My Fantasy art kit kickstarter project - tiles & tokens for use with VTTs

Hello, My name is Raymond Gaustadnes and I'm a freelance digital artist living in Norway. I'm currently running a kickstarter project, named "Game Master's Campaign - Fantasy art kit" and I'm kinda "reluctantly" seeking out any forums I can find that are about Virtual tabletop softwares, in order to show that my project is live and possibly finding Game Masters, module makers or game developers in general that might have use of my artwork with their games. The kit will contain, in the end: terrain maps, tiles to construct structures ontop of the terrain, decals to give variation to the terrain and a massive bunch of items, objects, creatures, monsters and fantasy characters to place ontop of the finished campaign map(s). Everything will come in two sizes, the largest versions allows you to print out the artwork, for use with your physical rpg campaigns should you wish for that. The intended use for this kit, or should I say kits as I plan to create smaller addons to the main kit, it for digital use. You either load everything inside your VTT of choice and put together the map there, or take the terrains and tiles into any software capable of handling PNG files (transparent backgrounds), create your maps there and then bring the maps and tokens into your VTT of choice. I have started painting the kit but there's tons of work to be done still. I've posted updates and examples for the kit over the last weeks in another forum, with some really nice feedback. I've worked with many game companies in the past, creating artwork for various physical and digital games, you can see some of them here (be warned, you'll find new and not so recent artwork in the gallery :) ) <a href="http://shockbolt.deviantart.com" rel="nofollow">http://shockbolt.deviantart.com</a> And then there's the kickstarter project page here: <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vortexgames/game-masters-campaign-the-fantasy-art-kit" rel="nofollow">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vortexgames/game-masters-campaign-the-fantasy-art-kit</a> Don't feel obliged to back it, but there are some nice rewards for the higher pledge levels, such as acquiring a license to use my artwork for your commercial projects, those rewards are limited. Last but not least, here are some larger sized previews of the tokens and tiles, keep in mind: all creatures, monsters, characters, objects and items will come without backgrounds, this allows you to place and rotate them any way you want ontop of your maps. Files for digital use will be of reasonable size(sizes, as they will vary in size as to what the tokens are, dragons will be larger than goblins etc). A fantasy player character might be 128x128 pixels in size, more than enough to show some nice details in the token when used, or 64x64 pixels. more previews and updates to be posted later :)

More previews painted today:

I would suggest renaming the beholder, as the name beholder is a specific wotc license, something like eye beast or something should suffice, and everyone would still know its a beholder, but you might get some flak from wotc if you leave it as is. They are pretty touchy on their IP.

I would suggest renaming the beholder, as the name beholder is a specific wotc license, something like eye beast or something should suffice, and everyone would still know its a beholder, but you might get some flak from wotc if you leave it as is. They are pretty touchy on their IP. Done. We don't want any trouble with those guys.. :)

Shockbolt, These are excellent art pieces for fantasy games. I can't wait to seeing them in action!

They look very good indeed. Do you intend to make a few mounted tokens? Any non fantasy ones?

I've got to admit, these look very nice. Impressive work.

These are really nice! Excellent work.

They look very good indeed. Do you intend to make a few mounted tokens? Any non fantasy ones? The Fantasy art kit will be the first themed kit I'm creating. If the response is good, I will start planning a Scifi art kit and possibly a Zombie war kit after that. As for mounted tokens, I might add those to one or more of the addon kits to the Fantasy art kit, possibly even some will be found within the Fantasy art kit itself, such as NPCs on horses, dragons etc

@ Axel Castilla , Chas Heath & Sarah A. : thanks :)

Excellent Stuff!

These all look nice. Will you be creating templates for explosions and spells?

These all look nice. Will you be creating templates for explosions and spells? Those shouldn't be too much work to add, AoE and cone spell/attack effects such as fire, gas, ice, electricity etc

These are very nice, I will be keeping an eye out for your kick starter progress and buy into in next month.

Looks great - I like the style a lot. I hope by "Zombie war" you mean "modern"/"apocolyptic", as I would love a decent modern token/tile set. I'll pledge shortly, just pondering on my level... -- Pete.

Looks great - I like the style a lot. I hope by "Zombie war" you mean "modern"/"apocolyptic", as I would love a decent modern token/tile set. I'll pledge shortly, just pondering on my level... -- Pete. Yes, it would be a zombie infested modern/apocalyptic art kit.

The KS project reached it's $7K stretch goal today, adding a Tavern/Inn addon art kit to the project. In addition, a new stretch goal was added, containing a Nautical addon art kit. Read more about both of them on the KS project page.

That is excellent, Shockbolt! And the Tavern/Inn addon art kit looks great, judging by its now disclosed contents.

That is excellent, Shockbolt! And the Tavern/Inn addon art kit looks great, judging by its now disclosed contents. Thanks! The $9K stretch goal was reached last night, as another VTT developer went for the top pledge reward, acquiring the license to integrate my base Fantasy art kit directly into their VTT. The contents of the Castles, torture chamber & siege engines addon kit is now revealed. So far 2 out of 5 available VTT licenses has been grabbed...still 3 more...might be something for you too roll20.net :)

Preview of some of the wood wall tiles, here seen in a dungeon setting. There will be more than one type of wood wall tiles, previews of the others coming later on.

And here is a preview of the second set of wood wall tiles, for constructing buildings made of lumber, seen here as a cabin/house structure with randomly scattered tokens inside:

The Minimap kit will come free of charge with the Fantasy art kit, enabling you as a developer or GM, to create...minimaps to hand out to the players. Obviously, some work is required to be done, such as drawing roads, rivers, lakes onto the map. Below you'll see some examples of what you can design using the contents of the minimap kit: Using the terrain map symbols/tiles and spending a few minutes drawing roads, rivers and lakes, adding text, you might end up with something like this for use with your campaign: The list of tiles and symbols to be included with this Minimap kit is growing, what you see in the 3 examples above is just a small portion of what you'll find in the kit once it's ready.

As stated in the previous post, the Minimap kit will be provided with all base Fantasy art kits. The minimap kit allows you to create fantasy/medieval maps, and then hand them out to your players during a rpg campaign. Here are some of the compass symbols that will be coming with the Minimap kit, along with tiles and tokens to create the rest of the interior and exterior maps, such as creating dungeon levels, house levels or terrains.

Seems like a 3rd VTT developer has acquired the VTT art license during last night, pushing the project beyond the $12K "Holy places" stretch goal! Contents of that addon kit will be revealed shortly.

I just saw it, $12k! Congratulations, Shockbolt. I was really hoping the KS project reach the "Holy places" stretch goal, and there are still 18 days to go!

I'm hoping it gets to the $22k for the variations and I hope that the variations include dead versions of the tokens :)

Yes, variations will include both dead, injured and other variations such as other clothing/armor/weaponry/body painting etc. Within a week, I plan to also release the list of what I've named future addon kits, the kits that go beyond the stretch goal addon kits.

I've been following this thread for a while, even since before I was an intern, and I'd like to commend your skill. When everything is said and done feel free to contact one of us here @Roll20 if you would like to negotiate bringing your work to the marketplace to accommodate those not fortune enough to back it now.

I've sent you a PM Tristan J.