Blood Elf

"Blood elf mage! Much more pleased than with my worgen. To put her more into the WoW universe, I looked to Glenn Rane's previous Blood Elf work for inspiration, then added my own tweaks to it. So it's a semi-original design."

Infected Raider

"Infected Raider"

sketch by Bryan Thompson, AAU Visual Development Graduate 2010

Looks like this Raider tried to take over the wrong region...then got BIT!!!!

Hey everyone so this a bit older but only by a few weeks . I specialized in working with illustrator and making things work in 2d cell shading . I really find illustrator to be really easy and fun and I will soon put up tutorial videos via you tube for people that have a bit of a struggle with using the software . I start off with sketches then from the sketches I pick the best one and then go from there using the software.

Hey everyone I would like to introduce my self my name is Sanjit Choudhury . I am a digital illustrator at a small studio called Fantage.com. This is my take of Darth Maul I posted this up on the facebook page but I want to put it on here as well . I will be posting up work that I am doing in the studio once they are released on the web from the company I will be putting them up on here . I am glad to be a part of this because Academy of Art have so many great artists and I am happy to be a part of the group .

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend

Cheers ,
Sanjit

Poses: Book of Mormon

I don't know if you guys have jumped on the Book of Mormon bandwagon yet, but you should!

I don't follow a lot of Broadway musicals on my own... but my sister, the theater major, does. And she turned me onto this AMAZING, Tony-Award-for-Best Musical-winning musical a few months ago, and I've been hooked ever since. 

A very quick plug for the show:

It was written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park), and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q).

My exposure to the show is limited to the soundtrack and some minor bootleg footage, but even still.... it has some of the funniest, wittiest, snarkiest (it's a word), crudest, tongue-in-cheek, and still incredibly heartfelt material I've ever heard. Just... brilliant. Try listening to snippets on iTunes if you can. Totally worth it.

But I digress....

A great thing about any Broadway play (and all theater, really) is that they don't have the benefit of the close-up. So they're forced to tell the story with much broader strokes, which creates some great byproducts. In order to make an action, pose, or gesture read the same from the front row and the back row, they have to over-exaggerate almost everything: In some shows, almost to the point of turning their characters into cartoons. But what they usually get out of doing this, are very strong, dynamic poses that tell the story very efficiently.

The Book of Mormon is a perfect example of this.

This is a still from the first song of the show:

**sorry for the crappy resolution... not important, really**

Notice how each character has his own story within the larger context. Each character is holding the same prop, is wearing the same costume, and doing the same basic thing, but each one has their own VERY unique character.

It's a great example of ideation! 

So next time you need to come up with ten variations on "Mormons holding Bibles".... here ya go!

Phoenix

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