Interactive media brief art research

Research, of which I'm very inspired by.

For the story I'm doing, I figured that I'd have to create a maneuverable art style, these artist here are going to be my main influences, this is because I find there styles visualy diverse and iconic. For me they seem to teem with charisma and charisma is what I think all people like to see in characters and artrwork, charisma draws you to the art (like it will to the characters I create). It may well be empathy that I need to create with my characters, I think I can do this for I'v practised similar styles before. The characters can be created by hand and then scanned, imported to photoshop ,saved as a PNG ( to keep the file size small enough for photoshop to manage and be accersible in illustrator.

Here's the art.

First of all Hokusai





You can see from these pictures , Hokusai had a great sense of perspective and characterization. On the rabbits the way the rabbits seem to lay on different layers I think is great , it looks they've been down to there most influencial elements, this is something I intent to do with my characters. The coloured picture is niece too , again it has a kind of layered qaulity which I think I could achieve.


Next artist : Yoji Shinkawa



This is the "Metal Gear Solid" concept artist, I chose to look at this for tI like the qaulity of line in his pieces, he seems to carve out his characters with a free flowing finess. The the thing apart from his skill that gives his art such rapid detail is the "Brush Pen" this is a refillable Brush which takes ink, this makes it really handy as you can practise with it anywhere (if you hadn't guessed I recently acquired a Brush Pen for the brief) - I'v been practising. Some of my sketches with it are at the bottom. I'v tried to capture character and shape like Yoji , Hokusai and me.

Next up : Okami (the traditonal manga video game)



This is a game you may (should) of seen before , its a game based on traditional manga like Hokusai and Hiroshige, the charactersation is slightly "kidified " manga but some of hokusai's work looks just like it. You can see why I'm being inspired by it, for this work is beautifully vibrant and shining with character that many age groups could apprecitate (kids and adults can apreciate it) and this is something I would like to make possible. Each animal is transformed wonderfully to a brush pen sketch and animates as you move it, I think this looks good, I will have a go at a similar technique.

To follow: A Japanese interactive comic site.



This is a snap of an interactive comic site in Japan (the link I got seems to freeze when I repaste it), though if you click it you will see that it is layered and has a good 3-D element , each layer of the backgrounds move independant and the story corresponds as you click things. This seems like a good technique that I could base my animation on, not the art but the movement style, the way that if you click moving items they correspond.

Last but definitely not least : Edward Kastin- my art.



Here they are, this is a good example of how my charactes will look, you can see that I'v taken alot from the art above, I've mixed Hokusai with Shinkawa and Okami to create a cut version that should appeal to kids.