Final Year Project Research

Fantasy reseach and artists

This is my moodboard which has helped me to understand more about fantasy and what kind of technical design i want to make. I have decided to choose to make a 3D model which is going to be a detailed sword, so i researched images which could help me bring a design together. I have chosen drak imags and ones with sharp edges becasue i want my sword to be detaied and related to choas/deamons.

I started to reseach about certian artists which are in the fantasy theme and how they use certian medias to protray there images with imagination. All the games such as Skyrim, Lord of the rings, Dark souls, Finsl fantasy all have artist which have came up with the ideas for them and this is what i am going to lean towards.

Yoshitaka Amano
Yoshitaka Amano  is the artist for all the final fantasy games, he is a japense artist and he specialises in character design, coustum design, illustarter and scenic designer. He worked for many compaines which he specialised in, however in the 1990's he became independent and started to create series of games which the were the final fantasy games. Yoshittaka Amano uses different medias but mainly uses paints and pens for all of his drawings.

This is a image of the man himself. The image shows that Yoshitaka Amano uses fine linesa to create detail within the drawing but also to create a fluqid background with thicker pens. In this image you can see that Amano is starting to add the detail within the drawing to make it stand out and more proffesional. Amano uses watercolours for the background to make it blend in with the fine liners to make it look proffessional.



This is an image of a piece of art that Amano did for the final fantasy game. In this image he used water colours for the basic colours to blend them together to make it look fluid and contrasting. Then  he would go over the fine edges and detail with a varitey of fine liners to bring depth to the draing and give each paret a sharp look to make it look professioanl and real.

How ever this is a drawing that is also done by Amano. He uses a

differnet way of expressing his imagination on to by with watercolours.

As this image shows  he has used a fine brush and statred to build up the layers using not so much colour but more water to make it blend with the imagr and give it a fluffy effect. This allow you to be able to focues on the main parts of the image such as the characters becasue, he has gone over them with pencil and fine liners to give them depth from the background. I am going to try and copy this artits style, of the way he uses his medias. I will do an image of my fianl sword design using these medias and copy his style of how he applys it the the paper.

Ray lederer

Ray lederer is the artist for the skyrim game. He designed most of the megority of the game from the: setting within the game; the weapons and content and also the weaponms and hbow it is displayed. He had a massive imapct on how the game was designed so i wanted to focus on him because of that and also because he uses mainly photoshop or any other digital art software to create a finalised image. I want to be able to create a final sword drawing however using his style of photoshop.

 This is an image of one of his piece of art that he has designed. As you can see he as built up his layer gradually to give the drawing depth. He has used light colours for the background and drak colours for the charcters in the middle to make thne stand out more and make you focus on that straight away.

This image is also designed using photoshop. When designing my final sowrd using photshop i am going to copy the style of this artist by looking at how he used certain textures to create the 3d effect with the bevel of the blade. I will also use a different colour to red to bring the darker shades of colours out of the page and give the image depth. I will focus on whioch way the light source is coming from the page and aplly the diffent tones of colours depending on that. The light source in this image is com ing from the top left on the page so this artist has made the otherside of the image darker.

After researching about the way different artists use certain medias it has made it more confident when i am going to create my own images with these stylle and also helped me realise that art is all around us and can be applyed in many different ways. I have allwaysed used pecil when createing a image but noiw learinign about this it has helped me come out of my comfortzone and want to practice and experiment for with different types of medias.