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Rare meets the challenge of next-gen textures and scoops a wealth of awards
Horstachios, Buzzlegums and Fudgehogs. They are some of the weird and wonderful characters you'll see in Rare's world of Viva Piñata! And like much of the content within this award-winning Xbox 360 title, they've all been textured using BodyPaint 3D.

In Viva Piñata, you tend a basic plot of land, transform it from an overgrown mess into a paradise and, in doing so, you'll attract all manner of creatures - called piñatas - into your garden.



Sound simple? It is, if all you want to do is attract a few lowly worms. Give them a patch of earth and they'll be content!

But if you want to set your eyes on the more exotic piñatas you'll need to exercise those green fingers a little more!

Treat the piñatas well and not only will they visit, they'll hang around as residents. Treat them really well and, before you know it, they will pair up and perform a romance dance! That's a sure sign that a piñata egg is on the way.



With such compelling gameplay and deliciously colorful graphics, it's no wonder that Viva Piñata has reaped a host of awards. These include the coveted 'Gold Award' from The Parents' Choice Foundation, the 'Best Visuals' award from Deeko.com, and 'Most Surprising Game of the Year' from Gamezone.com, to name just a few.

Creating the wacky world of Viva Piñata has been a huge undertaking, four years in the making, with up to 50 people working on the project at any one time. The game world features up to 60 different piñatas, each of which has three different appearances. Plus there are hundreds of plants and objects with which you can populate your garden.

Thanks to the additional graphical power of next-gen consoles like the Xbox 360, games have never looked better. Textures are far larger and support more channels than ever before. This quantum leap in technology is great for gamesplayers but comes at the price of increased demands placed on games developers.



To meet the challenge of creating better textures faster, Rare looked to BodyPaint 3D. After BodyPaint 3D was successfully tested within the Rare pipeline, artists set to work on it for Viva Piñata. From piñatas to mushrooms, BodyPaint 3D was used to texture virtually everything in the game environment.

BodyPaint 3D proved to be a valuable addtion to the Rare pipeline, cutting the time required to create textures while at the same time helping the team produce better-quality results:

"I can't tell you how impressed I've been using BodyPaint 3D whilst working on Viva Piñata," said Ed Bryan, lead artist on Viva Piñata. "From the familiar interface to the seamless projection painting and layers I'm able to get my work into the game much quicker and with very little fuss. BodyPaint 3D is outstanding!"



Viva Piñata artist Andrew James added: "BodyPaint 3D's unique connection to Maya allowed me to go from raw model to textured model in half the time of our typical paint package. Whilst on Viva Piñata, BodyPaint 3D made painting complex patterns onto plants feel as natural and intuitive as possible, without me actually climbing into the screen to manually apply the paint."

Not least of all, BodyPaint 3D's easy to learn tools proved a big hit with the Rare team: "I felt confident with the software after less than a morning. Its interface is easy to use and the tools feel familiar," testified Stephen Hall, character artist on Viva Piñata.

With the game such a joy to behold, going on gardening vacation suddenly sounds appealing.

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