This comprehensive look at SplutterFish’s Brazil 2 has just under seven hours of lecture, including a one hour lecture in which instructor Sebastien Chort demonstrates how to create a photorealistic still life. And if that weren’t enough to get you started, Sebastien also includes an extensive browsable library of 100 materials, 150 textures and 400 reference images.

Gnomon Workshop Producer Stephen McClure says, “Sebastien’s critical eye and extensive knowledge of lighting and rendering have been setting the standards in projects from Blur and currently DreamWorks. He is an artist that we can all admire and learn from.”

Artist Bio:

Sebastien Chort graduated from Supinfocom (France) in 2000 and worked in Paris for Partizan Midi Minuit as a CG generalist for 2 years. In 2003 Tim Miller invited him to join Blur Studio in Venice, CA where he worked for four years as an environment modeler/lighter. While at Blur, Sebastien supervised numerous projects including the animated short A Gentlemen’s Duel as well as the cinematic for X-men Legends II. As of May 2007 Sebastien has worked for Dreamworks Animation as a lighting artist on Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda and Madagascar (Escape 2 Africa). Sebastien has developed a passion for all the different aspects of production from modeling to compositing, and in particular has focused on materials, shaders and textures.

DVD Description:

Brazil Material Fundamentals
3ds Max and Brazil Techniques with Sebastien Chort -
This DVD offers an in-depth overview of the rendering plug-in Brazil 2 for Autodesk’s 3d Studio Max. In this title Sebastien covers in detail all the different materials, shaders and texture maps included with this amazing tool from Splutterfish. He also demonstrates how to create and manage materials in a simple scene in order to reproduce a photorealistic image in 3D. This DVD contains an extensive custom library which has hundreds of resources in a simple browsable interface. The library includes materials, textures, references and links to everything you need to enhance your scenes and to enable you to create new materials on your own.

Since 2000, The Gnomon Workshop has provided artists and students with the educational resources they need to succeed as artists in the entertainment industries. Whether they’re interested in design, modeling, effects, animation, storytelling or matte painting, these DVDs provide a valuable educational resource for students around the world. The Gnomon Workshop is the sister company of The Gnomon School of Visual Effects, which provides professional caliber visual effects instruction to students and professionals in Los Angeles, California.

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