I have that exact sandwich toy thing!! Hank loves his sammy, looks like Echo does too

Interesting to see it just alongside other stuff in the level

That's all folks! Was a fun trip down memory lane doing this breakdown and the response has been encouraging, so will do more in the future!

@ProfessorOfSass.bsky.social is the incredible artist behind all this and everyone should go follow her! 👏 😤

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Here's the final model in Unreal, alongside the wireframe

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Here's a more recent concept Rose did for Birdy circa April 2025, and the team loved it, cause of course we did??

LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE TOGETHER 😭

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As we continued work on the Wanderer, we started calling our companion character "Birdy" internally and that stuck around!

We pinned down our visual inspiration to L0-LA59 from Star Wars, and Rose started some explorations in that direction

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Here's that same shot with a stylization shader that Substance Painter provides out of the box

An early test for our stylized texturing workflow

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