Visual Storytelling with Tahir Tanis
$200.00 – $625.00
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Let’s learn how to layer different artistic tools to tell visual stories with a strong sense of world building! Combining consistent and harmonious yet unexpected details is key to conveying narrative and environmental storytelling with images. In this course, we’ll develop and grow research and ideation skills to create intriguing illustrations alongside demos of key techniques and live feedback sessions.
We’ll cover:
- The importance of personal style
- Where to find inspiration for stories and how to use them in world building
- Developing a solid artistic foundation
- How to leverage tools and programs effectively
Date & Time: Sundays, starting February 1st at 11:00 AM Eastern
Skill level: All skill levels welcome
Tiers: Receive feedback or spectate without homework feedback
Format: 4 hour live class each week with combination of lectures, demos, and feedback. Recordings are generally provided within a couple days of each live session.
Materials: Any digital or traditional mediums. Paintovers will be done digitally
Week 1: Coming up with a story, finding inspiration, setting up art direction
Week 2: Going over different techniques for composing images (sketching, photobashing, & 3D)
Week 3: Designing clothes in Marvelous Designer and environments in Blender
Week 4: Merging 2D and 3D references to create illustrations
Week 5: Setting the mood and adding color, finalizing images
Description
Tahir Tanis is an artist at Embark Studios. Previously, he worked as a senior concept artist at EA DICE from 2015–2019, and as a freelance concept artist at Axis Studios. You may recognize him from his work on games such as Battlefield V and ARC Raiders.
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