Friday, July 23, 2010

Video Game industry soaring high


Surging growth of video game industry has brought about several coveted job positions for career-oriented aspirants in related field. One of the demanding job positions within graphic and animation field is the profession of video game character artist. Character artists are skilled and qualified professionals who design video games and shape video game characters.
A professional video game character artist must know basics for creating video games. However, his or her prime job is to determine the types of characters that can match the requirements of the newly crafted video games. Possessing advanced technical knowledge about computer artists.

Job Specification
Character animation professionals or character artists are trained people who build and design characters, shape their looks and give movements to them. So they should ideally possess strong drawing sketches of various creatures on white board or paper. Once the basic design is finished, character artists create the same design in computer with the help of modeling software.
The work of video game character artists begin with plain shapes. These are known as primitive polygons. Then, these polygons are stretched, twisted and combined to form the shape of the skeleton which seems to be covered with mesh of wire. Thereafter, the mesh of wire is covered with virtual skin and muscles. Finally, colors are added.

Required professional training
Video game character artists can be professionally trained in video game animation and design schools, colleges, universities and vocational training institutes located in Chandigarh. These institutes offer diploma programs in large numbers of related fields including video game character designing.

Course work taught in video game character, animation and design degree program also includes several technical training such as storyboarding, characterization, drawing, modeling and design

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