{"id":693,"date":"2024-11-17T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/?p=693"},"modified":"2025-02-20T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T11:01:33","slug":"artist-research-joshua-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/artist-research-joshua-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Research: Joshua Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After happening upon the work of Joshua Davis while writing my art style research post<\/a>, I found it particularly inspiring to the art style I wanted for Kinetic Panic<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Near the beginning of his career in the late 90’s to the early 2000’s, Davis’ work very much resembled the minimalist vector style that a lot of other graphic artists were pursuing at the time, including those working on games like N , Wipeout<\/em> and Rez<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The clean, bright look of the work on the left and the contrast between poppy and muted colours are particularly inspiring, and definitely could be considered for level colour schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on, in the mid 2000’s, Davis began to incorporate more of a playful, vibrant touch into this style, without looking tacky. In my research post I also mentioned the influence of the “superflat” art style on design at the time and this work can be seen as a fine example of this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work for Anderson Ranch (2006)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Work for Surface Magazine <\/em>(2003)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Note the same style of both bold, saturated colours and muted tones, basic shapes, and thin outlines, but now with a lot more round forms and bubbly, playful compositions. The work on the left also features some paint splash lines, again for a more organic feel. Again, the use of shapes and colour here will inform the design of both my UI and the environments in my game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After happening upon the work of Joshua Davis while writing my art style research post, I found it particularly inspiring to the art style I wanted for Kinetic Panic. Near the beginning of his career in the late 90’s to the early 2000’s, Davis’ work very much resembled the minimalist vector style that a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,28],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-semester-1","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/pe1n23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}