Revolutionary War Game -a
Painting Tutorials that relate:
Pro Style Benchmarks:
There are 3 main artists that are our style benchmarks.
EPIC Games:
Arcane Wonders :
Mission Red Planet: Andrew Bosley
See the process for Joe Mead’s Battle of Saratoga - from Sketch to Finish
See the Background Lighting Style Guide by Sarah Puett for Joseph Brant
See the Character Art Style Guide
MAIN STYLE BENCHMARK:
This is your closest art style benchmark. The Painting style is where we would like to be. The richness and showing off for some of the British will be spot on - just with a wig.
On the left the original benchmark and how our artists and designers interpreted this:
Alicia Schmidt
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These 2 characters are the closest from the Sheriff of Nottingham - the others from this game may be too exaggerated for some of our characters.
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Krystal Hertlein
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The character on the left and the right are too funny - the other types are good.
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The character on the right is too stiff. Go for more action poses.
The environment piece is good.
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The stamp is good.
Denny Duc Bui Style Interpretation
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The feast plate and arcane scrolls are in our direction. Remember our format does not allow such a big space. - We get half of that for visuals.
STYLE BENCHMARK:
The feast plate and arcane scrolls are in our direction. Remember our format does not allow such a big space. - We get half of that for visuals.
Sarah Puett
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These characters have the right types of color. The body shape variation is too great - making it seem more funny than the direction we would like to go.
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These characters have the right types of color. The body shape variation is too great - making it seem more funny than the direction we would like to go.
Sarah Puett
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These characters for Mission Red Planet, art by Andrew Bosely, are more in line with the contrast of body shape I would like the game to head towards. We just want the colors from the previous page.
Jillian Oberts
Great characters and environments - The direction of the color should be more like the Sheriff of Nottingham.
The icon ribbon method could work.
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Sarah Drews
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Costume, Doing Something, Feeling Something.
Joseph Mead
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Drew Hill, KCAD alum, has a very good sense of depth in the character , the line around the character is a good direction. This is our look - but we want to not be quite so funny (all the time).
See his tutorial on his painting process at 15:10.
We will use this process but are required to use flats that have to be approved before moving on to the painting.
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Drew Hill - (painting creamy feel with hard edges)
John Adams by Hannah Al-Shaer
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Drew Hill, KCAD alum, has a very good sense of depth in the character, the value is in our direction. We can be funny with the british gentry.
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Drew Hill
Charles Townsend by Alicia Schmidt - Wig exageration!
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Susan Bonner, KCAD faculty, Make your character EPIC feeling - screaming - about to go into WAR! Make poses EPIC not stiff.
See the process on ArtStation.
Notice the wear on the metal - work the look of use into your imaging.
Enlarging each asset shape such as buckles and bells is a good way to pull attention to it.
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Susan Bonner, KCAD faculty, Think about how we are cropping the image before you begin. This piece would need environment most likely - more like how Mission Red Planet game has environment behind the character cards.
See the process on ArtStation.
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Susan Bonner
Frank and Krystal used the idea of the mouth exaggeration.
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This is the farthest extreme on the characterization.
It is TOO FUNNY and Cartoony -it’s the eyes and the hands -
DO NOT do this.
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HANDS
Nice to have square hands for hunks and feminine hands for the ladies, characters looking at wealth would be good.
Sarah Puett did a good job of the hand exaggeration with the Joseph Brant card.
ENVIRONMENT
DESIGN
BACKGROUNDS STYLE BENCHMARK:
Great architecture reference by Drew Hill, KCAD Alum, for shape for the towns. Need to be colored more like Sheriff of Nottingham.
We have really been doing more lighting for environments - this is still a benchmark to hit if we do houses and landscapes.
CHARACTER CARD BACKGROUNDS IDEA BENCHMARK:
Including flags and battle gear and smoke will be good.
Incorporating Shapes into your pieces for exaggeration of the experience...
Background Lighting Style Guide by Sarah Puett
From here on the images are references
to look at mood.
We will
NOT BE
painting in their style.
BACKGROUNDS IDEA BENCHMARK:
Including shapes that bring attention to events or characters and smoke will be good. - We will finish our painting more and not include graphic shapes in events that are not lighting or smoke. The posing and the camera angle are fantastic here.
CARD
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Gold, Shields, Symbols and Borders may be effective way to make it feel historical and rich for the British.
CHARACTER
CARD FEELING
CHARACTERS
Here Jason Heuser, KCAD alum pushed the idea of George Washington to an extreme, we will push our ideas but need to keep away from contemporary weaponry and use muskets where appropriate.
Characters - can feel heroic (if they are)- Some have much higher points and they should be very strong in their appearance. Really allow the adjectives to push the idea in the imaging.
CHARACTERS
Should be in action poses like these.
Lighting with colored light (Blue, Red and Yellow is how we do our art.)
Do not reference this graphic design.
We will not have monsters.
CHARACTERS
Great example of character about to do something and feeling something - fear - bravery. Accurate use of costumes and weapons. We will just be adding more color like in Sheriff of Nottingham and some more facial and body shape exaggeration.
CHARACTERS
Great example of character about to do something and feeling something.
We will do more shape exaggeration.
This color is almost as bright as the direction.
EVENT
CARD FEELING
EVENTS
Historical Storytelling with anticipation. This work by Paul Collins is at the Public Museum and the Musees see it every day.
EVENTS
Shawn Michael Warren took the Paul Collins Award at Art Prize for this work In a Promised Land. It’s epic storytelling is in our direction. We will not be doing it with direct realism.
EVENTS
We will be dealing with hard issues in our storytelling, allow your special effects to be dramatic like the smoke in Jon McDonald’s piece.
EVENTS
Use other elements like Jon McDonald uses vultures to tell the story of impending hangings.
SPECIAL EFFECTS
On all cards consider fire, moonlight, framing and camera angle that is used in this entertainment piece.
EVENT CARD
FULLNESS BENCHMARK
EVENT CARD
Lots of people, overlapping action, show the land as trees and buildings. Close up on main area.
EVENT CARD
Lots of people, overlapping action, show the land.
EVENTS
Stacking of people to show the many, but close up on one story.
EVENTS
Can be close ups too. This crop shows the group as a whole.
EVENTS
Native American
Overlapping action, when showing the Native Americans please use their historically accurate icons and images.
EVENTS
Stacking of people to show the many.
EVENTS
Stacking of people to show the many. With a square around the area of focus in the mid ground.
EVENTS
Stacking of people to show the many. With a square around the area of focus in the mid ground.
ITEMS
ITEMS
The printing press image may be inspired by Diego Rivera’s Industry Mural. (You would just do a fragment but have it be pulled back.).
ITEMS
The printing press image may be inspired by Diego Rivera’s Industry Mural. (You would just do a fragment but have it be pulled back.).
ITEMS - these are too shiny, crossbow is closer to the direction. Remember that we have about half that space.
These almost have too many colors.
Hanna Al-Shaer really got the color and lighting notes that we want in the deck
Revolutionary War Game
MAIN STYLE BENCHMARK:
This is your closest art style benchmark. The Painting style is where we would like to be. The richness and showing off for some of the British will be spot on - just with a wig.
Revolutionary War Game
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