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/Simon Stålenhag Appreciation | April 2022
Simon Stålenhag Appreciation | April 2022
Simon Stålenhag Appreciation | April 2022
Simon Stålenhag Appreciation | April 2022

Simon Stålenhag Appreciation | April 2022

Welcome to The Empire Monthly Challenge!

You are all welcome to stretch your artist legs. Get out of your comfort zone or artist block, and unleash your full potential!

There are no winners or prizes, it's all about challenging yourself. The deadline is purely to indicate the start of the next challenge, if you need more time to finish up that's okay.

Modifiers are optional rules for the challenge that allow you to push your skills even further!

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Art by Simon Stålenhag
Art by
Art by Simon Stålenhag

Environment Challenge - Challenge Focus

Simon Stålenhag Wonder

Simon has a very specific look and detail that you can recognize right away. capturing that look and feel in what I would call the Simon Stålenhag wonder is the goal. Pay attention to shapes / sizes as well as color palette and mood. There are two pieces to pick from.

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Modifier (GROUP)

Grouping up!

Group up with one or more artists. I would suggest:

  • Leader - Making overall calls or final decisions for the team from discussion. they will also support with props and framing.
  • Prop Artist x2 - Focus is first to props but helps throughout as well.
  • Material Artist - Focus is first to materials but helps throughout as well.
  • Presentation Artist - Focus is first to camera angles and framing. If a video is to be done that would be the main goal of the presentation artist. Also will help throughout.

MODIFIER ADDS ONE MONTH TO YOUR CHALLENGE DEADLINE FOR A TOTAL OF 2 MONTHS STARTING APRIL 1st

If you assemble a team please Contact Din. 🙂 We can get you a team section setup in the discord to you have a supported place to share progress. DiNusty can also give suggestion on process and production planning.

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Art by Simon Stålenhag

Prop Challenge - Challenge Focus

Title Challenge

Description

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Modifier (Simon Style)

Simon Style

Capture the textural feel of the piece in your texturing phase. I supplied the images below to show the texture. click for a bigger image.

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Art by Simon Stålenhag

Prop Challenge - Challenge Focus

Early Loop Piece

Kind of like a buoy meets sensor type instrument. Shapes and texture are key but also the scale. Notice the size of a boat next to sensor 85

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Art by Simon Stålenhag

Substance Challenge - Material Focus

Simons Dunes

Capturing the slight changes in color and sand type. Bit of larger rock scatter the micro peaks.

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Modifier (Terrain)

Terrain

Take your material to the next level by actually turning it into a workable terrain with macro dunes to support the material surface you have created.

Red Room Flood

A flooded room still and abandoned. a great piece to focus on still life materials all interacting in natural ways.

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Modifier (Lighting)

Lighting

Taking existing assets and just focus on mood and lighting.