Concept Assignment

Concept Assignment

1. Please email me a page of your thumbnails to send to the concept artists as soon as you can. Please include a description of your character and the game(s) you are referencing.


2. Start drawing your character. You can wait for feedback from the pros or you can start right away. Try to wrap up the drawing by Thursday. Please post iterations and progress. - Label "Concept". We'll do color and lighting next week.


3. Post 5 links of process reference for the gang. - Label "Process".

Thumbs - Art Direction

Nice work on the thumbnails!

Now I'd like you to be the Art Director for each one of your concept artists.


ASSIGNMENT 1:

Take the strongest thumbnail or thumbnails from each Concept Artist and add some visual notes, drawings, etc. in order to push and strengthen their designs. We are still just doing thumbnails!

Please make a single post with visual feedback, drawings, notes, etc. containing sections for all 4 of the Concept Artists that you are helping out.

Due Tuesday, 9/12

Label as "Art Direction"


ASSIGNMENT 2:

Using feedback from your peers, take the suggestions and incorporate them into a new set of thumbnails. I will be presenting your work to trusted colleagues and/or industry pros for feedback on the strongest ideas.

Due Thursday, 9/14

Label as "Thumbs 2"

Thanks!

BS

Thumbs

Please note the following examples, taken from the book, "The Skillful Huntsman". These are from several artists and their usage of thumbnail sketches to explore their character. Please read the descriptions as to the processes.

Please watch the video below to get an understanding of the process of thumb-nailing. The whole idea is to push the direction of the character and experiment quickly. It's all about iteration. Push yourself beyond your comfort zone.

Welcome!

Welcome to our class blog.....

EAE Character Design Fall 2017

I will add each of you to the blog. You'll need to use an email associated with a Google account. Please send me your google account address so that I can add you as blog contributors asap!

When posting to the blog, please make sure and add Labels. The Label will correspond to the assignment, I guess like #hashtags. I say I guess, because I think that far too many #hashtags are thrown around carelessly, defeating the purpose of hashtags, and I don't want to be guilty of that......#guilty, #non-twitter-user, #oldschool, #hashtag-illiterate.

Today's blog is brought to you by the Label "Info". Info because it is info for this and all assignments. Once we are up and running we won't be using Canvas much.


Label - "Thumbs"
Please post your thumbnails to the blog as soon as you have time, and add label as Thumbs.