My Chosen Brief

I have chosen to work to the brief for Concept and Pre Production Design. I feel that this Brief will really push me to improve my digital painting skills. 

The Brief Outline:

This unnamed film is set in the gritty and violent world of Frank Frazetta’s ‘The Death Dealer’. Your task is to develop 3 professional quality concept scene images which describe 3 potential scene designs for the film. The producers are keen to retain the classic Frazetta ‘semi-realistic’ style but they will allow creative license as long as the atmosphere and mood of the project is underpinned. They also mentioned the existing popularity of gritty realism in entertainment appeals to them.

Frank Frazetta's painting style has always been something that I have aspired to after seeing a selection of his work based on Conan in this book (below). Thanks to mum and dad many moons ago.

The majority of the time my work revolves around character or environment design, this brief will also prove a challenge to work in this context which for some reason very rarely happens. As a result of this i feel that I have missed opportunities to produce finished digital paintings portraying full scenes and this brief would be ideal to get a start on adding this type of work to my portfolio.

One of my goal since starting to paint digitally is to translate my knowledge of traditional oil painting to digital media and I feel that this brief will give me the opportunity to explore this further.