Rapid Concept Illustration for AAA Productions in Photoshop
This course is designed to walk you through the process of creating complex concept illustrations rapidly and efficiently. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
What you'll learn
This course is designed to walk you through the process of creating complex concept illustrations rapidly and efficiently. In today's AAA production environment, concept artists are expected to be able to create highly polished, detailed pieces in as little as a single day. In order to meet these demands, artists must learn new techniques for planning and organizing their workflow so that their files remain easily editable and lightweight throughout the course of production. This course starts at the initial block-in phase and takes you through the entire process of designing and rendering a concept piece, resulting in a finalized concept illustration in just a few hours. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
Table of contents
- Initial Block-in 7m
- Setting up Our Perspective Grid 4m
- Refining Our Block-in 10m
- Working with Color 9m
- Painting in Additional Detail Shapes 6m
- Adjusting Our Perspective 10m
- Refining Our Proportions 9m
- Creating the Foreground Elements 12m
- Clarifying Shape Placement 8m
- Photo Texturing Our Image 11m
- Detailing the Rail and Track 8m
- Texturing the Background 11m
- Integrating the Background 8m
- Adjusting Saturation and Values 7m
- Designing the Ship's Cockpit 9m
- Resolving the Ship Hull 10m
- Adding the Initial Lighting 8m
- Placing Additional Lights 9m
- Detailing the Cargo Box Design 12m
- Concluding the Control Tower 12m
- Integrating Photo Textures with Paint 12m
- Rendering the Loading Claw 11m
- Rendering the Control Tower Interior 13m
- Polishing the Ship Cockpit 10m
- Finishing the Ship 12m
- Completing the Control Tower and Foreground 12m
- Finalizing the Image 8m
