bchangart
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Some FFXIV fanart of Zero! I miss her ; n ;
(reuploaded with a painted over version)
#ffxiv#ff14#endwalker#ffxiv endawlker#zero#reaper#street jacket#casual#final fantasy xiv#final fantasy 14#fanart#ffxiv fanart#ffxiv art
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Final Fantasy XIV fanart, Krile as her newly revealed Pictomancer job! She's so adorable in the Dawntrail trailer aaaaaa
#ffxiv#final fantasy xiv fanart#final fantasy 14#ff14#final fantasy xiv#krile#lalafell#ffxiv krile#krile mayer baldesion#pictomancer#dawntrail
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Some Baldur's Gate 3 fanart of best girl Karlach, fighting in Avernus.
#baldur's gate 3#baldurs gate fanart#karlach#dnd#fantasy#dungeons & dragons#dungeons and dragons#bg3 art#d&d
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Portfolio advice, from a lead who hires Concept Artists
(This was originally a twitter thread I wrote before the site self imolated, hense it's strange structure.)
I wrote this after a weekend of portfolio reviews -
1. Like a maths exam, please please show your working. I want to see thumbs options, mid options and of course a final design.
2. Arrange your portfolio, I don't want to bounce about between subject matter and pipeline. Your portfolio's narrative should be as strong as your work...
3. Please make worlds that excite the viewer, make them want to go in and explore them, explain to them the interesting parts of the town, or the way the character's hat unfolds. How will this draw the viewer in?
4. As I've said before the majority of your project work is explanatory not mood, make sure your portfolio contains explanatory work. Explained here -
5. A lot of beautiful post apocolyptic paintings, , but 80% of realistic games and film, we just give the environment artists photo ref, they are capable artists in their own right. Different work in stylised where you do need to create rules for how things can be translated.
6. Production art contains call out sheets, material references and flat graphics. This doesn't have to be your final image, but it should support it.
7. Design characters on a swatch(es) of the environment they will be viewed in. Not on white. I make swatch backgrounds from screenshots, it avoids assumptions that damage readability.
8. Reverse of this, put people in your environments, show me the scale.
9. It's not a deal breaker for a review, but if you intend to get a job, please show me your work on a screen larger than a smartphone (print outs probably the cheapest option with the best battery life).
10. Please have your contact details clearly visible, and by that I mean email address, I will not pass your social media contact on, I cannot input your form into my tracking system. EMAIL ADDRESS emblazoned and bake it in, sometimes recruiters do funky stuff to pdfs
11. Your portfolio will never feel done, not to you anyway. You will have learnt from your latest pieces and want to apply it to older work. But we know art is a journey. Send your portfolio anyway. I've been in the industry 10+ years and my portfolio is still not 'finished'.
12. If you are applying to an environment centric Concept Art position then please vary your times of day! Golden hour is cool but show me some happy sunny days, looming overcast days, what about at night? Vary your weather too! Sunny snowy day? Rainy Spring day? Stormy night?
13. If you are applying for a character centric Concept Art role then please ensure your portfolio shows a variety of body types and ethnicities.
14. Designing characters for games?
Please show back views and feet (!) Many potfolios contain only front views.
This is a problem because:
You haven't shown you are considering the design from all angles.
In many games rear view is the main view.
Stop cropping feet.
15. If you are entry / graduating and looking at Portfolios to compare content and standard of yr own work too, look at hired grad/junior artists as opposed to seniors Seniors and leads often have old or personal work in their portfolio which isnt representative of the day job.
16a. Show clearly the intended use case for your Concept Art. Mention the game type in the description. Are these player character designs for a 3rd person adventure game? Then more back views please. Bonus points for diagetic ways of showing health / equipment / role etc.
16b. Are these designs for an FPS? Then really the player view of the gun needs to sell the player style/ choices, in an FPS your weapons are almost your character. Are these world designs? What's the view distance? For an RTS your shapes need to read from above & a distance.
16c. The lack of clarification means I am judging the design in isolation, which both harms the design (you might be considering the backview of a char as the main adventure character.) Or an NPC, their waist up expressions may be important for conveying exposition and mechanics.
16d. Concept art is not separate from gameplay, great concept art serves the game team before it is a good illustration.
17. Play games. A variety of games. Think about them. IMO to be a good concept artist you need to understand the common language & references used by your peers. Also understand the principles and common language your audience are used to. FPS design rules are v.diff from RTS.
18. There are many skills that are needed in concept art, please show them. For example: Graphic design - logos, liveries, typographic use etc. VFX concepts - Abilities, Ambience, motion concepts. Architectural knowledge - How buildings are built! & more but I'm out of space :O
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Illustration done for a pdf cover
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D&D commission, Kay the Swashbuckler
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Pet D&D commission! Big Red the Warrior Queen!
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Pet D&D commission! Dexter the Mountain Ranger
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Starfinder commission
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Hi everyone! I'm a concept artist/illustrator who loves D&D and everything fantasy. I'm usually open for character commissions!
Commission Info: https://artistree.io/request/bchangart
Patreon: https://patreon.com/bchangart
#2023#commissions#patreon#brandon chang#bchangart#dnd#dnd art#character art#character commission#dnd commission#dnd character#rpg character#rpg#ttrpg#ttrpg character
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"It's in theaters now! Coming this summer...
Two brothers. In a van. And then a meteor hit. And they ran as fast as they could. From giant cat-monsters. And then a giant tornado came. And that's when things got knocked into twelfth gear...
A Mexican…armada shows up. With weapons made from to- tomatoes. And you better betch'ur bottom dollar that these two brothers know how to handle business.
In! 'Alien…Invasion Tomato Monster Mexican Armada Brothers…Who Are Just Regular Brothers Running…in a Van from an…Asteroid and All Sorts of Things: The Movie'.
Hold on! There's more. Old women are comin'! And they're also in the movie and they're gonna come…and cross…attack…these two brothers. But let's get back to the brothers because they're- they have a strong bond! You don't wanna know about it here, but I'll tell you one thing.
The Moon. It comes crashing into Earth! And whaddya do then? It's two brothers and I- and…and they're gonna…it's called 'Two Brothers' …'Two Brothers'…it's just called 'Two Brothers'!
Sorry, couldn't resist. It's a D&D commission. Of Two Brothers. A Human Archfey Warlock and an Aasimar Monk.
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Pet D&D commission, Yasha the Kitty Barbarian
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Pet D&D commission, Woolf the Kitty Dragon Monk!
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D&D commission, Endymion the Half-elf Brute Fighter
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Lvl 20 D&D commission, Vesmirna the Drow Warlock
#dnd#dnd art#female#drow#warlock#weapons#armory#dungeons & dragons#d&d#ttrpg#pathfinder rpg#lvl 20#level 20
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D&D commission, Renn Walker the Human Trickery Cleric
#dnd#fantasy#male#human#cleric#fox#dungeons and dragons#d&d#dungeons & dragons#pathfinder rpg#dnd character#ttrpg
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D&D commission, Enu Jura the Shadar-kai Ranger/Monk
#dnd#fantasy#dungeons and dragons#d&d#ttrpg#dnd character#female#shadar kai#elf#monk#dungeons & dragons#pathfinder rpg
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