In today’s lesson, we looked at types of concept art and then we made concept art for our briefs.

Concept art is a visual representation of an idea, design or mood created by concept artists for the producer and director to look over and approve of. It should at a glance, convey the overall elements and not be focused on detail.

Good concept art makes use of Composition, Simple & Readable Forms, ​Interesting Tones & Textures, Contrast and Range, Thematic Colour Palette, Colour Harmony

The types of Concept art are:

Greyscale compositions – made using grey tones, black and white

Thumbnailing – small sketches

Simple shape blockouts – easiest, triangle shapes

photo bashing – detailed overlayed images in photoshop more realistic

I made a simple shape Blockout concept art here: I took inspiration from the image on the right.

I wanted to choose a mountainous scene, that was going to work with my brief (Fantasy). I have been watching Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit for inspiration, so, I have been thinking of using scenery in my animation similar to what was used in these fantasy films. I see an air of mystery and beauty in the above image so I think that it would work well. I could use this scene for when Zeph and his friends are adventuring through the mountains to find the entrance to the dwarf mines to locate the wealth stone.