Lothar Lecture - Week 3 of BA5

• Environment Artists have several openings throughout the UK Jobs Market. There is high competition for Character Artists, Animators etc.
• Think about how you present your work so to keep with a continuous mood with colours layout fonts styling etc.
• What is the world?
• Get hold of references and gather as many as possible. Look at the type of lighting, environments, the time period, the biology of the place.
• Get numerous reference images with a dominant colour for textures as well as moodboard images.
• Take your time to do research to find your ideal reference - your work will be better because of it.
• Ask yourself what kind of effect do you want to achieve for that location?
• Each level has a key colour scheme - make sure you adjust and tweak your photo references for your mood board. Don't forget backdrop elements such as insects, shrubbery, moss, birds etc.
• Look up the artwork for Tokyo Jungle?
• Think about Lens Distortion in your work - how will it be viewed - 'purple ray fringe'
• Real - Life imperfections can add realism to games - but are not wanted in hi-spec renders etc. Look into lens distortion - look at how you can introduce this into your artwork.
• Concept Artwork is often taken and re-touched from still images from the engine - and these paint overs allow better tweaking of post-production lighting and colouring etc. These are images which are sent back and forth between the 2D and 3D teams until it is.
• Try to include images to show scaling in your mood pieces and reference images.
• When modeling - think abut how it will be used in game and how/ whether it will need to be rigged and animated.
• What is a dummy node, and what is an export dummy.
• What is a specular Map, and gloss map, will be half the size of the diffuse map.