Portal 3 Character Concept Art (Time-Lapse)

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In this series, Trent Kaniuga showcases techniques for redesigning his favorite games of all time including Portal by Valve Software. This is not an official portal 3 concept design, this is merely a workshop detailing the thought process of a concept artist approaching a blue sky approach to designing characters for such a game as portal.

[@GERDHEHE]

Every time you upload a video, im instantly just inspired to draw, love your work trent!

[@MrFederoko]

It's so fun to see you drawing! Your concepts seem to me so fresh and original!

[@keshinprisco9448]

i know this isnt for a real game but what would be a cool way to find out that you can travel through time is, she goes to hop through a whole that she accidentally hops through a time whole.

[@ricbulow]

Hey Trent. Huge fan and have been following you for a few years now. working my ass off daily, in order to grow as an artist and I try and get as much help and inspiration as possible, from my favourite artists as possible. Tat being said, I got to ask you about the possibillity of maybe splitting up your Gumroad packages up, so the price also would follow and go down with the amount of items in them. As much as I would love to, I sadly don't have 80 dollars, at any one time to spend art stuff, wich is annoying alot, as I would love to both support you, but also be able to study your stuff in more details, than it is possible in the speed-arts shown. Love your stuff and always looking forward to more!

[@BudahKei]

Nice blend of Alyx and Chell! Definitely a Half Life Vibe!

[@navarrelatchman778]

Great video, I hope one day I get to see your amazing work in more video games. You are pretty talented

[@futiiqx]

this is so awesome and i would love to become a concept artist/character designer one day! you’re really inspiring!

[@dmitryrudenko4998]

Thanks for all your hard work! Very useful! You inspire me so much!

[@cloud3x3]

Are you the guy who did Creed like back in the 90's? That was a big inspiration for me. Glad to see you're still working, this piece looks great to me.

[@TrentKaniuga]

I did draw CreeD in the 90s, but left comics to work in games about 14 years ago. I appreciate that you remember my first work. Thanks.

[@partii1005]

Your out look on the industry Gives me hope that i could land a job! i've learned a lot from you and other artist who share their outlook on youtube and i just wanted to say i appreciate it man. Truly.

[@zeeshanzaffar1435]

Enjoyed??? I loved it!! I am so full of positively urge right now, thanks for the advice through the design.

[@aabiii9461]

Thanks for the advice Trent, you're great!

[@VaxillianPrime]

I always love to see you start from scratch and refine your way up. It's so inspiring!

[@christophermenken1976]

Yes! Adding time travel would be awesome, and using that to tie in with the disappearance of the Borealis... we could finally confirm HL3 with confirming confirmation.

[@Neuro537]

İf they decide to make portal 3 and add this mad engineer dude, I'll be very excited 4 the new sci-fi stuff

[@rafasc94]

thanks for the video, really enriching

[@wakewud4879]

This looks like general grevious and Wheatley had a baby.

[@Youre_dumb]

I'm still trying to figure out how you just colored that

[@arbiter4840]

Amazing ...

[@devinascott1521]

Hello Trent Big fan of your work and i tend to re-listen/watch your videos while i draw. ive watched your sketchbook pro videos at least a dozen times cause thats currently the only drawing program i own :/. anyways i just wanted to say thank you for these videos, they've really helped me kinda get out of my bubble a little more. also i was wondering if you could try doing your own spin on one of my 2 favorite games, 'dark souls' or 'monster hunter'. id love to see a monster design from you in the would of dark souls. anyways thanks again, i really get a lot out of these videos and enjoy listening to them time and time again.

[@Vicious713]

This particular video makes me really, really curious what you'd do with Bayonetta

[@TrentKaniuga]

Great suggestion. Maybe I'll do that in a future video.

[@darkart4551]

I always like and support you thank you for dedicated your time help us. ❤️

[@thomasschaffer5612]

Trent Kaniuga is Wolverine confirmed! You should do an xmen Cyclops drawing thats been Kaniugafied.

[@tatianatub]

i want to cosplay that chell design

[@ahmedjameel9295]

amazing man :)

[@mickaos3d728]

man you are the best!

[@HimeshAnand]

please make a tutorial on "how to paint in greyscale" and "how to draw figures"

[@jeffd4016]

Trent, I seriously get inspired by your art style and watching your videos. I can't wait to get paid so I can get your boxes, I feel like I've learned a lot just by watching your narrated speed paints! BUT my main purpose of commenting was TO ASK ABOUT MAO'S VIDEO GAME! How is it coming along? I remember you speaking about using GameMaker and I think that engine would be suitable for what you'd want and I'm also working with that engine with a creator you mentioned, HeartBeast's tutorial. I would really like to hear how your game is coming though, I know you're a great story teller.

[@TrentKaniuga]

I don't have enough to really show yet. But I'll post a video when the game is coming along further. Thanks!

[@Arbindel]

What's the difference between creating a concept piece for a high polish presentation and a concept piece that will be used by modelers for a game? What are some factors that need to be considered when the concept is going to be passed on to modelers? Thanks for your feedback. Your videos are awesome for learning how to approach concept art and pitfalls to avoid. Love your usage of color. :)

[@ccaspercrow]

Inspiring af

[@EagleStrigi]

Companion scarf... Doctor Strange has a companion cloak... I think it could work... (the cloak was my favourite character of the movie).

[@mishaoplev6568]

What font are you using for the namedrops under the designs :3 ? Amazing video..Thank you for a good advice...

[@cobotoRussellJeffers]

Hi there I was wondering if you tried krita before

[@cavaderkau]

say pls what size of pixels you create a canvas?

[@FoxRedTail]

Hey Trent, I was watching this (actually very enlightening, thank you so much for it!) video and a couple of questions popped out into my mind. 1) About your visual brainstorming: I see you don't use the very-popular black-filled silhouette that you then sculpt blocking in planes etc - why is that? Is there any specific reason or it is just personal preference? 2) About your Portfolio Templates course: I'm working (first job, but not first project or completely new to the thing) in an Indie studio as a... well, all-round artist. We're literally three guys and I'm the only one with artistic competence whatsoever, and I'm supposed to create from concept art to finished, animated 3D models. I know how to do all these things, but I think the part I'm lacking in the most, is the 2D concept part. I can render stuff (besides, I love your style so much, it's hyper cool and functional, so don't say you're not an artist because hell yeah you ARE), I'm very creative etc... but I'm not sure how I should approach it to make the best of it. This course of yours (or another one, even if you use a different software I don't mind at all) can not only help me to understand how to build a good portfolio, but also give me an insight on how I should work?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Hey Fox. I change my process a lot. Sometimes I do the black filled sillhouette, and sometimes not. Your second question is a bit more general and I'm not sure how to answer. My portfolio workshop should show you how to make a better portfolio, and how to be more effective in a game development studio. Yes.

[@FoxRedTail]

Hey Trent! Sorry for the confused question, I didn't know exactly how to ask it clearly and so I wrote a long and messed up message... I'm afraid I still have limitations in English! Anyway, you answered very clearly to what I wanted to know - I was pretty sure you course contained insights and indications on how to be more effective in a studio, but I wanted to check :) May I ask you if you change your process because of personal taste or in the way you think it will better fulfill the needs of the specific task? I change a lot my process too but it's only because I always like to try new things and looks to me like there are tons of different but equally valid ways to approach tasks... anyway, thank you very much for all your support! Your course is a must buy then!

[@Zeldakostv]

How does one go about starting their own project? Do you have any advice for this? I've been wanting the make sort of a franchise of a video game with comics to go along with it since i was a kid, and i don't know where to start.

[@PokemonkaDub]

You said "blue sky" in this Portal video so many times....

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

13:50. I didn't recognize it was a Chell, honestly, because she went from Latina to Asian.

[@UltimateKyuubiFox]

Some key facial features are completely different, most notably the size of her lower lip and the shape of her eyebrows... And her nose... Granted, if she's just a composite body with Chell's consciousness, that can still make sense, but there's a noticeable difference if it's supposed to be a narrative gray-area.

[@TrentKaniuga]

I read a theory that she was part Japanese. There was some reference artwork that was of a latina soldier in the shot that might have been misleading, but it was just reference.

[@IIIrdOff]

It would be cool if you will redesign some characters from Beyond Good & Evil.

[@TrentKaniuga]

I love that game!

[@hohonugroho9460]

i love your art bro :) (y)

[@SomeCoolDuck]

Hello from Russia! Thanks for great work. You have fans around the world. Sorry that many of your video are private and i can't see them. Maybe it's time for download all your works from youtube? i'm begin to worry.

[@Xerxyz86]

Trent, I think your art is amazing even if you don't. do you have any plans to conceptually develop an environment perhaps? future vid?

[@TrentKaniuga]

I have a few of these. I did one just a few weeks ago called "jubees rock house"

[@friendlyfox2189]

you work so fast its intimidating 😨

[@TrentKaniuga]

I’ve been drawing for 25 years, so I can work pretty fast. Yes. But this video is time lapses. The actual sheet of designs too a day and a half.

[@mytruecolors186]

what software is this?

[@joners45]

Will you ever make another painting in sketchbook?

[@TrentKaniuga]

Yes. I have another one ready to post. I just need to record voice over.

[@joners45]

Trent Kaniuga​ awesome ^^

[@ft1851]

Hello Do you have advice to improve my draw ?

[@TrentKaniuga]

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[@vigentonyan460]

cool

[@lazospanos5930]

watching 5 mins after upload, my times are improving (47 views)

[@foxb5974]

I can't great this game but I had idea that I would love to pitch u

[@foxb5974]

I mean creat

[@shaunm6383]

Please tell me Portal 3 going to be a real thing.

[@thechosenone729]

Yes it would probably be first game on Source 2 engine.

[@lucaslopes3256]

Half Life 3 Confirmed

[@nixontanlacambra3171]

I still suck at drawing T_T

[@Sophia-wv6yf]

I'm not an artist LOL I wish I wasn't an artist too!

[@TheHelderVinicius]

Lol i just realized you look a lot like Wolverine haha

[@mak9464]

Hélder Vinícius Holy fuck, he actually does.

[@durothan2851]

hi! xd

[@xhanurax]

Why the fuck is this not a real game, holy shit

[@TrentKaniuga]

Do people even play single player games anymore?

[@rusakova99]

Trent Kaniuga they can do what they did with "the last of us" and make a really simple multi player aspect online.

[@Hankyuo]

The art is more than great, but i kind of dislike most of the ideas. Only sharing my non-constructive comment

[@TrentKaniuga]

That would be exactly the purpose of doing a first sheet of designs, and its why its important to show the concept art community that not all ideas should get used from the first batch. Game development is an ongoing process of having your ideas rejected, over and over, until something sticks with the development team.

[@Hankyuo]

Trent Kaniuga It's nice that you answer comments :) and thanks for the explanation