Design Cinema - EP 75 - The Importance of Thumbnails
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- The benefits of thumbnail generation.
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This episode made me realize that I spend too much time on details and not on design... mind blown
I hope people are still watching these videos, they're GOLD!
Feng, everytime I see a new design episode, it just inspires me to draw so much. And that's very important because I always have a lack of creativity within drawing, so it really helps me out!
always a huge boost to my motivation when I hear your words, Feng
Fantastic! Enjoyed the length and the on-the-job perspective - thanks for your time man.
What I love about your videos is that you are talking about industry and explaining a lot. Great subject!
I just want to say I LOVE your videos- I listen to them while I draw or work on some projects for school and when I feel uninspired, I watch them so that I can get the boost I need. I'm still a student and I'm fairly new to formally learning art in a classroom setting, but every tip that you've given has been so helpful! I especially love it when you explain how you have to kind of let your pride go and be humble enough to accept critique from professors or other artists who know more or just really want to help you. I can't tell you how many students I've seen just hurt themselves because they come into a situation thinking that they're already number one. Keep up the good work and I hope to see more from you soon!!
"Oh man, the wall is filled, now we have to put up another art wall" :DDD
thank you very much for another super lesson. Always great to get your insights. Thank you for coming back!
Another great aspect of thumbnails is that you can do them wherever you are. I always carry something to draw on whether it's a sketchbook or more recently I carry around small notecards I can fit in my sport jacket pocket and sketch out any idea I might get. It also hopes when you're stuck at some boring place your friends talked you into going. Great vid, thanks for sharing!
I like the huge gaps between uploads. It makes the moment I see a vid in my sub box more exciting
every episode of this makes me happy. First of all, because I love your voice, second, because I'm only 14 years old and my skills are just starting to sharpen but everything you say I can relate to take note of to work better on. I'm so glad I found this channel
Please continue this series! Very interesting.
Your video's have helped me a lot, glad you finally uploaded a video again, this'll keep me going!
After at least five years of drawing side views and an occasional 3d view of spaceships this video has leveled my skill up to the 3d era, those basic perspective lines are the key to estimate and direct where all the lines should be. I have drawn plenty of center vanishing point cityscapes but now I’m jumping on to the next level for myself. Thanks Feng Zhu, I wonder if you ever aspire to get into fine art, because there are so many con artists with not even 1 % of your skillset. I think people would be excited to see you conquer that arena.
this is SO helpful that I cant even put it into words, makes you really inspired to go back creating when you're just very tired of rendering and rendering and nothing looks good
thanks for the videos Feng, im a clay sculptor and i love watching your videos. they help me a lot, even with my clay work. you have given the world 75 pieces of art instruction gold
i am really loving these videos .. you are bringin a lot of knowledge and technique , and best of all. you remind us to draw with love for it.. like a kid.. be free. and learn from it all. i really needed to hear that.. thank you for making these vids..
This video is gold! I'm so gonna start doing more thumbnail drawings! Because I seriously have a bad habit of drawing and polishing up the very first idea that pops in my head or on paper!
What you said about the feeling you get drawing when you're young is so true man. Thanks for the vid, very encouraging!
i could replay this forever. thank you for your wise words.
Awesome video Feng.Looking forward for the soft-surface design.
This might be my favorite episode so far!
Great design talk in this one. This one really helped me get into the designer's head.
This was absolutely fantastic. At times, it feels as though many of the tricks of the trade, if you will, of the entertainment industry are locked behind closed doors. Which is fine, Magicians don't share their tricks for a reason. However, the fact that you take the time to share the process is wonderful. Especially when the only alternative is often locked behind a pay wall, whether that be a university or tutorial site. Thanks Feng.
Would absolutely love to see soft surface thumbnails! Thank you for all the hard work you put in to making these videos for us. You truly keep me going.
Please yes!! Other episodes like this one! The core of being a concept designer!!
Really awesome video! I'm currently starting to do concepts for a game idea of mine. I was really starting to feel tied up, and watching this video really encouraged me to take a step back and start to adjust my workflow to fit this mindset. Really inspiring, thank you, Feng!!
Thanks for the new episode Feng.
Thanks Feng, hope its all coming together, can't wait to see what you are really up to.
Thanks Feng awesome as usual!!
Amazing! Thank you so much, you changed the point of view, i finally have a way to put down sketches quick, thank you!
Fantastic Stuff! So glad I stumbled onto this series! Awesome advice from a seasoned veteran and true Design Pro! Thanks so much... looking forward to viewing all episodes!
You are one of the most amazing artist I've ever seen your tips are very helpful. Thank you
Im actually a digital painter and then translate them to real media, Im not a designer but I listen a lot to Feng's discipline, methodology and mentality and try to incorporate them to my own processes in order to be more ordered, efficient and creative. Thanks a lot Feng for posting these videos.
Thanks, Feng. This is one of the most important topics around, so those soft-surface videos would be most appreciated.
Yay, new video, can't wait!
Great show, really like seeing the whole process :)
Fantastic video Feng, the points you make about relaxing the brain, 'playing' and (re)building morale is very relevant for me right now. My background is more as a painterly illustrator and while my college years, BA and MA university years never taught fundamentals, school did at least cover 1,2 and 3 point perspective and orthographic layouts. Nowadays, trying to produce more sophisticated design work has proved difficult so I'm having to improve my fundamentals before going forward and this can be taxing on my morale. So, my new approach is to re-study each stage and refresh and improve my fundamentals with every piece that needs to be conceptualised and taken to a finished presentation. I can afford to do this as my collaboration is (currently) unpaid and for good friends. Big thanks for these dude :)
ye, definitely continue this theme for the next episode... thx Feng for ur time! :)
Thank you for doing this video. I would say that this is my biggest problem, and it really feels great to have that identified and quantified, along with a resolution. I have given up on so many paintings because I get into it and realize the design is awful and then I never want to finish them. Thank you for giving me a real, and pretty obvious solution that I just couldn't see on my own!
I've watched all videos and always find something new and useful in them. This video is no different, so yeah totally do that soft-surface version of thumbnails too! : )
Thanks for episode, really ineresting, and as always giving a lot tips, and motivation. Im looking forward to see next episode, with soft surface designs
Yay!!! Thank you for the upload Feng! :)
Yes! please do soft surfaces I love this part of the process but we don't see it enough out there and having the Master explaining it is very interesting. Thanks for keeping this channel up!
thanks for your new episode feng.
Awesome vid Feng! I much prefer these type of design cinemas than the lets draw ones, feels like I learn more from this type of vid than the other. Thanks for keeping design cinema going! :D
This is a great video, it's great how like you said the drawings evolved. I tried what you said and took a sketch book and just start sketching away, I could see that my designs were improving with each drawing, so it really works! And yeah some creatures or character thumbnails would be great the next episode!
Timing on this video was excellent for me Feng. I just got started on a new sci fi project and was starting to make some of the common errors you mentioned, slowing down with just 3 designs and putting too much time into them. Decided to pull back and do a BIG sheet. Thanks.
Please do the soft surface thumbnails! I can't wait. Thank you for your amazing work!
Awesome video, really interesting to see how the industry works :D
Very cool to show other sides of the/yours process. I also use thumbs on everything I do, but you use them differently, so its cool to see how you work. Thanks a lot for sharing.
That is so motivating. Thank you Feng :)
This is exactly what I needed! :D I missed you Feng! Now, let me just start a video. This is so thrilling!
Thanks for a very inspiring and informative episode.
Hey Feng,
Thank you for uploading a new episode, you ROCK. Secondly this is a really great episode and you give us TONS of inside information about pipelines. :) Really looking forward to the next one! :)
One of your best! thank you!
I screamed like a little girl when I saw this pop up.
wow I really enjoyed this episode. just what I need to get me up and going like I've been seeing some of those same mistakes where as I don't take the time to thumbnail. and it is painful. I'm soo glad you talk about moral and how it's totally a thing in drawing and getting things going in general. Please keep making these videos it's definately made my night. I'll keep on drawing a way and keeping the moral up. thanks again your are an amazing instructor and I'm glad for these videos. Particular ones like this where as I can straight up listen and draw.
-Layeyes
I would really like to see thumbnails of characters, great episode again!
This, to me, was actually very interesting. It gave me a couple ideas on how to speed up my own designs, and can come in handy. Thanks for sharing :)
Thank you for this Video. It's very interesting, and a Lot of good Tipps.
Thanks agian for such a nice episode!
great episode feng
It would be really cool to see how you handle soft surface thumbnails, Feng. Awesome video, man!
Definitely would love to see a soft surface version of this too!
one day I'll thank you face to face for the inspiration you gave me Feng
This episode is cool, I'd like to see a soft surface version of this process!
I work in marketing and studied graphic design in college. I very much see the same sort of time crunches in concept design. I find myself designing in the program WAY too much and get myself trapped too often. Even when my boss says she wants changes I am so locked in with the original design it takes too long to shift and by that time feels pretty burnt out. I think that what you had taught in this video can be applied to even my work. Thanks for the advice.
a new episode! I was starting to consider pestering you the way you asked us to.
This was a very big help to me, as a student. An actual major problem I was having, frustrated when I, like others, put design in the backseat in order to push out a finished mediocre design. I am for another design cinema like this. This topic was very helpful for someone who is self teaching while using Feng's videos for teaching/inspiration.
Hey Feng ! I love your videos, lots of great tips.
I noticed your lasso/Mask stage around 47:00
I have a photoshop action embeded with a shortcut:
select with magic wand, and expand selection and fill with foreground color.
Saves ALOT of time.
Cheers
As some one in the graphic design field a lot of what you said in this video mirrors what I've seen in my experiences. A lot of people just jump on the computer with the first idea they have and it usually ends with a generic pile of poo. Thumbnails help to push ideas beyond the initial straightforward idea and into something more unique and better for the client. I think for soft surfaces legend of the dragoon would make a great game to draw inspiration from. Can't wait for the next episode!
Yes! Do the soft surface thing!
Yes please show the soft surface one! And dragons sound awesome.
Great video..please do the next one.
this episode changed so much of my mentality
would love to see character thumbnailing, especially armors designs and the thinking part for the next video! xD
Thanks for uploading, been waiting a long time for a new Design cinema. I like to see the process and seeing the way you think on paper. I think it would be good if you could make more thumb nail videos but more hard surface stuff, props or items. I like to see the iterative process and rough sketches thanks.
YAYYYYYYY ANOTHER EPISODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, it seem like forever since the last episode, I think I went through all youtube twice and filled the same amount of sketchbooks =) These vids are the best and I think the world would be better with more of em! I'm so starving for ep76 right now, hope to hear you soon =P
So interesting! Thanks.
Great video
Please do another one with organic stuff, this one was awesome.
Ooo I would love a video on thumbnails for characters/the whole process of concepting characters.
This video was great btw, love it :')
I found this episode amazingly interesting to me the thumbnails and early work are more interesting to look at than the finished stuff please please do the character/creature thumbnail episode you talked about in this episode cool great episode
i wanna say thanks for this episode before i even start watching : )
definitely enjoyed this episode and would love to see some more, perhaps enviroments and characters together next time?
Hi, can you please do the continuation of this video as you said with characters, and if possible thumbnails for buildings. Thank you for all the videos and I really look forward to every new one!!
A Soft Surface version of this would be great :D
This was a great episode man. Thanks for it.
And for the game, how about Rocket Knight Adventures?
This is the most interesting, becase no one else telld how industry work, what and how you do. Mostof tutorials go around "how to make apretty picture"
haha, i always get a kick out of him saying "i sped these up because you guys probably get bored". its always funny considering I'm watch the video for the hundredth time in .25 speed to understand his thinking better. :) i always come back to this one.
Cheers Feng every one of your video is inspirational, looking forward to the soft body one, I dig these types of vids way more than the lets draw.
How do you keep your ideas fresh after all this time? You've previously talked about reading tonnes and watching lots of documentaries to grow your visual library... do you still do this as much as when you were younger and just starting out? or do you do it more now?
Also how do you balance this constant learning/idea growth with your busy schedule of work/personal-life/friends and family?
Love your stuff man.
Well done Fen, have you ever found your design vocabulary repeating itself? I have often found if I grab bits of debris like paper clips,sculpey,rubber bands,pens or anything at hand and use it for reference it can lead my drawing in a whole new direction... a kind of 3d thumbnail can't wait to see your next episode
would have loved to see how you got from where you started to that more shell ship design.
looks like i have to keep drawing .i made some thumbnail while hearing this video and i always tend to get to either details or prespective, many thx for your video its a good motivation for me and for sure many others
Very helpful
Yes. This episode is amazing! (every episode actually) but yes. I would love to see a soft form thumbnail episode!!!!
YES...SOFT SURFACE THUMBS EPISODE PLEASE!!! GREAT STUFF!!!!!