"Thumbnails are a cool tool..... As artists we tend to start with a single idea, sketch it, refine it, and polish it You invest your time and feelings into one concept and become attached to it, and it becomes harder to engage with other ideas. For most of us the first sketch will be generic and heavily influenced. Even if we make several initial sketches we have often already decided in our minds that the first is the best, and the others are just fill-ins to make up the numbers. The more variation in sketching, the more critical comparisons you can make. You don’t need to spend much time on this! Often you only need an hour or so to generate a variety of basic ideas. This advice from Designshack is spot-on, you may recognise yourselves here! Cool It on the Details, Picasso Some of you out there are sketch artists. You’re never happier than when you have a pencil in your hands. Others are truly horrid with a pencil and can’t produce a decent sk...
BA Hons Computer Animation Arts is a 3 year degree course at the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, UK.