Creating Captivating and Simple Visuals: The Power of Intentional Design: GDC 2019 Presentation

This was a talk I did for GDC a few years ago that's now free on the GDC vault!
I'm pretty happy with the result and glad it can be used by more folks.
https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1030111/Creating-Captivating-and-Simple-Visuals

Visual Simplicity is when we try and reduce how many details we add into an image

Intentional Design is something Mike Mignola does very well. He always creates something thats visually compelling and feels complete while putting very little into his images

These are some of the topics we cover in the talk

Examples of Shape Definition for character development in Lord of the Rings

Before a Silhouette Change

After a Silhouette Change