and manipulate in order to create new interesting organic figures. It’s a lot of fun, and developers always need original content to put in their games. I’ll still be here in 30 years creating new designs.”
3D首席首席艺术家兼 小型3D工作室 Protofactor ，Inc. 首席执行官Rodolphe Langlois表示：“从我小时候起，我就一直喜欢填充动物，桌面游戏中的小雕像，动作人物，动物，怪物和恐龙。” 和资产商店发布者。 “存在无限多种形式的组合，可以组合和操纵，以创造出新的有趣的有机人物。 这很有趣，开发人员总是需要原始内容才能放入他们的游戏中。 30年后，我仍将在这里创作新设计。”
“Once in a while, I walk in some place like Best Buy or Target and see that there’s a game playing on a screen with some of our assets, or a toy/app combo is using some of our designs on their packaging,” Langlois continues. “It’s always a fun surprise!”
“有时，我走在百思买或塔吉特这样的地方，发现在屏幕上玩着我们的一些资产在玩游戏，或者玩具/应用程序组合在其包装上使用了我们的某些设计，” Langlois继续。 “这总是一个有趣的惊喜！”
Protofactor creates stunning, finely detailed 3D characters inspired by fantasy, myth, and sci-fi imagery while drawing from the richness and depth of Renaissance masters’ painting styles. From a complete set of painterly forest, farm and African savanna animals to multiple packages of beasts drawn from classic mythology, Tolkien, and medieval fantasy to imaginative sci-fi characters from outer space, the fully rigged and animated creatures that Protofactor makes seem built for storytelling.
Protofactor创作了精美，精美的3D角色，灵感来自幻想，神话和科幻影像，同时借鉴了文艺复兴时期大师们绘画风格的丰富性和深度。 从全套的彩绘 森林，农场和非洲稀树草原动物， 到 从经典神话，托尔金和中世纪幻想中提取的 多种 野兽， 再到 外太空中 富有想象力的科幻人物 ，Protofactor制作的完全操纵和动画的生物似乎是为建造而来的评书。
“Publishing on the platform has always been an easy and smooth process,” he says. “Receiving monthly income for my creations thanks to Unity’s online store has been the greatest thing that happened to me.”
他说：“在平台上发布始终是一个简单而顺畅的过程。” “得益于Unity的在线商店，我的作品获得了月收入，这是发生在我身上的最大事情。”
With over 190 wildly popular packages published on the Unity Asset Store, the small Southern California-based studio’s main focus is 3D character design, but they also have a game called Stellar Ghosts Online in the works, with an alpha version hitting the Steam store soon.
这家位于南加州的小型工作室在Unity Asset Store上发布了190多个广受欢迎的软件包，其主要重点是3D角色设计，但他们也有一款名为《 Stellar Ghosts Online》 的游戏 正在开发中，alpha版本即将在Steam商店上架。
Screenshot of Stellar Ghosts Online.
《 Stellar Ghosts Online》的屏幕截图。
原型工厂到资产商店发布的路径 (Protofactor’s path to Asset Store publishing)
Langlois started creating 3D art content in 3DS Max 4.3 in the very early aughts, and he discovered Unity in 2009 with version 2.5. “It was so much better and easier to use than any other tool that I was using,” he says. “I was converted right away.”
Langlois在很早的时候就开始在3DS Max 4.3中创建3D艺术内容，他于2009年发现了Unity版本2.5。 他说：“与我使用的任何其他工具相比，它的使用要好得多，也更容易。” “我马上就converted依了。”
At first, he was just creating content for personal real-time projects, but he noticed Unity’s new Asset Store in 2010 and spotted an opportunity to make a living as a full-time artist without having to work nine-to-five for somebody else. He jumped into Asset Store publishing in early February 2011 and made his first sales by March.
起初，他只是为个人实时项目创建内容，但他注意到Unity在2010年开设了新的Asset Store，并发现了一个机会，可以成为一名全职艺术家，而不必为其他人工作9到5 。 他于2011年2月上旬跳入Asset Store发行，并于3月完成了首笔销售。
Langlois says he’s always been a big fan of tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons, Dark Eye and HeroQuest, and loved video games like Zelda and Gothic 3. “Creating characters that were part of my imagination with my own personal twist was just a natural way to go,” he says, adding that he’d been drawing fantasy creatures since he was four. “Also, there was clear feedback on the forum that Unity users were looking for heroic fantasy content.”
Langlois表示，他一直是诸如Dungeons and Dragons，Dark Eye和HeroQuest等桌面游戏的忠实粉丝，并热爱 Zelda 和 Gothic 3 等视频游戏 。 他说：“以我个人的个性来创造角色，这是我想象中的一部分，这是很自然的做法。”他补充说，他从四岁起就一直在画幻想生物。 “此外，在论坛上有明确的反馈意见，表明Unity用户正在寻找英雄般的幻想内容。”
Striking a balance between his passions and what users want has been a lodestar for Protofactor studio. “Persevere, be patient, analyze the market. Try to identify where there is possibly a gap and try to fill it,” he says, when asked if he has any tips for someone starting out as an Asset Store publisher. “Be very, very professional when responding to customers and users. They pay close attention to reviews and especially answers from publishers. This demonstrates how much the publishers care about their products and user base.”
Protofactor工作室在他的热情和用户想要的东西之间取得平衡一直是不二之选。 “坚持下去，要有耐心，分析市场。 当被问及他对某人开始成为资产商店发行人有什么建议时，他说：“尝试找出可能存在的差距并设法弥补这一差距。” “在回应客户和用户时要非常非常专业。 他们密切注意评论，尤其是发布者的回答。 这说明了发行商在乎其产品和用户群。”
While the business and its customers are key, at the end of the day, for Langlois it’s about the process of creating his striking characters that counts. “Basically, I’m an artist. Any artist you will meet can’t stop creating,” he says. “There are so many things I want to bring to life. I’ll still be working on it at 80 using Unity 2057.3.”
尽管业务及其客户是关键，但归根结底，对于Langlois而言，关键在于创建其引人注目的角色。 “基本上，我是一名艺术家。 您遇到的任何艺术家都将停止创作，”他说。 “我想把很多东西变成现实。 我仍将在80时使用Unity 2057.3进行处理。”
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