As promised here are the Gina Jackson Notes from the visit the other week, hopefully this will help those that missed it. Again sorry for my scrawling handwriting.
Month: January 2014
Bee Girl Mk2
Other than the pose being wrong I don’t think this is a bad concept for a Bee Person.
Might look at How the game Darkstalkers made queen B.
Dilligence
I Decided to jump at diligence for my chosen virtue, and seeing as Bees are Busy I thought I may use that as some kind of Theme. That and Beavers, busy as a Beaver… Beever…
CS Studies Sessions One & Two Notes
Today’s Speakers were the very inspirational speakers from split path studio. The session was a joy to listen to and interact with. I had many questions to ask them, and I intend to keep in contact with them via social media and/or via the Uni.
These were today’s notes, sorry again for the scrawling writing, it’s my own form of doctor’s short hand…
As of posting this I have realised that I have neglected to upload session one, I shall do that as soon as i can, but for tonight (this morning) I need some sleep.
Ok finally got around to uploading Session one, and Realised my session one notes were a little short, I seem to remember doing more, but here is what I have so far.
Brain Child Notes
These are the notes I managed to jot down during the Brainchild Lecture yesterday. I’m very sorry for the scrawled mixture of print and handwriting to anyone I jotted these notes down for. The Lecture was very informative and has made me want to put together an Indie team even more so now. 🙂
Also tried to doodle the Model from yesterdays life Drawing in the front while we waited for the lecture to start. and tried to do a Silhouette on Art rage on my iphone which went wrong. It’s like trying to paint with disfunctional sausages.
The Seven Virtues
Our Project brief has arrived this week and it’s something to get our teeth into for sure, this is probably the most open character design brief and I love it!!! 🙂
The Brief is simple, to research, design and sculpt a character that represents one of the seven virtues. The Character can be in any setting time period or reality, and use any art style, but must be the embodiment of the chosen virtue, not just in pose but in the very way they look no matter what context you see them in. this will involve much research into symbolism and also items, accessories and clothing that represent the virtues.
There is much to do, and a month to do it so let’s get cracking.
1. Chastity Castitas Purity,knowledge,honesty,wisdom
2. Temperance Temperantia Self control,justice,honour,abstention
3. Charity Caritas Will,benevolence,generosity,sacrifice
4. Diligence Industria Persistence,effort, ethics,rectitude
5. Patience Patientia Peace,mercy,ahimsa,sufferance
6. Kindness Humanitas Satisfaction,loyalty,compassion,integrity
7. Humility Humilitas Bravery,modesty,reverence,altruism
I’m finding it hard to choose one, because I’m doing my normal thinking and wanting to do the one that will be the biggest challenge. It’s a showman thing I think.
At the moment I have gotten it down to three, Kindness, Diligence and Temperance.
Maybe experimenting with imagery will cure my indecision.
Also Decided I wanted to use a more Stylised approach this time around, taking inspiration from a film I recently watched. Pixar’s Brave. The Character Designs in this film are just so expressive, and instantly give a feel for the character’s persona. The way the hold themselves up, posture, facial expressions, clothing, body mass. All effect the way we view them.
I also looked into games that I’ve played, in the past that have gods and virtues with the embodiments of virtues and the like.
The Shin Megame and Persona series of games and Divine virtues such as justice.
And the Guild Wars Games have gods that represent personifications of virtues and nature, the character designs are very interesting also, like the many faced god for instance.
Life Drawing 22/01/2014
Today’s Life Drawing was very interesting, our model was a ballerina I think and all the poses reflected that. We were also tasked with drawing her face which normally I would be very good at, as I love drawing faces, sadly today I failed on all but one face. I was afraid my work would insult the model as I’d distorted her face into some awful monstrosities. And I’ve also realised that I really need to stop being so precious and get higher contrast in the image, my study looks far to washed out.
On the whole though, a great lesson. I adore life drawing, and need to make more time to fit in some of the open sessions that Will said we can join.
More 2D Work
Some Alchemy and just to prove I can still concept with more traditional programs too, some values in Painter.
CS Studies: Job role
In this post I will be looking into Job roles within different companies, and how those companies view and class those jobs. I will be looking at Large and small companies, and will be updating as I research.
All will be presented in a style that suits the company and it’s art style.
First up Are Blizzard and Double Fine, two large companies with slightly different approaches to recruitment, both companies require work to be submitted to them digitally it seems.
I Then moved on to Media Molecule and The Indie company I had the pleasure of meeting at the epic studios convention last year I will try to add more Indie companies to this list to balance it out, but I am ashamed to say I always forget the names of most Indie companies unless they truly wow me.
Magnanimous Neal's Journal 