Chris Goodswen Notes

Lothar Zhou Notes

Concept Artist Presentation

Roles in the Game Industry

Roles in the game industry can be in different categories; Game Design, Art and Animation, Programming, Audio, Quality Assurance, Production Management and Publishing and Organisational Management. The most relevant category to me is Art and Animation so I researched more into this.

Art and Animation:

Creative Manager, Previs Artist, Art Director, Technical Artist, Lead Artist, Artist, Concept Artist, Animator, Environmental Artist and 3D Modeller.

The most interesting job to me is Concept Artist. The concept artist’s job is to visualise and produce a character, item or area.

Reference:

http://www.skillset.org/games/careers/article_2768_1.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concept_art

Patience Final Piece

I am very pleased with how the sculpture turned out because I only just started learning how to use zbrush a few weeks ago.

Patience: Sculpting Progress

I found the sculpting difficult because Zbrush is new to me, however I got the hang of it in the end and was quite pleased with my progress.

Patience: Zbrush Progress

This is the start of the design using the Zspheres tool in Zbrush. 

Patience Idea Development

Using this silhouette as a reference I drew out ideas for the character.

This is the initial design I came up with I used the steampunk dresses as a reference for the skirt at the bottom and used the idea of her being a marine creature as inspiration for the fins and gills.

Reference Photos: Steampunk Dresses

Because my character is going to have a feminine body with the jellyfish part if her body will look like a skirt so I thought it would be a good idea to research into steam punk dresses because they tend to have huge skirts and small waists.

 

Reference:

Brown Dress: http://pccadvantage.wordpress.com/2011/11/28/what-the-steampunk-is-that/

Red Dress: http://www.lovechildboudoir.com/products-page/bustle-skirts-long/lonesome-dove-saloon-long-bustle-skirt-burlesque-costume-outfit-gothic-steampunk-moulin-rouge-party/

Two Dresses: http://indulgy.com/post/G8HJKop2F1/look-at-the-ruffles-on-these-steampunk-dresses-ugh

Second Silhouettes: Alchemy

Using I created ten more silhouettes for this project. I liked using alchemy because it gives me a lot more options than weave silk and you can export the files to photoshop to use as a base for other work.