Artist Roadmap

Artist Roadmap

We will be using the Research Tab/Area of our blog in order to start documenting the following:

We need to have a clear idea of where we are heading with our art and where we would like to take ourselves as Artist.

The first part of understanding how to get to a destination is knowing definitively where we are going. 

These series of questions and exercises will help us verbalize our ideas and then start to visually build that vision as well.

Projecting Out Past Graduation

Questions:

1. If you could project out past graduation, what is your overall career goal? 

• Would you like to work in AAA game development. 
• Would you prefer a midsize team? 
• Would you like a smaller team? 
• Would you like to be on an Indy team? 
• Would you like to work for a simulation company?
• Would you like to work in the theme park industry?

2. If you could project out into starting your career, what sounds the most appealing to you? 

• Would you like to work as a Character Artist?
• Would you like to work as an Environment Artist?
• Would you like to work as a Hard Surface Artist?
• Would you like to work as a Weapons/Prop Artist?
• Would you like to work as an Vehicle Artist?
• Would you like to work as an Lighter?

3. What are some of the top companies that you are interested in working for? 

• EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft, Nintendo, Iron Galaxy, ect.  

Inspiring Reference 

1. Create an Artstation account - I would like for you to create an Artstation Account. 

2. Create a collection for your top 10 artist -After your account is created, it's possible for you to make collections, this allows for you to find images on Artstation and then add them to a collection that you give a name to.

Make a collection for your top 10 artist that you like/are inspired by. Some may be in your collection because you really like their design work, others may because of their layout and how they present their work, some you may enjoy because of their use of subject matter, some you will be drawn to their modeling abilities. 

2. Creating A Visual Board Of Inspiration - After your collection is completed, we need to make a pure ref board that is in the 16X9 aspect ratio. 

Place your top images from each of your artist on this board, this visual map should start to reveal to you visually some of the most important subject matter that will start to guide and inform the type of work you want to make.