Whoop! whoop! we’re doing 3d

 
Went to bed early tonight, wakes up in the middle of the night, realize I sould have done something yesterday, proofread this and upload this.
So, we have now had our first week of school, for our first lesson in 3d class we had a recap of the elements of art and an assignment where we analysed screenshots in groups and here is a short recap of what our group noticed.
Here we have diagonal lines pointing inwards and uppwards making […]

3D – Week 1

Hello everyone!
After a long break I’m back and at it, and this time I’ll be mainly writing about 3D. I’ve never worked with 3D before, so this is completely new to me, but I’ll be doing my best and practicing hard, and hopefully I will learn something from it.
Last week we all came back from after a long summers’ break, and I’ll be going through what we did during our first two 3D-lessons. I’ll try to keep it short and […]

3D – Week 1

Hello everyone!
After a long break I’m back and at it, and this time I’ll be mainly writing about 3D. I’ve never worked with 3D before, so this is completely new to me, but I’ll be doing my best and practicing hard, and hopefully I will learn something from it.
Last week we all came back from after a long summers’ break, and I’ll be going through what we did during our first two 3D-lessons. I’ll try to keep it short and […]

Blog revival and 3D Week 1

After a break in the summer i’m back into the blogging game. I’ve started a new course in 3D and I will for ten weeks post 3D related stuff. This week I will be analyzing three different screenshots from different games and I will also be posting some of my work I’ve worked on throughout the week. I will start with the screenshots. I will talk about what makes them good and/or bad from an artist’s perspective, let’s get started!

Screenshot […]

Week 36: Principles of Art Applied to 3D Games and Intro to 3D

Hello! It’s a new year and I’ve got a new course to dig into. It’s time to put this blog back into active service, this time it’ll stay that way. I promise!
This week has been quite eventful, with a focus on image composition and our first try at using the 3DS Max software.
So, to start off: Image Composition!

Geometrical, diagonal and low-key. This picture provides a sense of high tension and danger by using the lines to convey that something […]

3D-I Week 1: Screenshot analysis and temp-level creation

Starting a new year here at Gotland, the focus has now switched from 2D to 3D. ”Finally” if you ask me. Given that this is where I’ve been focused for the bigger part of my life, and being entirely self-taught, it’s nice to finally get some professional guidance for a change.
Given that this is the first course in 3D (Aptly named 3D-I), the initial focus is on really basic stuff, since there is no requirement of prior knowledge. This I, […]

3D Week 1 – A Great Start

Greetings!
Now at the end of the week I’ll go through what I, together with others, did on the last two 3D lessons.
I’ll try to keep it short and consolidate all the notes I took. But we’ll see how that goes!
Lesson #1
In this lesson we were given four images, either screenshots of promotional images of games, and the task to analyze them using the elements of art.
#1 The Evil Within

A game I’ve not seen or heard anything about. Which is good, […]

First week 3d class

 
This picture is a scene from some kind of Batman game, I haven’t played it myself so therefore I can only go with what I am seeing in order to analyse. The first thing that caught my eye is the absence of horizontal and vertical lines and how the picture screams ACTION! The tilted perspective creates diagonal lines all over the scene. And the bright areas of the character on top really pull the attention towards the foreground.
The background […]

First week 3d class

 
This picture is a scene from some kind of Batman game, I haven’t played it myself so therefore I can only go with what I am seeing in order to analyse. The first thing that caught my eye is the absence of horizontal and vertical lines and how the picture screams ACTION! The tilted perspective creates diagonal lines all over the scene. And the bright areas of the character on top really pull the attention towards the foreground.
The background […]

First week of 3D computer graphics!

Analyzing screenshots
During my class’ first week of the 3D course we were assigned to analyze 4 different screenshots taken from different games using the 7 elements of Art that we practiced during last terms’ 2D course. One interesting thing to note is how by just looking closely at still pictures from games you’ve never played you can still tell pretty much how the action sequences, the characters, the world and how game itself is going to be played out.

For […]

3D Computer Graphics: First week.

The first week of the 3D course is finished, and we have been going through different elements of art and how they are used in 3D environments.
We also did an analysis on different screenshots from various games to find how they’ve used the elements of art: Lines, Shapes, Space, Values, Colors and Texture.

1: BATMAN

In this picture of Dc’s character Batman. We can see that it is meant to be very dramatic, having the camera look up towards Batman standing […]

3D Computer Graphics: First week.

The first week of the 3D course is finished, and we have been going through different elements of art and how they are used in 3D environments.
We also did an analysis on different screenshots from various games to find how they’ve used the elements of art: Lines, Shapes, Space, Values, Colors and Texture.

1: BATMAN

In this picture of Dc’s character Batman. We can see that it is meant to be very dramatic, having the camera look up towards Batman standing […]