Model making and digital art

Model making and digital art have gotten big roles in the movie, videogames, animation and advertising industries. Digital art has also become a very popular hobby for many artists. Here's some info on them.


Sculptures/Model making

Some people like to make sculptures, These can be made out of clay, stone, wood, resin, upholstery foam etc. This is a good skill for making figurines for franchises or mask making. It is also a skill that is used to create vehicles and monsters to help film makers and video game companies to visualize their ideas.  This form of art takes a lot of 3 dimensional thinking so you can build the figure in your head and then create the figure in real life. This can be messy and VERY time consuming, so sculpting isn't for everyone.

Digital 2D Art

Digital art is one of the more recent forms of art. It is more technical than your ordinary pen and eraser. Erasing mistakes and creating symmetry is easy but actually drawing perfect lines is something that is difficult. It is also not a cheap hobby with buying the right drawing program, a fast HD computer and  a decent tablet for drawing with. Although I simply use a Samsung galaxy note 10.1 2014 tablet along with a €3 drawing app called artflow. The  drawing tablets that don't have their own digital screens are the most affordable and the most used. It takes a lot of practice to improve your hand eye coordination so you can actually draw properly! You will start of drawing like a frustrated penguin but eventually you will get better with practice. Digital art can be very rewarding and is used to make the fantasy art that you see on game advertisements and much more!

Animation
Animation is using multiple drawn pictures to create movement. This is primarily done digitally but a few people still do it traditionally with paper and pencil. Animation is something that a few people may want to do but do not have the patience or time. Each frame is very similar to the last so you feel like your drawing the same picture over and over again. 40 frames can create a 4 second animation. This can vary a little depending on how smooth you want the animation or how quickly you make the animation move from frame to frame. The slowest part is colouring all of the frames in with the right colours. Then a small amount of shading is added to make the animation a higher quality. They don't add too much shading though because that would take to long and it is the final step in colouring in animation. Animation studios have teams of people animating and a landscape artist to make the backgrounds using acrylic paint. There are animators in Japan called "Sakuga." These animators animate entire scenes on their own and are payed a huge amount of money. They create very high quality animations too since Japan has a huge animation industry. 5 minutes of animation will take a Sakuga way over a year to finish.