Cinematic Illustration Digital Painting in Photoshop (Udemy.com)
Learn how to Create an Environment Concept Art for Films and Games using Photoshop
Created by: Victory3D LLC
Last updated January 2020
What you will learn
- Digital paint an environment from start to finish
- Apply mood and narrative to your concept art
- Use color and light to to enhance your illustration
- Achieve and explore good composition
- Sketch values to arrange pieces into effective patterns
- Use concept art for story telling and selling ideas
- Understand how color and shape works
Quality Score
Overall Score : 78 / 100
Course Description
Leo Lee is currently working as a Concept Artist in Ubisoft and had worked on games such as Far Cry Primal and Watch Dogs 2. He had also completed his own personal comic book which contains 160 color illustration pages and took him years to make for his company Creative Gear Design. His all time favorite game is The Witcher 3 and Assassin's Creed because he found the storytelling and lighting amazing and truly breathtaking. He also love to watch movies that show great cinematography, storytelling and interesting composition and design elements. His favorite movies are Blade Runner, Perfume, Raging Bull, and The Untouchables. His advice for students just starting out in the industry is to respect and try ways to interact with the artists who had valuable experience and learn from them. He also believes that it is important to keep up with the latest trends and the most current production workflow. Leo loves digital painting and art but his second biggest interest is creating music as he sees it as very similar to painting where you can create mood and narrative that connects with the audience.
Course Info
In this course, Leo shares his experience on how a production level keyframe illustration is made. He shows you how to create a keyframe cinematic illustration painting from start to finish. He goes over different lighting techniques, color palettes, how to explore and achieve good composition by modifying image structures and different subjects within the image quickly and efficiently. He demonstrates how he creates values and color for the painting, sets the tone by utilizing a variety of temperature and mood, and build a concept ready for story telling and selling ideas. Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn about color and composition
- Anyone interested in successfully conveying a story through digital painting
- Anyone who wants to understand how concept arts are created in the game and film industries
Instructor Details
- 3.9 Rating
50 Reviews
Victory3D LLC
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Our mission is to contribute to making dream jobs a reality so artists can live the life that they are meant to live using their gifts to entertain, to create smiles, to send a message and most importantly to inspire others in a global scale.
We provide students with affordable and substantial tutorials that are easy to understand and produce results. We believe that industry experience, effective teaching, and student interaction are the key ingredients for providing a high quality learning system. With Victory3D, you will find a collection of affordable courses made by artists with experience working in Ubisoft, Blizzard, Gameloft, MPC, Double Negative and many more!
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Reviews
By Magda Lysak
Za dużo 'blah, blah", za mało opisu workflow. Momentami wypowiedź niezrozumiała, w czym nie pomogła błędna, niedokładna transkrypcja.
By EvilCookiePants
Leo Lee interested me with his work quite recently. He is a really gifted designer, he knows what he does and he knows how to teach what is most important. The course is very useful, interestingly run, has no language barrier and is long enough. It is good to sit down to the graphic tablet while participating in the course and start creating your own project by following his instructions. Just following his brush and moving similar movements to our layer can give very interesting results. You do not have to concentrate too much on what he says, the information is very clear.
By Kine Haaland
Early in and not sure yet, but this course seems to include very raw cut-out of an artist’s established process. I find this great, but i could not have learnt sufficient from the course alone. It lacks things like thumbnailing and perspective. But really like the casual vibe so that i dont feel like listening to a teacher but rather exchange thoughts with a friend!
By Ron Slotkin
Like the other training downloads..moving too fast, cannot see settings adjustments
By Aurora
The rating is for the teaching style of the instructor who is an AMAZING artist, but as a student I didn't find it too helpful to just watch him draw and explain is process. That was informative, but I would have liked to have these 'lessons' broken up into small sections so that I could practice what I had just seen and build up my own version of his piece as he did his own.
As cool as it was at first seeing work coming to life I kinda became bored just watching him do his thing.












