Concept Art Process - MAGES Institute

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BASIC GUIDE
CONCEPT ART PROCESS
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• Concept art in essence, visually depicts an idea,
  mood or design that is used across media
  including films, video games or architecture.
• It influences and gives direction to the entire
  project, and is vital for all creative
  endeavours.

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• By giving a visual form to a concept which
  doesnt exist yet, Concept Art informs the entire
  production process from the start.
• By design, this process attempts to eliminate
  wastage of resources and efforts.

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• 1. Idea GenerationThe scope and objective of
  the project is defined, for example a video game
  is being made with multiplayer competitive
  elements in a sci-fi military setting.
• 2. ResearchReferences are gathered from any
  applicable currently-existing art available. In
  the example, All Sci-Fi military shooter games
  will be examined and their art collated for
  reference

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• 3. Concept SketchingRough sketches of the
  concept are made keeping in mind the unique
  identity of the project. For example the
  world-building elements are incorporated into the
  visual and design elements. In our example, what
  will the buildings look like, where will the
  gameplay take place? What monsters will the
  players fight?
• 4. Refinement
• Sketches are then refined, shortlisted, and
  iterated upon until a set of variants are made
  for the client to pick from.

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5. DetailingIn the next steps, the shortlisted
and finalised idea for the specific portion of
the concept art is detailed (for example, adding
texture, lighting and other details). For
example, the tanks and other military equipment
are given more detail to ground them in the
world. These details serve the main objective of
the project.
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6. Iteration and FinalisationConcept Art is a
collaborative process which requires a healthy
degree of back-and-forth between the artist and
the client, as by its very nature it takes
feelings and concepts and converts them into a
visual form which can be shared and understood by
others.
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Concept Art defines the look and feel, objects,
props, characters, etc in the visual aspect.
Approved concept art is then taken over by
production departments in studios to create the
3D assets that have been made by concept artists
ie the visual form is then brought to life
inside a game engine by 3D Artists or Game
Artists.
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1. Concept Art creation includes a heavy use of
   Adobe Photoshop as it involves 2D illustration
   done via Layers.
2. Modern Concept Art techniques also involve using
   3D rendering wherein artists create the objects
   and environments etc in 3D, place and light them
   in a 3D rendering engine like Blender.
3. Apart from staple tools, Artists generally use
   Pureref for reference collection and review, and
   various asset libraries such as Quixel.

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