Scale Research

Scale

Hello guys,

Today I am going to talk about something important towards my creature art project and it is SCALE.

Scale is really important when you want to create the creature since it shows the viewer how big or small the creature can look like towards a human being.

Kaiju

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When you hear the word Kaiju, everybody thinks of one monster which is the most popular monster in the world Godzilla.  Kaiju is a Japanese film genre based on monsters like Godzilla and here are all of them in one picture next to the statue of liberty. As you can see here, the artist used the statue of liberty as a scale for the viewer to see how huge these monsters can be.  This is useful information since it showed me how scaling works. 

Total War Warhammer

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While I was researching about scaling I found the scaling for a popular game called Total War Warhammer.  The scaling shows a mythical beast called the Griffon and it is compared to a horse, human and a demi-griffon.  The first picture just shows the concept design of the griffon.  Although I will not be making the scaling of my creatures like this, it is still helpful for me to look at other types of scaling in the industry.  

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Here are some creature art concepts from the game.  I found those creatures interesting since they have armour on them which makes them look fierce.  Moreover, the second creature caught my eyes because it is a mixture of a lot of animals.  It has a tiger like body, dragon like wings and horns which is unique.  The reason I added these as research too because of how the artist drew the details of the creature's face and armour to give it more personality.

Creature Box Research

Creature Box

Hello guys,

Today I am going to talk to you about 2 creature artists under the pen name of creature box.  I found their artwork through a social media platform called Instagram and I was really fascinated in their work since they had extremely unique creatures.  After seeing them on Instagram, I searched them online and found out that they have a website where they showcase their work and the book that I am inspired by since it has countless designs of creatures because they have been making it for 5 years and they are still going.

I really like how the cover page of the book looks like because it looks simple yet appealing since as a reader myself I would love to see what is inside of it.  In my opinion, if I see this book in front of me, I would automatically open it.  

They inspire and make me motivated because of their book since it has been 5 years and they are still making this amazing book!

 

To start with, this is one of the pages of the book and it consists of different creature concepts with different colours and shapes.  What I like about their work is that every creature looks completely different than the other which shows creativity and uniqueness.  

My favourite creature is the orange one on the top right since I like his design.  What I like about his design is that his skin looks like its a hoodie because its covering his head like a hat.  Moreover, orange is my favourite colour because I like how it looks on characters and creatures.

These are more designs in the same book.  These creatures here look quite the same but has their own differences such as: the green creature has huge ears while the blue creature next to him has horns that look like a moustache and the third blue character has horns and 3 mouths.  These 3 are my favourite concepts and I can definitely get inspiration from them.

Slugterra 

Slugterra is a sci-fi  animation show aimed for kids.  It aired on Disney XD weekdays.  I find the creatures in this show really unique because of the colour usage and how they are painted.

I like how these creatures have a mini version of themselves and then they evolve from cute small creatures to huge intimidating creatures. My favourite out of the 2 is the second creature because of its colour usage.  I like how the purple colour blended with the neon green colour which makes the creature look better.  

Here I would like to talk about expressions.  I can get inspiration from Creature Box because they draw their creatures with expressions and other things: such as adding spikes..etc which shows the character of the creature and if it is wild or evil or harmless.

Here is a very useful creature concept by Creature Box.  It is useful for me since I can get inspiration from it because I am aiming to make a plant based creature and this creature has inspiration from flowers and plants.  What I like about this creature is how they replaced the head of the creature with a flower that has eyes.   

Website: http://creaturebox.com

Script Text Research//Final Show

Script Text Research

Hello guys,

While others researched different fonts, my mates and I added some research of posters that have script text on them to research different types of fonts.

Posters We have researched

Firstly, we have found an interesting classic Coca Cola drink advertisement.  What caught our eyes was the way it looked classic and how the cola logo looked like since it is script format.

We found an anime series poster called My Neighbour Totoro that had a script font on it.  I liked how it looked simple yet creative. 

This is quite a simple logo design for a cycling tournament.  As you can see here the text font used here is definitely script texted  which was the main reason we chose it but I think that it looks quite boring. 

Trying to create a UI for the website //Final show

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Hello guys,

It is week 5 and we are currently continuing our website, last week we were asked to try and show some ideas of how the UI will look like in the future when we do and finish the website. 

Here is my try of finding out how the home page of our website is going to look like.  I chose a rather simple feel into the website because I think that it can preview our major projects without looking quite messy.

Looking at other websites for inspiration

Here I looked at a website known in the art industry called Art station.  It is basically a portfolio for many artists since they can preview their work and have job opportunities from it.  I like this website because it acts like a portfolio.

Those 2 websites are kind of simple looking as you can see.  What is great about the first one is that the artist used wix to make his website which can aid us in creating out website.  The other website included a show-reel of her work by having a slide show that can skip and pause pictures for the users to see.

Here is a website for a 3D modelling software painter called Quixel.  What I liked about this website is how you can scroll down endlessly to check out different information about it. I used all of these websites for inspiration and I think it is always a good idea to get research from more than one thing no matter what you are doing.