Invisible Cities: A Short Reflective Statement

The Invisible Cities digital concept art project is to produce three pieces of images for the environment of a 3D animated film. The process started with drawing several thumbnails for the final composition.

Due to the lack of experience in 2D digital painting, the process was quite challenging especially when it comes to adding details to objects in the scene and perspective drawing. Another hardship was lighting which led the time of the scene to set as night.

Throughout the process, 2D digital painting skills in Photoshop improved significantly as well as traditional drawing skills including perspective drawing and coloring. Apart from technical improvements, the process of looking into different places and combining them to create a new place helped a lot with generating ideas.

In general sense, time management was quite difficult since there are a lot of different tasks not only for this project but the coursework from the university and my personal work. As the deadline comes closer, all the work was rushed which eventually resulted in worse final quality.

In conclusion, the lack of experience in drawing and time management was the biggest trouble and it was able to gain digital painting and material research skills in this project.