Scott with a crisp, wall-mounted Epic Games logo.
I am recently back to London from Cary, North Carolina, where I ran a two-day anatomy masterclass for the concept artists and character artists at Epic Games. This team is responsible for ALL the character designs in Fortnite – Epic Games’ main, enduring title (as well as a few others). We had about fifty concept artists (2D) on-site at Epic HQ, and the character artists (3D) joined remotely by Zoom.
Clearly it’s not possible to cover the anatomy of the entire body in two days, so extreme editing was required. We did manage a deep dive into what I consider the essential anatomical principles for artists and we ended each day with drawing sessions using reference from BodiesinMotion.photo’s Quickdraw feature (a couple of my efforts can be found here). I love having concept artists on my workshops since they like to draw as much as I do and are generally happy to grind away on drawing practice.
It was a whirlwind trip to be sure (especially travelling transatlantic), but as a longtime Fortnite player (since COVID, anyways), it was fun to visit HQ and meet the very talented, hardworking artists responsible for most of the pixels I’ve seen in-game over the years!
Prepping the setup…
And a few more images (if you play Fortnite, you’ll recognise a couple of these):
