It’s the first week of class in the High-End Fantasy Game Art Creation workshop offered at CGSociety.org. It’s been several months since I’ve done any Lynda.com or Conceptart.org classes, I’m itching to learn again. I’ve been heavy into Javascript and painting the last two years. It’s time to sharpen my 3D game art skills.

The course is taught by Katon Callaway, a character artist on God of War 3. I’m stoked to learn everything I can from his class. I’ve only watched half the videos from this week’s course and I’ve learned a few important practices already.

For our first assignment we are to pick the character we’ll be building through the course. We’re encouraged to pick an existing character/design so we can move forward quickly and not waste time developing costumes or updating our blogs that two coworkers and maybe a cousin who clicks the wrong link from Facebook ends up at. My top 3 choices are Prince of Persia, Mitsurugi from Soul Calibur, and Lion-O from the new Thundercats. I’m leaning towards Mitsurugi cause he has the most interesting costume in variety of materials, patterns, and layers.

I’m itching to get started on the modeling… but alas I have JURY DUTY in eight hours.

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