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Re: Coming up with cool designs
Get a pencil and paper and start tumbnailing ideas as they come to you. Its rare to just will a good idea into existence it is done via quick iteration times and building off other ideas. When coming up with ideas do quick thumbnails spend no more than a minute or 2 per idea, than later come back to them and decide which… -
Coming up with cool designs
Hi, i was wondering if people who do concepting and designing could possibly share a bit of how they think when they come up with designs or if there are any rules that they like to follow or guidelines that they have learned over the years. -
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There's a whole world/internet full of ideas, I don't know what you're hoping to accomplish with this thread, everyone is kind of doing their own thing. Maybe browse around design and concept blogs, they're filled with all sorts of new ideas. As per the usual 'burnt out feeling' threads that pop up often, try sketching… -
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Maybe you should make this thread about the design process. -
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if you've got spare time, you can follow streams of someone concepting. here's an example of someone at DE live concepting and explaining his thinking process at the same time. might have to skip to later in the video to skip the beginning stuff. http://youtu.be/xRx6ANi_c9s?list=UUBIdHvSAyoud-CNZOVKW2-w -
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Thanks guys but I really wanted to discuss in this thread the theory of design and how you have used it in your work. Thanks for the great sites by the way. :) -
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Also their is a free app called pureRef I find good for creating idea boards of images -
Re: Coming up with cool designs
Good advice above. Also what helps me is to visit concept art sites and save off images that speak to me in some way... whether it's the subject, or the lighting, or the colours, or the shapes. That folder of images becomes my go-to during the design process. It also helps to put the most relevant images together on one…
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