Design Cinema - EP 77 - Fish Fighters
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2014
- Originally recorded 5 years ago for Gnomon School of Design.
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"The training is nothing! The will is everything! The will to act."
A blast from the past, loved every second!
That ending tho xD
Just met you in a tough part of my life. Dealing with studies, work, house payments, now moving again... Man, you're giving me a way, strength, cause out of all the designers I've watched before, you are the best explaining, guiding, helping, aproaching negative aspects... That's amazing man, I love your work and how you show up to us (I don't know if it's correct that verb 🙄). Keep on going with it, simply amazing!
Its scary how excited i get when i see a new video for design cinema. O.o Thanks Feng!
It's amazing to me how your art-design-efficiency ideas translate to other creative endeavors, like writing music. Thanks!!
Your videos are always full of such great insight.
Master Feng Zhu, it would be really interesting to hear from you about what stuff big customers want, you went into it in this video, but I'm curious for more. You said that for example that a customer wanted a design to be "popular with the boys, and maybe 10% of the girls". Is that a number taken just from thin air, or is it typical for customers? Are most video game clients more concerned with boys? Has there been a change in trends? Have big companies recognized the need to sell stuff to girls as well, and not only boys? Have big companies thought about that the typical gamer might not been an adolescent kid anymore, and has this impacted what you as a concept artist/designer have been asked to draw?
GOD THANK YOU FZD you're amazing
Please, keep uploading these as long as you can!
Inspirational and great work, thanks.
The new youtube covers are awesome!
Thank you sensei for all your work
Thanks again for your inspirational and interesting videos.
Great video Feng, thanks for this!
awesome as always
Thank you very much for this,
All of your video's have meant a lot to me,
I hope you will continue uploading some older ones like these, you can really see how you've changed.
Thanks Feng, this was really insightful!
I have been following you for over 8 years. You do great work but from my perspective at least, you are my favorite artist because you are such a great instructor. Thanks for all the great material.
haha i like that thorny barracuda looking fish, that would make a mean looking alien warrior-race starfighter covered in spikes like that would be awesome!
awesome video Feng, Thanks!!
Really nice mate, thank you
Gorgeous ship designs and very helpful advice in this video. Thanks Feng!
Wow awesome! was just thinking it would be great if there was another FZD video up, and presto here it is. cant wait.
As always, so helpful and a great vid.
That one two three explanation just gained you a new subscribe. ty pls keep it up
Thanks for another video and Thanks to Gnomon School of Design for sharing.
Excellent!
Great great stuff! Really informative!
Awesome!!!
Excellent Episode, and funny too - Thank You ;)
These are really cool looking, I espiecally like the fighter you chose to do. Also, these videos are really helpful and I just wanted to thank you for making them. I've seen a lot of improvement in myself from just listening to what you have to say and your advice really works for me, so thanks :)
Nice video Feng, enjoyed a lot as a fellow aviation enthusiast.
thank you!!! very good advice ! i will remember it!
Great results !
Damn skills. love you
Amazing! :)
This is easy and inspiring
your way of speaking changed over the years!
Love your work! I was also wondering if you could do a video focusing a little bit on waterscapes and just some general tips on how you approach it.
Thank you for your great video! Really enjoyed, even though the "noodling".
Great tutorial as always :)
Fen - I am impressed as usually! Thnxs for tutorial!
I'm unsure at what point the audio mismatched the video you were describing but I knew that when you described something, that I would see it in 5 seconds haha. Great video.
Hi,
It was a very helpful tutorial and well commented Feng as always. But just one thing worth to mention for new designer out there.
When you are in the process of Design, please don't throw lines here and there without actually getting a picture in your head of how the shape looks like in 3D.
In my beginning I used to do a great profile design, but when I try to port them to 3D (since I'm also a 3D modeler), I find a lot of trouble to get the idea of the shape I wanted from that line, even with the shading. Thus, I find myself going back to the design and try to remember the workflow I went through to get that line in that place.
By time I used to write notes beside my designs. But the most good way to a successful design is to draw a line only to express an Idea or a technology a process if you want.
Remember that and all the artist in the production pipeline will appreciate your design even if it bizarre.
im a feng zhu junkie, i want more
I remember watching this before somewhere other than youtube. must be a de ja vu.
Oh yeah!! \m/
thanx master :)
I have so many questions but I'm afraid you've already answer them in the previous videos, if someone could make a post with all the questions asked and which videos are they answered, that would be great
anyway, great job, don't ever stop, love yea :)
The designs look like the ships from Jodorowsky's Dune.
Always had problems with space ships. Some games just had a to large impact on me and I'm always falling back to their designs.
I love you.
brutal kool
i would love to know the settings for that brush used.
Hi Feng, great video! How do you draw lines so smooth and so straight? Do you use a ruler or smoothing function or you just practice a lot? Do you have a video tutorial on drawing smooth lines on the tablet? Thanks for making great videos! Cheers!
Hi! I absolutely adore your videos! If I may request one thing, my paintings always end up looking like big open spaces rather than intimate, enclosed settings. Could you maybe give some advice on how to make things seem a bit more intimate, like we're only seeing a very small space in, say, a forest? Even if you never get to it, your work is so inspiring! Thank you :)
which of the cintiqs do you recommend for concept painting design??
Dear Sir, Can you make an episode showing the students work which includes both the final version of their sketches of paintings and also the constructional line work. I am working in softwares like 3ds max where the I have to model some vehicles without reference images. This will help me create the wire frame and the front side and top of the objects easily. I'll be happy to see something like this if you plan to do so, THANK YOU.
What are the brush settings for the sketches? I usually have transfer on my brushes, but they don't work well for me.
just a request for the next video... but can Feng make his next work in 4k and then post it in his blog. I would really like to have a good resolution wallpaper for my monitor from Feng's work. :) :) :) Bless! Oh! and in dark tones (i don't like bright colors wallpapers its hard to see the files on top of it) :)
When can we expect a new episode???
Aw yiss
Thanks for tutorial, Feng!
Can you give an advise or solution how to calculate a final budget as a concept artist for a work like this? You always says that it is fine to redo or redesign again and again if client didn't like the final result but none like to work with redesign for free.
Basically, i have to calculate every risks and client moods and build a final prise for work BEFORE i have to start it. It is kinda tough but i know you can give a good advise for it. Please share if it is possible.
Thanks.
Don't you wanna write your own book about drawing and concept art?
Hey Feng, i got a question and i am really curious whats your take on that thing:
i am doing a lot of studies, especially materials and ligtning, learning stuff, reading theory etc. i did that probably so much that i cant stop thinking of theory in the process. i am more into thinking about what it "should look" to stay true to theory.
but sometimes i wonder if its sometimes a better idea to cheat a bit and faking stuff like materials etc to make it look more "badass", awesome or whatever... a littel example: placing highlights on metall to achieve a certain look, even if there is no light in the scene where the highlight is comming from. or lighten/darken stuff even if you know that it isnt true to theory.
hope you get my point, thanks&cheers!
Hey Feng, how would you go about mastering fundamentals like perspective drawing?
Scott Robertson's How to draw book
Que tipo de pincel esta usando en este video?
Hello Feng, do you change your brush size while you work (for lineweight) or do you only control the size with pen pressure?
Do you find yourself using more the Wacom Intuos or the Cintiq monitor? Either for sketching or painting/coloring? I have the Intuos Pro Large but wondering is it worth using/investing in to the Cintiq 21ux DTX-2100 2nd gen,(2048 pressure sensitivity) they are like $1000 used now on ebay, ( even if you have the cash to spend but if you don't need it why would you right?) just wondering
thanks Feng !
Feng mentions he only uses one brush in painter. Does anyone know what brush that is or brush settings? Thanks
the same style of spaceships of jodorowsky's dune
When you work for the cinema, How do you manage the
Copyright?
I wish Elite Dangerous ships looked a bit more like this ...
Witch Cintiq do you recommend? using zBrush/photoshop
Hey Feng,
How about redesigning a game like Brave Fencer Musashi? I would love to see a modernized version perhaps with a serious undertone yet remain true to the source material
how do you get such straight lines on a tablet?
In your last episodes you said "mostly big clients are not taking risk and do different things" You which games took risk recently and became succesful? I wonder your opinion about it.
When your sketching, do you use just a normal Dot brush with varied Line weight? or do you use a different brush?
You can sketch with pretty much everything. As youve seen in some of the earlier videos,he was using various techniques: Square brushes,circle brushes,fluffy brushes,textured brushes,blurred circle/square brushes,calligraphic brushes (my personal best),the fading brushes (faded to visible (the more you press)) or even the shortening brush (thin to thick (the more you press)).
With a sketch,you just need to set the basic tones/colors/shapes of drawings,at the end,they wont be visible,so sketching is not so importnant for the look.
Hi Feng,
I've watched your vie does for a while now and I have some questions about your vehicle design.
I've got Scott Robertsons how to draw book, he focuses a lot on a very technical view to drawing your concepts, making sure you have construction lines for basically everything. How much do you rely on constructions and how much is simply by eye, do you require less and less construction lines over time? As i dont see you doing much in the way of constructions in your fish fighters in perspective.
Hugo
Hey Feng really really smooth lines, I wonder how can I draw such smooth lines, are there any tips or I just need to practice over and over again on my wacom tablet
Follow thesse steps:
1.Get a paper
2.Get a pen
3.Grab a paper
4.Place a paper vertically in front of you on a smooth surface
5.Hold the pen
6.Start drawing horizontal lines with fast movement of your hand
7.Do it from top to bot of the paper
8.Do it as much as you need until you naturally start drawing straight lines
9.After you finish with horizontal lines,then start drawing the vertical lines
10.Get a paper
11.Get a pen
12.Grab a paper
13.Place a paper horizontally in front of you on a smooth surface
14.Hold the pen
15.Start drawing vertical lines with fast movement of your hand
16.Do it from right to left of the paper (vice versa if youre left handed)
17.Do it as much as you need until you naturally start drawing straight lines
18.After you finish with vertical lines too,then start drawing circles
19.Get a paper
20.Get a pen
21.Grab a paper
22.Place a paper in front of you on a smooth surface
23.Hold the pen
24.Start drawing circles with fast movement of your hand
25.Do it as much as you need
Youre welcome :)
"Dude, not cool.."
Hello Sir, I have a question about drawing method - Isometric vs. Perspective. I have an engineering background which includes mechanical design using Isometric, but now I finally changed to Game Design and Concept art. So where do we use Isometric and Perspective to get the best out of them. Thanks in advance for your upcoming answer :)
please make a new video
How do you search image on google? Like different thpe pf
Plants and fish
god I wish i had his tallent
I heard that u worked on SW Episode 7 is that true?
Hey Feng
I've watched quite a lot of your videos and you talk a lot about fundamentals, I was wondering if you might be able to suggest some literature, like a text book or something that one might be able to follow to improve in that area. I know you recommend attending classes and so on, but I don't have the time to commit to something regular.
Thanks, and thanks for your amazing videos!
check out the early fzd videos where Feng anwsers viewer questions. A nice free source is any of Andrew Loomis books. He has them online for free (yes legal), very helpful fundamentals. google search it.
ColCoolman Thanks very much!
What does IP mean?
Intellectual property, a blanket term for a franchise, title, series or a character.
im being curious, what software were you using in the vid? it doesnt look like photoshop
Hello! Thank you for this wondeful learning material. I follow your advice for a long while now. I recentlly started taking drawing classes. The teacher says that my lines are too clean and "engineresque" and now he is trying to teach me to draw more free, artistic, dirty lines. This goes against what I struglled to achieve so far. Could this be true? Could lines be too clean?
Could you please tell me the name of the software?
Hey. Your Videos are great. Could you perhaps do another characterdesign video?..perhaps in real time again?
You shoud definetly, share your brushes !!!! heheheh
has this channel stopped producing videos?? it said next weeks video, this was done in October, and its December now
We should thank him for spending his time on making these videos, he always talks about how busy he is... so, I'm expecting a new video soon! :D
spinnerboyz I love this series! I've learned so much, I would just be sad if it stopped
I think a video is comming soon,since the delay from ep.74 and ep.75 was 2 mouths,same as ep.75 and ep.76.
So,i expect the video is comming before new year or in January.
Hello Feng
i have a question if you dont mind
considering that am now 27 and by the time i apply ill be 28.5 would you consider it too late to get into the industry ?is it possible to compete with some one who started 10 years earlier ?
and could you please provide me with some insight since i didnt work in that field before, i will be leaving a job in architecture while being married and spending all i have for this move, would you think finding a job in the field tough ? its a massive jump for me and i really want to make sure i dont leave a good living to live in the streets in 2 years time.
i understand that it depends on how good you are and how lucky at the same time.
but i really need an insight since you have dealt with many graduates and you v seen how many succeeded and how many failed plus you know how long it took them to find jobs.
Feng has some earlier videos where he answers viewer questions about the industry while he paints, your should check them out if you havent yet. Hopefully you get a reply from Feng!
this videos describe lots to me ................ please FZD make a little video related to basic shapes design. i mean 3d on paper. please
thanks
how can you do such clean/strong line quality. Is this on cintiq or wacom.
Cintiq is made by Wacom.
sorry i mean the normal intuos
Those clean/strong line quality comes from experience. No brush or anything, just practise every day for years.
Thanks for all the info. I know that it come with lots and lots of practice. But i did practice alot and the linework on photoshop is just so bad compare to the one when i use pen/ pencil on paper.
Hey OP, you might wanna check out that software called Lazy Nezumi. :)
What program is this? Photoshop?
Hi Kamaji-SamaTV, good day and thank you for the message. The program used in this video is Adobe Photoshop. We hope the information is helpful. Thank you and have a great day ahead. =)
Could someone tell me the programs which were used?
Hi Kiran Jesse, good day and thank you for the message. The program used in this video is Adobe Photoshop. We hope the information is helpful. Thank you and have a great day ahead. =)
Thank you! Have a great day as well!
Kiran Jesse He used Corel painter for the linework then photoshop for coloring , feng always uses painter for line
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