Although I didn't manage to achieve a job related to concept art, I still fondly and lovingly recall when I used to watch the videos 10 years ago. They were always a source of motivation for me, and the values they conveyed are applicable to all aspects of life. I will always remember Feng Zhu as one of the mentors who have contributed to making me who I am today. Seeing the latest comments, I would love for him to upload one last video to bring an end to this beautiful journey. Thank you for everything you've done. With love from Spain.

FZ always apologizes for the long wait between episodes, but he's also running a school and business while making work of his own. What a legend.

Really hope that someday he will continues these videos.

Feng, you are missed. Don't know what's been happening with you, but this channel is an inspiration. Please come back to the helm and inspire more people to follow the dream, something computers and AI can't truely do.

This channel is way too good for KZfaq, thank you for all the videos and hard work you've put into them, Feng.

I miss a lot these videos (but I'm also rewatching them and learning a lot)

Thank you so much for making all of this content free and available to students worldwide. Attending a design school is not an option for me, so I am eternally grateful for the hard work you and your team have put into this channel. I have learned so much from these videos alone and I will share them with fellow aspiring artists every chance I get. Thank you again!

Hey FZ! Have been watching your vids for about 10 years now. You've made a big difference in the trajectory of my career and professional life, and I probably wouldn't be where I am today without you. Thank you so much for continuing to think about us and your channel! ^^

The content on this channel is so good that it feels illegal to watch it for free. I can not thank you enough for this content. It helps students who can't afford mentorship more than you can imagine!

I am curious on what he will have to say about the crazy progress AI has made in literally just the two years between this video and now. He always said "If there was a make art button we would be teaching that" well, there kinda is now. Obviously it can't replace an artist, not even close in it's current state; but I wonder if they are going to be implementing things with it in their school process, what his thoughts on it are.....will be an interesting that's for sure.

Dengue Zhu The advice, and motivation you have given me since 2012-to now from books to study schedule and approach. Has completely changed my life and approach to what’s possible in an artist life. I would have never made it to this stage and perspective without your help. I thought I would have to move to Singapore to learn all this , but you were able to show me what I need through this platform so thank you. I don’t care how often you post. There is some much information in a single video it doesn’t matter much.

This is my favourite channel on KZfaq. I'm not even a concept artist, I just love hearing Feng talking about the design process.

one year without new things, i hope feng is ok, total thanks for all the knowledge you share

I‘ve been waiting for Design Cinema every day. Finally!!! Thank you soooooooooooo much.♥♥♥♥♥

love coming back to your vids for a refresher every now and then. we miss u feng!!

Thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to do these videos. The gap since 108 gave me time to go back and watch all the back catalog. Every episode is fascinating.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Ian's artwork. Not only is it incredibly interesting to look at and highly detailed, the sense of humour is spot on! It just feels exactly like artwork I used to look at in books as a kid. Bravo Ian!

That opening design breakdown diagram is exactly what brought me to this channel from your Twitter account. That simple concept showing how to layer the elemnts of an image to make it seem real and living has changed the entire way that I look at image composition.

I love and appreciate your work ever since my high-school days! Thank you my man!

Thank you very much it was very useful. I always feel very good when you emphasize on having good reference and not forcing ourselves to design everything. That really decreases the unnecessary pressure I put on myself.

HE’S BACK!!!

Today's started off good, thank you

I miss the times that passed a decade ago. Feng Zhu was so popular among us art students in the town I live. I couldnt even handle the wacom pen and I was full of enthusiasm. Nowadays its just get paid, get paid, draw some fantasy bullshit, get paid. Fuck that life, its lonely. Recently I broke my old wacom pen and decided to buy a new tablet. Everyone who has wacom knows the distinct wacom brand new smell. That smell brought me back 10 years ago while I was unpackaging. It brought me back to the day I had my first one delivered. Made me cry. And by the way, I hate that fucking illustrator job. Thank god I didnt attempt to become a concept artist. These jobs are a lonely hell.

Great to have you back Feng! You're an inspiration to so many of us here and your videos are always more than appreciated. Cheers sir 👍

All These videos helps a lot! Hope you come back soon

My favorite series and I'm not even an artist nor do I draw.

Thank you for all your hard work teaching design and art with these free videos. It helps a lot and it’s actually more than enough to be a good concept artist. People just need to practice what you teach and the fundamentals of art and design. I appreciate what you’ve done, more life and more strength to you Feng.

Thank you so much for sharing all these high quality lessons. I really really appreciate you Feng 🙏🏽

Thank you so much for sharing these, they have remotivated my digital art learning.

Love this video Feng. Super informative, even for someone working in Film and TV. Always so much room for growth as a professional and your videos keep inspiring me. Thanks

TODAY IS A GOOOOOD DAY! Glad to see you upload again sir!

I want to say that was the best 1 hr video I learn more design then I was at Full Sail University. You really motivated me to push my design. One day I would to show what I am working on. Thank you again, I wis they had an online courses.

Thank you for keep giving your time making video about art knowledge like this, this is really helpful

Always a good day when there is a new Design Cinema video is posted. :-)

OMG I’m an animation graduate working on my portfolio and I’ve been working on my cutouts for 2 months and really struggling, thank you so much for sharing this info!!

thank you so much for this. The fact that i can watch and learn from this for free

I asked Chat GPT for some resources to learn concept art, and it recommended your channel!

Crazy Its been 10 years since I started watching your videos

If you find the time Twitch is a great place to stream art, there is a huge amount of aspiring artists that watch pros like yourself on twitch. You are already doing most everything in one to three takes so its a solid idea. Timezones shouldnt be much of an issue since people can always rewatch it on youtube as well after the vod has been prettied up a bit through editing.

Q&A - I would love to know how you balance outside of work activities like family commitments, eating, sleeping, socialising, gaming, other hobbies (ones on the ground :)) exercise, strength training, cooking. How do you fit in enough hours into the day?

its been 1 year since the last video dame wish there was some new ones

can't wait for the next video to drop. love these

Let's go! Thank you so much for uploading

Thank you! That was exactly what I needed today!

is design cinema dead? i used to live for these videos. feng must be incredibly busy and i wish him all the best. theres so much great content here already.

Very instructive and inspiring. Thanks for sharing!

insanely useful, cannot thank you guys enough

Still waiting Feng ! Hope you’ll be back. Love your channel

The legend returns 🙏

yessss haven't even looked at episode title but so hyped

Omg YES finally!! Gonna get me a cup of tea and get my pen out even though it's in the middle of the night!!

Please don't worry about us or feel bad for not creating content for us constantly, it's always nice to see a new video but please think of getting some time for yourself as well. You have so much going on and deserve a break once in a while!

Thank you for your hard work!

Awesome video as always! thank you.

Thanks Feng! I was one of that comments asking for this. Thank you so much for ear us

Nice. A new ep. Can't wait for the next one.

I just love this freaking dude!

thank you so much for the upload!

Thank you so much for this video, it is so helpful!

Feng releases videos slowly but these will be helping people for as long as the internet exists, so in the scheme of things it doesn't matter at all.

Been following this guy since he was doing tutorials for the Gnomon Workshop✍🏾🗣💯

A new design cinema???? Let’s gooo

The return of the king

Thank you for the video as always!

Thank you very much for sharing, I think it is very helpful to me

Thank you so much ive been waiting for thisss

I would love to hear FZ talking about Mid Journey. Please make an eps just talk about MJ. Thanks

extremely useful information. Thanks !

OMG FINALLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH Feng

Love you man for yourk work and time for us

Thank you Feng for another wonderful video ! X🤘🏻X

Thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤️

Are you going make more please.

Such great information! Thank you :D

Great video, thanks for sharing

yay! new episode!

Yeeeeees! You are back!

Hi, once the 3D base has been created, how long would it usually take Ian to finish a full colour illustration? Amazing work and great insights as always, thanks!

Cool to see you back man!

Please come back, man. I'm missing your videos. Hope you are well.

the master is backkkk

I can finally work on homework with good vibes again.

Thanks 😊for the Video I just love 💘 it's amazing 👏

Feng I was wondering if you could do a video on presenting your artwork. I don't think that is covered yet and you seem to be an expert when it comes to this.

thank you it's amazing!!

Free learning. Amazing. Thank you :::)

Feng Zhu is just amazing i am watching him since i was a kid.

It is sad to see these spammers on KZfaq. 🙄I have reported so many of them to no avail. I don't know if they are targeting this particular video or not. Maybe Feng Zhu should disable comments until KZfaq figure it out.

Golden channel

Thanks 🙏

Hello, in what video did Feng talked about his first job in a gaming industry and talked about, how back in the day there wasn't a concept art position and people who could draw the best in studio did the work instead. I'd love te reference it in my school work and can't find it. Thanks!

I really wish we had the ability to bookmark segments of the video without having to write out the timestamps on the comments. There's just so much content here that I wanna get back to hearing.

Hi Feng ! We all miss a lot your videos ! Hope you're doing well, have an amazing 2024

I have one important question, this course you are offering on your page is also online?

55:19 ayy, i recognize that photo. Seriously tho, this is great, I can't wait to try practicing with this method. Great content and well explained.

YESS! new FZD vid

You solved my beginning design problems witht his and EP 104 mainly. I would get stuck with the most basic square room looking stiff and boring and then quit. I got stuck again this time and stated adding regular common things in there. Some lights here, some food there, some window there. Then it just started some type of snowball effect. I was one of those ignorant beginners who wanted to make an alien world before even knowing how to make a normal world. I didn't have a process/workflow to build on now I do. My goal: Earth in the future. Where we live in the skies hovering over the surface barely going down to it and letting other life evolve. Of course, most human descendants (In 1000 years, humans as we know it won't exist. Only descendants and history. ) have left the planet so it's more of a research and preservation hub. Maybe even a vacation hub. The story would be about life evolving again on the planet having the equivalent of human intelligence. This is to keep reference to the human. Like when we draw humans in a painting. I tried making a story with 2 out of reference aliens and I realized only I knew what I wrote. Luckily, I am in no rush and the story and art is something I am building up so that I have something to do in retirement.

Chicken ! I always thought people were just drawing from insane amount of training, 100% muscle memory, that way of breaking down the process, having layers of logical thinking, it's mind opening, it's not random details, I like that. Really breaking down the process in everything we do in life to make things more simpler is the key :) So from what I saw there is " no design" design, which is placing things in an environment and "design" where you do weird shapes on a single props for example, it's two different things? Is that the Form over function and vice versa? One is keeping the original form and design is to place them in your own world and the other is to change the property of the item and the design challenge is then to keep the function readable while making something new? Thinking about the whole scene vs thinking about the tiny details? I'll definitely try that 8 steps to break down what I do next, thanks !

A new upload!!! Oh yeah!

Does anyone know which Brush the FZD people use to make their sketches and renders? and which brush configuration also if possible!