Kojima is looking for new people to join him in making games. Will you be the next Shinkawa?
Also, jobs thread.
http://www.kojimaproductions.jp/
https://www.artstation.com/jobs
>>2317353
I'd love to work for Kojima but I'm not even close to good enough. I do have a question though - why do these job discussion threads keep getting deleted? It's one of the few really informative and productive topics that comes up, I never see any arguing, but they keep getting deleted and I don't understand why. I really hope this one lasts.
>>2317365
They get deleted? I used to post jobs and competitions some time ago and they stay up throughout. I guess just try to keep the discussion art related.
Anyway, I'd be happy if any of you d/ic/ks could get a job with Kojima.
>>2317368
I feel like the last two I've seen have been pruned, but maybe they just didn't bump fast enough and I wasn't paying attention.
That would be great though, there are some people here I think are good candidates. I've been trying to bring some of Shinkawa's looseness and use of heavy shadow into my work lately. While I've actually been pleasantly surprised with some of the results, it's still too new for me. Whoever he works with will probably need to be someone who's already pretty refined. Also I can't design worth shit lol. Got any more art? I love looking at this kind of stuff.
Not sure if this warrants its own thread by this board's standards*, but free stuff so imma post it anyway:
I did a siterip of Pose Maniacs, the popular figure drawing tool. Mega link below.
Each of their 1130 poses is just a sequence of 36 JPEGS stuck in a clunky, unresponsive SWF viewer.
Shitty viewer kinda defeats the purpose of the site, IMO.
So I wrote a script to pull out all the stills and reorganize them.
Added a "previews" folder with just the first image of every sequence.
Too many images to fuck with contact sheets so don't even go there.
Total unzipped size is around 1 GB.
https://mega dot nz/#!LB0hGDAQ!G4Ev6DzRvPoK-jDe9XcQYmHSeV1-0BT4WJ9N-Fwa_Qw
*also might not be around for the next sharethread, so if somebody could throw this into the mix for the next one that'd be nice
>>2317106
This is great. Thx for taking the time and sharing
>>2317106
I applaud you for your effort but posemanics is gay in every way.
>>2317116
It has its uses. I don't often refer to it but it can help point me in the right direction sometimes.
So for the Santa program at work, I ended up with the card for a 14 year old guy. He asked for drawing supplies, with no other info supplied.
So far, I've been thinking about:
Moleskin Sketchbook
Strathmore 400 sketch pad
and a pack of Sakura pens.
I'm assuming they're a low income family since they're in the program, so I'm trying to balance between "nice" stuff for him, and buying him more items of a slightly lower quality.
So what would you guys want for Xmas if you were a broke 14 year old dude?
And critique the pic if you want.
>>2317073
That sounds pretty good already to be honest. If you are already getting him some pens maybe try getting a decent brushpen too as it will open up a lot of new possibilities for him and would likely be something he hasn't tried before.
If you want to spend more you can also get him an instructional book too. Maybe one of Loomis' books or something. Or How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way might be better for a 14 year old while still being of actual use (many drawing books aimed at kids are garbage). I'm not sure really how serious a 14 year old would be, but if he is interested in art then exposing him to a resource that could lead him out of amateurism to a professional career one day might not be a bad idea. Or maybe an instructional book is too "boring" for someone of that age, and a book like The Art Spirit, or maybe Art and Fear would be better.
>>2317089
Yeah, that's the thing about the instructional books...I'm not sure if he's copying daVinci sketches or manga...
>>2317073
A decent sketchbook, some pencils, eraser, sharpener, and a link to the wiki.
Lookin for some voice acting tips, whats good about it, whats bad about it, lemme know whats up https://clyp.it/pxgwz11f
>>2317046
cringed
what are doalars
That was pretty good anon, i really liked the victim part you pretty much nail em, the interrogator could have used more aggression and the other mobster was okay, maybe you could have added him a bit more dummed down tone.
Defenetly would recommend watching one of the ricepirate voice acting tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flr9Lua2ka0
also whenever your talking to the mic try talking THRU it not to it. It will add more of a character that way.
Btw do you have any links to your works or maybe a website. I tried acting myself but im really shit so im thinking finding other people to voice act in my animations. Would you be interested in that?
I always really struggle with rendering, especially smooth skin. I was told not to blend because it ruins the tooth of the paper, however i find it really hard to do continuous shading while minding the surface planes without being able to see lines. Do you have any rendering tips?
>>2316939
go away
>>2316946
That was fast.
Wish I could help OP, but I don't work much with pencil. Hopefully someone less retarded than this guy will come along.
>>2316948
well appreciated anyway.
I've only been at it for about a month and a half and am interested in exploring new techniques. So what do you use?
I'm still working with number 2 pencils. They actually feel pretty good to draw with if you sharpen them manually with a safety edge razor or a paper cutter
Pencils suck, the value range is minimal and colour is where it's at.
Watercolour/oils mainly. Minor Ink wash jazz. Oil pastel if I need to be mobile.
nice pens and mechanical pencils only. i can't stand wood pencils
anybody here know where can I get dynamic sketching 2?
>>2316682
why not tell me mmh?
we could exchange some things
>>2317005
First you gotta solve my riddle
>>2317023
but you are not even the anon I was speaking to :C
but aight I will solve your riddle
Anybody have the pdf of this book?
I find it so fucking hard to find pdfs of art books man. And they're so fucking expensive. Life sucks.
>>2316633
yes
>>2316650
so gibe gibe
What is the best way to teach toddlers/little kids how to draw?
>>2316453
Give them them drawing materials and let them develop a taste for doing it.
Let them have fun with it
Actually learning perspective, anatomy, etc will take basic geometry knowledge and life experience I don't think someone younger than 12 can possibly have, when dealing with small kids the best thing to do is give them a pencil and let them have fun while drawing, they will benefit greatly from this.
what's some good music to paint/draw etc. to, /ic/?
here's what I just listened to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK0yv9ME-h8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK0yv9ME-h8
*accidentally posted the same video twice.
I listen to a lot of movie soundtracks. The Prestige is a good one.
Just Zappa.
Zappa day and night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKWNVXwlAk4
what do you guys listen to while you draw?
i listen to youtube artist streams a lot. i'm on sycras super-streams and they're pretty gr8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H89AypaH7BM
Mostly instrumentals
>>2315974
the GoT books, I already got through the tales of dunk and egg this way
LPers and reviwers
and I don't even like vidya or the things being reviwed that much but the mix of trash talking and random bursts of noise is pretty soothing.
>>2315251
Read the bottom two text bubbles.
Is life experience essential for becoming a 'good' artist?
Short answer, yes
>>2316405
pretty much this
But isnt drawing itself a life experience?
I'm looking for a word document posted here a year or so ago about "learning to draw in a year" or something to that effect, posted by a tripfag I can't remember for the life of me. It started off with telling you to download the "Perspective 1-10" tutorial series, and listed other good resources as it went down. Does anyone still have it? If so, please upload it!
>>2306206
You mean this?
https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=E06DB73ECC23E4EF!679&ithint=file%2codt&app=Word&authkey=!AD8ifQUs5NTi40Y
>>2306207
YEAH, that's the one. Thanks man, really appreciate it.
>>2306207
Huh, this one's more fleshed out. Neat.
Man you guys look like a talented bunch, have any of you won an award yet?
>>2317251
I've won several over the years and I still am depressed. Recognition is pretty meaningless.
>>2317251
I've won the
Mom & Dad tell friends and relatives I'm still 'finding myself' instead of telling them I dropped out of uni to become an artist - award.
>>2317251
I won a few through school/college. Nothing worthwhile.