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*SPOILERS AHEAD FOR UNCHARTED 4*
Uncharted 4- Kids’ room designs
I was tasked with designing both Nate’s orphanage and Cassie’s bedroom for Uncharted 4. These levels bookend the game, and showcase two very different childhoods.
I worked with Neil to establish the mood in these two pieces with lighting and set dressing. Where Nate’s room is stark and empty, mostly dark with cool lighting, Cassie’s was to be lit with soft, warm light. Her room is full of stuff. her walls are covered in posters, pictures and evidence that she’s lived a pretty awesome childhood so far. She’s messy and a bit careless with her things, as many kids with lots of stuff tend to be. Nate’s a character who we know to be vibrant, adventurous and creative. We wanted to really drive home how his room didn’t really reflect any of those aspects of his character.
I thought about my own upbringing a lot while working on these rooms. My dad was raised in a tiny village in Greece where he had little to nothing in the way of toys clothes or books. When he moved to Canada and they had me, he worked hard to make sure I had everything he didn’t. I imagined this same sort of relationship between Nate and Cassie. I imagine that when he gave all of the treasure hunting stuff up he did it to make sure Cassie had a better childhood than he ever could.
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Answer:
Well, this doesn’t sound so much like an art problem; it’s more a problem of self-discipline and motivation, no? You have to be very strict with yourself. Pick the project that you feel the strongest about, shelve the others, and set deadlines. Put aside time each day to work on the project, even if it means not doing fun things. Maybe you need to give up watching tv or movies, or playing video games, or playing on your phone to make time for it.
That does sound very motherly, doesn’t it? :)
But yeah, if you can’t muster up the self-discipline to do the work, the work will never happen. You have to ask yourself how much you really want to make the comic happen. How much are you willing to sacrifice?
The truth is, we’re all creative. You’re not really that special just because you have some good ideas or you draw okay. What makes an artist truly noteworthy and successful is their drive and their work ethic. A successful passion project is 5% inspiration, 95% perspiration. Get out there and sweat.
Preach it, girl! This is something a lot of people don’t understand about making comics. It’s a LOT of work and you have to be really dedicated to it.
The internet is filled with partially-started comics that died after only a chapter or two. Sometimes it’s just not possible for the artist to continue for one reason or another, but most of the time it’s because they find out it’s more work than it’s “worth” to them. How much is your story worth to you?
#words #inspiration
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#inspiration #words of wisdom #self promotion #never stop tryingAlright, sit down, because I need to rip this myth open.
First, let’s talk about the advertising industry. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent by corporations and business of every size, in every market imaginable, to promote– you guessed it– themselves. They want you to buy their product, they don’t want you to buy their competitor’s products, they want you to believe they’re not a horrible souless entity that is callously destroying the environment, they want you to vote for their candidate of choice. They pay, and advertising companies– including their employed artists, craftspeople, and designers– get paid. It’s a legitimate, if showy and backbreaking, profession. No one bats an eye at this.
Now let’s talk about being one person with a new webcomic on the internet. You are posting that comic for free. You want people to read it and enjoy it, and maybe you want enough of a readership to be able to sell books when you print them. Maybe you want to run a kickstarter someday.
On your own. By yourself. You’re an artist, or, at least, you draw. Maybe you’ve had an arts education, but you probably haven’t. If you’re chiefly interested in webcomics, maybe you’re shut out of the mainstream comics industry– you’re a woman, you’re not white, you’re queer, you’re trans, you’re poor. Okay.
When you go to do the most sensible, logical thing– to proudly talk about your comic to your followers, to boost your own tumblr posts, to link to it on twitter, to post it on multiple platforms, to start a Patreon or a Kickstarter, to promote, advertise, and otherwise remind people that you and your comic exist– you get people who tell you to stop. That you’re an egotistical, overblown narcissist. That you’re annoying. That you’re a tacky self-promoting nuisance.
This is bullshit.
Never apologize for promoting yourself. Never shut up about your comic.
That is how you build an audience.