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Assignment: In-Game Scene

Tools: Ipad, Procreate, Unity

Description: In-Game scene featuring Adelia in a point-and-click style of game.

Feedback: I'm not necessarily sure how I feel about the genre/POV I used for this piece. I wanted to continue with a more painted style, and I thought it would be cool if the foreground element was like a doorway you could look into, but as I was starting to sketch it out, I realized it gave more of a point-and-click vibe than I was originally intending. My game is a mystery game, though I haven't thought of the actual mechanics, so it's not like this doesn't fit. I just think after making this piece I realized it's not the style/vibe I want to go for when imagining a more solidified version of the game. As much as I enjoyed doing more painting-esque art, I think my game would have to use a simpler, line-art style (similar to the character sheet/turnaround) as you would likely be walking around the scenes rather than clicking through them. That all being said, I do like how the actual art turned out!

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Assignment Name: Character Design pt 3

Tools: Procreate, iPad

Desc: Key art of Adelia with a very opera poster inspired design.

Feedback: I kind of love how this one came out. The painterly art style, the pose reference to Brunnhilde, the slight Salome reference, even the slight French Rococo style of the background I think all come together so nicely. At first I was really struggling with the pose and the vibe of everything, but after I thought about music posters, specifically operatic ones, I really knew the direction I wanted to go with this. I feel like the border and font could be a little different/better, but other than that I’m just incredibly happy with this piece.

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Composition blackouts for Adelia

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Assignment Name: Character Design pt 2

Tools: Procreate, iPad

Desc: A character sheet for Adelia, one of the main characters.

Feedback: I actually like how this character sheet came out - it was something new for me to do, and was difficult to set up in a nice way, but I think the end product turned out pretty good. I will say for the expressions I accidentally made the collar closer to her face than it’s meant to, but visually otherwise I enjoy it. I also wasn’t sure about the notes to add, because while I have a lot of thoughts about Adelia, I was trying to figure out which ones made sense for a character sheet and how to word them. All in all though, I feel pretty proud of how this turned out.

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Assignment Name: Character Design

Tools: Procreate, iPad

Desc: A turn around of the character Adelia, a musician who ends up creating her own opera inspired group.

Notes: Adelina - 28F

Grew up in a wealthy noble family, became a successful/renowned singer and musician

Joined a prestigious orchestra, but when it was disbanded, continued pursuing music by forming her own group inspired by opera in which she is the lead

Continues to be a perfect image of nobility and success, people from different standings admire her for her humble personality and approachable nature

Feedback: I both really like this piece and also don’t, though I think this reason for this is just the style. I think the design itself is really nice, and I like the silhouette and color palette I chose, but the style I drew it in just doesn’t capture the vibe I was going for I think. Nonetheless, I’m happy with the concept I came up with, and it actually helped give me inspiration for other characters too, which I’m excited about.

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Assignment Name: Environment Design pt 3

Tools: Procreate, iPad

Desc: A trashed music practice room of a wealthy, influential musician about 8 years after he was denounced from high society and his music was deemed the devil’s work.

Notes:

Much of the furniture should be broken up/splintered/damaged in some way

Rugs/Curtains/Walls/etc. should look dirtied up + not as vibrant, floor should have stuff scattered on it, etc.

Anything higher up (on the “second level”) should remain relatively untouched since it’s hard to reach naturally

Feedback: I actually really like how this piece came out. There are probably some other things I could have added to give it that tiny bit of extra flavor, but I honestly think the atmosphere really conveys a place that’s been unused/abandoned for quite a while. The only thing I wish I did (directly) is make the piano stand out more compared to everything else, as I imagine it to be pristine compared to the wreckage and dust of everything else.

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Sketch of a conductor’s baton case for a 3D artist to model

Casing should be a dark wood

Inside should be padded/covered with fabric

Case should be relatively long but not tall

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Assignment Name: Environment Design

Tools: Procreate, iPad

Desc: Created a more finalized key location in my world - an 1800s/Victorian inspired music practice room (connected to a larger home) of a wealthy, influential musician.

Feedback: I think the additional details I added to the piece are good, and they do capture a bit more of the character’s vibe (and the larger personality of the world), however I’m not the happiest with the final result. I think the reason for this is just the actual perspective of the shot. I wanted to capture the kind of large space of what a music practice room/studio room would look like, but in doing so I feel like the actual details of the piece aren’t as prominent and simply don’t capture the rest of the room’s energy as much. Regardless, I do think I managed my goal of combining a more modernized music room with the more Victorian era styling, so I am happy about that at least.

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Chairs within the music room for musicians to sit in while practicing a piece.

Elegant, carved wooden chairs

Victorian inspired with designs within the wood inspired by music symbols/shapes

Rich/noble style - should not be plain or basic carving

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Assignment Name: Environment Design

Tools: Procreate, iPad

Desc: Created a key location in my world - an 1800s/Victorian inspired music practice room (connected to a larger home) of a wealthy, influential musician.

Feedback: While I have a good idea of the overall vibe of my world, coming up with the more specific details has been hard, especially since I rarely ever do environmental art. The world is very 1800s inspired (with a large influence coming from the Victorian era), so trying to keep that inspiration while not making it just a 1-to-1 was difficult. I actually like what I was able to come up with though, with the second image especially feeling more like a true combination of what practice rooms might look like now mixed with the music rooms of the Victorian wealthy. It’s still something I think I want to flesh out a bit more, but I do feel like I’m getting to a spot I like quite a lot.

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Music logo of a popular music group within the city (The lead of the group having Ben taught by the protagonist)

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Assignment Name: Making Many from Few

Tools: Procreate, iPad

Desc: Created 10 variations of a character using 3 sets of 3 overlapping attributes.

Feedback: I’m really proud of this assignment and how it came out, though it did take so much time. The three sets I created were three different outfits, three skin tone and facial feature combos, and three different hair and eye combos. I think the face for the straight hair variation looks a little off, but I still think considering how much I drew in the first place, it’s not bad at all. I also think the outfits came out really well. I’m not too good at shading clothes or shading in general, but I think it actually came out really well and I’m happy with the results all in all I really enjoyed this assignment, and though I gave myself very difficult homework, I feel proud of what I was able to accomplish.

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Sketch of my old OC Rhian + bonus earliest sketch I could find of her!

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Assignment Name: Patterns from Particles

Tools: Procreate, iPad, Unity, PC

Desc: A visual representation of the feeling of winning a competitive team game.

Feedback: I think I liked the direction I was going with for my particle system in using different directions/speeds/scales to very directly convey each moment of the feeling, but I feel like something about it is still missing that last bit of spice. For the elation "section" specifically, I do think if I made the trail lead to the star rather than combining them that would have been a good start to make things better, but I already had a lot of shapes and I was trying to trim things down (and the whole thing still ended up being longer than I wanted). It was my first time ever using the particle system, so I still feel proud with what I accomplished, but I definitely want to learn more about how it works so next time I could make something that truly feels like it has the oomph I want.

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A fantasy packaging for fire in what I would think in a world/civilization underwater. The container would use a jellyfish membrane and giant salvinia as a stopper/cork (a completely hydrophobic plant).

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Assignment Name: Pixeling Monstrosities

Tools: Dotpict, iPad

Desc: Pixelized renderings of my fantasy creature Catreat under 4 different constraints.

Feedback: I genuinely really liked how these came out. The 8x8 and 16x16 ones were hard, as it felt like conveying the cat aspect without making it look almost fox like was a bit difficult, but I still think I pulled it off nicely enough and they came out cute. My 32x32 ones are definitely my favorites, as I felt like I really got down the features that make my creature the way it is. I tried to mainly avoid black outlines for most of my renderings since I’m used to that style, and I really like how it gave off a completely different vibe (especially the 4 color vs. no color limit 32x32). Though I will say because of that, I had to make Catreat’s fur more cream than off-white for the no color limit so it could be read better against the white background, though honestly I don’t mind it at all.

Reference Images: Original Catreat

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