Design Cinema - EP 50 - Bug Silhouettes

[@SansP3ur]

Feng ... you are the most patient man on the planet re-answering the same question about fundamentals, brush types and color palettes over and over again, but remaining so calm about it.

Thanks for everything in this year. Have a nice vacation and Happy New Year. Cheers

[@onlinenickname]

Thank you for keeping this going, Feng! You're an inspiration!

[@Devilstheory11]

i check for these videos every single day thank you feng!!

[@DEJAP001]

Thanks Feng for taking the time and putting up a video! Its really appreciated!

[@izelord]

I'm not trying to learn anything when I watch your videos. I just like to keep your video running on one monitor and have you talking while I do work related stuff. After a few minutes I just phase out. It's a compliment ;)

[@NizoSan]

@EnterN4me I think you've got the point. CS5 and Painter12 uses graphic acceleration to renderize the canvas and it doesn't pixelate until you go over the 100% zoom, any new generation software is starting to use this feature. Almost any other software or prev. versions can't do this, they usually become pixelate at medium zooming level. For you guys asking about brushes he's using standard round brush and chalk brush as always (using the chalk to simulate little details in textures).

[@fookenninja]

That is so true about game ADDICTION. Back in the days, I spent way too much time playing video games and not spending enough time to develop my skill. Now, I'm a professional designer, but not in the video game industry...a bit regret. :( Feng thanks for the video demos... that was very generous of you. Because of the videos, I'm now starting to do some digital painting on my spare time. It's very inspiring.Thanks!

[@Venonmus]

Thanks for sharing this technique, I know you didn't really explain the techniques thoroughly, but by showing it I have just tried it and find it amazing!

[@iwdogan]

I have yet to come across one video of yours to say "well, that's not new", thanks for sharing and helping us getting perspective on this awesome craft of yours.

[@ad45376]

i love this method makes designing characters soo much easier than penciling them out :D thx

[@arunshmily]

One thing i learned strongly from you Mr.Feng. 'PRACTISE' tons of thanks for your design cinema.THE BEST CINEMA i would like to see in youtube :) HAPPY NEW YEAR TO FZD :) awaiting for the EVENT show in Feb :) keep rocking :)

[@KrazyEngima]

i usually spend about 8 hours a day and i can vouch that even 3 hours a day for a year will improve your work

[@2openhere]

Thanks Feng for doing one during Christmas/New Year, much appreciated present.

[@willpheonix]

That queen is awesome! Great advice too, thanks again for the tutorial.

[@PatBoiteux]

Hi Feng, I love these videos and learn a lot from them. I want to save up to study at your school sometime hopefully in the near future. Thank you so much for these videos!

[@AdLazy]

we should start a petition on that, and call it the ones in the thousands that would do the solo 16 h / day practice motivated and fueled by the creative fires that burn within us

[@DrAxel1991]

hey..i just want to say that i love watching your videos and i actually learn quite a bit from them. I like your art styles and they are very inspirational, so keep it up!

[@R3AL9005]

thanks for ALL the advice and your time

[@torchit2302]

Another masterpiece from Mr. Zhu! Thank you Sir!

[@mattgamer]

Thanks man. So true about the gaming. I get sucked in a lot and those producers know how to create some addicting games these days. Keep up these inspiring videos. They are fantastic.

[@chad912]

well about ur first question he used the lasso tool to select the area and then he did ctrl T which is transform. When and object is in this state u can increase and decrease its size as well as stretching it. in this case he holds shift to keep the proportions but make it smaller. Hope it helped :D

[@SteveTheDesignGuy]

Awesome video as usual! I'd love to see some concept vehicles. Happy Holidays!

[@WinterinBerlin]

many more episodes is one of my biggest new year wishes :D

[@Rdhillon01]

Thank you for sharing.. you are an inspiration Feng Zhu!

[@FZDSCHOOL]

@ArtByTimL We do not have any scholarship program for international students. Thanks for the inquiry and let us know if you have additional questions. Happy new year!

[@DynastyTragdyzZ]

Master Feng Has returned , (Bow down).

[@90junkyfunky]

Очень вдохновляющие видео, и спасибо что не вставляешь музыку, а говоришь об индустрии. Пожалуй это лучшие видео по игровому дизайну в сети. Так что спасибо за эти эпизоды.И удачи в новом году! *Wery inpiring videos! and thanks you for not pasting music on background, but talking about industry. I guess it's a greatest game-design videos I ever seen. So, thank you for this episodes. And Good luck in New Year! P.S Will u make an artbook? Do you take part in game-art exhibisions,like dominansewar?

[@alienw99]

Thanks for sharing your work and knowledge wit us :) You're the best Feng!!!!

[@Misticblair]

amazing technique, and also great tutorial : ) keep it up Mr. Zhu, i wish you add here more of amazing tutorials. Regards!

[@H3llHoundd]

I was just staring at the monitor until I realized there was FZDSCHOOL in the subs YAY

[@tgh00ker]

I see your point, and I myself felt that as well, but then I realized, that Feng here is speaking to the designer wannabes when he's talking like that. So you can sleep well at night :)

[@texasgiant15]

@FZDSCHOOL Excellent tutorials! Which tablet do you use?

[@snowface27]

Thanks Feng! So much for this stuff :) Happy holidays comrade!

[@finndahl]

Hi feng! Im greatful for your episodes they are very good. You talk alot about the fundamentel parts and I just wonder if you can recommend some books about perspective, anatomy and other important parts. Thanks for what you do feng and Happy new year!

[@1thru8]

Awesome video, especially with silhouette. I try doing some on my own but after I block them out and going back into detailing them I can't figure out how I want it. Is it because I'm too attach to the silhouette or does it relate back to the fundamentals like you said? Thanks

[@mangarific1]

uve gotta be like the best designer in the world

[@Taiface2]

Please do the color tutorial!

[@lltffd]

this is just amazing! Its so helpful...I so jealous of people who actually get to go to this school...

[@FZDSCHOOL]

@MichelIchiy We do not have any scholarship program for international students. Our best advice is to search for a personal loan or check with your government for an education/design scholarship. Thanks for the inquiry and let us know if you have additional questions. Happy new year!

[@DarkBath]

thx for another great vid! happy new year!)

[@ThEgRoWtHsPeRt]

Feng, you spoil us.

[@ksenolog]

already liked and favorited and +1 before watching! Great new year present, many thanks! :3

[@saibamoe]

25 hours practice a day , drawing level ASIAN !! !! ! ! !

[@Fengdesigns]

Wow, already 4 pages of comments :) Thanks for the support. Shad3rr: The word "originality" does not fit the entertainment business well. A better word would be "marketability." Product and Ent are two very different industries. Is Skyrim original? No. But is it successful? Highly! Same with MW3, BF3, ME, etc. We work in a visual only industry driven by the market. Visuals which "sell" wins at the end of the day. Also, construction and work principles are only indicated but rarely required.

[@kevin71127]

@thedevo01 I got to use a cintiq yesterday and it was freaking awesome. I don't see how the Intuos has any advantages over it. Other than that it is more widely used. I hear that drawing with a tablet is a major challenge and takes a long time to get good at.

[@volrathdesign]

Hey Feng Zhu, @15:15 Quick question, when you start detailing the upper left bug what is the new brush you're using at that point? I see the chalk brush, the volumetric lighting brush, and the round brush, but there's a 4th "new brush" you're using extensively to detail the bug. What brush is it? What's the name for it? Is it a custom one? Thanks, big big fan of your work, I've watched every video since day one.

[@charlyUncool]

you always help me improve myself good vid

[@Shad3rr]

Hi, Feng, I'm studying on Product Design course and I've got a question about idea generation in Entertaiment Design. I noticed that in Product Design idea generation is quite long stage that determines almost all in the success of your project. Most ideas in Entertainment have lack of originality in comparison to PD. Do you have an opportunity working on project in ED to have more time for generating more detailed ideas of object's construction or it's work principle? Sorry for my English...

[@KaiserjiM23]

Thank you for letting us learn :)

[@kxmode]

6:06 love the bug dance!

[@MissOrangeApple]

...."If you're still a student.. try to stay away from video games.." I Lolled on that one! XD

[@FZDSCHOOL]

The FZD Design Cinema Contest deadline is approaching soon. Be sure to submit your entry by September 30, 2013 to win a trip to Singapore. Good luck to you all~~

[@havocman100]

was wondering Feng, since I live in north america, might you suggest some good design schools that offer a similar course curriculum to your school?

[@Shad3rr]

Thank you for the detailed answer, Feng)

[@themalmana]

Any idea is there going to be the Master Designer Workshop next year?

[@Bamshi101]

Two quick questions: 1. At 08:56 what tool where you using there? 2. You said that you used keys 1-9 to change the opacity of the brush, did you do that by creating a new action in the actions palette and then changing the opacity of the brush then finishing the recording and assigning the action to a key?

[@Raphael041]

finally!! another video!

[@sealedpaladin]

im. so. HAPPY! :') cheers again feng! btw i was just wondering and this is by no means meant to be an insult. but i was wondering if perhaps if you cant do a vid for a week, that maybe one your other staff or even one of your students could do a vid, if they had any tips or tricks they would like to share. it might even prove to be useful for them to have a chance to do this kind of thing to an audience. just a suggestion and love all your stuff anyway :D

[@Bamshi101]

17:12 Were you using a large, low opacity, white brush to lighten up the bug and create high lights, what were you using to do that?

[@themalmana]

I'm starting to learn all what can be learned from these design cinemas. Now just practise, practise and practise. I'm not interested in fundamental stuffs so much yet but the design itself is tricky. Best ideas comes when I'm trying to sleep in bed at 2 am. So is there any kind of mental practises you do for ideas and concentration? Besides coffee :D

[@thedevo01]

Is there a page on the site or a link somewhere were you share your brush settings? I searched the videos but couldn't find anything that is specifically related to brushes and their settings.

[@kevin71127]

Feng, I gotta know. Without money being a problem, should I get the intuos4 or cintiq 21ux?

[@gordon1201]

Yes new video!

[@drakelx]

Just a question, when you mentioned that the fundamentals are taught in your school, do you mean the 1 year diploma or the certificate courses? And love the bug on the top right and the one below it!

[@gungrave515]

hey feng zhu i was wondering since i know you wont go into fundamental stuff could you give general advise about what we should practice to improve just in your personal opinion. even something as simple as "if you do a lot of anatomy and rendering shapes youll notice good improvement" i sent you a message about it.

[@AaronMetallion]

Man,, you are amazing :D !! THanks for making me feel like a crappy artist unintentionally xD.

[@Bamshi101]

Yeah haha I actually did all of those things today, before I read your reply! And I found out last night that keys 1-0 change the opacity of the brush.

[@Seach94]

@Vickramjason i would say he uses a standard roundbrush with pen prussure and he controles the opacity manually .... sometimes, i think, he also uses chalk brush? but i'm not sure...:)

[@nemac23]

Definitely bind it, cause you end up using it a lot. It's very handy. I have it on ctrl-f

[@okamichamploo]

is there a particular reason for needing to do these in such a large size? I often get too caught up in details so I made it a practice to start with small size documents and then bump up the size later when I`m ready to take it to final.

[@DynastyTragdyzZ]

hey feng my style is pretty much syfi space ships i was wondering if u can do a quick demo on that.

[@RaabStephan]

Can you tell a big difference between the use of your Intuos 3 at home and the Intuos 4 at school when it comes to pressure levels and sensitivity?

[@ChindoEnyidah]

It has been awhile. But anyway, I appreciate all of the videos and am always "refueled" to keep on practicing. I notice I lose motivation a little too easily :/

[@thedevo01]

@kevin71127 You'll need a High End monitor along with Cintiq because it's just a screen with a touch sensor, not a HQ screen. DELL U2711 is the one I'd suggest (better than an iMac). If money is out of the question and if it's the 24" Cintiq you're talking about, then fine, go for it. But tbh, that's a very amateur mindset; Each equipment is an investment though if it's absolutely sure you can earn 1.5x the price of a 24" Cintiq within a month, I don't see a reason why not to buy it.

[@ShadowClawss]

Hi there,I had a question....I realise when you doing the value painting,it was easy for you to block in and makes them looks separate even just at black and white. But I failed to do so,hmm....am I lack of fundamental acknowledge and lack of skills as well?

[@themalmana]

Which sketching pen do you prefer. Mine tend to be very dry or wet sometimes? please help

[@Lydomina]

Does this method work well for close-ups as well, or does it really only work for full shots?

[@okamichamploo]

@knozos On average a person functions best with 16 waking hours, so working longer than that might actually cause you to have mild sleep deprevation, and in my opinion, prevent you from doing your best work. Plus, it`s highly unlikely that you can work 17 hours straight. I mean we need to eat, take breaks and relax your eyes and stuff. But yeah, you should definitely get as much practice as you can.

[@kevin71127]

@thedevo01 I see where you are coming from based on price. But leaving that out of the equation, why would the intuos4 large be better? because you don't see your hand? Sorry if I'm asking a bunch of questions, but you seem to be a knowledgeable source.

[@PeroPUYOL]

Fundamentals are things like perspective, lighting and anatomy. Then, move to color theory and composition.

[@RemovdSande11]

im having trouble choosing which brushes to use. Do you switch between brushes ?

[@KusanagiMotoko100]

11:00 chihuahua with bug legs.

[@Vickramjason]

What brush settings are you using during this silhouette design??

[@DraconiusTheBlack]

klendatu! inspirational!

[@drunkenoodle]

Thank you very much for this! :D

[@Quaalz]

@themalmana - And the question is to Feng, but my method is to listen to music. Music is pretty amazing sometimes...

[@L0ll13M1X]

Did you use opacity jitter when drawing the bugs? Or did you just change the opacity manually/change to different shade of gray?

[@Kaiser68]

That's true and you're right - I suck at this. Thanks for the help...

[@tasopicollo43]

I cant understand how when he presses lightly his strokes come lighter. I know he has his opacity off but how does he do it?

[@ocastanho621]

hi there, I have a great difficulty in organizing the layers of a digital painting. There is a right way, a method that you can give me a hint? Thank you.

[@17dbJohn]

@futureanim8tor the numbers on you keyboard 1=10% 2=20% and so on, and if you type two numbers fast you get the exact percent. for example (5 and immediate followed by 7) =57%

[@sebastiansernald8814]

Do you use your mouse to draw with or a pen?? (beginner here)

[@nortonUnleashed]

I don´t have time for games. Can´t stop drawing silhouetes :)

[@IdaisanArt]

17:05 who can see statue of freedom ^^?

[@tauhidd.8093]

i see it

[@Criterion515]

@EnterN4me Unless you are printing something, DPI has no bearing on the way your image looks on screen. It is just part of the printing equation that gives the actual printed size of the image. So, for example, a 2000*2000 document will print twice as large at 150dpi than at 300dpi, but will be exactly the same thing on your screen. If you're getting pixelation, you're trying to add too much detail for the resolution. Make it bigger, or don't try to do so much on a small image.

[@MRHASHIMOTO]

Hey Some day I will be like you my name will be next the pro like you sir great video keep the videos coming. I just want to say if you can do a video on what brushers you use because am not new to Photoshop cs5 but I have had it for some time but I just can't get the right brushers By the way my name is rohaam and I live in uk

[@NicolasTylerDoyle]

im still waiting for the "color part" of this tutorial Feng !! lol :)

[@jointy33]

more schools!

[@AdLazy]

love it :D it would be cool if Feng would actualy make a video tutorial on fundamentals, at least some guidlines and the important stuff, i would pay 100 $ or maybe more for it :-<