Artist Road Map

 1. If you could project out past graduation, what is your overall career goal? 

My overall career goal is to work in the AAA category of game studios. I would be perfectly fine with a midsize team and a job is a job but I would prefer to work for the heavy hitters.

2. If you could project out into starting your career, what sounds the most appealing to you? 

I would prefer to be a Character Artist in the industry it's where all of my time sinks into and where I find the most drive and inspiration. 

3. What are some of the top companies that you are interested in working for? 

        

My top companies would be 

Sony Santa Monica (Any PlayStation Studio would be amazing but I gravitate towards God of War the most)

Nintendo

Blizzard (Diablo Team)

EA (Would prefer Respawn but the Madden team would be real fun too!)

Artist Vision Board

 

Here are the artists and their work that I find the most inspiring, I gravitate heavily towards anything character art it just catches my eye more than anything and I have some variety in here but the one thing these guys all have in common is how well they present their stuff, I feel like I can improve my presentation skills for my work I just tend to try and rush that part of the process most times and I always have to double back and redo shots, I think I just want to rush it out and see it all finished but it's an impatience thing for me.

     

   

My top three from here would have to be J Hill, Raf Grasetti and Pavel Hristov. I like the execution that J Hill has and the level of fidelity and granular detail that he goes into. However I did want to highlight the work of Tom Newbury as well, I feel that him and J Hill hit the same kind of quality bar. 

Raf Grasetti I love his composition and his level of anatomy. He's able to exaggerate stuff while still being able to keep things believable.

Pavel I love his concepts, he has some unique but familiar looking ideas.