Matt Kohr

Joe Alves, now 86 built the worlds for Jaws, Close Encounters and Escape from New York. He worked for Walt Disney, Rod Sterling and raced cars with Paul Newman. He's a Hollywood legend and we are making a documentary about him. Support us if you can. kck.st/3TLPDyI

Really nice breakdown of value control by Jon Neimeister. This applies to #art #gameart and definitely #handpainted texturing process. artstation.com/artwork/Aq5rkW

as someone who has made dozens of fantasy weapons I can say there is an art to not making every single thing over-the-top. Gotta have breathing room for those epic pieces.

This!

One hidden reason why games industry has a huge crunch culture is simple. At some point, you're going to throw away a huge chunk of your game, and you have no idea what that will be or how significant it's going to be. 1/thread

Woo! ctrlpaint.com is officially fixed. Thanks for the kind words while I scrambled to patch it up!

And while I'm here, this video about 'Selection Building' in Photoshop is another one I'd like to share. Ok, back to migrating my videos 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=OjIgQc…

Hooray! I'm making some tangible progress on fixing Ctrl+Paint. While uploading videos, I remembered this one about 'selection layers' that I like. Enjoy! youtube.com/watch?v=_-QRfB…

@Poldzianosek Yeah, the broken links didn't feel great for me either😬 But I'm working on hosting all the videos on Youtube, so the site'll be back to normal as soon as possible!

@ctrlPaint Hey. Today I tried to watch a tutorial on your site, and when I saw an error "Sorry. This video does not exist." I had a heart attack. Please keep hosting your videos on YouTube so we can still learn from your tutorials! Good luck

Bad news! Ctrl+paint has to unexpectedly switch video hosts, so the site will appear pretty broken until I finish migrating the videos to youtube. Vimeo got very expensive on short notice 😐. In the meantime, the youtube channel is available here: youtube.com/channel/UCzZPl…

@hansen_house Thanks so much! Sadly, Vimeo has informed me that Ctrl+Paint is in fact TOO pro, and my existing Pro account would not suffice. Y'all watched my videos too much 😂

@ctrlPaint @ctrlPaint I happen to have a 12 month Vimeo Pro voucher sitting in my desk unused. Would that be of any use to you?

@m_huniewicz The store is still working and purchases will be fine, but the embedded preview videos on the store will appear broken.

Painters do 'master studies', but I don't hear about concept artists studying from iconic game objects in the same way. Today's video encourages you to look a bit deeper at iconic game objects. ctrlpaint.com/videos/06-icon…

This new blender plugin, 'Quick Shape', by Jama Jurabaev, looks very very cool. gumroad.com/l/tOWta

One thing you don't hear about in digital art tutorials: unexpected changes to the brief. They're totally out of your control, but still your responsibility to deal with. Episode 04 of the playbook is all about the curve ball! ctrlpaint.com/videos/04-enem…

@mirror_charles Sure! A) The in-depth prompts would have you designing multiple objects within a single fake game. You'd learn how designs impact one another in a system. B)Tackle design briefs using approaches unique to 3d software: massing, sight lines, animation, etc.

@ctrlPaint Can you give us few more details about both so we can better vote this pool

After finishing the concept art playbook, I'm likely doing some paid content. Which of these do you favor?

New on ArtStation Learning this course by @ctrlPaint introduces the fundamentals of concept art for games, Watch it now > bit.ly/2CNclER #ArtStationHQ #ArtStationLearning #GameArt