Plan for Craig Fortune
by Craig Fortune · 01/16/2005 (5:42 am) · 5 comments
Before I continue with my ramblings into traditional art I'd like to share two very cool pieces of news with you:
First of De-Railed has found its programmer! Robert Brower stepped into the fray and has taken up the programming spot to work on Snachurz. We are very happy about this as he is a very talented and motivated individual, well respected and above all just a great guy. =D
Second bit of news is way off the coolness meter. Nauris Krauze and myself were contacted by GarageGames with a request: to do the artwork for the Torque 2d demos. Well we nigh on snatched their arms off at the offer. Work has already begun in concepting out the ideas etc, so we hope you enjoy the fruits of our labour ;)
Right, onto art stuff...
Thought I'd add a juxtaposition of sorts in now. Last time I finished by talking about how being messy is not necessarily a bad thing, now I'll tell you about when being tidy is the best thing. After you finish doing some painting etc, you then clean up right? Clean your brushes, wipe up any spilt paint etc etc, so why not start this practice in your digital art? Clean up your layers, name them, stick them in layer sets. If modelling, then sort out your grouping, clean up any stray verts, etc. It will all help your art flow be that bit more thorough and easier to manage. It wouldn't help to store things in some logical manner either, most of my art stuff is on a seperate HardDrive at the moment, consider it my paintbox ;)
Learn new Techniques
Its all very well having your own "style" (Heck, people can make careers this way) but you can become limited after a while. Learn new techniques, a new brush technique wouldn't go amiss. Maybe some new brushes to use in Photoshop, those grunge brushes are starting to get old now aren't they? A new font set (good typography is a fantastic skill to master) could improve some logo designs you've being doing. Think I'm straying from traditional art here? Well how abouts fonts = caligraphy ey? Pretty much ANY digital art has its roots set in a traditional art form.
So exploit this extra angle you can learn from!
Till next time...
First of De-Railed has found its programmer! Robert Brower stepped into the fray and has taken up the programming spot to work on Snachurz. We are very happy about this as he is a very talented and motivated individual, well respected and above all just a great guy. =D
Second bit of news is way off the coolness meter. Nauris Krauze and myself were contacted by GarageGames with a request: to do the artwork for the Torque 2d demos. Well we nigh on snatched their arms off at the offer. Work has already begun in concepting out the ideas etc, so we hope you enjoy the fruits of our labour ;)
Right, onto art stuff...
Thought I'd add a juxtaposition of sorts in now. Last time I finished by talking about how being messy is not necessarily a bad thing, now I'll tell you about when being tidy is the best thing. After you finish doing some painting etc, you then clean up right? Clean your brushes, wipe up any spilt paint etc etc, so why not start this practice in your digital art? Clean up your layers, name them, stick them in layer sets. If modelling, then sort out your grouping, clean up any stray verts, etc. It will all help your art flow be that bit more thorough and easier to manage. It wouldn't help to store things in some logical manner either, most of my art stuff is on a seperate HardDrive at the moment, consider it my paintbox ;)
Learn new Techniques
Its all very well having your own "style" (Heck, people can make careers this way) but you can become limited after a while. Learn new techniques, a new brush technique wouldn't go amiss. Maybe some new brushes to use in Photoshop, those grunge brushes are starting to get old now aren't they? A new font set (good typography is a fantastic skill to master) could improve some logo designs you've being doing. Think I'm straying from traditional art here? Well how abouts fonts = caligraphy ey? Pretty much ANY digital art has its roots set in a traditional art form.
So exploit this extra angle you can learn from!
Till next time...
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#2
01/16/2005 (4:02 pm)
Great news!! 
#3
And man.. people are going to love the look of the T2D demos now. (Quick note: I'd like to also thank Matt Mitman (aka Chemeleon) too, he's helping out with a separate T2D demo... this is going to rock. :)
01/16/2005 (4:03 pm)
Kickass band you've got going there. Robert is excellent. Are you guys still looking for more coders or is it to be a gang of three for now? Congrats either way!And man.. people are going to love the look of the T2D demos now. (Quick note: I'd like to also thank Matt Mitman (aka Chemeleon) too, he's helping out with a separate T2D demo... this is going to rock. :)
#4
01/16/2005 (4:06 pm)
Just the 3 of us for now. I've just had a look at what Chemeleon has been working on, very nice looking stuff :) 
#5
Just gotta' say, Craig/Nauris, you sound pleased with the opportunity to work on T2D demo art but you've got to understand how *happy* we are to have your help, many thanks. :)
Okay, I'm booking some time off-work to get through all these demos so that I can do code to match the quality of the artwork.
- Melv.
01/17/2005 (6:30 am)
I've got some of that demo art here that Josh mentioned ... bloody wow ... and I mean wooooooooow and I'm still looking forward to the Craig/Nauris stuff as well.Just gotta' say, Craig/Nauris, you sound pleased with the opportunity to work on T2D demo art but you've got to understand how *happy* we are to have your help, many thanks. :)
Okay, I'm booking some time off-work to get through all these demos so that I can do code to match the quality of the artwork.
- Melv.
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