3 hour lecture/lab taught in an interactive manner
(1:20)3

100% course work
Log Book (50%) equivalent to 2,000 words assessing Learning Outcomes 1, 2 and 3
Associated practical work (50%) assessing Learning Outcome 4

In the first semester students will create original game concept environments using the process of matt painting in 2D applications. In the second semester students will amalgamate 2D and 3D design workflow. A range of application based skills and traditional skills are covered along with industry best practice work flow based on standard game concept design.

Students will cover the following topics:
- Matte Painting Fundamentals.
- 1,2,3 Point Perspective and foreshortening.
- Value Perspective, Colour Perspective, Linear Perspective.
- Separating of visual planes.
- Camera placement and perspective.
- Rapid digital colour Sketching.
- Creation of depth foreground and detail.
- 2D/3D photometric lighting.
- Psychology and semiotics of cultural environments.
- Detailing, Special FX and 3D particles
- Colour management and workflow control.
- Environmental effects on form and engineering structures.
- 2D/3D texturing techniques
- Physics, psychology of movement and action.
- Painting with CG Renders
- Camera mapping and compositing

CE00740-1 Concept Design 1: Game Character Concepts or equivalent

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Peachpit Press; 2004, ISBN-13: 978-0321168917

Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor's Landscape of Dreams (Adobe Master Class), Amy Standen, Adobe Press 2005; ISBN-13: 978-0321306142

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Peachpit Press 2004; ISBN-13: 978-0321168917

3D Studio Max
Adobe Photoshop
Corel Painter