Monthly Archives: December 2008

Five new dvds covering wide range of topics

Posted by The Gnomon Workshop on December 16, 2008 – 6:58 pm
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This week The Gnomon Workshop releases a wide range of new titles to help you end 2008 on a very positive note. From “The Skinned Character Rig” to “Watercolor and Gouache Painting” these DVDs offer something for everyone. This group of DVDs ushers the return of instructors Aaron Sims, Wendy Froud and Carlo Sansonetti – each one building on previous lectures on character design, character sculpting and character rigging. This week we also introduce world class instructors Erik Tiemens and Richard Keyes. Erik, an award-winning movie concept artist, teaches his watercolor and gouache techniques for quickly capturing the essence of an idea or concept – techniques useful for fine artists and concept designers alike. Richard presents a must-have lecture on color, breaking down the concepts of color and demonstrating through historical and contemporary examples how artists have used color harmonies and contrasts to compose their images. See DVD product pages for descriptions and details of each DVD.

Details are available by following the link below:

Designing Creatures in Adobe Photoshop® with Aaron Sims
The Skinned Character Rig Skinning and Deformations with Carlo Sansonetti
Creating a Character Figure with Wendy Froud
Watercolor and Gouache Painting The Techniques of Erik Tiemens
Color Theory: The Mechanics of Color Applied and Theoretical Color with Richard Keyes

New Series of Conceptual Environment dvds
with James Clyne

Posted by The Gnomon Workshop on December 8, 2008 – 4:42 am
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This week The Gnomon Workshop releases a new series of three DVDs by renowned concept artist James Clyne. James brings his vast production experience to these titles that focus on designing environments for feature films. Using three different scenarios (a futuristic cityscape, a historical castle siege scene and a contemporary loft set), he demonstrates how he uses Photoshop® to efficiently render his concepts for films. James shows essential techniques that will improve your skills and demonstrate a range of tools to save you time such as “Photoshop® kit bashing”, creating custom brushes, developing architectural concepts, character indication and rendering a wide range of materials.

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Details are available by following the link below:

Futuristic Set Design with James Clyne
Conceptual Environments for Feature Film Production

Historical Set Design with James Clyne
Conceptual Environments for Feature Film Production

Contemporary Set Design with James
Clyne Conceptual Environments for Feature Film Production

New Series of Character Animation dvds

Posted by The Gnomon Workshop on December 2, 2008 – 3:42 pm
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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, mechanics and 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 instruction and obsessiveness for perfection. See the descriptions below for more detailed information on each DVD.

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Details are available by following the link below:

Character Animation: Fundamentals with Chris Kirshbaum
Character Animation: Mechanics and Emotion with Chris Kirshbaum
Character Animation: Acting and Lip Sync with Chris Kirshbaum