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This
week The Gnomon Workshop is pleased to announce the release of two new
DVDs by veteran Gnomon instructor Kevin Hudson. In these two titles,
Kevin covers UV Layout for 3D models in Autodesk Maya, thoroughly
breaking down the process and demonstrating tips and tricks for working
efficiently in a production setting. In the Advanced UV Layout DVD,
Kevin also introduces Headus UVLayout which is a great tool for
speeding up the task.
“Kevin’s lectures are informed by over fourteen years of experience in the digital effects industry as well as ten years teaching at Gnomon School of Visual Effects”, says Alex Alvarez, Director of Gnomon School of Visual Effects. “These DVDs are a val...
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Digital-Tutors Redefines Education
with New Online Learning Library and Full-featured Educational Platform
Combining award-winning training
with an easy-to-navigate interactive system, Digital-Tutors unveils anytime,
anywhere access to over 7,000 lessons and 50 new courses for emerging digital
artists around the world.
Oklahoma
City, OK August 4, 2009 Digital-Tutors, a leader and innovator in video-based
training for students, professionals, educators, and
hobbyists in the computer graphics industry, today launched a new online
learning library of over 7,000 in-depth training lessons and 50 all-new courses
for Maya, Houdini, 3ds Max, Mudbox, Softimage,...
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THE GNOMON WORKSHOP RELEASES NEW Gears of War Creature Design DVD with James HawkinsThis week The Gnomon Workshop is thrilled to announce a new title in
collaboration with Epic Games: Gears of War Creature Design with James
Hawkins. In this DVD, James demonstrates his production techniques while
designing an actual in-game creature from the Gears of War series by Epic
Games. Viewers are treated to an inside look at the design techniques of
one of the industry's most talented artists, as well as to his personal take
on being a successful concept artist in a production environment. Filled
with lots of useful tips for designing...
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This week The Gnomon
Workshop is excited to announce a comprehensive new concept design
title: Robot Design with Josh Nizzi. In this DVD, Josh leads you
through his production process for designing a fighting robot. He
covers everything from sketching thumbnails and modeling a 3D proxy
model to rendering and detailing. Throughout the lecture Josh discusses
various features and elements to focus on for a stronger design, and he
shows techniques for efficiently and quickly making your next robot
design a lot cooler when you present it to your art director or client.
"Michael Bay took one look at Josh Nizzis Constructicon, put the design into production for Transformers 2,
and...
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Highend3D Becomes Reseller of The Archive, Largest 3D Model Collection
(Los Angeles, CA January 20, 2009) - Highend3D, the #1 site in the world where users come to download 3D software, including plugins, scripts and character rigs, is pleased to announce that Highend3D is now an official reseller of Digimation's The Archive, the worlds largest collection of 3D models. Click here for link to Archive
The Archive contains 16,504 premier 3D models, representing over six million dollars in value (based on the cost of the models if purchased separately) across a wide array of subject matter. And with new lower pricing, $4995, everyone has acce...
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This week The Gnomon Workshop releases a long awaited
series of three DVDs by Dreamworks Character Animator
Chris Kirshbaum. These lectures on character animation
for feature animation range in topic from the fundamentals
and mechanics to lip sync. All taught in Maya, Chris
delivers thorough breakdowns of the steps needed to animate
your
character.
Chris teaches at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects and
he brings
to his DVDs the same high level of inst...
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THE GNOMON WORKSHOP RELEASES TWO NEW TITLES IN POPULAR
"BEHIND THE SCENES" SERIES. CHARACTER TEXTURING FOR PRODUCTION AND
HARD SURFACE TEXTURE PAINTING
This week The Gnomon Workshop is pleased to announce the
release of two new titles in their wildly popular Behind The Scenes series
which gives an in-depth look at the creation of a game cinematic sequence.
Produced with the cooperation of Producer Emmanuel Fragelus, Art Director Mark
Goerner and Director Louis Bolivar, this series follows a team of artists as
they demonstrate their production techniques from concept phase to final
rendered animation. Each DVD includes actual production meetings with Art
Dire...
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n this DVD Robert Kuczera guides you through
his character animation process from beginning to end. He first
describes how to prepare the Maya Workspace to improve and optimize
your work- flow. Next, he shows how to prepare a scene for animation
and animate the character. He discusses the timeline, Graph Editor,
Dopesheet, layers, shelves, hot keys and MEL scripts. Robert
demonstrates how to use filmed reference material to identify the key
poses and place the breakdowns and in- betweens. The lecture is focused
on showing you how to animate precisely and quickly through the camera.
Robert presents an insider's view of how professional animators work,
showing workflow and techniq...
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THE GNOMON WORKSHOP
RELEASES ILLUSTRATION TECHNIQUES WITH DAVE DORMAN VOLUMES 1 & 2
May
5, 2008, Hollywood, CA - This week the
Gnomon Workshop is excited to brings you their much-anticipated 2-volume series
on Dave Dormans Illustration Techniques.
In these dynamic titles Eisner Award-winning artist Dave Dorman shares
his techniques for creating original pencil art all the way through to painting
the final piece. These DVDs cover such
topics as composition, light and shadow, figure drawing, preparing a board for
painting, color theory, oil painting, mixed media and much more.
Accolades:
All
I can say about Dave is WHOA! I have always adm...
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NEW
BEHIND THE SCENES SERIES RELEASES THIS WEEK FROM THE GNOMON WORKSHOP
April
2nd, 2008, HOLLYWOOD. This week The Gnomon Workshop will be releasing their
ground-breaking new "Behind The Scenes" series. This new series is an
exciting look at the creation of a game cinematic sequence. Produced with the
cooperation of Producer Emmanuel Fragelus, Art Director Mark Goerner and
Director Louis Bolivar, this series follows a team of artists as they demonstrate
their production techniques from concept phase to final rendered animation. The
first three titles to be released this week will cover such topics as Character
Design, Character Modeling and Vehicle Design for. They w...
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THIS WEEK THE GNOMON WORKSHOP RELEASES TWO NEW TITLES ON THE CREATIVE PIPELINE WITH BARONTiERi AND RAINARTThe Gnomon Workshop releases two new titles on the Creative Production Pipeline from Thierry Doizon (a.k.a. BARONTiERi) and Sebastien Larroude (a.k.a. Rainart). Covering Character Design and Matte Painting, BARONTiERi and Rainart reveal their techniques using a myriad of tools including Photoshop, Maya, ZBrush and Fusion. These two new titles delve into the broad expanse of the creative process from jumpstarting your creativity, research and teamwork and all the way through lighting effects and color correction. DVD Descriptions:Character Design Pipeline Production Art and Research Te...
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THE GNOMON WORKSHOP RELEASESTWO VOLUME SERIES: THE MAKING OF JESTER, WITH ALEX ALVAREZ AND A NEW MAYA RIGGING DVD WITH CARLO SANSONETTIDecember 6th, 2007, HOLLYWOOD. This week The Gnomon Workshop will release a two volume series from Gnomon Founder and Director, Alex Alvarez; Character Modeling in Maya and ZBrush: The Making of Jester, Volume One and Character Texturing and Rendering: The Making of Jester, Volume Two. This making-of demonstration and lecture began with the decision to take a personal sketch, develop it in 3D and produce a life-size print. This would require the development of high-resolution detail and textures that could hold up to a 4000x6000 pixel render, effectively m...
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