The Gnomon Workshop - Creating a Medieval Castle in Unreal Engine 5. Duration: 240 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080. Learn how to master natural-looking environments in Unreal Engine 5 using up-to-date industry techniques. In this 4-hour workshop, Phil Stoltz, a Senior Environment Artist working in the videogame industry, reveals his tips and techniques for creating a photorealistic medieval castle scene. The chapters of this workshop detail the

The Gnomon Workshop - Creating High-Resolution Custom Trees Using SpeedTree. Duration: 212 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080. Discover how to generate complex-looking trees using SpeedTree and Houdini, with this intermediate-level tutorial by Jean-Michel Bihorel. Starting from simple generating rules before deep-diving into more advanced areas of tree generation in SpeedTree and Houdini, Jean-Michel teaches every step needed to generate a hero tree

The Gnomon Workshop - Storyboarding Techniques: Creating a Polished Animatic with Rembert Montald (2022). Learn how to turn your rough storyboard sequences into fully colored animated videos with this new tutorial by Rembert Montald, a Storyboard Artist at Riot Games. Following on from his Storyboarding Techniques: Creating a Fight Sequence workshop, Rembert shares his professional techniques for turning a rough animatic into a final animatic.

The Gnomon Workshop - Storyboarding Techniques: Creating a Fight Sequence. Learn the art of storyboarding with this drawing-intensive workshop by Rembert Montald, a storyboard artist at Riot Games. In this 3.5-hour workshop, Rembert shares his process for creating and choreographing a visually pleasing storyboard from scratch, from the initial drawing through to an animatic of the final sequence. Using a fight sequence as the story, Rembert

The Gnomon Workshop - Environment Design for Virtual Production in Unreal Engine 4 with Vladimir Somov (2022). Duration: 127Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080. Virtual production is an emerging filmmaking method that uses real-time rendering to combine live-action footage with CG, first used on films like The Lion King and The Mandalorian TV series. In this 2-hour workshop, Vladimir Somov, former Principal Cinematics Artist on Assassin’s Creed, For

The Gnomon Workshop - Creating Complex Vegetation and Foliage for Games with Peyton Varney (2022). Duration: 202 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080. Let Peyton Varney, Environment Texture Artist at Naughty Dog, guide you through the process of pushing vegetation in your game environments to the next level. Following on from Peyton’s "Introduction to Creating Game-Ready Foliage" workshop, this intermediate-level tutorial takes a deeper dive into

The Gnomon Workshop - Introduction to Katana with Taeyoung Kim. Katana is a powerful lighting and look-development application used across the globe by many studios, both large and small. Learning Katana independently or setting up a project from scratch can bring about many challenges. This 4-hour workshop by Senior Lighting & Look Dev TD Taeyoung Kim walks through all the basics of Katana and explains how to create a lighting template that

The Gnomon Workshop - Efficient Techniques for Building 3D Environments. Duration: 186 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080 Learn a variety of efficient industry-proven techniques for creating a range of 3D environment styles in this 3-hour workshop by James A.J. Miller, Environment Artist at DreamWorks Animation. The workshop begins with a demonstration of a large 3D city environment in a desert setting. This type of scene offers a great opportunity

The Gnomon Workshop - Introduction to Pyro FX in Houdini: Volume 2. Duration: 307 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080 In Volume 2 of Alasgar Hasanov’s FX workshop, things get explosive. Learn how to leverage the fast and efficient tools in Houdini 18.5 to create a large-scale fire with thick smoke that matches a real-world reference, plus master your own realistic explosions. Helpful tips and tricks for lighting and rendering your pyro FX shots are

The Gnomon Workshop - Introduction to Pyro FX in Houdini: Volume 1. Duration: 348 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080 Learn about the powerful features in Houdini 18.5 and discover how to take advantage of the fast and efficient SOP-level Sparse Pyro tools for production-quality FX. From creating realistic smoke to a believable campfire, Volume 1 of Alasgar Hasanov’s two-volume workshop walks through the production workflows needed to create a