I signed up for this experimentspecial topics class called Digital Visual Development. It's listed under gaming, and focuses on concept art. It's basically all the drawing classes I was planning on taking rolled up into one. AWESOME. We're doing 6 completed character design by next Monday. Which is a hell of a lot more exciting than the previous assignment, which was creating emotions with teapots via facial expressions and the like. Apparently they have to be consistent enough design-wise to be able to co-exist amongst each other in whatever world they live in.
Student in class: "so...what exactly do you mean by 'completed?'"
Instructor: "well, that's entirely up to you. If it looks completed enough(good) then you can move on to the next character."
Class: "........"
.....this is going to take a while.
Matte painting has been a little bit more challenging, one reason being that it's online only. I'll begin the routing of posting things up near the beginning of the week starting monday.