Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Exit plan
High level Exit plan
The most important thing for any Artist is self promotion be he a traditional artist promoting his self through galleries or a 3D Artist who’s main medium of self promotion is through online forums. How ever there are many other methods of self promotion available other than the net. Here I will be listing a couple of ways in which I intend to promote my Artwork both in the world of online computing and national/international festivals.
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Connections:- merely creating a portfolio and putting it online, while a great thing in itself. however, it will not get me a Job if there are no potential employers to look at it. One of the ways in which I will attract employers to my website will be through entering competitions, such as the ''dominance war''' held by the CG Society and many other online competitions held by websites such as ''3DTOTAL.COM''
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3D MAGAZINE:- I am working on a piece of art work which I will be submitting to the ''3DWORLD'' Magazine.
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Online Forums:- one of the best ways I think to promote one's self as a 3DARTIST is to show off your best work in online forums such as ''society'' which is the nets largest Digital Art forum. This method is very effective as it serves as a means through which one can generate traffic to his own website, the downside is that it is not free. However, the fee is worth the result.
My online portfolio on cgsociety
http://abuha.cgsociety.org/about/
Here are some statistics from the website.
Total Portfolios: 160,391 Total Visible Images: 295,284 Total Visits: 282,210,566 [http://portfolio.cgsociety.org/]
The most important thing for any Artist is self promotion be he a traditional artist promoting his self through galleries or a 3D Artist who’s main medium of self promotion is through online forums. How ever there are many other methods of self promotion available other than the net. Here I will be listing a couple of ways in which I intend to promote my Artwork both in the world of online computing and national/international festivals.
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Connections:- merely creating a portfolio and putting it online, while a great thing in itself. however, it will not get me a Job if there are no potential employers to look at it. One of the ways in which I will attract employers to my website will be through entering competitions, such as the ''dominance war''' held by the CG Society and many other online competitions held by websites such as ''3DTOTAL.COM''
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3D MAGAZINE:- I am working on a piece of art work which I will be submitting to the ''3DWORLD'' Magazine.
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Online Forums:- one of the best ways I think to promote one's self as a 3DARTIST is to show off your best work in online forums such as ''society'' which is the nets largest Digital Art forum. This method is very effective as it serves as a means through which one can generate traffic to his own website, the downside is that it is not free. However, the fee is worth the result.
My online portfolio on cgsociety
http://abuha.cgsociety.org/about/
Here are some statistics from the website.
Total Portfolios: 160,391 Total Visible Images: 295,284 Total Visits: 282,210,566 [http://portfolio.cgsociety.org/]
Character Artist Job requirments
What is required of character artists in the game's industry bellow is a list of Character Artist reimbursements, these are all based on research done through looking at different Character Artist job applications
• 1-2 years experience within a similar role (promising candidates with no experience will be considered).
• Should be disciplined, creative, innovative, dedicated and passionate.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Work well in a team.
• Ability to be able to pick up new tools quickly.
• Good time management skills.
• Can give and take both artistic and technical direction.
• Work well under pressure and excel in meeting deadlines.
• Good modeling and texturing skills with knowledge of current-gen techniques.
Good Knowledge of the following programs:
• Photoshop
• 3D Studio Max or Maya
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Senior Character Artist
Our Nordic client is looking for a talented Senior Character Artist who will work closely with the Art Director and other Leads from the project and will have a crucial role in establishing and maintaining the visual and technical aspects of the characters and character related assets.
Responsibilities include:
•Produce high and low mesh character related assets for reference purposes, in-game us or visual target.
•Work closely with the Art Director and the concept art team to ensure consistency between the concept and final 3D assets.
•Maintaining the vision and the expected quality level.
•Participate proactively in the constant improvement of assets production methods and techniques.
Skills and Experience:
•5+ years professional games development experience.
•At least one triple A shipped title as Character 3D Artist. Experience on MMO titles is a plus.
•Extensive knowledge and proficiency in Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop.
•Expertise with up to date art production techniques.
•Excellent artistic skills.
•Pro-actively seek art direction and cooperation with other team members.
•Solid understanding of next-gen character development process, limitations and dependencies.
•Solid time management skills.
•Strong communication skills.
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Requirements:
• Previous experience in a similar role within the video games industry
• 1+ shipped title to your credit in the capacity of character artist
• In-depth understanding of the human anatomy
• Strong knowledge of the structure of the human body and setup for facial animation
• Solid texturing skills
• Proficient in 3ds max or Softimage/XSI and Photoshop
• Strong knowledge of Zbrush would be highly advantageous but not essential
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I guess the most important thing for any employer when recruiting someone is their experience as can be seen from the above examples. Understanding of human anatomy is another important requirement for a character artist. What I found surprising was that most of the vacancies did not mention zbrush or muddbox to be a requirement.
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reference
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs//uk-and-europe/junior-character-artist-id45133
http://www.indeed.co.uk/Character-Artist-jobs
• 1-2 years experience within a similar role (promising candidates with no experience will be considered).
• Should be disciplined, creative, innovative, dedicated and passionate.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Work well in a team.
• Ability to be able to pick up new tools quickly.
• Good time management skills.
• Can give and take both artistic and technical direction.
• Work well under pressure and excel in meeting deadlines.
• Good modeling and texturing skills with knowledge of current-gen techniques.
Good Knowledge of the following programs:
• Photoshop
• 3D Studio Max or Maya
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Senior Character Artist
Our Nordic client is looking for a talented Senior Character Artist who will work closely with the Art Director and other Leads from the project and will have a crucial role in establishing and maintaining the visual and technical aspects of the characters and character related assets.
Responsibilities include:
•Produce high and low mesh character related assets for reference purposes, in-game us or visual target.
•Work closely with the Art Director and the concept art team to ensure consistency between the concept and final 3D assets.
•Maintaining the vision and the expected quality level.
•Participate proactively in the constant improvement of assets production methods and techniques.
Skills and Experience:
•5+ years professional games development experience.
•At least one triple A shipped title as Character 3D Artist. Experience on MMO titles is a plus.
•Extensive knowledge and proficiency in Maya, Zbrush and Photoshop.
•Expertise with up to date art production techniques.
•Excellent artistic skills.
•Pro-actively seek art direction and cooperation with other team members.
•Solid understanding of next-gen character development process, limitations and dependencies.
•Solid time management skills.
•Strong communication skills.
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Requirements:
• Previous experience in a similar role within the video games industry
• 1+ shipped title to your credit in the capacity of character artist
• In-depth understanding of the human anatomy
• Strong knowledge of the structure of the human body and setup for facial animation
• Solid texturing skills
• Proficient in 3ds max or Softimage/XSI and Photoshop
• Strong knowledge of Zbrush would be highly advantageous but not essential
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I guess the most important thing for any employer when recruiting someone is their experience as can be seen from the above examples. Understanding of human anatomy is another important requirement for a character artist. What I found surprising was that most of the vacancies did not mention zbrush or muddbox to be a requirement.
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reference
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs//uk-and-europe/junior-character-artist-id45133
http://www.indeed.co.uk/Character-Artist-jobs
Importance of anatomy for artists
''However far technology advances, anatomical knowledge will still form the basis of good character design''
''An aspiring character artist might ask: “How is anatomy important to my work?” The emphatic answer is that as a character artist, anatomy should inform every aspect of your work! Anatomy is the structural foundation that grounds characters in the physical world and makes them believable, even if they are cartoons or imaginary creatures.''
Ever since I have started to do character modeling, I have found out that having knowledge of human anatomy is extremely important. I have been sculpting in zbrush for quite a while, and never really thought of learning Anatomy until I started comparing my work with some of the industry leaders in digital sculpting such as Chris Costa and so on. I have made it a goal to learn about human anatomy, even if I don't memorize the names of every muscle in the human body I should at least know the insertion points of all the major muscles and how they wrap around the bones and overlap other muscles. This I think is the biggest hindrance of my progress as a 3D Artist, which I hope to over come soon and so that's why I have bought a copy of, ''an atlas of anatomy for artists'' to help me improve my artistic anatomy.
Long live ebay
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reference
computer Arts magazine
''An aspiring character artist might ask: “How is anatomy important to my work?” The emphatic answer is that as a character artist, anatomy should inform every aspect of your work! Anatomy is the structural foundation that grounds characters in the physical world and makes them believable, even if they are cartoons or imaginary creatures.''
Ever since I have started to do character modeling, I have found out that having knowledge of human anatomy is extremely important. I have been sculpting in zbrush for quite a while, and never really thought of learning Anatomy until I started comparing my work with some of the industry leaders in digital sculpting such as Chris Costa and so on. I have made it a goal to learn about human anatomy, even if I don't memorize the names of every muscle in the human body I should at least know the insertion points of all the major muscles and how they wrap around the bones and overlap other muscles. This I think is the biggest hindrance of my progress as a 3D Artist, which I hope to over come soon and so that's why I have bought a copy of, ''an atlas of anatomy for artists'' to help me improve my artistic anatomy.
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reference
computer Arts magazine
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Career choice
there are many careers one can choose from within the 3d industry, some choose to specialise in Character animation while others may choose to take different paths. I have been studying at the university of derby for two years, this has given me enough time to think about my new career path and about its advantages and disadvantages compared to the rest of the careers that i could take. prior to starting my studies i was a 3d visualiser. I left the profession as it was becoming very easy to be a 3d visualiser any one any where could pick a copy of a ''real-time renderer'' and produce stunning images without any effort or skills, its ironinc how the same technology that created jobs up ends destroying them too.
I have decided to become a character modeller and specialise in character art, reason being is that even though there are softwares that allows people to create models with a few clicks of a buttons like ''poser'', however the resulting models are hardly usable in any production pipeline be it for games or film animation, because you will always end up customising the models eventually and the edge flow of those models will never quite match your reference material. therefore in my opinion i don't think that the character modelling field will suffer the same consequences as the 3D Visualisation industry
I have decided to become a character modeller and specialise in character art, reason being is that even though there are softwares that allows people to create models with a few clicks of a buttons like ''poser'', however the resulting models are hardly usable in any production pipeline be it for games or film animation, because you will always end up customising the models eventually and the edge flow of those models will never quite match your reference material. therefore in my opinion i don't think that the character modelling field will suffer the same consequences as the 3D Visualisation industry
Monday, 1 November 2010
Showreels
Haven't been able to post much for personal reasons how ever i finnaly had the time to do some research on Showreels. Its going to important to know about Showreels how they are made and to learn about the does and donts
Showreels
before we go any further I would like to make clear what a showreel is.
Show reel is ''A Video portfolio demonstrating the talents of an actor, directo, etc''.[web difinition]
from above definition we can sagely say that a showreel for us 3d artist is a short videio demonstrating or rather showcasing our best Artwork such us 3d assets, animation, etc.
''A strong showreel is essential if you want to get any kind of work in moving images – whether that means video, effects, 2D or 3D animation or Flashgraphics '' [computer arts]
it is absolutely essential that our showreesl must contain our best work not just anything garbage after all the company that we might be applying for will have thousands of applications and so if your showreels doesn't catch their eye then they will just chuck in the bin ''blur studio alone gets thousands of application every week and most of them end up in the garbage tin''[Feng Zhu ].
It is important to distinguish your self from the rest of the crowd and have a unique artistic style how ever if you we were applying to a specific company then it would be advantageous to study their art style and base our work on that style,, try to match it as much as possible as that would make them think that
a: your are very serious about the job
b: they wont have to train to match their art style
''Industry employers will be looking for specific things – if you’re asking for a job in animation, they won’t care much about textures and backgrounds. Equally, if you’re after work designing games characters, complex lighting isn’t going to impress'' _computer arts uk
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