Ikage, are you looking to create backgrounds of your own? These (12345) kind of go well with your style. You're really talented, so I'm sure you could skillfully command any number of styles.
Ikage, are you looking to create backgrounds of your own? These (12345) kind of go well with your style. You're really talented, so I'm sure you could skillfully command any number of styles.
edit: Those Tenery backgrounds are shit-hot.
Ahh man links are broken but thanks Para!
Yeauh I know! Syd Mead , Feng Zhu and many others are good for that sort, but Tenery has a rambunctious imagination.
I've also been on a huge Pascal Campion kick too. I want to try some BG's working with space and simplicity sometime. But gorgeous work and the guy is such a peach!
Making backgrounds is a huge problem area for me. I used to do compositional studies (landscapes and whatnot), but I never did backgrounds to which characters could be added later.
How do you make a background? Are backgrounds supposed to look incomplete on their own? (Are they supposed to require the presence of added characters to look complete)? I really don't know where to begin with backgrounds (especially because my characters have become so flat over the last couple years--look at my thread and you'll see what I mean). Can somebody try to clear up these background thingamajigs for me?
I've also been on a huge Pascal Campion kick too. I want to try some BG's working with space and simplicity sometime. But gorgeous work and the guy is such a peach!
Making backgrounds is a huge problem area for me. I used to do compositional studies (landscapes and whatnot), but I never did backgrounds to which characters could be added later.
How do you make a background? Are backgrounds supposed to look incomplete on their own? (Are they supposed to require the presence of added characters to look complete)? I really don't know where to begin with backgrounds (especially because my characters have become so flat over the last couple years--look at my thread and you'll see what I mean). Can somebody try to clear up these background thingamajigs for me?
Added characters help give a sense of scale, since were so used to how big a human is, it helps set measurements for the rest of the image.
And backgrounds can vary with how much information you give them, you can go as far as Imperial boy packing in those fun details to using the space to your advantage like Pascal.
If your doing a city scene I would advise mixing up the architecture a little bit since every building in a normal city isn't designed by the same guy, and some buildings have been there for centuries in some places like NYC.
But if your starting out with backgrounds I would suggest nature ones first. You can have a little more freedom with the perspective. Also depth helps, the more closer something is, the more information it has. The farther away something is the colors and details sort of taper into this. Paper Blue has a wonderful sense of depth to his BG's. If you want to work with exaggerated depth I would look up pictures of fog. Here some beautiful examples: 1 2345
One thing that really helped me with starting environments was throwing down a quick perspective/some building shapes in Sketchup. Its a free 3d program from google - if you have any other 3d program, that will work too, but sketchup is really easy to pick up.
Heres something I did over someone elses sketchup model. Mine are usually more basic :P
I finally understand what a hipster is! Jeebus that took a long time. I guess I hate them a bit too, though hate is a relatively strong word so... I have a slight antipathy towards them... No? Abhorrence? Damn it, it seems we're missing a link between dislike and detest.
I had this ambition that I was going to mock up all the environments for NTO in SketchUp and use it to nail crazy draftsmanlike perspectives ... this lasted for about 15 minutes and then I decided to just put blobby gestural backgrounds. I'm so lazy.
So, I received this email from Gameloft for a position 2d concept artist in shanghai china. I'm thinking, I'm not currently doing anything but the occasional freelance project so why not.
I have never been overseas. So uh, what the hell should I expect if I do get the job. I have no idea of the living costs over there so, and what kind of salary expectations.
My buddy is In china teaching english, but hes not in a major city. I could probably ask some general questions. But you know, H/A often has one random person who might have info you need.
In a totaly random turn of events, I think my cold heart has finally melted. I was playing with my nephews yesterday and I scared one so bad that he started calling out "Mommy! Mommy!"
I feel terrible about it today.... I would apologize, but he's 4... I don't think he will remember. Maybe I should buy him ice cream.
In a totaly random turn of events, I think my cold heart has finally melted. I was playing with my nephews yesterday and I scared one so bad that he started calling out "Mommy! Mommy!"
I feel terrible about it today.... I would apologize, but he's 4... I don't think he will remember. Maybe I should buy him ice cream.
ehh, I wouldn't worry too much about it. My babysitter used to scare the bejeezus out of me when I was wee (i remember the inside-out eyelid monster thing), and I still thought he was the coolest guy in the world.
He said "The monster is comming, hide!" and he hid under my bed sheets. I stuck my head in and he said "The monster the monster is comming!" Then I said "I have a secret... I AM THE MONSTER!!!GWAHAHAHAHAHRRRG" And I kept on laughing with a monster voice. It really made him scared....
I feel really bad about it today... a full 24 hours later.
He said "The monster is comming, hide!" and he hid under my bed sheets. I stuck my head in and he said "The monster the monster is comming!" Then I said "I have a secret... I AM THE MONSTER!!!GWAHAHAHAHAHRRRG" And I kept on laughing with a monster voice. It really made him scared....
I feel really bad about it today... a full 24 hours later.
Bwargharagahahaha
That's awesome. I wish I would've met an actual monster when I was four, all I had were those I imagined
Back when I still lived at home (approx. 100 years ago) a friend of my mother's was visiting the house - her husband had left her the week previously, and my mother was just trying to be a good friend and be there for her, etc.
The lady had 2 daughters, twins, probably about 7 or 8 years old and my mother puts them in the care of my brother, who will have been maybe 12, but was always good with keeping little kids occupied. He was probably just showing them NES games or something, when my brother sees our dad's car pull up in the driveway, and exclaims "LOOK! Daddy's home!"
A few moments later I go into my brother's room to try and quieten the episode he has created -- the 2 girls jumping up and down shouting, "DADDY'S HOME! DADDY'S HOME!" while he (completely and blissfully unaware of their family situation) claps his hands and joins in.
I don't like to think about the drive home that the girls and their mum made, with her having to tearfully explain that daddy would not be coming home.
Nib, that's a terrible idea! What am I paying you for???
Sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. I'm obviously not qualified to give advice regarding children. I will conduct an emergency vasectomy at my desk immediately.
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He said "The monster is comming, hide!" and he hid under my bed sheets. I stuck my head in and he said "The monster the monster is comming!" Then I said "I have a secret... I AM THE MONSTER!!!GWAHAHAHAHAHRRRG" And I kept on laughing with a monster voice. It really made him scared....
I feel really bad about it today... a full 24 hours later.
Kids are great at imagining things- I don't think he'd blame you for playing along with his imagination as long as you got him to calm down and doing otherthings afterwards.
I mean... my cousin was misbehaving one day (headbutted me in the face) so I pinned him saying "just apologize and I'll let you go" He refused and actually started crying but the next day he was like "Lets play again."
I was just extra nice to him because I made him cry on accident, but I don't think he has held that against me.
So I got back from the interview. It went alright, but I definitely made a few huge mistakes. I ended up having to read some blueprints, transfer them to full scale on a piece of paper, then make the object in the blueprints. I worked about 24 hours in a two day period (12 a day). He said he will make a decision in a couple of weeks.
I was offered a full two bedroom set, dinning room and living room set for $1,500. I want to see if they are my style... but... even if they aren't that's a whole house's worth of furniture for what it cost to furnish a single room!
I was offered a full two bedroom set, dinning room and living room set for $1,500. I want to see if they are my style... but... even if they aren't that's a whole house's worth of furniture for what it cost to furnish a single room!
It really doesn't need to cost that much to furnish your place, surely?
I get all kinds of awesome furniture off the side of the road during "local council collects your junk for free" time.
And then theres cool stuff at the thrift/opportunity shops!
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So, I received this email from Gameloft for a position 2d concept artist in shanghai china. I'm thinking, I'm not currently doing anything but the occasional freelance project so why not.
I have never been overseas. So uh, what the hell should I expect if I do get the job. I have no idea of the living costs over there so, and what kind of salary expectations.
Well, a friend of mine lived over there for a year (I think it was Shanghai at least), but not as an artist. He'd gotten sick of selling real estate for a living and went over there to train in kickboxing, THEN came back to do art school, and THEN started doing video game art. (I found this out during a "hey what got you into the video game industry" icebreaker thing and was annoyed because I had to follow his awesome story with "uh...I like video games?")
Anyway, from what little I recall:
-An American living wage goes a long, long way over there.
-There are a lot of newly constructed buildings that look like they're 100 years old because of shoddy building materials/methods
-You'll see a lot of poor guys in cheap worn-out business suits out on the street doing things that most people in business suits wouldn't dream of doing, like scrubbing sidewalks.
-Many seemingly bustling clubs consist of a handful of actual patrons, with the remainder consisting of people hired to look like they're partying in order to make the club look popular, thus driving in tourists.
So, I received this email from Gameloft for a position 2d concept artist in shanghai china. I'm thinking, I'm not currently doing anything but the occasional freelance project so why not.
I have never been overseas. So uh, what the hell should I expect if I do get the job. I have no idea of the living costs over there so, and what kind of salary expectations.
Well, a friend of mine lived over there for a year (I think it was Shanghai at least), but not as an artist. He'd gotten sick of selling real estate for a living and went over there to train in kickboxing, THEN came back to do art school, and THEN started doing video game art. (I found this out during a "hey what got you into the video game industry" icebreaker thing and was annoyed because I had to follow his awesome story with "uh...I like video games?")
Anyway, from what little I recall:
-An American living wage goes a long, long way over there.
-There are a lot of newly constructed buildings that look like they're 100 years old because of shoddy building materials/methods
-You'll see a lot of poor guys in cheap worn-out business suits out on the street doing things that most people in business suits wouldn't dream of doing, like scrubbing sidewalks.
-Many seemingly bustling clubs consist of a handful of actual patrons, with the remainder consisting of people hired to look like they're partying in order to make the club look popular, thus driving in tourists.
Hmm, from what I have read living in shanghai would cost around $2500 a month, and then I have student loans to pay back too. With my other expenses, and the job type, would I be crazy to have expectations of around ~50k a year?
EDIT: Fuck the internet, I get no solid numbers on anything!
Hmm, from what I have read living in shanghai would cost around $2500 a month, and then I have student loans to pay back too. With my other expenses, and the job type, would I be crazy to have expectations of around ~50k a year?
To be honest, I don't know. I'm just passing along what I heard from my friend, who made it sound like an American with an average American wage could live like a king over there.
What I would say is that I'm really surprised you haven't been able to land a video game job in the states that would pay at least that much, considering how good at painting you are.
Hmm, from what I have read living in shanghai would cost around $2500 a month, and then I have student loans to pay back too. With my other expenses, and the job type, would I be crazy to have expectations of around ~50k a year?
To be honest, I don't know. I'm just passing along what I heard from my friend, who made it sound like an American with an average American wage could live like a king over there.
What I would say is that I'm really surprised you haven't been able to land a video game job in the states that would pay at least that much, considering how good at painting you are.
American companies won't even talk to you without having 3-5 years experience. Closest I got was epic games, but after all the interviews they said they really didn't want to train anyone at the moment. Big Huge Studios said the same.
The shanghai studio I would assume would be looking for people trying to break in to the industry. Anyone with experience probably has a family and won't be able to simply move all the way across the world.
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edit: Those Tenery backgrounds are shit-hot.
Ahh man links are broken but thanks Para!
Yeauh I know! Syd Mead , Feng Zhu and many others are good for that sort, but Tenery has a rambunctious imagination.
I've also been on a huge Pascal Campion kick too. I want to try some BG's working with space and simplicity sometime. But gorgeous work and the guy is such a peach!
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How do you make a background? Are backgrounds supposed to look incomplete on their own? (Are they supposed to require the presence of added characters to look complete)? I really don't know where to begin with backgrounds (especially because my characters have become so flat over the last couple years--look at my thread and you'll see what I mean). Can somebody try to clear up these background thingamajigs for me?
edit: Holy crap, those are so pretty.
And backgrounds can vary with how much information you give them, you can go as far as Imperial boy packing in those fun details to using the space to your advantage like Pascal.
If your doing a city scene I would advise mixing up the architecture a little bit since every building in a normal city isn't designed by the same guy, and some buildings have been there for centuries in some places like NYC.
But if your starting out with backgrounds I would suggest nature ones first. You can have a little more freedom with the perspective. Also depth helps, the more closer something is, the more information it has. The farther away something is the colors and details sort of taper into this. Paper Blue has a wonderful sense of depth to his BG's. If you want to work with exaggerated depth I would look up pictures of fog. Here some beautiful examples: 1 2 3 4 5
Where Fore, Mid and Background are very distinct. Also my friend showed me some pro-tips about laying your values out and the general process of working on a background.
But environments are very taxxing I'm finding out, you have to study perspective, lighting, color theory, values, saturation and ect. There is so much information I'm missing here but just a few tips to help I guess?
If anyone wants to pitch in more information go right ahead! I'm sure it'll be helpful to all of us. ♥
Heres something I did over someone elses sketchup model. Mine are usually more basic :P
I had this ambition that I was going to mock up all the environments for NTO in SketchUp and use it to nail crazy draftsmanlike perspectives ... this lasted for about 15 minutes and then I decided to just put blobby gestural backgrounds.
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images to come with my crying later. Need to confirm the suck.
I have never been overseas. So uh, what the hell should I expect if I do get the job. I have no idea of the living costs over there so, and what kind of salary expectations.
I have no answers to any of those questions though.
Your quality of life would definitely be lower. Have you tried applying to NCSoft? Have you applied to any other places?
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In a totaly random turn of events, I think my cold heart has finally melted. I was playing with my nephews yesterday and I scared one so bad that he started calling out "Mommy! Mommy!"
I feel terrible about it today.... I would apologize, but he's 4... I don't think he will remember. Maybe I should buy him ice cream.
ehh, I wouldn't worry too much about it. My babysitter used to scare the bejeezus out of me when I was wee (i remember the inside-out eyelid monster thing), and I still thought he was the coolest guy in the world.
What did you do?
I feel really bad about it today... a full 24 hours later.
Bwargharagahahaha
That's awesome. I wish I would've met an actual monster when I was four, all I had were those I imagined
Back when I still lived at home (approx. 100 years ago) a friend of my mother's was visiting the house - her husband had left her the week previously, and my mother was just trying to be a good friend and be there for her, etc.
The lady had 2 daughters, twins, probably about 7 or 8 years old and my mother puts them in the care of my brother, who will have been maybe 12, but was always good with keeping little kids occupied. He was probably just showing them NES games or something, when my brother sees our dad's car pull up in the driveway, and exclaims "LOOK! Daddy's home!"
A few moments later I go into my brother's room to try and quieten the episode he has created -- the 2 girls jumping up and down shouting, "DADDY'S HOME! DADDY'S HOME!" while he (completely and blissfully unaware of their family situation) claps his hands and joins in.
I don't like to think about the drive home that the girls and their mum made, with her having to tearfully explain that daddy would not be coming home.
Sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. I'm obviously not qualified to give advice regarding children. I will conduct an emergency vasectomy at my desk immediately.
Kids are great at imagining things- I don't think he'd blame you for playing along with his imagination as long as you got him to calm down and doing otherthings afterwards.
I mean... my cousin was misbehaving one day (headbutted me in the face) so I pinned him saying "just apologize and I'll let you go" He refused and actually started crying but the next day he was like "Lets play again."
I was just extra nice to him because I made him cry on accident, but I don't think he has held that against me.
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It really doesn't need to cost that much to furnish your place, surely?
I get all kinds of awesome furniture off the side of the road during "local council collects your junk for free" time.
And then theres cool stuff at the thrift/opportunity shops!
Well, a friend of mine lived over there for a year (I think it was Shanghai at least), but not as an artist. He'd gotten sick of selling real estate for a living and went over there to train in kickboxing, THEN came back to do art school, and THEN started doing video game art. (I found this out during a "hey what got you into the video game industry" icebreaker thing and was annoyed because I had to follow his awesome story with "uh...I like video games?")
Anyway, from what little I recall:
-An American living wage goes a long, long way over there.
-There are a lot of newly constructed buildings that look like they're 100 years old because of shoddy building materials/methods
-You'll see a lot of poor guys in cheap worn-out business suits out on the street doing things that most people in business suits wouldn't dream of doing, like scrubbing sidewalks.
-Many seemingly bustling clubs consist of a handful of actual patrons, with the remainder consisting of people hired to look like they're partying in order to make the club look popular, thus driving in tourists.
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But I think I'm going to hate drawing on my home computer with my Intuos3 now, because I get to use a Cintiq at work.
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This.
My hand actually cramps up on my 6x8 intuos now.
Hmm, from what I have read living in shanghai would cost around $2500 a month, and then I have student loans to pay back too. With my other expenses, and the job type, would I be crazy to have expectations of around ~50k a year?
EDIT: Fuck the internet, I get no solid numbers on anything!
To be honest, I don't know. I'm just passing along what I heard from my friend, who made it sound like an American with an average American wage could live like a king over there.
What I would say is that I'm really surprised you haven't been able to land a video game job in the states that would pay at least that much, considering how good at painting you are.
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American companies won't even talk to you without having 3-5 years experience. Closest I got was epic games, but after all the interviews they said they really didn't want to train anyone at the moment. Big Huge Studios said the same.
The shanghai studio I would assume would be looking for people trying to break in to the industry. Anyone with experience probably has a family and won't be able to simply move all the way across the world.
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