CGHUB - The Social Network for Professionals in Entertainment

 
I just recently came across CGHUB and have been hooked since my first visit to the site. Basically, it's deviantART without the 13 year old anime fangirls clogging up the feed with their really quite terrible "artwork." This is a place where you can really find talented individuals with an eye for creature and character design. The majority of the work posted on the site is digital, both 2D and 3D, but you can still find traditional artwork on the site. I have found profiles of concept artists who post some of their work for films that have recently come out, like Pacific Rim, The Hobbit, and others.

If you have an account, you can post your own illustrations for the world to see, as well as comment, like, share, and favorite other people's work, and subscribe and follow different artists whose collection of work you would like to revisit in the future. When posting new works, you can ask other members of the site to critique your work. It's a helpful tool because better artists than you man stumble across your image and give you just the advice you needed. 

On the home page, the Editors Picks are featured at the top (a collection of really superb works of art), and below them are a collage of "Popular Now" works of different sizes, showcasing a variety of styles and content from different artists. Whenever a new image is posted, or some other notifiable activity occurs on the site, there is a tiny thumbnail at the very top of the page saying ______ left a comment on _______. While sometimes this might be a little useless, occasionally cool new artists can be discovered by clicking on this link.

CGHUB also hosts Articles, Forums, and Challenges for its users to participate in. Job postings are available on the site as well, so professionals in the field looking for work can post their availability or organizations looking for artists can put an ad on the site when they're looking for artists. When I'm out of school, I plan to use this to try and find some work.

If you like this kind of website, I would suggest you check out these other art sites: Behance, CGSociety,  deviantART, ConceptArt.org
If you're interested, my profile is at kilianmcmann.cghub.com.

JERRY UELSMANN

Telling a Different Kind of Story

                                 

"THE CAMERA IS ESSENTIALLY A LICENSE TO

EXPLORE."

A designer and photographer, Uelsmann has created many works of art that both inspire and awe.  He has an interesting style, a strong belief in his purpose in design, and a lot of renown in the creative industry.

For someone like myself who is a designer and photographer, what he is able to do with photographs is something special.  He basically did photoshop before photoshop was created, all of which was done in a dark room.  Most of his photographs are black and white, but I think that that just adds to the drama of his work.  I find his connection between objects and the things that he puts together to be really fascinating.  I love nature, but also can appreciate the beauty in man-made structures, so his pictures of trees turning into houses, men having robotic attributes, and mixing human and nature are really fun to observe.  

I think that what I find most interesting about him is his process.  To some people now it might seem old fashioned to still do work in 
the dark room, but I think that that just adds  to his passion and mission in design.  In the shorter video that I provide below, he expresses how he loves being able to take visuals and alter them because for him it creates an even better story.  

 

        

To learn more about this amazing designer and photographer click on "Telling a Different Kind of Story" to go to his website or visit the links to videos below:
     

Shorter video

click her for Longer video, it is worth it!!

For all the gamers out there...

*Originally I was going to talk about another website that covers corporate and brand identity work, but I stumbled upon this website so that other one will just have to wait.

The Game Art Hub (www.gamearthub.net/) is an archive-like resource formed in 2012. It has around 80 posts and is continuously growing with new posts every week. The site is perfect for those who are interested in becoming a video game design artist because that's all this site has - concept arts and models for video games. 


The site has collected concept arts from many hit titles like The Last of Us, Call of Duty, HALO and more. Many of their posts start with a short paragraph introducing the artist(s) or the studio, the video game in question and their opinion about the video game. They might also go into detail regarding the creator's career history, technical aspect of the project, or some interesting facts about the game / project.

The video game industry has been growing steadily in recent years. In 2013 Grand Theft Auto V set a world record for having the highest revenue generated by an entertainment product in 24 hours., among other stunning records. Meanwhile, cheaper games offered on smartphones and tablets like Angry Bird is transforming the industry into an ultra-competitive, multi-billion dollars market of casual games and apps. Video game design is definitely a shining career path.

For more info, visit www.gamearthub.net/

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