CreativeBlog: Generating New Ideas for Character Designs

CreativeBlog: Generating New Ideas for Character Designs

Check out this article from CreativeBlog about concept artist Nadia Enis who have worked at Brightside Games and many more as a lead concept artist, and art director.

Nadia goes over how she formulate new concept character ideas through her workflow.

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CreativeBlog: Generating New Ideas for Character Designs


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Anatomy Lab: The Art of Creature Design

Anatomy Lab: The Art of Creature Design

Learn advance creature design techniques from this live stream video from Gnomon.

Modeling and texturing lead Krystal Sae Eua, and Freelance Concept Artist Jerad Marantz present different ways to improve your creature design. Watch as Krystal goes over different techniques on how to learn animal anatomy while Jerad goes over techniques of designing a creature.

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Anatomy Lab: The Art of Creature Design


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Zbrush Summit 2016: Naughty Dog

Zbrush Summit 2016: Naughty Dog

Learn advance techniques that several Naughty Dog 3-D artists used to create the iconic characters from Uncharted 4.

During last year’s Zbrush Summit, artists Frank Tzeng, Tibing Jiang, Colin Thomas, and Adam Scott  discussed how they applied texture shaders to the characters, how characters were aged, and  how to make the each character look as realistic as possible in the game.

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Zbrush Summit 2016: Naughty Dog


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Design Thinking with IP

Design Thinking with IP

Feng Zhu, the founder of the FZD School of Design, is one the leading concept artists in the industry. Check out his video where he explains his thought process while designing for a new intellectual property as a concept artist. Feng goes into detail on why thinking with a purpose while designing is beneficial versus designing randomly.

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IP Creation with Design Thinking


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Finding the Visual Style

Finding the Visual Style

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Flat Kingdom is a bright and colorful game with a stylistic approach to the art direction. In the article done by Gamasutra, the Flat Kingdom developers shared their process of finding their visual style for the game in order to inspire young artists.

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Finding the Visual Style


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