Solid foundations for successful design
Design pertains to nearly everything. From composition and lighting to the shapes of our characters to the vehicles they travel in. As artists, creatives, and designers, we need to be responsible for all these aspects. Good design involves proper planning and organizing, in addition to having the knowledge of good visual design principles to construct it. Over the next 8 weeks, there will be lectures on all core design principles as well as discussion of the techniques and approaches of implementing them. Along the way we will learn to create our own style guide, become our own art directors, and design some world building, propagating our design aesthetics.
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Registration Period
Oct 09, 2024 -
Jan 27, 2025
Course Start
Jan 22, 2025
Course Format
Standard
Skills Level
Intermediate
Duration
8 weeks
Q&A
Once a week
Feedback
Individual recordings
Lecture Type
Pre-recorded
Assignment
Due each week. Expect to spend 8-10 hrs/wk viewing lectures, Q&A, and time on assignments.
PREREQUISITES
Perspective (recommended); Dynamic Sketching 2
MATERIALS
Photoshop (or equivalent), Wacom tablet or equivalent
The more you know, the better.
Week #1
The Design Process
A look at the design process, thinking forms and function. We look at how unity binds and holds a cohesive design together. The demonstration and assignment involves deconstructing the complex and building from simplification.
Week #2
Shape Design
Apply labels and defining design parameters, then use such labels to design basic props, applying the additive and subtractive transformations. These all tie into the core concepts of shape design. The demonstration and assignment covers shape design from cues students will be tasked with creating 3 pages of designs using based off primitive shapes.
Week #3
Form Language
This focuses on taking the lesson of adding and subtracting basic forms (wk1) with the idea of problem solving with clear intents (wk2) and setting up design parameters to come up with designs from everyday household objects. The demo shows how to extract the form language of a vacuum part to design space freighter.
Week #4
Style Guides: Foliage Design
Shapes are brought up again in a lecture on style and designing guides to work with our selected project. Then we look at balance and rhythm and how these elements are tools to arrange compositions and sequences. For the demonstration and assignment proportion we will look at creating props for our environment world from week 3.
Week #5
Architecture Design Basics
With a project choice underway, in this week we focus on the basics of structure and architecture design. Everyone will design a singular dwelling from your project.
Week #6
Composition and Environment Design Basics
So now we have a project and geographical props from (wk4) and structures from (wk5) and will now compose a shot to show all the designs.
Week #7
Sketching for Production: Interiors
Mind mapping: creating an organized list of items based on function and story cues for design details. Pattern and texture and then examined in bringing our details to life. The demonstration and assignment video shows student’s techniques utilized sketching for production as we design an interior setting to our world.
Week #8
Line & Shape: Prop & Vehicle Design
After a brief recap, this week will focus on vehicle and prop design. We will apply all techniques from last weeks to build strong shapes, silhouettes, proportion, curves, line, horizontal vs vertical precision vs spontaneity, contour vs gesture lines into your designs.
STUDENT GALLERY
Unleashing your creativity
LECTURES BY
Tyler Edlin
Course Start: Jan 22, 2025
Tyler Edlin is traditionally trained with a Bachelor of fine arts and certificate of illustration from The Art institute of Boston. Notably he has worked many indie projects like Fall From Heaven and the Therion Saga to the larger productions of Tinkerbells Fairies from Disney Interactive and Chivalry: Medieval Warefare from TornBanner studios. Tyler has worked with studios including Disney Interactive, Hitpoint Studios, Studio Virty's, Fantasy Flight, Paizo Publishing, StarDock Industries, Tornbanner Studios, and Activision.
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Even though our courses are the most affordable for the quality of education, these finance options allow you to focus on your goals instead of the barriers that keep you from reaching them.
3x Payments
$233
2x Payments
$349.50
Full payment
$699
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Oct 09, 2024 -
Jan 27, 2025
COURSE BEGINS on Jan 22, 2025
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