Kristian Hauer Århus IM-Games

Kristian Hauer Århus, currently a student at Noroff University in Kristiansand. I am at IM-Games and currently this blog will be used towards the various subjects I am in during this time. "About me" can be found in the archive.

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About me

It seems I misunderstood the header text I could have. This is therefore a redone post about me, providing the essential info about what this blog is about and myself. 

I am Kristian Hauer Århus, 24 year old from Oslo.

Campus student at Noroff university, Kristiansand. Currently at IM-Games course here. This blog will be about my progress and works throughout the different subjects we are having, up to this point this only includes Form and context, but there will be posts about the current Game Assets 1 course and the others which follow. 

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Form and context reflective writing.

This will be a summary of my thoughts about the Form and Context course. I’ll look into what I learned, what was difficult and about the process as a whole.

Through this course we we’re dwelling into various aspects of drawing, such as perspective, motions in animals/humans, shading etc. The days were mostly an hour of lecture first, this is where we talked about theories and aspects surrounding the subject for that week. The first few weeks didn’t feel that well organized since when we were drawing we had to do it out in the library area. Since the school campus is shared by high school students this got quite loud and annoying at certain times. After that we got our own room which upped the quality, at least for me. 

Some of the subjects we went through was quite challenging for me, especially the perspective aspect. When I was drawing the “cubes in outer space” there were multiple instances where I had to eras the cubes since my head had difficulties following the formula with three different viewpoints. When the cubes were almost done I would realize that “this doesn’t look right” and had to redo it. Some had to be redone multiple times. I did not finish up the perspective assignments until rather late since I found them frustrating. This might not have been the best idea, since receiving input and tips proved more difficult. I am not happy with the results of the perspective assignments, especially the one with the house at the street.

For the subjects that I did enjoy, the stick-men and motions was something I enjoyed tinkering with. I like doodling little figures, and stick-men is not a far cry away from that. The process of trying to capture motions or moods/emotions with as little work as possible is something admirable in my eyes. I am quite happy with how the small composition drawings turned out, but could I redo them I would probably ease up on the darkness. Light and shadow played a big role in them, but all but the “heroic” one got a tad bit to dark. 

The texturing was a bit tedious, but I was happy with the result. Number 25 is the personal favorite even tho I wasn’t quite sure what I was creating while I was doing it. It proved difficult to come up with 25 unique textures. While I could have made 5 different types of wood or something like that, but that would be boring in my opinion.

The course did provide some useful theories and tools for future works, modeling and concept art is something that goes more fluently with the knowledge of motions and perspective behind it. While perspective was what I found most challenging it still pushed my limits further than what they were. 

For more information about the individual assignments I have provided a short description about them together with my own input under each blogpost. 

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Additional Drawings.

This are additional drawings done during the course that are within the various subjects we went through. The last one is basically me spamming the motion of a guy with a pickaxe over and over again to try and get a good feel. Some extras with shading that was part of the work during class. Don’t know if this really amounts to much, but had quite a blast with the stickmen at least.

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Exercise 10. Motion Bits. 

Much like exercise 9, but in this one you would simply draw 5 different motions which wasn't in the same sequence. About 3 of mine are referencing some of the motions the orc character is doing on the bottom pictures. The other ones are mostly just from trying out various motions on paper. 

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Exercise 9. Motion sequence. 

For this assignment we were tasked to capture the motion sequence in a scene and recreate it using stick figures. I was quite fond of the work we did during this subject since I quite like stick figures. While it was easier to focus purely on the motion with stick figures I found it hard to make some motions look right due to the limited frame of having only stick figures and simple body parts to work with. Could I redo it I would probably also choose another scene, mostly because I found that many of the motions were so similar in this particular one. 

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Exercise 8. Human and Animal Body Construction.

This exercise was about capturing and dividing up the body of humans and animals. Splitting up the entire body into cubes, cylinders etc. I found that the one I made with the dog was a bit better than the human. I believe this is because I didn't do the dog immediately when I got the assignment and felt I had a better understanding of what I was doing when I got back to the dog. Though this might be completely wrong.

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Exercise 7. Perspective drawing. 

Like the cubes in outer space, this one was quite challenging. But unlike the cubes I felt this one actually beat me. I had to scale the picture down in the drawing to make it easier working with the vanishing points. The part with the pillars was something that really threw me off and I could never seem to get it right. The eraser was used frantically during this one and in the end there isn’t much to show. Tried working on it various times, but ended up getting frustrated and pretty much leaving it. 

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Exercise 6. Cubes in outer space.

This exercise was about perspectives and how to connect edges towards various vanishing points. This one, while quite minimalistic (not too many boxes) was quite hard for me. I’ve come to learn that perspective drawing, at least in this form is something my head has difficulties wrapping itself around. It’s not that noticeable from, but the amount of time spent with an eraser in hand rivals the amount with a pencil. 

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Exercise 5. Shading and rendering.

For this exercise we were given various scenes and we could choose which one to render with ink. I chose the forest image and are quite happy with the result. I had not done this sort of thing before and while I was displeased at the beginning it came more together towards the end and it taught me to have the patience to see it through even though it might look horrendous at first. 

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Exercise 4. Shapes and forms. 

For this exercise we were tasked with creating various designs for a spacecraft which resembles a computer mouse. This was what I came up with. I am personally not to happy about this one since some of the angles and shapes are a bit off. 

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Exercise 3. Shapes and Forms. Excersice 3 was about shapes and forms and how they may interact with each other. Forming intersections and making them merge with one another was something i’d rarely done before so it was a good learning experience. 

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Composition. Exercise 2. This exercise was about composition, creating a feel or atmosphere using foreground, light and shadow etc. in 5 different pictures. Looking back I think the overall style is a bit too dark, but I am quite happy with the outcome, personal favourite is the dramatic one. 

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Texture sheet for exercise 1. Required us to create 25 different textures, towards the end the creativity kind of dwindled away for me personally. Makes it ironic that my favourite is the very last I made.