While watching the extra parts to War of the Worlds, we saw how they came across ideas for character designs, similar to what we have been doing lately. One thing I’ve learnt during this week is how you have to be inspired towards creating the work you do, else there’s not much point in wanting to become a game artist or designer if there’s nothing that influences you, but why would we be here if we didn’t want to do this?
Anyway we saw how they came about ideas for what they wanted in the movie, the director Steven Spielberg said he wanted the audience to be terrified by these alien creatures that are like 50 stories tall. In which having only seeing them briefly it would scare the hell out of just about everyone if they saw one of these in real. But what was interesting is how they like us are taking real life aspects and turning them into something that could only exist in a fantasy world in the film or even a game. They saw how they could give these alien things just 3 legs but still make them able to walk in a way that is of a giraffe. They would pool their ideas together and then the director would decide on what he liked and what he didn’t like in order to capture the biggest feel of fear and realism into the movie. Of course what we have on earth is all we’ll ever have, and so the way I see it is basically just taking what you like and love most and try to find that inner quality and the passion you have towards it to inspire you. It’s funny though because we were shown how one thing can lead onto another through your own journey of life. The way you think and feel about something brings out what you want to do in your life and therefore you make your own path and follow it, along the way however from an Art point of view it can change what type of work you do, and there is quite a lot of inspirations for different kinds of Art and design.
From what Chris showed us, he’s been all over and done everything, and when he was reflecting back on it, it was amazing how much he did and all the different types of work he’s done, from traditional Art, to sculpting, photography and many more. I first started out using pencil, and tried the different various things through school etc, but I was never really inspired by anything until recent years I’ve done painting although I’ve always tried to avoid painting, I’ve tried it and now I’m much more confident using it, I’ve used things like oil paints, charcoal, pastels etc and now I’ve I’m even doing digital painting. What have always inspired me is simply video games, playing one after the other over and over right to the present day, I knew from an early age I wanted something to do with video games, but I didn’t know what, then I thought I wanted to be a designer of them but nothing really opened up in terms of degree programs, so here I am on a course that is a bit of everything to do with gaming, which I couldn’t ask for more. I’m still following that path now and getting close to the end of it but the thing is I’m still as inspired by video games as much, if not more then what I was back when I first started playing them. The same goes for designing characters and such, take inspiration from what is around us and then turn that into something interesting. I remember when I was young, I used to draw my own level designs, though they weren't very good I had ideas and an influence.
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