{"id":1616,"date":"2021-10-27T16:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b21\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2021-10-27T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T20:19:58","slug":"perseus-rosencrantz-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/imgd3500-b21\/gdrynkowski\/perseus-rosencrantz-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Perseus Rosencrantz – Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hey all! My name’s Perseus Rosencrantz, but you can call me Percy (or Rose!), and I use he\/him. I’m from Portland, Maine, but spent a few years of childhood in Zurich, Switzerland, leading me to be very confused about where I feel like I’m from. I’m an IMGD BA major (obviously) and I’ve spent most of my life drawing dragons, cats, and other animals and furries. I’ve always figured art would have a major part in my future just because of the sheer amount of art I produced as a kid. So, I decided to pursue art… without going to art school, because who wants to do that. I figured, I like games, I like art, let’s do both, so here I am. I’ve always wanted to make games, too, anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As mentioned before, I’ve been drawing since I was like, four. I probably picked up digital art around 11. I’ve been doing both types of art ever since, although I tend to sketch on paper, and create completed drawings on my cintiq. I don’t and will not ever paint on paper. A few years ago, I picked up a few new artistic hobbies, all at around the same time. I started sewing stuffed animals and sculpting both digitally and traditionally. I also combine these two mediums to make art dolls, a multi-media soft sculpture style creation. Class-wise, I’ve discovered I also greatly enjoy 3D modeling & animating, and 2D animation as well. I also write as a hobby, although this is more often done in my head while I’m stuck with insomnia, than actually on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m very interested in improving all of my art, especially my digital art. I have not been happy with a digital piece in years and would like to see this change. I am much happier with pieces I’ve produced for classes, although I get the feeling this is because it’s all stuff I haven’t really done, making it easier for me to be proud of my accomplishments. I’m still very excited to get more 3D experience with this class, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve made two Twine games so far. One of them, Dog Tycoon, I was the head artist and co-writer for. I created digital 2D assets both using my own art and existing photographs, as well as scripted many points of the story and dialogue. The other game I worked on cannot be shared at this time. It is a text-based game, and I completed roughly 1\/3rd of the text for this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mention a few games that are artistically inspiring… I have extremely widely varied taste in games. The game I play the most is World of Warcraft, which I would say is actually artistically inspiring in it’s own way. To stick with such a clean and well recognised art style for 17 years even while updating the graphics is an incredible feat. Other games I think are inspiring are Okami, Suikoden II, Spyro: Reignited, the Silent Hill trilogy, and Hypnospace Outlaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can see my “formal” WIP-ish portfolio here: https:\/\/perseusrose.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dog Tycoon is playable here: ps:\/\/pigeonstickstudios.itch.io\/dog-tycoon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Traditional Art<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2D Animation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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