Portfolio Tips for VideoGame Art

**radio667** · 08-06-2009, 03:02 PM

from moonapples.com ............ Introduction

As an Art Director at a studio with several concurrent games, I make it a priority to be involved with all artist hires, as the whole studio is only as good as the quality of the people who work there. It is not uncommon to have weeks where I sort through hundreds of portfolios, and in looking at so many submitted works, I have noticed some commonalities between people we hire and people we don’t.

While the gist of this is written for a entry-level artist point of view, most of this applies to all skill levels, as a Senior Artist’s portfolio can often get to desks in the same pile as students right out of school, and without better information gets prioritized the same and goes through the same HR processes.

http://www.moonapples.com/art_portfolio_tips/

**radio667** · 08-18-2009, 06:55 PM

Digital Painting step by step Warrior Chic by Daryl Mandryk

http://members.shaw.ca/dmandryk/Asse...rior_chick.jpg

**radio667** · 08-19-2009, 08:36 PM

20 minutes speed paint put 4 times faster. You can see the pic in higher res here : http://mv.cgcommunity.com/images/videosketch.jpg ...
This is the first time I record myself painting, basically shows the initial stages of the "mindless" workflow. I'll try to post more videos in the future!

YouTube - Speed Painting

**radio667** · 08-22-2009, 07:21 PM

from photoshoplady.com ..................CoolSurface.com’s David Cousens takes you through his design process…

Warning: This tutorial is NOT FOR BEGINNERS, it’s for people who know their way around Photoshop and are looking to further their design knowledge/skills. If you aren’t comfortable with radial gradients, overlay layers and clipping mask layers and have a good foundation level of artistic skill this tutorial probably isn’t for you. Oh, and you should definitely have a graphics tablet; it would be undiluted madness to try this with a mouse!

http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutoria...-a-forest/1554

**radio667** · 08-27-2009, 04:52 PM

Digital Painting with Mike Corriero - The Petake

A concept creature tutorial created in Photoshop CS2 based off of a very small thumbnail sketch. Original time taken was 1 hour and 30 min.

YouTube - Digital Painting with Mike Corriero -...

**radio667** · 08-27-2009, 08:00 PM

from popwhore.com .................. As you may know the popwhore is such a sucker for cool concept art.

Emrah Elmaslı is a Turkish concept artist and illustrator based in London U.K.. His work is superb, his ability to create dreamy landscapes and characters is second to none.

He´s got a one of the coolest flash portfolio i have seen in a while.

Go to http://www.emrahelmasli.com/ and enjoy!!

**radio667** · 08-31-2009, 07:24 PM

Step by step illustration work from Kekai Kotaki's blog Berserker Lord.

http://www.kekaiart.com/

http://kekai.blogspot.com/

**radio667** · 09-02-2009, 04:58 PM

Digital Painting Hair step by step by linda bergkvist Super Goodie Photoshop Enjoy

http://www.furiae.com/popup.php?text=hairtutorial

**radio667** · 09-06-2009, 06:40 AM

Awesome digital painting from Levente Peterffy Check it out!

http://www.leventep.com/index.html

Speedpainting Assault
A quick and rough sketch. Watch the video to see how i block out shape color and light.Notice that this is not predetermined painting. I keep painting on the shapes that i recognize and i continue building more and more.However this process can be apllied to intentional motivs too. The idea is that you know what kind of colors you want in the end and what kind of shapes.For instance a tech environment has lots of lines and solids. So the initial stock photo should have these features too. Its not always required but it helps on the way.

Speedpainting Knight
n this video tutorial i take you through my painting process. The focus is on recognizing shapes color,light and texture.The painting took under 2h and i hope it can give a good insight to my working process.I also discovered the comressor H.264, which is a Mpeg 4 layer to compressor, and a bloody good one too!

Speedpainting Lady
In this video tutorial i show you how you can quickly recognize shapes, and how to build on the painting from that step.A key issue when working with speedpainting is to start with set values, from former painting or stockphotos. Because when working with these values, it gives you a color range, take note that this doesnt tell you what the motive should be.

Speedpainting Tanks
A short video tutorial. I think this examle shows the effectiveness of starting a painting with set values.This video is also in realtime.

**radio667** · 09-08-2009, 04:30 AM

Digital Painting - Sketch

YouTube - Digital Painting - Sketch

Website: http://medsketch.blogspot.com

**radio667** · 09-09-2009, 02:15 PM

from presidiacreative.com ....... Tae Young Choi is a Korean-US concept artist who works primarily for the videogame industry. While he grew up dreaming of being a comic book artist, he obtained his degree in fine arts, and after moving to the United States, quickly got a degree in the gaming industry as a concept artist.

Tae is a genius at capturing digital environments, and he is also talented at illustrating a given concept for an image to meet client specifications. His work has been featured in a variety of publications, including imagineFX.

I hope you enjoy Tae’s work, and if you do, please view his website, located here: http://www.tychoi.com/

Enjoy!

http://www.presidiacreative.com/32-o...ae-young-choi/

**radio667** · 09-15-2009, 05:21 AM

painting landscape

YouTube - CityScape

City Painting somewhat inspired by District 9! Great Film
http://www.elihanselman.com

**radio667** · 09-15-2009, 05:24 AM

from gamecareerguide.com ........ Introduction

After deciding your specific talents and creating your website portfolio as I advised in Part One: Portfolios and following the steps in Applying for Your First Game Industry Job , hopefully you landed a job. Now what do entry level artists do while employed?

There are some extremely talented artists out there and those who have a great deal of talent are more than happy to share it with you. Learn from these folks and share ideas. You’ll soon find yourself growing as an artist and doing things that you couldn’t do before. Who knows, maybe you started as a modeler and now you are an animator and you’re happier doing animation. Don’t go into a dark corner of the office and hide. Be social, meet the senior artists and let them know that you want to learn from them.

There are going to be times when you have no idea what people are talking about. This ain’t school! You better ask someone right away to translate what’s being said. Put your pride aside and learn. Who cares if someone thinks you’re silly. At some point, they had to ask too.

And speaking of school, if you did attend school before coming into the game industry, you’ll find that you’re not getting a grade on your work and people don’t have the time to always tell you how good or bad something is. Sometimes, critiques on work have to be sacrificed in order to meet a milestone. So a healthy dose of self-confidence goes a long way.

Be active during company meetings—if you have a question or a concern and this is the right place and time, go for it! If someone asks for your opinion, don’t be shy, offer one. Attend after work ‘get togethers’ if possible. This is a great way to meet your co-workers outside of the stressed work environment.

Keep your website running and updated when appropriate. You never know when you’ll need it again.

Next: Game Industry

**radio667** · 09-21-2009, 03:48 AM

Masking Tutorial

YouTube - Masking Tutorial

**radio667** · 09-22-2009, 02:50 PM

from presidiacreative.com ............. Daniel Conway is a 23 year old digital painter, concept artist and animator from the UK. A recent graduate of Dundee University in Scotland, Daniel has been dazzling the world with his digital painting and concept art for the past 4 years.

His ability to create stunning digital paintings that capture various elements, including water and fire, along with his use of color and contrast makes him one of the most talented concept artists around. Today, we have 24 mindblowing pieces of concept art by Daniel, which showcase his incredible gallery, located here: http://www.artofconway.com/

http://www.presidiacreative.com/24-m...daniel-conway/

08-06-2009, 03:02 PM	#1
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Portfolio Tips for VideoGame Art from moonapples.com ............ Introduction As an Art Director at a studio with several concurrent games, I make it a priority to be involved with all artist hires, as the whole studio is only as good as the quality of the people who work there. It is not uncommon to have weeks where I sort through hundreds of portfolios, and in looking at so many submitted works, I have noticed some commonalities between people we hire and people we don’t. While the gist of this is written for a entry-level artist point of view, most of this applies to all skill levels, as a Senior Artist’s portfolio can often get to desks in the same pile as students right out of school, and without better information gets prioritized the same and goes through the same HR processes. http://www.moonapples.com/art_portfolio_tips/ __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

08-18-2009, 06:55 PM	#2
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Digital Painting step by step Warrior Chic by Daryl Mandryk http://members.shaw.ca/dmandryk/Asse...rior_chick.jpg Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

08-22-2009, 07:21 PM	#4
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Advanced Tutorial: Creating ‘Broken Link’ from photoshoplady.com ..................CoolSurface.com’s David Cousens takes you through his design process… Warning: This tutorial is NOT FOR BEGINNERS, it’s for people who know their way around Photoshop and are looking to further their design knowledge/skills. If you aren’t comfortable with radial gradients, overlay layers and clipping mask layers and have a good foundation level of artistic skill this tutorial probably isn’t for you. Oh, and you should definitely have a graphics tablet; it would be undiluted madness to try this with a mouse! http://www.photoshoplady.com/tutoria...-a-forest/1554 Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

08-27-2009, 08:00 PM	#6
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Emrah Elmaslı from popwhore.com .................. As you may know the popwhore is such a sucker for cool concept art. Emrah Elmaslı is a Turkish concept artist and illustrator based in London U.K.. His work is superb, his ability to create dreamy landscapes and characters is second to none. He´s got a one of the coolest flash portfolio i have seen in a while. Go to http://www.emrahelmasli.com/ and enjoy!! Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

08-31-2009, 07:24 PM	#7
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Step by step illustration work from Kekai Kotaki's blog Berserker Lord. http://www.kekaiart.com/ http://kekai.blogspot.com/ Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

09-02-2009, 04:58 PM	#8
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Digital Painting Hair step by step by linda bergkvist Super Goodie Photoshop Enjoy http://www.furiae.com/popup.php?text=hairtutorial Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

09-06-2009, 06:40 AM	#9
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Awesome digital painting from Levente Peterffy Check it out! http://www.leventep.com/index.html Speedpainting Assault A quick and rough sketch. Watch the video to see how i block out shape color and light.Notice that this is not predetermined painting. I keep painting on the shapes that i recognize and i continue building more and more.However this process can be apllied to intentional motivs too. The idea is that you know what kind of colors you want in the end and what kind of shapes.For instance a tech environment has lots of lines and solids. So the initial stock photo should have these features too. Its not always required but it helps on the way. Speedpainting Knight n this video tutorial i take you through my painting process. The focus is on recognizing shapes color,light and texture.The painting took under 2h and i hope it can give a good insight to my working process.I also discovered the comressor H.264, which is a Mpeg 4 layer to compressor, and a bloody good one too! Speedpainting Lady In this video tutorial i show you how you can quickly recognize shapes, and how to build on the painting from that step.A key issue when working with speedpainting is to start with set values, from former painting or stockphotos. Because when working with these values, it gives you a color range, take note that this doesnt tell you what the motive should be. Speedpainting Tanks A short video tutorial. I think this examle shows the effectiveness of starting a painting with set values.This video is also in realtime. Attached Images __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

09-09-2009, 02:15 PM	#11
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	32 Outstanding Examples of Concept Art by Tae Young Choi from presidiacreative.com ....... Tae Young Choi is a Korean-US concept artist who works primarily for the videogame industry. While he grew up dreaming of being a comic book artist, he obtained his degree in fine arts, and after moving to the United States, quickly got a degree in the gaming industry as a concept artist. Tae is a genius at capturing digital environments, and he is also talented at illustrating a given concept for an image to meet client specifications. His work has been featured in a variety of publications, including imagineFX. I hope you enjoy Tae’s work, and if you do, please view his website, located here: http://www.tychoi.com/ Enjoy! http://www.presidiacreative.com/32-o...ae-young-choi/ Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

09-15-2009, 05:24 AM	#13
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	Game Industry for Entry Level Artists: The Job from gamecareerguide.com ........ Introduction After deciding your specific talents and creating your website portfolio as I advised in Part One: Portfolios and following the steps in Applying for Your First Game Industry Job , hopefully you landed a job. Now what do entry level artists do while employed? There are some extremely talented artists out there and those who have a great deal of talent are more than happy to share it with you. Learn from these folks and share ideas. You’ll soon find yourself growing as an artist and doing things that you couldn’t do before. Who knows, maybe you started as a modeler and now you are an animator and you’re happier doing animation. Don’t go into a dark corner of the office and hide. Be social, meet the senior artists and let them know that you want to learn from them. There are going to be times when you have no idea what people are talking about. This ain’t school! You better ask someone right away to translate what’s being said. Put your pride aside and learn. Who cares if someone thinks you’re silly. At some point, they had to ask too. And speaking of school, if you did attend school before coming into the game industry, you’ll find that you’re not getting a grade on your work and people don’t have the time to always tell you how good or bad something is. Sometimes, critiques on work have to be sacrificed in order to meet a milestone. So a healthy dose of self-confidence goes a long way. Be active during company meetings—if you have a question or a concern and this is the right place and time, go for it! If someone asks for your opinion, don’t be shy, offer one. Attend after work ‘get togethers’ if possible. This is a great way to meet your co-workers outside of the stressed work environment. Keep your website running and updated when appropriate. You never know when you’ll need it again. Next: Game Industry __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

09-22-2009, 02:50 PM	#15
radio667 I R Happy Goat Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 10,760 Downloads: 2	24 Mindblowing Pieces of Concept Art by Daniel Conway from presidiacreative.com ............. Daniel Conway is a 23 year old digital painter, concept artist and animator from the UK. A recent graduate of Dundee University in Scotland, Daniel has been dazzling the world with his digital painting and concept art for the past 4 years. His ability to create stunning digital paintings that capture various elements, including water and fire, along with his use of color and contrast makes him one of the most talented concept artists around. Today, we have 24 mindblowing pieces of concept art by Daniel, which showcase his incredible gallery, located here: http://www.artofconway.com/ http://www.presidiacreative.com/24-m...daniel-conway/ Attached Thumbnails __________________ , "There is also a river called Helikon [in Pieria]. (...) But, they go on to say, the women who killed Orpheus wished to wash off in it the blood-stains, and thereat the River sank underground, so as not to lend its waters to cleanse manslaughter." —Pausanias, Description of Greece 9. 30. 8

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