Convincing Storytelling for Games.
Freelance Illustrator - Riot Games, Wizzards of the Coast
Illustration | Character | Concept Art
Mentor 32 Executed live sessionsAbout
Projects & clients
Software
Pro
intermediate & advanced
1:2 Class size
2 Day(s) per Week
90 Minutes per Session
8 Module(s)
2 certificate(s)
2-3 Portfolio images
Modules
2 months
$ 1299/month
Massive
intermediate & advanced
1:2 Class size
2 Day(s) per Week
90 Minutes per Session
11 Module(s)
2 certificate(s)
3-4 Portfolio images
Modules
4 months
$ 1199/month
Clear storytelling
How to paint thumbnails effectively is a necessary part of your future tasks for your clients. It helps to iterate faster with clarity in mind.
Learn how to sketch thumbnails fast with storytelling.
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Composition
The proper steps to create an appealing game illustration are essential and have to be executed in the right order. Learn how to plan your art to be reliable as a digital artist.
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Color Theory
The elements of color composition to create a proper mood help tell the story. To achieve that, balancing color, value, and saturation will improve your final result.
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Form
Rendering is an essential part to finish an illustration and immersing your audience. Therefore, knowing how to render material, light, and texture properly will help you achieve set quality goals.
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Learn how to fix mistakes
How to make your artwork look finished is up to proper amounts of iteration, fixing issues, post-processing, and art direction. Thus, spending a long enough time to finish helps guarantee the clarity of an illustration.
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Shape language
To design characters for your clients, an essential understanding of functional and visual is necessary. Will is guiding you to create suitable designs with appeal in mind for your illustrations.
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Anatomy
The presence of body parts and movement has an immense role in the reliability and the appeal of your character. However, drawing a dynamic pose accompanies a set knowledge of anatomy, gesture, and proportion.
Therefore, you will learn how to draw muscles and pose dynamically along the way with the guidance of your mentor.
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Problem Solving
Learn how to structure your project so that you seamlessly fit into modern art environments in larger studios. Some aspects of a professional artist are less known, such as naming conventions, color spaces, File sharing, and delivery.
Will Gist will help you understand what it takes to deliver on time.
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Company Hierarchies
How to get hired for a studio or dream project can be intimidating. There are several mindsets to adopt when approaching work as a professional artist.
*This module serves as a bonus and will be conducted by Christopher Schiefer (CEO) to improve your current work routine. This module will only be held upon your initiative response after completing all months.
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Interviews
Exposure can be beneficial to help attract clients and improve your international attention.
*This module will be conducted by the internal team based on the achieved level of polish at the end of your mentorship.
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Understanding Client Needs
Learn how to structure your portfolio to maximize the impression of your efforts.
LinkedIn and a proper presentation of your personal and professional work can help stand out.
*This module will be conducted by the internal team after finishing all acquired mentorship months with Will Gist
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Master Environment Painting 2D & 3D
Christopher Schiefer and Adam Isailovic will focus on your weaknesses in this personalized mentorship.This Environment mentorship covers a large range of necessary skillsets concerning a modern standards. Project Management, 2D as well as 3D Workflows are fundamentally important to deal with clients. As a consequence, more focused education is necessary to be treated as an authority.
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Illustration Mentorship | Santiago Parra
In this Intermediate Illustration Mentorship, you will collaborate with the mentor, Santiago Parra, a splash artist from Colombia.Together, dive deep into Storytelling, Composition, and Rendering, refining your skills.By the mentorship’s end, you will work towards mastering fundamental illustration principles and craft artworks closer to your goals. This mentorship is ideal for illustrators in the entertainment industry.
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Zbrush Characters for Games | Ankush Khare
The Entertainment industry requires in-depth knowledge when it comes to 3D character modeling for games. In order to stand out among dozens of artists, you need to be able to create convincing and detailed characters in ZBrush.3D character modelers use software such as Zbrush, Maya, Substance Painter requires a lot of mileage.In this mentorship, we aim to shortcut your development.Together he will guide you step-by-step through your journey to improve your Character Art skills.
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