DiVonte Gorham Proposal

As a digital artist, my work focuses on creating assets for use in entertainment media, which is primarily categorized as, but not limited to, interactive experiences such as video games. Assets range in meaning, but include Software used for creating 2D works are Adobe  Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Alchemy, while 3D works are created using 3D Studio Max and other Autodesk programs. Exhibitions of these works are then meant to be viewed as ‘light-images’, as opposed to works rendered with pigments, to emphasize the ethereal and intangible nature of the medium itself. A secondary motif behind this is chaos used to create order, displayed with controlled forms/silhouettes, though letting a range of values create disorder within the works to remove the perfect uncanny valley feel from computer graphics.

While the final works will be digital, some concept work and studies used to reach the final point will make use of pencil. As a quick means of creating rapid, though less defined, compositions and works, these steps are still ever important and will be presented close to their final works when possible.

The scale of works is limited primarily by equipment and image resolution, which will be kept at around 300DPI for the sake of good-practice, rather than the physical limitations of materials. In subject, the works will focus on the organic figure, though occasionally exploring the environment as a means to create meaning within the images; more precisely, there will be a heavy focus on design and the meaning behind design choices within ranges of color, form, silhouette, readability, plausible animations, and utility. Some video will be used as a means to shed light on the process, considering the lack of Individual artists acting as primary influences on my artwork include Feng Zhu, David Dociu, and Andrew ‘Android’ Jones. Inspiring teams of artists include Massive Black, Steambot Studios, Team Ico, and Blizzard.