Art
Game visuals today span the artistic spectrum, from iconic mobile graphics to lush AAA productions and now of course the shift towards virtual reality and a return to photo-realism. Our Art Track will provide artists with inspiration, practical advice, best-practise guidance and real-life case studies from not just the games industry but other creative industries too.
Art sessions
Seeing the Wood from the Trees: Making Awesome Foliage for Games
More and more we are seeing really great foliage in games. Not only does it look good, but it runs efficiently in the engine as well. In this presentation we’ll be identifying and analysing foliage in current generation games and then diving into practical advice and implementation, working within technology and time constraints, and finally what we can do to push the quality to be as good as it can be.
Takeaway
- Analysing foliage in the game world
- Identifying workflow techniques
- Working within technology constraints
Visual Composition in Games
The session outlines both the elements & principals of art, their use in traditional visual composition and the subsequent practical application of this to the medium of video games art. Delegates to will gain an understanding of the fundamentals of composition & the various techniques + methodologies employed in traditional art.
Solving an invisible problem: designing for colour-blindness
Drawing from his own experiences as a colour-blind gamer and developer, Douglas goes into detail about how the colour blind see the world, and how this can make some video games very difficult to play. He also addresses the issue of why developing for colour blindness is so difficult, with anecdotal examples from the development of Alien: Isolation and Halo Wars 2, and why some colour-blind solutions can still fail to make the game more playable. The aim of this talk is to deepen delegates understanding of exactly what colour blindness does to a gamer’s experience and expose them to some practices and solutions that can help make their games more accessible to the colour blind.
Physically Based Workflows Explained
The Physically Based revolution has been around for a while now. Even though you have adopted PBR successfully, you might still have many unanswered questions about how it works. Why doesn't the Substance Designer preview viewport match the results in engine? While we're on that topic, why no viewport in any program matches another software's viewport exactly, ever? What are Linear and Gamma precisely, and why do we bother with them? What practices which were absolutely common before Physically Based workflows arised, are going to break the realism of your materials in subtle ways? This talk has (most of) the answers to these, and many other questions you might have about Physically Based Rendering. Claudia Doppioslash guides you through the maze of Physically Based workflows, showing you how the physics of light impacts your workflows in practice. And including only sporadic references to mind-bending physics.
Takeaway
- What common (old) practices break Physically Based workflows
- Why no preview viewport actually perfectly matches another
- Hone your eyes so you'll become able to recognise different lighting models
Creating Art Tools in Unreal Engine 4
Although art is an incredibly rewarding creative role, sometimes it can be repetitive, tedious and painful. Using Unreal Engine's blueprint, learn how to create a range of tools that can rapidly improve production time for environments and characters.
Takeaway
Learn how Unreal Engine's Blueprint can be used to easily create simple but powerful tools for artists.
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