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Jeremy
Hopkin is from Ontario Canada. He's had
a passion for visual arts since he was a
child through drawing, painting, sculpture,photography,
etc.
Although
Jeremy's career as of late has been leaning
into the field of Graphic Design, and other
forms of Digital Art Media, from time to
time he uses more traditional means to help
him along in several projects; and have
found that the traditional media that he
was schooled in to be a great asset.
Jeremy
is also involved in local historical societies.
He volunteers regularily by providing historical
photo digital restoration, original artworks
based on historical data, and helping the
general public use the Society's Archives
facility.
There
are a few reasons Jeremy became involved
in making rolling stock, buildings, posters,and
re-skins for MSTS: He gained a great appreciation
for Historic Subjects through his passion
for art. It seems to him that so many of
the designers and artists of the past had
qualities that today are rarely matched.
Some
of his favorites within the Vintage Railroad
World: Artists: Leslie Ragan, Dean Cornwell,
Industrial Designers: Raymond Loewy and
Henry Dreyfuss Photographers: O. Winston
Link And all of the uncredited artists,
designers and photographers that railway
companies used.
Jeremy
feels that, "Everything in the days
of the early part of the 20th Century, no
matter how unimportant had stunning graphic
qualities. Even though some of those qualities
today look simplistic, I feel they still
hold great merit today. I like to try to
recreate my visions of the past in a creative
way for others to see; hopefully people
appreciate the visual beauty that I see
in those design efforts, and in turn they
are not completely forgotten by new generations
that are continually exposed to new concepts.
In many cases the things that I bring to
life in MSTS no longer exist; the Sim seemed
like a perfect way to recreate and immerse
people into history in a way that two-dimensional
photos just cannot accomplish."
"Another
reason I'm into creating content for MSTS,
my Father has a love for the Canadian Pacific
Railway as it was in the 1950s; and of course,
he took us kids along for trips to almost
every single little town in Ontario and
surrounding areas that ever had an old CPR
station or locomotive to take pictures of;
so I saw a lot."
Jeremy's
father is an accomplished HO scale modeler,
and photographer of railways, and has a
resource of historical Canadian Railway
information that Jeremy continually draw
upon today. His father's interest in the
past of the railways therefore stimulated
Jeremy's interest in history in general.
Jeremy
also felt that, "Train Artisan's focus
on historic aspects of the railroads, and
graphic quality seemed like common goals
to my own. The 20th Century Ltd. and the
Daylight trainsets have always been favorite
industrial designs of mine as well; so well
conceived and executed by their designers,
they blur the line between design and art."
"From
what I had seen, TA recreated them with
the style and grace of the originals as
best the limitations of MSTS would allow.
I then felt a need to make something to
help TA along (or at least show some appreciation
for what TA had accomplished) so I made
some reproductions of famous poster art
originally developed by Leslie Ragan, etc.
that featured TA models in the place of
the artwork."
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