Digital Art Mentorship

Level up your digital art

Introduction

Frame of Mind is a digital art program that allows students to learn all aspects of game and movie concept design in an easy and fun way. In addition to character design, environmental design, Z-brush and story making, we also offer a variety of other aspects related to the current game/movie concept design market. Make your game and movie concept designer’s dream come true through one-on-one mentoring and career

Each course is designed to target in depth portfolio skills for applying to companies. Each class will be held online through discord, there will be a live demo session, each class is 4 hours long and be assigned to a specific instructor. The instructor are highly qualified with experience in the field, will offer life time mentorship.

Who is this for?

To illustrator , future concept artist who want to start their creative journey within the entertainment industry , whether your a beginner or intermediate level student these course are design to level up your skills.

Requirements

Student will need a computer with photoshop installed,a graphics tablet and a discord ID account for the online course.

Character Design
4 week course

Character Design

The character design course is structured to understand the human figure. Students will study proportion, while learning the shape and function of the human skeletal and muscular systems for both the head and full body. Gesture, rhythm muscle structure will be taught by instructor. Throughout the course the student will enhance their ability to develop unique character designs based on different storyline.

There will be an emphasis in character exploration through personality and shapes. The students will build a strict guideline on using references and using real life time periods. The goal of this course to push your creative limits and create dynamic and develop impactful character designs.

Price - $25/hr
Duration- 4hr long sessions

WEEK 1- To begin this course we will discuss the beginning stages of a project, including discussing various genres, design principles and what a designer’s fundamental job is. You will choose a project brief to complete over the length of the course.
WEEK 2- Before starting the design I will teach you how to pose and light a figure using Daz3D. A strong anatomical foundation goes a long way towards a successful design. We will then experiment with some costume variations.
WEEK 3- This class will discuss the blueprint for a character design. Having a consistent working practice and organizational skills is as important as technical ability. Here your design really takes shape.

Gallery example student

Environment Design
4 week course

Environment Design

This environment design course will walk you through the fundamentals techniques to achieve beautiful breathtaking background art for animation, films, and videogame.

Throughout the course you will be assigned a project, this project will consist of developing a narrative based on the genre, sci fi or fantasy, It could be inspired by any film or media you would like.The instructor will introduce Perspective helping students to explore a variety of basic and complex laws that convey the illusion of dimensional forms in space on a two-dimensional surface.

In this session we will cover different ways to use color in the context and general color relativity. The demo will cover painting directly in color but will retain all that we have previously learned about value, lighting, and composition. Students will be given all criteria and directions for the final assignment.

Price- $25/hr
Duration- 4 hours

Gallery Work Examples students