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Looking for a College to do my Post-Grad/Masters... Guidance Needed

neerajdugar — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:08:45 GMT

Hello everyone,

I am a graduate from Srishti School of Art, Design & Tech. Bangalore, with a Diploma in Animation & Visual Effects. I'm looking for a college to do my post graduation or a masters course in Canada, US or the UK possibly this year. I have done 2 years of foundation in design and another 2 years specialising in animation. I'm interested in pursuing Concept Art and/or 2D animation in the near future. I havent worked on 3D softwares much (a little familiar with modelling and texturing on Maya). I'm not sure if i should pursue 3D animation because I havent been exposed to it too much in college.

I'm familiar with softwares such as Photoshop, Flash, After Effects, Premier Pro, FCP.

A link to my portfolio on Behance: http://www.behance.net/neerajdugar

I know there isnt much concept art work there, whatever i have is very rough, so I havent put it up (should I?). Also my last 2 individual animation projects have been completed but they havent been uploaded because I'm simply not satisfied with them.

I'm really Really looking for some career guidance as of now.

Any suggestions/opinions as of what to do, or how to go about this situation that i have gotten myself in? Any input would be much appreciated!

Thank you

Word Association

chris_scruff — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:58:17 GMT

No talk, just play the game. k?

' Pencil '

Jot Touch 4 stylus

kazky — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:08:36 GMT

Right this is a bit premature, but i ordered this the other day (and i seem to have got the last one available in the UK!) It should be delivered today/tomorrow.

It's featured on the home page here so have a looksee, it means i'll be able to draw on my ipad, properly, without a stumpy spongey thing. My cintiq is very very unwell and has been for a long time.

I'll review when it actually arrives, i'm just a bit excited :)

New Mac Pro

joeparis — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:36:38 GMT

*Jealous* (PC user)

Programs for Mac?

iSpark90 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:03:18 GMT

Any suggestions? I previously used Manga Studio but it's no longer compatible!

New to digital drawing

marsx22 — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:49:09 GMT

hello everyone,im new to digital drawing therefore im gona ask really stupid questions and hoping for some answers.
1-when drawing on a software what do we actually use? a mouse a drawing pad or anything else?
2- what softwares besides adobe Photoshop and corel painter are there?
3- is there any way of exercising the drawing hand in order to achieve a gd sketch and a better drawing in general?
thanks you for your answers :)

"GoD Factory: wingmen" sci-fi indie game by friends :)

freiheit — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:19:17 GMT

Hey guys,

I hope you won't be too mad at me for some shameless promotion, but some very dear friends and fellow game developers are making a sci-fi, space sim game and I wanted to put it out there. They've been making some really nice concepts and it's got a very fresh, color fild look:

I know we're a lot of sci-fi fans here on IFX, so I thought you guys might be interrested. ^^ They're trying to get some funds to finish up their kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninedots/god-factory-wingmen and they're putting some concept arts and demo videos in their update section (they got one video with oculus rift working! :D ).

PACT: A chance to organize illustrators and improve standards among clients. This is important.

Michael Syrigos — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:56:22 GMT

Hello everyone. Randy Gallegos http://blog.gallegosart.com/ Jim Pavalec http://www.jimpavelec.com/ Aaron Miller http://www.aaronbmiller.com/ Todd Lockwood http://www.toddlockwood.com/ and Mike Sass http://www.sassart.com/ are the professionals involved in creating PACT, an organization dedicated to improving the working standards for illustrators. Check it out here http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pact-professional-artist-client-toolkit?c=home read below, help out, spread the word, it serves ours and our professions' benefit.

If you are an illustrator (particularly in the fantasy/sci-fi, gaming, videogame, comics or book publishing industry) or aspire to be, this is for you.

I've spent 19 years working as a professional illustrator (Magic, D&D being among my more notable clients). The sad fact is that, industry-wide, over those 19 years I have in general seen wages freeze--even decline--over that same period. Yes, you read that right: in some cases, wages have fallen over what could be made 19 years ago. In most cases they have simply not improved.

To put that in perspective, a $500 commission in 1994 when I started would need to be $785 in today's dollars to have the same buying power. But that same commission is generally still $500 (or LESS) today. Put another way, that $500 commission today has the same buying power as $318 in 1994. So, if wages haven't increased, then they have de facto fallen.

This is an awful trend for anyone who hopes to one day make a living at illustration.

Art school costs have only increased in that time. Nearly everything else has increased in cost as well. This means your odds of earning a living as an illustrator are falling. Every year.

How has this happened?

Let's face it, companies have no motivation to pay more if they don't have to. That goes for big corporations and even for small start-ups with the best intentions. The "dream" of working in these fields means that mostly younger or just-starting illustrators are tempted to undercut on pricing as a way to get a foot in the door. And even working professionals feel forced to simply take what they can get.

This is the wrong approach for many reasons which could be an entire thread.

Of course, once fees are undercut, there is still the problem of nefarious business practices (late or never-paying clients, clients who request far more copyright than they need and don't themselves understand this). Nefarious business practices could be another entire thread.

What to do? Organize. Not a union: in an international market, that's just not feasable. Rather, what if clients had a known reputation and were ranked by it? What if clients had to compete? Illustrators will always go where the grass is greenest: but where is that grass? Is that new company green grass, or weeds?

We believe that when clients are forced to compete with one another, standards will begin to improve. When artists learn that there are better clients, they will leave to work with those clients. The companies left behind will then have to bump up their standards.

Beyond this, we believe that educating illustrators on business-practices also gives them tools for the fight.

Along with artists Todd Lockwood, Jim Pavelec, Aaron Miller and Mike Sass, we are building this tool: PACT (the Professional Artist-Client Toolkit).

PACT is an inexpensive membership-driven system for rating clients, seeing who the good guys are and learning to beware of the bad guys. Learning best practices and getting industry news.

In my 19 years I have not seen an initiative start up with as good a chance at helping the illustration community lift itself up as PACT is. If it doesn't happen, I don't expect to see another one any time soon, and I expect conditions to continue to decline. This is bad for me, and bad for you.

We've consulted with programmers and lawyers to build this thing right. But programmers and lawyers have not deflated their fees the way illustrators have. So we need your help.

Join us. If you can't join us, then consider grabbing some cool art mostly donated for the cause of raising funds. There's a podcast there from 2012's Illuxcon art event where you can learn more.

Help PACT become a reality

Thanks for reading this wall of text,

Randy Gallegos

Indiegogo: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pact-professional-artist-client-toolkit?c=home

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Pactartist

Association explanation

Hendryx — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:28:03 GMT

I can not help myself, but I am curious by nature, therefore I am curious about some curiosities in the Word Association thread.

Like for example: Mess -> officer -> gentleman -> Richard

So I've open this thread for all "Curries" and the polite authors as a place for the questions & answers. ... I've done this in a good belief to gather even more fun from the word association and imagination.

This thread is also open to any art work based on at least 3 words chain from Word Association thread. As I see it, that thread can easily become an endless and the weirdest source of inspiration ;)

Have fun!

Colour theory for dummies?

TheSatanicNun — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:22:13 GMT

Hi there,

I have, sadly, never ever taken an art class. I have no sense about colour at all! I try to follow tutorial and paint, but even if I get a custom palette it is still so hard for me to pick colours and make them look good.

I know what complementary colours are, but I have to look at the colour wheel to really know how to find them. But whenever I am trying to compose a painting of my own I always get stuck and stop painting because I never know what colours to use.

How do you pick colours and is there an easy way for me to learn or am I a lost case? :)

I really need help, I feel that I lose my confidence in painting and it kills the joy that I cannot produce anything, bad or good.

Help is much appreciated! :)

The last book you bought.

joeparis — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:24:51 GMT

What was it? No picking the last best book you bought. Let us know exactly the last book, whether it's a work of fine literature or simply 1000 Best Fart Jokes. I might pick up ideas for Xmas presents.

(Mine was Simon Schama, The Power of Art)

Best software for fancy lettering?

kazky — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 13:41:57 GMT

Ok i'm completely brain dead today, so rather than google i'm going to be lazy & ask you guys. I need to design the lettering for my son & daughters band name & I have no idea what software to use, I messed about in illustrator but I think there must be something dedicated to lettering?

Greetings, ImagineFx!

flakface — Tue, 28 May 2013 01:47:59 GMT

Hi there! My name is Jeffrey, and I love art! :p

I've been wanting to join this community for some time after reading some of the magazines my local bookstore gets in from time to time. I am a budding/struggling illustrator/digital artist, and love the genres of scifi-fantasy.

You can find my portfoli-blog here: http://artbyjeffro.blogspot.com

and my deviantart gallery here: http://flakface.deviantart.com

But to some me up in a "nutshell":

I love God, art, my wife, and music.

anything else, please ask. :)

Just what is Fantasy??

Domtopia — Mon, 13 May 2013 21:25:39 GMT

In the WIP thread, there is a bit of debate going on as to just what qualifies as Fantasy and what qualifies as Sci-fi.

There appears to be a difference of opinion, with some saying that fantasy is anything that is fantastical, whilst others are saying it should be confined to mediaevalism.

What about the rest of you guys? What should be included in sci-fi and what should be fantasy?

Annoying Color Matching Game

Smolin — Sat, 11 May 2013 17:48:56 GMT

It's annoying! You've been warned. I spent half my time wondering how my cursor relates to what I'm seeing.

http://color.method.ac/

A competition question

Flanston — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:15:31 GMT

Hi all

My name is Peter Flannery. I have worked in the fantasy industry for about twenty years, first as a miniature sculptor and then as part of a design team in Edinburgh. I now work as an independent writer and later this year I will be publishing a new fantasy novel called Battle Mage. I am currently on the look out for someone to produce a cover and will be offering a commission of $1000. However, I would also like to generate some interest and artwork to add to the website I am constructing. I am thinking of running a number of competitions to spread the word and hopefully make connections with people I can work with in the future.

So, I just wanted to say hello and ask if this is an appropriate place to let people know about such a competition. I apologise if I'm in the wrong place and would be grateful of any suggestions that people might have about a better place to try.

Cheers

Peter

What specifications for an artists PC?

Suiter — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:21:03 GMT

Just a quick questions with probably a bit more of a complicated answer.

I'm currently working with a Lenova laptop with 8GB of RAM. I use photoshop cs2 and Am wanting to upgrade to CS5 or CS6. However, CS2 lags and quits responding with larger paintings and even complicated brushes.

I don't want a Mac. I'm looking into either building or buying a desktop(maybe a laptop) for painting. Anyone know of any PCs geared more for artists that can handle resource intensive programs? What kind of video card can handle it, and would a gaming PC be suitable or not?

Thanks in advance..

Hi I'm Linn!

TheSatanicNun — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:47:10 GMT

Hi there,

My name is Linn and I am 27 years old from a small city outside of Gothenburg, Sweden. I am currently studying my first year out of three to become a radiographer, or as we call it here in Sweden: an x-ray nurse.

I am still very new to both digital painting and painting but I love to paint, even though I rarely have the time to do so. I think that I have developed a lot since my very first painting, but I still have a long way to go. That is one of the reasons why I decided to register here at the forum because I do want to learn from the best! :)

I hope to be able to get some good tips and tricks which I can apply to my paintings because I do want to learn so badly. I have tons of ideas, I just don't have the skills to put them onto the canvas.

Here is my account at DeviantArt where I have posted my very first paintings and a few other ones: http://thesatanicnun.deviantart.com/gallery/

Here is some paintings that I have posted on my Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150284579943623.395098.609253622&type=3 and http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150425986508623.430206.609253622&type=3

Hello everyone :)

Chattox — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:31:00 GMT

Hello all, I'm Chattox; I'm 20 years old from Northwest UK and am starting a course in games design this year :D

I've been drawing for a long time, but I've never really managed to get past the sort of childish looking derpy stuff and I'm hoping talking to other artists will help me get past that :)

Go easy on me :D

Where did you go?

Harlequin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:44:16 GMT

Have you moved to a different forum or are you posting elsewhere while the new IFX forum is getting worked on?

I've been absent from all art related forums for quite a while now. Seems very quiet around the old IFX forum.

Selling ImagineFX collection issues #2-71 on ebay

blister — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:06:21 GMT

I am selling my ImagineFX collection on ebay for US buyers.

If anyone is interested check out the lots here:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/bobaferret/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=25&_trksid=p3686

Thank you.

The Tavern of Endless and Offtopic Conversation.

fabledgoat — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:14:33 GMT

Alrighty guys. So we do have a wee bit of a problem.

With all of the endless banter that goes on in some of the forums, myself included in some of them, I've created this thread for just such conversations. With the art threads it's a little hard to see the wip's and the final products, or to comment on said wips and fps when the conversations gotten a little out of control. Lets try and keep those threads on topic with critiques, compliments and the like.

Try to keep any offtopic conversations in this thread. Talk about whatever you want. And try to keep the other threads related to their topics as much as possible. This way we get to enjoy the endless banter but it doesn't take away from the other forums.

NEW London Concept and Fantast Art Group

Daniel Morris — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:22:02 GMT

I am opening a group whose aim is to better our portfolios by collaborating on concept art projects of our own creation. We meet up, discuss themes, then once a theme is decided we figure out what artwork is needed and divide it up. At the end of the project we all have individual pieces of art tied into a single strong concept. I think this will be a better portfolio piece.

We can pool our resources to create the art. For example we can hire a model or costumes to create our own reference materials. I live and work in a warehouse in Seven Sisters which we can use on a Sunday to photograph, sketch etc. If need be we can also go to a location to gather reference for the work.

If you are interested please comment here. I am keeping the 12 May free for the first get together.

Cheers

Dan

Tapatalk

kazky — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:22:27 GMT

After getting the 'tapatalk' app option pop up whenever I search websites etc i decided to give in & download it, it actually seems pretty good, however imaginefx doesn't use/subscribe or whatever the correct term is, is there any chance of this happening?

For those who don't know what it s, it allows you to post/read access forums easily on your mobile device without using a browser.

The Deimonorum project. Visualising a post-apocalyptic horror game populated by women.

Leviatham — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:11:21 GMT

Hello everyone,

As a bit of an experiment, I've put my thoughts on paper (electronic as it might be) and created a Google+ community with the pre-draft of my post apocalyptic horror game Deimonorum.

In 1985 a plague started all over the world and 98% of the population was obliterated. If you are a man and you are exposed, you will get infected. If you are infected, you become a demonic creature hell-bent on killing any other human around you. Within 3 years, Of the remaining 2%, only a handful are men. The world belongs to women. If they can survive the fight to reclaim it.

The idea is to create a game/world that's shaped by the members of the community, based on a premise already presented.

The game is, and will always be, free and Creative Commons, and although I'll be adding bits and pieces as I write them, I'd really love to see what people come up with in terms of story, world building, bestiary, artwork and mechanics.

Please feel free to take a look. Feedback would be very welcome (don't worry about the grammar... I'm rubbish at it!) and participation would be really awesome.

The reason to post in here is to, hopefully, give some food for thought or inspire someone to come up with some awesome art. I don't want anything in return, or free artwork or anything, so you don't even have to tell me you've drawn anything inspired by the game. However if you want to show what you've done, that'd be really amazing and you'd be more than welcome to put your work in the Google+ community.

Look forward to hearing your thoughts!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112036701191068454401/stream/925c8f2a-7bf8-4457-8c57-1206a7f75475