Design Cinema - EP 78 - Environmental Thumbnails
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Continuation of the thumbnail series.
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It almost brought tears to my eyes
It feels at home having another new episode
I want you to know how precious every second of these videos are
For those who crave to join you from all over the distant quarters of the world
We love you so much you generous lovable amazing!
I wish one day i could meet you in person and thank you from the very bottom of my heart
very well said. I agree 100%
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Watching a new FZD video is like sitting down to watch a movie you know will be epic. Btw, environmental thumbnails is the exact topic I was looking for tutorials on a couple months back. Unfortunately, hard to believe considering how important this topic is, but there weren't many good tutorials on UA-cam. I think I had found one. So happy for this.... Wish I had it earlier. Thank you FZ!
Btw if anyone wants to know how to create a perfect grid quickly.... Make a black vertical bar and snap it to the left of the canvas. Duplicate it (ctrl/cmd + J) and snap that one to the right. Make 2 more duplicates (4 bars total). Select all 4 layers. Go to Layer > Distribute > Left Edges. This will distribute the bars evenly. You can then create 5 horizontal bars and use this tool to distribute them vertically.
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If you want a great program to create grids and perspective lines that works hand in hand with photoshop you can download the program called "Carapace" for free from Epic Games. It only work with Windows so far it think. I highly recommend it.
Ersan Seer I use a free photoshop plugin called 'GuideGuide', well worth a look ;)
Freffo Great tool, thanks for the heads up.
Be sure to find his other environmental videos! The Final Fantasy VII videos are awesome.
Feng Zhu you are truly amazing, I am from the old school of sketching with color Ink Airbrush and markers. I been inspired by viewing your work to try digital sketching and having fun with. Thanks for sharing and always very refreshing to view and listen your passion in the world of illustration. best regards Tony Foong
Man....you just solved my problem ! I always feel like painting but I do not know what , I do not know how to generate something new and fresh. This is amazing! Thanks!
Feng you are absolutely amazing, countless thanks to you, i feel very inspired from your tutorials and teachings, i am aspiring digital artist from Ireland and I can tell you now that you are one of a kind. Thanks a million
i felt uninspired for a few days now... then this came along :) thnx a lot once again mr Zhu
"Every line you put on paper is taking you to get better" Thanks Feng - I'll really have that in mind when practicing, soon I'll be taking the one year diploma, I'm doing my homework :)
Thanks and greets from Mexico.
Thanks so much for doing these, appreciate it. So needed that moral pep talk, in my fifties now and getting deflated a bit and putting too much pressure on myself, that every piece I make has to be good.
I think making a series using viewer-created images where Feng shows us how to correct common mistakes we wouldn't know about would be cool... just a random thought, may help us to get past certain plateaus we are hitting in our progress
Beautiful and inspiring work as usual!
Thanks a lot Feng!
I know that profile pic! Its from the Indian Thriller lol!!
Omair Jamal hahahaha Golimaaaaaarrr!
xpeterdudex Lol it's a classic!!!
Thanks again for a superb episode, loved what you said about not getting depressed over failures etc, really helps ! Love how a professional with such a great talent can be so humble and willing to boost up others by teaching and being a guide. You were asking to post something in the comment section about future video ideas. My proposal would be to accept begginers work and paint over or talk about what can be changed, as a person doing this very casual I find myself stuck sometimes in a painting not knowing how to handle it further. Again, Feng. Thanks a lot and keep it up ! ;)
Really fantastic video!!!
Thank you, it was informative and got my creative juices flowing.
Always great to hear your voice Feng :D makes me pick up my pen and draw instantaneity especially when seeing your helpful video's and free knowledge your handing out to us. Merry Christmas from England Bro :)
I'd love another version of this video for sci fi environment thumbnails.
When Feng talked about his last client (around minute 11) and the required dark fantasy castles, The Hobbit Battle of the Fiver Armies suddenly came to my mind. Anyone?
Merry Christmas, Feng!
Merry Christmas, Feng. These videos are always so insightful and inspirational. I've learned so much from them.
awesome vid as aways man,i pick up the hobby of drawing concept arts because of watching ur videos few year ago!
Merry christmas man. Very inspiring stuff! Thank for making it
Hi Feng, I wish you and your team all the best in 2015. :) I enjoy watching your videos and I got a suggestion for the future. When you find the time, could you dedicate two full episodes to armor/costume design with the recurring topics being things like:
-Why some elements work & flow well together while others don't?
-How to balance your 'hi-frequency' VS 'low-frequency' detail ratio?
-How to focus spectator's attention to certain areas with details and flow?
-How to avoid over-designing a component of a suit and how to fix such 'overly designed' areas, once they start stealing the show?
The part 1 of such episode could focus on heavily stylized high-fantasy outfits like those used in Tera or Bless, while part 2 could deal with sci-fi suits like those known from Halo, Destiny or Firefall.
Or, if two episodes are too much, then how about making a single episode in which you would take any of your existing Gears, UT or Warframe armor designs and then turn them into a high-fantasy armor? Of course, all the time explaining why certain choices work well, while others won't make much sense and are potentially ruining the design. I am pretty sure people would love to see that.
Any chance you can upload that big library of images? :D
Also love your channel and its content!
My favorite episode so far :)
I think one of the main reasons why I started loving environments so much, is because of you, Feng, and the Design Cinema series. I watched every video this summer, and every single one of them is like a treasure-box full of invaluable advice and tips to guide and keep you on the path you've set out on.
Thank you for making these videos, I seriously hope online tuition could be made available in the near future. Although, as you've said so many times, discipline is everything, and if you have that, it's up to you how fast and well you learn and put the knowledge you gain to practice.
As for the future content question, I love the "Let's draw" series, but having topics cycle every 5 or 10 episodes, I think that would cover a wider spectrum and be more open to various aspects that interest all of us, instead of only one of something. So far you've been covering so many different things, and I honestly love that. It all makes sense and there is some sort of progression from the very first to the very latest video you make. Looking forward to the new developments throughout 2015!
Happy New Year to you and your colleagues at FZD School! You all are fantastic and awesome, so keep rocking our design-socks!! :o)
You, Sir, are awesome!
Best Christmas present ever :)
Really enjoyed this video Feng!
Wish you would put up class lectures on here everyday so it would be like I was attending FZD.
Hopefully I will be able to go there for a year some time in the future.
This random thumbnailing can be done with watercolors too, if you want to try a different medium. I'm doing it right now, inspired by this video, and it's pretty fun. Watercolors are prone to happy accidents, which is great for idea searching like this. You can also take a crumpled tissue and dab it on the still wet colors for more randomness. Then when you have a happy color-texture-cloud on your paper, take ink or a pen or something and doodle your ideas over it!
Great as alawys :)
My idea for the new Design Cinema is covering more of a basics like lightening and perspective as well as something what isn't showed anywhere on yt i think: creating pictures with planing your camera and lights like you were on the actual film plan with a crew. Maybe even something about designing in 3d if more people will create content for DC.
I'm sure you'll find great ideas for this! Can't wait to see it :)
It's intressting how these videos always gets me motivated to keep on learning
Me too 😁
Great! I got inspired to try that technique but with values and for scenery/action stuff... and it's really cool! Thanks! :)
Oh and by the way, stop apologizing for everything you do, the way you talk or background noises! ^^ It's just fine, be yourself and screw anyone who thinks it might be "boring" or can't stand your dog barking for 2 seconds. It's absolutely fine. Makes it more human to me :)
Anyway, thanks for the videos!
Every Feng Zhu video is like a present! Always make me happy and motivated!
Honestly, any video topic is interesting, but the Lets Draw was pretty fun, wish for more of those!
40:00 What you say here is so powerfully touching. I'm so glade I'm part of this generation, where so many talented people are literally giving away their experience and knowledge to help people who may not be so well off or able to access this information, to grow and develop their passions. May all the universes gods bless you, may the wind be on your back and your crops yield multiple harvests. Please keep doing what you are doing, you and your friends are a gift to humanity. :] Just trying to say Thank you.
looking forward to seeing character-based thumbnails using the same process as these environment thumbnails
today 24/09/2023, im still watching this and i must also say, currently there are 196k views and i could have this nearly 2% of that total views which is 392 times and don't ask me how many hours!...JUST gold
I waited so long for this ! =D
This was a fantastically informative. Love this strategy of knocking out 12 at the same time. Thank you so much for sharing, Feng! :D
Hello FZD and Feng :) u got me into concept art a long time ago and i still really love it.
Something I would like to learn more about is how to use references more effectively. Some tips to about the set up, how many different images are recommended and things like that.
Very creative methodology.
So when thumbnail is done, just scale it up and paint over it? What resolution are these thumbnails and what's the best for refining and finishing the piece?
Also this is so awesome, i wish i can create something like this in the future.
Very informational language and ideas, thumbnail sketches by Feng Zhu is very interesting. I try to paint chaotic landscapes but worry about color relationships. I forget to use the color picker and I'm unsure what to detail and what to leave unfinished. Working in Photoshop it's hard to suggest because when you zoom in, so daunting is the detail. But to watch thumbnails done from completely far away is like a great way to study. Why people thumbs down on something so informational I will never understand. Thanks for sharing FZD, Design Cinema is cool because it's rough. Artistic License and fundamentals is something that I personally have a problem with in digital painting. I tend to always want to make things connect perfectly without leaving anything to the imagination. WHy
Amazing!
Good heavens, I'm 36 and when I watch FZ I still think "when I grow up I want to be able to that."
I would strongly advise you (if you do try to make your videos more 'professional', not to get rid of the stuff that makes your presentaion human and direct. All the small asides, the comments about whats happening in the office, you dog barking, all the little things that make the video 'unprofessional' are all things that make it better.
By introducing the human element you become more than just a blank figre of technical authority, you are a person, you have a particular story and a particular life. This embeds the listener and watcher with what you say. People don't learn well from blank faceless systems, they learn from people. All the human interruptions mean that for each person watching the video on their own, it feels intimate, as if you were addressing them directly as a known and familiar human being.
People absorb information much better when it comes from someone familiar and human that they trust. The information literally almost goes down easier or enters the mind more smoothly. It helps people learn more and more easily. Whatever you do to make your stuff more professional please don't throw away the apparently cheap and simple but actually enormously affective qualities of directness and humanith that they already have.
Feng I F'ing love your tutorials! That aside, would you consider making a video about environment lighting or choosing colors for a painting?
Regardless, can't wait til the next one.
Merry Christmas/Happy New Year!
This is epic!! Please make a follow up tutorial of this for sci fi !!
This was one of the best design cinemas yet. I really liked how there were 12 completely different ideas. It's impossible to not get inspired by this video. I really liked the format!
Superb, thanks!
Amazing!!!
Hey Feng, you've said in the past that you get guys coming in drawing stick figures. So if I send you a portfolio of my best, highly rendered stick figures, would I have a chance of getting in?
Just kidding. But seriously, I think your definition of a stick figure is very different from mine.
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Thank you and have a great day ahead!
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thanks for the tutorials! do you have any videos about the technical side of prepping for a work like this? Ie. setting up the grid, importing, rotating, adjusting photos etc. ya know, the fiddly bit with the tools
Interiors would be useful, and something about telling a narrative through the work in different ways. Awesome video btw thankyou!!
has Feng ever worked on a comic book/graphic novel..? if not,is he planning to do so in the future..?
Hey I'm an online student in the US and I would be very interested in learning from your school. Possibly to prototype it you could offer cheaper classes without credit. Then the responsibility wouldn't be so heavy on your school and name. offer the home work, and content that the students attending the school in person gets, and the critiques. Possibly live sessions over a streaming service to give a more in person experience. Or have students record their process and share it with the instructors. I'd be willing to do that. I believe in you guys, however possibly add a heavily trafficked class forum to chat about projects and socialize in? Just spit balling. But definitely I would sign up.
I badly want to draw Lands for Magic the Gathering, among other things, so like everyone I'm really grateful this channel exist; Thanks!
Amazing work. Such great skills. Thank you for sharing.
HEY FENG, HOW ARE YOU DOING?
Merry Christmas to you and your family :)
Epic
Learnt so much from this.
Imagine a Feng Zhu and Scott Robertson mash-up. Too bad the distance is a bit of a problem, and both of them are too busy. All the knowledge and insight, and all those inside jokes!
Absolutely love the thumbnails. This is the kind of stuff I really need to get into doing. Too rarely, too few... More!
This was a fantastic video!
I would really like your advice on something (sorry for the long post ahead): I used to draw a lot up to the end of high school, however once I went to university (Architecture) I started drawing less and less because I couldn’t balance it with all my course work (meaning that right now I haven’t drawn in a few years). I’ll be finished with the course in just one more semester, but what I really want after it is to have a career in Concept Art/Design. I only found out about this (and that it’s what I want to do) last year, which is why I haven’t started working on concept art sooner. But unfortunately, starting a specialized course now is too expensive for me, so I want to try to develop my skills on my own. Is it a viable option and do have any advice on how to approach this?
interiors would be super useful, i love interior concept but its harder than exterior for me
Is there a video detailing the process in which you bring those images in to photoshop? Like how are you actually getting them to appear on your grid without having them create hundreds of layers?
I'm really happy the school is growing! On the topic of making Design Cinema more professional, please don't make it stuffy like Level Up or similar channels. I'm willing to go out on a limb and say most of us enjoy your free form (I wouldn't say rambling) discussion of topics, and we enjoy how you inject your own humor into the videos as well. :-)
What exactly is it that you do to the photo's in order to create the effect and layering?
I want to be able to create that effect but I have no idea how to figure it out :S
Merry Christmas Feng :)
it's done by manipulating layer opacity and blending options :)
Ivan Dončević Cheers :)
the other thing he is doing is applying a motion blur to the image, that takes out the details and leaves a generalized color palette of the forms. he probably has this set up as an action or something so he can do it quickly when he pulls in a new image. this is what separates the workflow from straight photobashing.
ebutuoyjg Thank you very much.
Madness no sweat. some people have a few different versions of the effect that makes it more or less pronounced
does drawing from life helps you to get better at this? like to draw the machines or creators,landscapes to build up your visual library
This question probably has cropped up quite a few times, so sorry about that.
Where does FZD get all of the stock photos? Is there a library of photos that he has available for download(or somewhere else)?
Feng, you are too humble. You can do as much promotion as you want. You more than deserve it for all that free content you gave us man. Love from Canada!
You just gave me hope. :) You just took the number one spot on my subscribed channels.
Thank you so much Feng. You helped me so much :)
I like this method but without the color. Better to add the color later so you have more control.
That feeling, when you get up in the morning, go grab a large mug of coffee, sit down at the computer and check your usual haunts, and see there's a new Design Cinema up :)
You may not show fundamentals in these, but you can't imagine the amount of inspiration and motivation, at least I get from these. I've looked up the stuff elsewhere, and practice on my own, and whenever things start to feel too hard, or like nothing is working, I watch a couple of these, and get my mojo back, and jump right back in to it. Thank you so much for doing these!
This is great. I always have a hard time starting environments, the blank canvas is just too intimidating thanks for the new way to approach it :)
Gotta say about the future of Design Cinema... I just want to see more of the same. Let's plays, all your random stuff, design studies... All the stuff you do now, I just would love to see more of them. You're a true inspiration and motivator, Feng! Thanks so much for these videos and your words of encouragement!
I wrote a mail for you about the video editing stuff you mentioned. :) Love your work!
Waterfall town is great for defense! It can't be conquer easily.
Hey Feng, for the next q&A plz answer this.
You said, till 2003 you just drew on paper, for your concept work, in you traditional videos, i've seen your gnomon dvds about traditional drawing (spaceship and environments) those are the kind of stuff you show the the art directors? You think today is important to have that skill represented in portfolios? Thanks
about Design Cinema going "pro": its the "unpro" vibe that feels better to watch than a formal Gnomon tutorial, for example, that often feel very stiff to get through. The best part about DC is that it feels like someone is sitting next to you after hours and just giving you helpful tips and insight. If DC does go "pro", I hope it retains that feeling, and by going pro, hopefully they will be more frequently posted since more ppl will be working on 'em, thats meh 2 cents :D
Hey Feng or whomever this concerns, If you guys can make a video on character schematic sketching would be awesome.
Or even more videos cloud like paintings would be great, Maybe a painting where everything looks like steam.
Anyone have a pack of little thumbnail landscapes on different categories like : cities / nature / buildings / people etc ? Would be really useful :) Or atleast suggest a good site where I can get those ? I would really appreciate it :) Cheers !
hey fzd/feng i hope to learn on how you do your process on man made architectures
such as castles/towns/cities or even environments with a line drawing i hope you will share your techniques on this one it wpuld be a big help
Hello Sir, Big Thanks for EPISODE 75, 76 & 77 for thumbnails. Next Episode, Q&A please. My question is - as a total beginner to design process, after completing fundamentals and stuff, how should we choose the subject matter on the very start. Like in basics process, you go from drawing boxes in perspective, to complex vehicles and organic bodies. How to maintain same approach and not losing mind in thumbnail generation because of just being too ambitious, and simply losing patience, wasting time on noodling here and there etc. What is the most simplistic approach, TO DESIGN, even and IDIOT LIKE ME CAN UNDERSTAND( WASTED 2 DAYS on VEHICLE DESIGN, mindless noodling without references, testing my visual library which is STUDENT B type in your Visual Library Episode 52 - thought I am SUPERMAN of Concept art). I think episode 77 - fish fighters was a really helpful, but still I wish it could be boiled down to the base completely, like few more examples done, while you are feeding our GEEK minds with design knowledge. Thanks :)
MORE ENVIROMENTS please. from scratch to finish with or without textures.. more in the dark fantasy theme
AWESOME !!!!!!!
i learn this and will try it sooon !
thank you soooo much !!!
Merry Christmas!! Didn't sleep! Trying to get ahead! Super inspired/look up to your work ethic, grind to awesomeness! Just so happened landscapes are what I needed motivation to keep tackling.
QUESTION! Any form of G.i. Bill ever be a possible option? Perhaps as a trade school? Nothing wrong with asking.
What are you doing working on Christmas eve?? :)
With the addition of pro video editors, does this mean that Design Cinema will no longer be free?
Many thanks for this Feng... an early Christmas present ;)
Good luck with the new premises and all the best for 2015!!
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I am looking to get into digital painting, and I am currently choosing a graphics tablet. Any advice on what I should get? I have an absolute maximum of £100 to spend, however less if I can get away with it. In addition, do I need Photoshop or is GIMP (Or another free software if you know of one) good enough to get started? Note: I will still use the tablet for 3D sculptingeven if I find I can't paint, so I don't mind spending all of my savings!
Hey Feng, I'm from south Africa and this industry isn't too big in my country. How can I break in to it ?
You Just made my Christmas Feng, much appreciated.
Q&A. How much time do you allocate yourself per week/month to spend with family, friends, exercise, healthy eating/cooking, cinema etc basically everything which is not art related. Is it important for you to spend time out of the office? Too much of a good thing is bad!!!
i'm guessing the project you were working on that involved the method in the video was Bloodborne
Hey feng, quick question do you have a selection of books that will help to teach someone the fundamentals.
I picked up Scott Robertson's books How to Draw, and How to Render however i was wondering if you had any other suggestions
Hi Feng! (And other knowledgeable artists!) Is there a shortcut for blurring the images like Feng? I don't see him going into the menus, so does he have it hotkeyed or something? If so how can I do that? Thanks for any help!
At 0:30 - Ahaa..
at 51:00 - uhh. the fuck just happened? where did 1 hour go? This is BobRoss school of work! Damn (goes to corner and cries)
FZD would probably do good in physics and math...
math is an artform all the things he says in the video can span into other fields even science. The only thing is that unlike art, you need to translate it in to the universal language. You can't turn it in as is. This is what turns people off from math. read about srinivasa ramanujan. He would make claims about math but since he didnt speak the universal language he was brushed off.
just know this, at the higher level, math and physics is about imagination...explaiing how your imagination fits in the real world decides if people think you are crazy or nobel worthy...
Boltzmann commited suicide when nobody accepted his work , his thoughts... some years later they praised his works as essential...unfortunately he would never know... he focused too much on what people thought of his work at the time. He should have took the critisizm at the time and moved on.
by the way universal language is the equivalent to what he said about showing the art to designer to executive.
I suck at landscapes and thoses videos help so much thank you!
(Also, I'm very curious to see how all the layers used while "constructiong chaos" were organized in the end 👀😂)
Loving these videos. Could you do a tutorial on shading sometime? Would be appreciated. Unless there's already stuff up about that, in that case thanks.
Thanks for the Christmas present! I started to find environment design much more interesting thanks for the design cinema. For future thumbnails you could maybe do one for land automobiles? As it's something I believe was little shown in the series until now.
Really wish i could afford to go to this college lol
The biggest thing that really blocks me from betting on this career is the oversaturated market. I know that there's no space for me. I have other things that I love as much as drawing and painting, so I know that I never could focus single-mindedly on it :/ And it irks me to no end.
At least I can enjoy the nice ideas from these videos as I flail around with my pencils and brushes at home. xD
Awesome as always! Very interesting and inspiring video!
Thank you so much Feng for sharing it and have a nice holidays!