‘Within the NVIDIA Studio’ Welcomes Idea Designer Yangtian Li

Editor’s observe: This publish is a part of our weekly Within the NVIDIA Studio sequence, which celebrates featured artists, affords inventive ideas and methods, and demonstrates how NVIDIA Studio expertise accelerates inventive workflows. 

This week Within the NVIDIA Studio, we welcome Yangtian Li, a senior idea artist at Singularity6.

Li is an idea designer and illustrator who has labored on a few of the largest online game franchises, together with Name of Responsibility, Magic: the Gathering and Vainglory. Her art work additionally seems in ebook illustrations and magazines.

Li’s spectacular portfolio options character portraits of sturdy, sleek, empowered girls. Their backstories and magnificence are impressed by her personal life experiences and world travels.

Now based mostly in Seattle, Li’s creative journey started in Chengdu, China. Her hometown serves because the inspiration behind her extraordinary portrait, Snake Witch. This distinctive and upsetting work is predicated on tribal black magic from Chinese language folklore. Li drew and painted the piece, powered by a GeForce RTX GPU and the NVIDIA Studio platform.

Snake Witch is a product of Li’s fascination with black magic, or “Gu,” the place tribal witch medical doctors would collect poisonous creatures, use their venom to make poison and follow the darkish arts. “I all the time thought the tales have been fascinating, so I wished to do a take,” Li stated. “Snakes are extra interesting to me, and it helps to create some fascinating compositions.”

After primarily working in 2D, Li strikes to 3D to help her idea course of. She provides, “having a high-end GPU actually helps velocity up the method on the subject of utilizing Blender, Zbrush and so forth.” These speed-ups, she says, are significantly noticeable with GPU-accelerated rendering in Blender Cycles 3.0, attaining outcomes which might be over 5x sooner with a GeForce RTX laptop computer GPU in comparison with a MacBook Professional M1 Max or CPU alone.

With the Snake Witch’s character basis in an excellent place, Li used the Liquify filter to subtly distort her topic’s facial options.

Liquify is one in every of over 30 GPU-accelerated options in Adobe Photoshop, like AI-powered Neural Filters, that assist artists discover inventive concepts and make advanced changes in seconds.

Li makes use of adjustment layers within the coloring section of her course of, permitting for non-destructive edits whereas attempting to realize the proper shade tone.

If unhappy with an adjustment, Li can merely delete it whereas the unique picture stays intact.

Lastly, Li adjusts lighting, utilizing the Opacity characteristic to dam mild from proper of the picture, including a modicum of practical aptitude.

Remaining in a productive circulate state is important for Li, as it’s for a lot of artists, and her GeForce RTX GPU permits her to spend extra time in that magical inventive zone the place concepts come to life sooner and extra naturally.

Li goes into higher element on how she created Snake Witch in her Studio Session. This three-part sequence consists of her processes for preliminary sketching, shade and element optimization, and ending touches.

Take a look at Li’s portfolio and favourite tasks on Instagram.

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