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Industry ResearchDesired Job Role- Character Concept ArtistInterested in Games/animated film industry(mainly adventure and fantasy genre) Companies: Square Enix japanese video game developers BONES (studio) japanese animation

I am really inspired by japanese modern styled art

Character concept artist- Games Artist or Production designer (Animation)Involves Art, 2D computer animation, 2D drawn animation, 3D computer animation

Job Role- Character Concept ArtistTo carry out character concept design and then to show art director where criticism will be made where it is most likely areas that you may need to make change until it is successful.This job is similar to graphic/product designers; producing a range of designs and only developing it until it has been approved.Before developing stage, designs should not have a lot of time consumed into fine detail in case the art director does not approve.

Skill SetThe main skillset required for career path is that it would be useful to have comic book art and/or storyboarding skills (with mood/lighting) as a concept artist.Companies would typically demand to see an art portfolio that should demonstrate a range of work, originality of style; the ability to draw from life, knowledge of anatomy and architecture, the ability to convey facial expressions and emotions, composition and perspective etc.

Strength and Weakness of skills setStrengths: experience in software design programs/tools - and using wacom tablet facial drawings with features/details shading and highlights Communication in design

Weaknesses: backgrounds (environmental concept) animating with clean detailed drawings some perspective views (extreme angles) not having many contacts from industries

CV-layout influence

My previous CV before currentMost recent:Need to fix fontswith Indesign(on 2nd, 1st is clearer)up-to-date withprofile detailsand save as pdf.

Business card influence ideas

My Business card idea

I am going to attempt to make a business card sleeves where my main original character illustration would be coloured behind the contact details inside and the front (sleeve) would have my logo cutout.

Logo design-Early stageDesign influence, original character- Huskyshaped A into a husky tailStarted as a logo for my hobby for drawing.Logo created using Wacom tablet and a software program similar to photoshop with pen pressure sensitivity

http://akyliahuskii.deviantart.com/ - uploaded hobby (mainly fan-art) artwork

Logo design

Font type: Blacked out middle of the A tomake the tail shape look morenoticeableFrom Bitmap to Vector Diagram using Adobe IllustratorFont type to match my design style

social media purposes

Square Enixs character designer-Video game Final Fantasy

BONES studio - Anime (japanese animated film)Fullmetal alchemist and Black Butler- aka Kuroshitsuji

Concept artist- Kekai Kotaki(not japanese styled game)(portfolio) Character concept artist in the games industry

Their (game companies) ExperienceArenaNet, Bungie, National Geographic, Wizards

of the Coast, Tor Books, Blur, DC Comics, Valiant

Entertainment, Applibot Inc, Harebrained

Schemes, Fantasy Flight Games, Paizo, Phoenix

Age, ROBOT Communications, ImagineFX,

Macmillan, Fantom Print, Eclipse Publishing,

Ballistic Publishing, Brilliance Audio, K2

Snowboarding

http://www.kekaiart.com

Screenshots of pervious bloghttp://aprilhuski.tumblr.com/

WHAT I NEED TO DO NEXT. Develop my drawing (character) designs Update blog with best work Create Business card Screengrabs my work process (access to software

programs used) (most work currently saved as png files or software file)

Buy a domain name once I have all the project work= best work gathered- online portfolio (currently-http://aprilhuski.weebly.com/)

(Done most now and bought domain name- aprilhoangart.com)