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| 0s | My parents don't even know what I work with when i try to explain to them, |
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| 4s | but that is fine. |
| 7s | Hi, i'm Sofi and I work here at Coffee Stain as a concept artist. |
| 11s | I am the only one with a concept artist title, |
| 14s | but like we are so few here that everyone helps out with everything. So |
| 20s | if i don't have time for something |
| 22s | then there is for sure someone else who can do a good job as well. |
| 25s | I do concept art mostly, but I also do some programming, yeah, |
| 31s | help out Jace a lot... |
| 32s | As a concept artist here, I design and come up with ideas |
| 37s | that i portray and illustrate, like |
| 39s | machines and environments and creatures and characters, and yeah, |
| 45s | you name it - i've done it. |
| 47s | Like yeah, just try out ideas that we then can choose from and make 3D art from. |
| 52s | So it's like fast preproduction stuff. |
| 56s | My favorite thing that i've made in satisfactory so far, |
| 60s | i guess, like it's so hard, but i think the character - yeah. |
| 64s | All characters are fun to make them. |
| 66s | There were sooo many iterations on it, |
| 68s | like every time i felt like i was done, |
| 70s | someone else had a really good idea that i had to put in there. |
| 73s | So that was hard but it's like that with every concept, |
| 76s | like there is so many iterations. |
| 78s | It always turns out better as well, if you listen to the other people as well, |
| 83s | but i just feel like "im done now" ... |
| 85s | ...never done. |
| 86s | Maybe also, i'm not sure if we are allowed to show it, but like the |
| 89s | [pipe confirmation blocked] |
| 90s | it's really cool. |
| 91s | There is definitely both big and super small stuff to work on. |
| 95s | The smallest one i can think of right now, which isn't that small but like |
| 99s | for example the med kit. |
| 100s | I'm gonna take the character as an example again, |
| 103s | because it's a good example, like |
| 104s | there are all these small little details in her outfit |
| 109s | and like little lamps on the helmet and stuff like that, |
| 112s | so always trying to get into the details as well. |
| 115s | I would say the hardest part about concept art or working with concept art |
| 119s | is like right in the beginning |
| 120s | when you haven't got any inspiration or like, you have no idea where to start. |
| 126s | Right in the beginning it is the most hard i think. |
| 128s | Usually i google stuff and pinterest stuff that is close to what i'm gonna do, |
| 135s | just try to get a lot of inspiration from different places. |
| 138s | When i've done that, i'm starting to sketch kind of where we wanna go |
| 142s | and take the sketches to the art director |
| 145s | and he kinda gets to choose what i'm supposed to continue with. |
| 148s | Sometimes he is super picky, for sure, |
| 151s | and sometimes ... |
| 152s | I can almost choose myself. |
| 154s | Those are the good days. |
| 155s | Caterina Parks |
| 156s | I got like this character description: |
| 160s | middle aged, very powerful woman. |
| 162s | When you get to meet her she is kinda like - what do you say like - intimidating? |
| 166s | I guess? |
| 166s | So i had to try to portray that, i think it went alright. |
| 170s | We have her now. |
| 171s | We have Steve as well, |
| 173s | which is Caterina Parks' assistant and |
| 175s | he is like super ambitious but also really stressed guy |
| 180s | doing all her tasks. |
| 182s | I guess you could call him to get you a coffee, whatever. |
| 188s | I did! |
| 188s | It's a food court. |
| 189s | We weren't sure what it's gonna be like, |
| 191s | how many different food places, |
| 193s | what they would serve and stuff like that. |
| 196s | So i wasn't sure how big it was gonna be, |
| 198s | lot's of iterations on that one. |
| 200s | I was told we can't have fish, which is sad. |
| 204s | I love fish. |
| 205s | *sniff* |
| 206s | The old design of the character, |
| 207s | so like i said before, |
| 209s | there is so many iterations with everything and especially maybe the character. |
| 213s | With this one we tried so many different versions, |
| 217s | we just wanted to try out different colouring, |
| 219s | so that's what's going on here. |
| 221s | Cause at this point we wanted us to be able to choose your character colour, |
| 225s | maybe that will happen, i don't know? |
| 228s | If you look at this one and compare it to the new one, |
| 231s | like the helmet is super different, like this is so like: |
| 234s | i'm. going. on. my. mo. tor. bike. tonight. or whatever. |
| 241s | The main character or whatever if you can call it that, |
| 243s | we wanted it to be a woman. |
| 245s | So we tried making this mainstream kind of game character, like |
| 250s | good looking, skinny, coolish |
| 253s | But we wanted her to be more industrial, like |
| 258s | this mix between industrial and sci fi is a main thing with the character i guess. |
| 263s | So this one was kind of the beginning of the character we have right now, |
| 268s | like the direction we wanted to go in. |
| 270s | Then we made the final one |
| 272s | after some meetings and discussions where we wanted it to go. |
| 276s | So we updated it a bit, |
| 279s | adding more personality for the character. |
| 286s | Why is it a woman? |
| 287s | Why is it guys in every other game? |
| 290s | like |
| 290s | what. That's a weird question. |
| 292s | Why shouldn't it be a woman? |
| 295s | Jace... |
| 296s | you are killing me! |
| 299s | [Jace laughing in the background] |
| 301s | I try to upload my art everywhere, |
| 304s | so everyone will see.. but.. |
| 306s | no one ever does. |
| 307s | My main social media is Instagram. |
| 310s | What I upload is also my personal style, |
| 312s | so it doesn't really look like the art in the game i guess. |
| 314s | But, yeah |
| 315s | Even though i have my own styles, |
| 317s | i also can jump into other ones, |
| 319s | but... it's not my favorite thing. |
| 325s | Yes..? |
| 326s | Now it sounds like a hate my job. |
| 327s | If i was to choose whatever i could draw, |
| 329s | it would be like |
| 330s | this costume drama hats and stuff. |
| 333s | So if you wanna check that out, please do! |
| 346s | And, what hardware do you use? |
| 349s | Excuse me? |
| 350s | What kind of hardware? |
| 350s | A computer..? |
| 351s | Who is your favorite person in the office? |
| 353s | [laughter] |
| 355s | [Obvious deep voice overdub] Jace |
| 356s | Stupid English... [Don't worry, we fired her] |
| 358s | Jace: Hey what? That's racist. |
| 359s | NOOoooo |