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Breakdowns from the school curators: composition and perspective, colour theory, proportions, stylisation. And separately on the profession — how to build an ArtStation portfolio, what art directors ask at interviews and what an artist actually does at a game studio.
Studios look for artists on ArtStation, so portfolios get read fast and by thumbnail. What to show and in what order, how many pieces you need and how to make project covers sit together. Anna Kholomkina walks through uploading a first project step by step.
Complementary colours sit opposite each other on the wheel — they contrast and support each other at once, which is why the scheme is the most popular of the six basic ones. How it works is visible in Levitan, in the portrait of the Princesse de Broglie and in contemporary illustration.
The 3ds Max workspace is built from blocks: the main menu, the main toolbar, the viewports, the command panel, the time slider, object coordinates and the animation controls. It also shows how to assemble your own toolbar.
A recognisable character rests on three things: a silhouette that reads as a black shape, its own colour pairing and one or two signature details. The test is simple — fill the character in solid, and if people still know who it is, the silhouette works.
An emotion reads from three points: the brows, the shape of the eyes and the line of the mouth. Animation deliberately exaggerates the expression so it registers in a single frame. Valeria Lugovaya shows where beginners lose the character and end up with a grimace instead.
Answering is only half of an interview. The questions you ask show whether you understand how a studio works. How to open the conversation with an employer and what to ask before you accept an offer.
Style is not chosen in advance; it accumulates from decisions that repeat from piece to piece. School graduates describe how they work with silhouette and detail to make a character read as their own. A starting exercise: take a photo of someone you know and build a character from it.
Drawing well is half the job. Tatiana Nazhimova, a Senior Artist with eight years in mobile games, names five qualities that most often sink an interview: not following the tech, losing your own voice, being unable to explain your decisions, missing deadlines and not playing the games you draw for.
At a studio an artist does not only work in a graphics editor. Task trackers like Jira and Asana, chats, email, an internal knowledge base — what each tool is for. Turn up to an interview already knowing this software and you will not spend your first weeks on it.
