Friday 25 November 2016

Unit 69: Drawing Concept art for Computer Games

Image result for tekken 6 concept artsConcept art is a very important piece of the game development process and is used to design everything from guns to characters. Concept art is mainly used in games but is also used in movies for effects and things like animated monsters for horror movies. Concept art can be done with mutiple different drawing tools but is mainly done with computers now. Concept art is used for making accurate models for characters and other objects for games and movies. You can even add the concept art into some of the programs to allow for you to make the models look as much like the concept art as you can.Character concept art is a massive part of a game as characters are one of the most important parts of a game. They need to be well designed or the whole game will suffer. Their design tells you what they are like as a person and gives you some idea of what they used to do in the case of Dragunov its easy to see he was a member of the special forces. Concept art is done in stages starting with a few quick sketches. Then adding detail to one of the sketches and finally making the final product from the chosen sketch.






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Background concept art is also very important as it is needed to create environments and levels. The concept art is done in similar stages to that of the character concept art but the finished product is done with a very high amount of details. The background is then turned into a realistic image to use as a texture box for the game itself or to design the level itself using the drawings to reference lighting and other things. Background and level concepts are easily the most important part of a game without levels characters have no place to exists. This particular concept art is of a stage from the fighting game Tekken. The level feels like it was designed to be bright and fun but still keep the attention on the fighters using the circles.


Concept arts are so essential to the creation of a game that every game has a lot of people working on concept art before anyone starts work on the levels characters or cutscenes.