243 Level Background

Last night I went out and photographed streets in Wellington. Mainly ones with graffiti and little signs of life. This is important for my level as I wanted an almost eerie feel to it. I then took the images, spliced them all together and applied various brightness, level and saturation filters to create a seemless black and white long photo. As I wasn't sure whether or not we would be allowed to use real photography in our 2D flash games I then tried to remove the realistic textures by applying some image filters to the photo. I also removed most of the light from the image so that the character would have to use the lights provided to see around the level. The end result is a almost vector illustrated picture of an empty street. I am really pleased with how it turned out. It is realistic enough to protray my point but not too much so that my character would look fake.

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