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RT Concept Art Panel things

Even though I am not an artist or smart but am very interested in BTS stuff

Lead concept artist (Erin Winn) for RWBY works close with Kerry to create characters, they look at inspirations, the theme of the characters, go over the designs three of four separate times to make sure they fit into the world, what the modelers need to make it work, and send it off to the modelers and make it work, then to environment

They say concept artists fail as much as possible - there’s only one true design they like so many many others will fail in order to get better

Character designs takes everything into account, character motivation, themes, purposes, and what’s feasible

Most animators in the design phase work mostly in photoshop or illustrator (rarely) then gets sent to modeling/rigging that then really gets fleshed out - puppet rigging system is used to see how they would be move and work functionally in the environment of the show

Backgrounds are created directly in photoshop for 2D projects, more complicated camera work in 3D that needs more involved backgrounds takes multiple systems

Artists at RT are starting to work more in 3D as time goes on - some employees are farther along with it than others - but they all need to keep up with the industry

Sometimes the panelists feel they’re taken too literally - they’ll leave out details that would flesh out the environment but no one else on the team would complete the environment - that’s why some times you see really empty spaces in the background

Some of their favorite sets from RWBY have been transferred into VR - like Weiss’s bedroom, which is apparently HUGE - but don’t do it often because it’s not practical and hard to do

For the new RWBY designs: the concept artists worked close with Ein Lee (the artists that does all the posters and outfit reveals) who gave them three versions of outfits, and the concept artists choose bits and pieces from each that look the best; with few additions from the concept team

But they can’t always go as cool or complicated they want to with the outfits because of limits on what rigging and modelers are capable of

The lead concept artist (Erin Winn) for RWBT also is on board with calling Blake’s haircut the Bisexual Bob

The alternate outfits the RWBY girls wear in vol 2 were made by Monty himself, the panelists said he was just messing around with designs in modeling and decided to put them in for a few episodes - every other outfit was by Ein Lee and the team together

The designs for GenLock were rather challenging just because every single design is completely new - the mechs went through several redesigns in a short amount of time, there were a ton of artists working on everything

Atlas is a major point of pride for everyone on the panel - it’s supposedly very big and beautiful and they can’t wait to show it off!

While Monty had a rough Poser copy of Qrow’s scythe, the current lead concept artist finished the final version and added a few details

Neon Katt and Flynt Coal were totally last minute additions because they needed another team for the Vytal Festival Tournament - at that point it was such a severe crunch time that the first idea they had went into the final designs! They really wanted to make something cool and Fast

Some of the hardest environments and characters were the final design of Atlas we see at the end of RWBY Vol 6, New York in the first ep of GenLock, the Union Soldier and Caliban’s design from GenLock, an upcoming animal design in Camp Camp, Velvet’s RWBY Chibi design, and Adam’s redesign in the Mistral Arc (they had over 24 designs and the artists was tired of Adam by that point)

Concept art is very hard to break into - there’s incredible competition to get in and you need to be very close to the writers/directors and knowledgeable of the animation process enough to know what the show needs and can do

#rwby #camp camp #gen:lock #yall go to the small panels theyre so much more interesting #rwby7 #rooster teeth #rtx #concept art

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