Stress Test

How well does your heart handle it’s workload?

It can take up to a year to finally sell through an idea with a client. And, it is all too common for a brief to change drastically after a project is already awarded.

As you visualize how to bring a project to life, and influence the process, creating a space for artists to thrive - it takes extreme care and measure to shepherd each detail from client through each phase of production. Trust and commitment are two qualities I value incredibly in my collaborators. We’re up against too many variables these days where happiness and satisfaction are locked in parallel on the graph with instant fleeting gratification. But, seasoned talent know to distinguish oneself amongst the crowd, you must let an idea sink deeply enough, allowing for enough space for truly exceptional work to come to life.

Counterplay Games knows what it takes to craft characters with a level of focus, and design that brings depth and legitimacy to their storytelling. Players can relish in the medieval textures hinted in shields and armor, alongside art deco valorplates, sitting inside rich, painterly environments in their game Godfall - a fantasy action, science-fiction, looter-slasher combat game that launched with PS5 via SONY last year. Throughout the game’s procedural systems and animations, users feel alive within the fantastical imagination of its carefully fine tuned art direction.

Fantasy is going to be a key theme we all will need to tackle with an authentic spirit and radical improvisation as we move through 2021. Dr Brown said it best in Back to the Future, ‘where we’re going, we don’t need roads.’