Why do you enjoy particular style? (fantasy, sci-fi, others)
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Hey, I am being curious about it for some time, so I think I would ask here.
So, there are many things you can create in 3d or just paint. Besides rare exceptions, you can notice that different people gravitate towards different settings (or styles, maybe). Some people do most of their work in fantasy setting (I am this kind of person). Others do mostly sci-fi. Someone else prefer modern age.
Why do I ask this? I am very interested in why do you like this particular style you work in. What inspires you to spend hundres and thousands of hours on this? Why does it fascinate you? For example, I find creating AK-47 completely boring and would never ever agree to make weapons like this. But at the same time there are people who really enjoy this sort of work and think about what I do as boring job.
So, why do you love Your setting (style)?
So, there are many things you can create in 3d or just paint. Besides rare exceptions, you can notice that different people gravitate towards different settings (or styles, maybe). Some people do most of their work in fantasy setting (I am this kind of person). Others do mostly sci-fi. Someone else prefer modern age.
Why do I ask this? I am very interested in why do you like this particular style you work in. What inspires you to spend hundres and thousands of hours on this? Why does it fascinate you? For example, I find creating AK-47 completely boring and would never ever agree to make weapons like this. But at the same time there are people who really enjoy this sort of work and think about what I do as boring job.
So, why do you love Your setting (style)?
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I find myself quite different from you, I'd love to model another AK-47 just to see how closely I could match its real-life counterpart, or how detailed I could get with it. In a turn of events, much like praetus, I enjoy working on military stuff but am currently working on a completely different type of game!
Personally I think it's a good idea to dip your toe in all genres at least once, just in case you find that you really enjoy it!
so sci fi remains consistent for me but all styles have their merit, don't write anything off cause the passion can hit you.
pretty much this, except; I started learning how to model in Maya, influenced by other artists and storylines made me a fan of fantasy, I loved si-fi and comics since I was a kid, me as tech savvy found style of games like Dota more appealing because it was modded and it was fantasy with the simple goal back in the days.
altho my software engineer and tech savvy side of things has very little to do with loving si-fi, but the idea of how things will be in the future, how things would turn out if we were all clones and the entire population was spreaded through out the universe, living on different planets makes it worth being a fan of.
yes yes I know, someone here once told me that those are the wrong reasons for me to like such styles but hay, profound knowledge and the background of such genres inspire me more then anything.
It is actually quite interesting - I've read all the answers and it looks like our childhood had huge influence on what we like as adults. Of course, it is not surprise, but still. I too grew up on Tolkien, Warcraft and WoW and othes, and it is dominant theme in my work - I tend to like stylized fantasy.
Oh, "fun" is quite different for everyone
Very good point. Exploration and curiousity! Does anybody have a story where they actually liked that style they thought would be boring?
Aight, I feel the same. While fantasy is my love and I don't really do sci-fi, but the mysteries of the Universe are so awesome. It is fascinating to think about things in cosmic scale, about other habitable planets, spaceships, other races and cultures. Fantasy is just a fantasy, but sci-fi has some flavour of reality, because in fact in thousands of years our civilization will probably find ways for interstellar travel.
I am not sure what one would call what I like, things to my liking seem to be more or less like the rpgs and platformers of yore. Perhaps "cartoony fantasy", "fantastic fantasy"; worlds where anything can happen, there are many different worlds with viarant levels of technology, and where folks have many interesting special attacks or things of that nature.
Examples of such would be
Earthworm Jim
Ristar
Dynamite Heady
Makai Kingdom
M & L RPG
Paper Mario
General Kirby Series
Things of that nature you know?
..when in reality 50% of them are probably doing aimless non-combat jobs around their base
Although to make thing muddier, I prefer realistic fantasy. In terms of how environment and characters look. But with epic magic feeling to it.
Oh man, WAR! What a great MMO, awesome memories. Shame about closing down....I thought Vigil were working on a 40K game (which I believe was to be the new 40k MMO) before they closed down, but I may be wrong. Hopefully someone will pick up the Warhammer license again in the future
Reality is always dimmer than imaginary worlds
Oh, did the close Warhammer MMO? What a shame, it was pretty good game. But guess they were doomed because they were too similar to WoW which is quite hard to compete with.
So yeah, scifi for sure....but, i'm also crazy about anything space related too. :P
Yeah, it just closed down back in December. From what I understand their license ran out and they couldn't come to an agreement with Games Workshop.
sounds biased, fantasy can be just as crazy do anything as sci fi. It's like saying sci fi is only about spaceships and aliens. I burnt out on series fiction a long time ago, which tend to be the more generic orcs & elves or spaceships and aliens. When you read authors that are confident enough to explore a theme in one book you get more original ideas.