Week 9

This week we talked about Concept art and what it is used for and why it is created, concept art are used to show ideas in a visual medium so it can show of characters, scenes landscapes. these concept art pieces can then be used to in the game as unlock able extras, they can be released to get some hype for the game and inspire and show modellers and other people who are working on the game/film/etc how something should look.

Yoji Shinkawa- he  has created some of my favourite pieces of concept art for my favourite games series Metal gear solid, he designs a lot of the characters himself and I think that he has a very unique style to what he creates.

Matt Rhodes- He has created some very cool pieces of concept art for the Dragon Age games. 

Week 8

this week we talked about photo manipulation, we were told about things like how to combine two different images together to get something more interesting, how to alter the colours for a more natural looks image and adding effects.
we also looked at some character design sheets and what we would need to add to ours for it to look good and be handled in. we would need some poses of our character that shows all of there body so we need several poses from different angles.

Week 7

This week we focused on the rule of thirds where we divide the picture up in thirds and break it down piece by piece, the reason they do this is to focus the picture in and make it more appealing to the viewer. We also discussed divine proportion where they used a golden rectangle that is a mathematical equation that is found through the world in such things as sea shells, faces etc.

In this picture of the Joker I have used the lines to separate his body parts so that they can be easier analysed, the Joker has a quite slim frame which goes quite well with his overall jester look he has going on he doesn't look like a fighter since he looks quite physically week, the pose he has is also quite strange and it seems quite hard to take him serious on the first glance.  

Week 6

This week we learnt about saturation, value and hue of colour, like what colours go well with each other and which don`t. we were provided with a chart which showed us what colours would best go together.
for the sessional task we were tasked with creating a line drawing and colouring it with the colours that were supplied to use before, here is the line drawing that I created.



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week 5

This week we learnt about perspective drawing and how they are used 

Week 4

For the sessional task this week I was tasked with doing a outline and creating a silhouette of a object one we could perhaps use for the props for our character.

Week 3

This week in the lesson we discussed colour composition and how to use it, what colours work best in a drawing. We also discussed a design process where we break an image up in two or three sections, the fore ground, middle ground and background and then try and make the images your own.

We did this by making them into separate layers and then experimenting with some of the colours and different shades of colours, I also places some new images on there and tried to blend them into the environment.

Character- Terra Valke backstory

Terra Valke was brought up in the slum villages on the Imperial world Flavian where she worked in the gold mines with the rest of her family till she was 13 when she left her family and became a wonderer and petty thief. After 2 years of thieving she was later capture by the Vigiles the policing body on Flavian where due to her fiery personality she was to be thrown in the Colosseum to die at the hand of a trained gladiator. After a gruelling battle Terra was able to take the gladiator by surprise and kill them, after the upset she quickly became a crowd favourite.

Terra would later find herself participating in gladiatorial bouts multiply times a month against other new gladiators, this is the time she was taught to use exotic weapons and firearms by her jailers and taught basic schooling that is normally only given to upper class citizens.

After 3 years of fighting and learning she was in a position to fight the grand champion of the arena named the Hound and finally earn her freedom, the odds were not in here favour as the champion had never lost for decades due to cybernetic and biological enhancements. Though she was injured gravely and fought bravely she lost the battle for her freedom against the Champion but due to her good standing with the crowd her life was spared.

She would then later find out a ageing captain of a Star ship called Julian had bought her freedom after seeing her heroic fight against the Hound, she would be extremely grateful to Julian for the rest of her life.

For 10 years she would work for Captain Julian learning the ways of a star ship and eventually become the Master gunner on the Captains ship, Mothers Mercy. Not long after becoming master gunner Captain Julian died of natural causes.

The new captain of the star ship was a pompous noble called Duke Sebastian of Albia from a rivalling neighbour planet. Sebastian would show later that he had no experience being a captain of a ship and this resulted in one quarter of the crew being lost to a routine patrol where they encountered a small fleet of pirates ships but instead of falling back and waiting for back up the new Captain charged his ship in wanting the glory for himself.

Due this failure of command Sebastian had earned the ire of his crew but whenever someone would speak out he would deem them traitor and execute them, the rest of the crew had no power since not only was he a Noble he was also there captain.

Terra Valke would later take matters into her own hands when she dared to question the Duke, the Duke was furious that someone so high ranking would try and question his command and he tried to have her executed, but before this could happen the crew quickly turned on the Duke and his retinue, Terra then murdered the captain and his followers and became the new captain of Mothers Mercy.
But she and her crew did murder a noble and she was unable to stop word getting out that she killed him, So Imperial forces bagan hunting her and the crew as they are all wanted for High treason, Murder and Thief of a starship.

Week 2

This week we discussed the design of characters and what would go into when you are making a new character, we talked about what a character should have, we also had to make sure that a characters look would match there personality and environment. We also discussed different types of styles and what style fit what characters best.

For our sessional task we were given a line drawing and were asked to use the layers and mess around with some of the colours to make the line drawing of the character better looking.

Week 1

For the first week we discussed what we would be doing during this project and what we would be learning about, in summary we would be furthering our knowledge on Photoshop and expanding our skills.

But for today's lesson we were taught how to create your own brush and how best to use it, for this lesson we were told to create a cloud brush as this could be very useful when we want to make the sky in our concepts that we need to create.

First of all I started by using the brush tool and creating some round shapes, I changed the tips and the opacity and of the brush to make some of the shapes different, then I used the smudge and blur tool to create something resembling a small cloud, once that was done I used the shape and made it into a brush. I then used the new brush to create some clouds on a new page.