Lanscapes, travel Photography, Composition, References

Lanscapes, travel Photography, Composition, References

Q&A: Halo concept artist Jaime Jones

In the six years since leaving art school, illustrator and concept artist Jaime Jones has built up an impressive roster of clients, including National Geographic, Warner Bros., Paramount, Burberry, Bungie and Wizards of the Coast. His recent projects include the Halo video game series and Chris Nolan’s upcoming Superman reboot, Man of Steel.
Jaime will be one of 10 leading concept artists and character designers running sessions at the upcoming Gnomon Workshop Live, which takes place in Hollywood from 29-30 September. We caught up with him in the run up to the event to find out more about his working methods, his advice to young artists – and why Photoshop’s Navigator should 

Q&A: Halo concept artist Jaime Jones

Nature Photographers to Really Inspire You

Simone Bramante

JIMMY CHIN

Daniel Ernst 

jimmynelson.com

https://www.instagram.com/jimmy.nelson.official/

The 10 Most Famous Portrait Photographers in the World

Some still life to practice

World Building of Overwatch: Making a Difference

The story actually begins with the project before Overwatch – called Titan. Titan was to be a successor MMO to World of Warcraft. Blizzard started working on the game in 2007. In May of 2013 it was canceled. 140 developers were working on this game and suddenly it was over. 80 people were relocated to other teams (Diablo, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, StarCraft 2) and 40 developers had to come up with the new idea, a new game. They had to do it in 6 weeks. If they failed, they would have to move to other teams as well. During this time Overwatch was born.

THE FIGURE: Gesture-Ideas and Intentions

Before You Design Anything

The 5 phases of creativity

Saying that, let’s now look at each phase of the Funnel.

Note: May vary more or less depending of the industry and company. The logic of it is pretty universal though whether you work in fashion, product design, visual communication, car industry…

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Now You‘ll Have a Clear Direction

https://medium.com/@matthewencina

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Learn How To Create Your Own Style Guide

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Uncharted 2 Art Direction

This session presents an overview of Naughty Dog's art production pipeline. It will cover the visual development process of our environments, and walk you through how we apply our design principles to translate a 2d concept art to a full 3d interactive environment. Our examples will include the design thought process in creating one of our most challenging organic environments. We will discuss how we tried to differentiate it from a similar level of Uncharted 1, and the tools and tech that enable us to make it possible to run in game.

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Art Process OverviewBy Neil Blevins

Whether you're doing concept art, video games, animated films, visual effects, etc, we're all doing the same basic thing, trying to create compelling imagery (unless you're doing the motion, but that portion won't be taught here). 

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Stéphane Wootha Richard: 

Composition in Figurative Art - Analytical Tool 

I'm sharing this analytical tool with the community, feel free to download it, print it and use it in classes or for yourself. 

This tool is not meant to be universal, but rather to offer a way to split the problem of the composition into smaller concepts easier to manipulate. 

https://www.artstation.com/wootha

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Symbols and Motifs Cheat Sheet

I've been wanting to make something like this to use in my design classes for a long time now: a quick reference guide for visual symbols. If contrast is the key to visual communication, symbols are the vehicle we use to create contrasts and making those contrasts meaningful, like words that make up a sentence, or sentences that make up a story. Having useful symbols at your fingertips is essential if you want to create designs that have a high propositional density (the link talks about graphic design only; maybe another post on how this applies to visual development later!).

http://www.samnielson.com/artsammich/2015/06/symbols-and-motifs-cheat-sheet.html

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The Complete Guide To Photography Composition: 78 Tips

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Camera Shot Size Overview 

How you choose to frame your subject will have a specific impact. How close or far your subject is to your camera — your shot size — will underscore how the audience should feel about it (or them).

Your subject will appear smallest in a long shot (or wide shot). They will be larger in a medium shot and largest in a close-up shot.

Think about familiarity when you consider your subject’s size in your camera shots. It’s like meeting someone for the first time. You might shake hands or talk about the weather, but odds are you’ll stay at a relative distance. That’s because you haven’t built any familiarity yet.

Camera shots work in the same way:

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Description

Powerful know-how for designers and motion graphic-ers. The ocean of tutorials may keep you afloat, but you don't want to float, you want to swim. And swim strong. It's time to train harder. To know better.

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Movies In Color is curated and created by graphic designer Roxy Radulescu (roxymakesthings.com).

The idea started when I was watching Skyfall. I was taken with the cinematography and use of color more-so than the story itself. I wanted to find out what colors made up certain stills and after making a few color palettes for Skyfall, took it a step further by extending it to all films and starting a blog.

https://film-grab.com/

Welcome to the Kirkshop. Figure drawing tutorials

About


Welcome to the Kirkshop. My name is Kirk Shinmoto and I like to draw and make things. This website is still under construction but my plan is for it to become a resource for anyone interested in drawing, design, and making things.

I've worked in the animation industry for a number of years for places like Titmouse Studios and Dreamworks Animation. I also currently teach drawing at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena as well as the Concept Design Academy.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to email me at: kirk@thekirkshop.com
And while this site is being built you can see more of my work on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therobuts

Ron Lemen - exercises to help you expand your skill and dexterity.

Exercises

On this page you will find relevant exercises to help you expand your skill and dexterity.  Just like a sport, the arts require manual dexterity to create with the tools of our trade.  Dexterity can be increased, refining the eye, the hand, and building objective motions and movements with deliberate intent.  There is a misconception of “what to practice” when we do.