Meet the Devs: Jeremiah Lee

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   where did you get that shirt Target Target I've seen that shirt around so I like red chili peppers but I've seen that shirt everywhere and I've never actually had a chance to purchase it like do you shop at Target I do like exclusively Target and coals my man [Music] welcome back to me the dev I'm James PE with me today is character concept artist Jeremiah Lee Jeremiah how you doing man all right what's up thanks for coming on man thanks for stopping by our little Lounge I know it's a lot smaller than not smaller right a lot hotter too got the sick lamp though yeah it is

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   sick so you're a character concept artist is that what you wanted to do when you got so where did you go to school uh I went to Art Center College of design um and during school I just love drawing that sounded so boring I love drawing um and then um to be fair if you want to be an artist you kind of got to love drawing yeah that was my that was my thing I just never go to drawing so I can never be an artist well um but while I was in school um I met I took a class outside of school called concept Design Academy and I met Jared morance and he's a concept artist who's who's been working on like the Batman for superman but at the time he did uh Spider-Man of the Apes uh Ghost Rider just all kinds of movies and I had a class with him and and he was just showing me the ropes of

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   what was currently trending and what kind of the tricks and the trade of just what what concept Arts are doing currently and so uh that got me real Jazz to be a concept artist I was like I want to do what you're doing so I kind of I took his class like three times I think just back to back to back cuz I wanted to learn more and then uh I started working while I was going to school mhm like I just some free gigs here and there just doing some concept work uh and then slowly my name started to go around and then I just left school cuz I just had way too much work and nice ended up here what is it about like the concept uh portion of that interests you the most it's really about I mean like we read books and we see movies and stuff but and we try to come up with their own cool stories yeah but it's always cool when like a director or somebody like a third party being like I

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   have this project coming I want to show this to everybody um and I have this cool idea in my head but I can't can't draw it can you do it for me and then when you kind of when you hear listen to the story you kind of get kind of get into it and you just want to just bring his image or his her excuse me um image to reality um and just that that part really excites me just bringing someone else's idea to Life by using your creative that that is interesting I never honestly I've never thought thought of it that way cuz you when you read a book you're making this this this world in your head and no matter how good I think a movie of a book is it's never going to be as good right because the one I created is going to be better it's more tailored towards me I can see like the the the craft and

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   like the the excitement it might be from taking someone else's idea right and bringing that to fruition that's inter right I mean sometimes it's very boring I mean it's like most project I've work on the first pass is always my favorite because that's where they're kind of like oh you know let's see your take on it you know and then I just go nuts and just do this really cool drawing and they'll be like oh you know you know it's a cool drawing but I kind of wanted this one they start dumbing down your drawing a little more a little more like yeah I can see that that first pass being the best yeah it's always the best like that recent project I worked on I showed you yes which we can't speak of they love it when you do that again by the way they love it when you reference stuff can't see but like like you like that first pass right yeah I love that first pass right we should stop talking about it

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   cuz like I said they love that stuff that was a good pass it it was a great pass right it trust me in year in a couple years you love um so what was it about this project that interested you the most um well I mean I've when I was a kid I grew up playing like a TIE fighter mhm um I didn't play any wi commander games that's all right you're not going to get in trouble I've said specifically I've never played any uh Chris ring Man games before I got here we should be shot I think well I think Ben thinks that Ben probably thinks that but I think everyone else is okay with us right but I was always uh I mean I love Star Wars I love Star Trek and I always wanted to play a game that kind of has that giant Universe

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   type of feel and I feel like a lot of games tried it but it was just it was just not not there and I was kind of so that was kind of like my dream that I've always I wanted to play that type of game and funny enough uh I think 2012 um while I was working um I had some podcast going on um um what's that guy's name total biscuit I think he's a YouTuber right right right he was he had he was doing the interview with CR he was and CR was talking about his game and I stopped I stopped drawing W and I was just looking at it I was like you got no way no way this can't this can't be happening right now and then that's when uh I saw the whole trailer and I got into it and I was like they're

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   finally making my game that's awesome they're finally making the game that I want um and then I was just waiting for it and I was but I never thought I'd get on the project at the time and then years go by I worked with Rob mckinn and our production designer yeah we were working on uh Kanye West music video nice we did some uh from kany need to Star that's everyone's career path oh man uh but we were doing some concepts for his music video and Rob like the work that I did and a couple months later he was like Hey real cool too like in the cool tone hey you want a job I was like oh for what like what what is it he's like Star citiz I was like what no no you're pulling my leg he's like I'm Productions out baby so that's how I got on board and was real ja yeah he's cool cool guy uh

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   well that's how I got in start citizen awesome man I've seen your your work it's great it's good to have you here thank you so before I let you go we got some rapid fire questions ready oh no ready okay favorite movie favorite movie Blade Runner never seen it can I go favorite video game uh shoot favorite video game Mass Effect 2 dude word that's my second favorite video game what's your first no you're solid too is a good game too yeah it's a good game two yeah two so the the Ryden one yeah you don't like the first one I love the first one but I like the second one better okay all right I don't really like Okay the third one's my least favorite though why cuz it it didn't

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    matter it's hard no it totally matter it doesn't really I mean it kind of does the only reason it matters is because four made it matter if you really think about it like if they had taken out all of middle Gear Solid 3 and just gave you middle Gear Solid 4 they could have explained everything happened to Metal Gear Solid 3 in Just backstory well that is true four did have to freaking wrap everything together right all right anyways yeah gotcha W um yeah it a fastest rabbit favorite ship in Star Citizen favorite ship uh it's got to be oh this is tough oh dude anticipation uh favorite exterior is going to be the Retaliator okay interior is the is the Connie why con cu Chris Smith he's

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    freaking awesome he is right dude Chris Smith I can't believe he's not even on here we're giv Chris Smith good job Chris Smith you're my man you're my man all right man thanks for coming on once again this is jerem Lee and I'm James Pew and you just met a Dev Point that's right no point okay Point who to that cam point at that cam I point that cam now point at that cam all [Laughter] right