Video Tutorials

The Gnomon Workshop - Creating Beatboards for Pre-Production. Duration: 226 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080 Storyboard artists will often have to pitch a project before pre-production can even begin. Storybeats is a concept used by artists working at this critical point in a project to interpret a script and develop a pitch that, if greenlit, will later form the fundamentals of the production sheet. Think of it as the concept art before the

The Gnomon Workshop - Animating Creature Walk Cycles in Maya. Duration: 190 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080 There are basic principles involved in creating a solid walk cycle for production that every animator should learn. This 3-hour workshop by Stephen Cunnane, an animator for the film industry, reveals the subtle yet complex process when it comes to animating a convincing walk cycle for four-legged animals or fantasy creatures. From covering

The Gnomon Workshop - 2D Fantasy Illustration. Duration: 147 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080. In this workshop, Jana Schirmer shares her complete process of painting a Fantasy Illustration from start to finish in Adobe Photoshop using a workflow that she uses for almost all of her professional and personal work. Starting with ideation and reference gathering, she covers the initial sketch phase and preparation, colors and light, mixer brushes,

The Gnomon Workshop - Introduction to Grooming With Ornatrix in Maya. This introductory workshop reveals everything you need to know to create hair for both animated characters and still renders using Ornatrix in Maya. Santhosh Koneru, a 3D Generalist, details all the basics as well as the essential tools required to generate realistic hair for your 3D characters. The focus of this video tutorial is on creating facial hair for a character that

The Gnomon Workshop - Cleaning Up Scanned Assets for Production. Discover how to take pre-existing scanned assets and quickly and professionally clean them up using a combination of Wrap 3, ZBrush, and Maya. This workshop by Modeler and Generalist, Scott Denton, details the clean-up of a scan created by NYCap3D using the state-of-the-art photogrammetry ​​solution, RealityCapture, along with assets produced by 3D Scan Store. A brief preview of

The Gnomon Workshop - Cinematic Production Techniques Using the Unreal Engine Sequencer. If you’re looking to create production-ready cinematics utilizing the power of the Unreal Engine, this workshop is for you. Bill Buckley guides viewers through the entire process of creating a cinematic using the mighty Sequencer tool in Unreal Engine, beginning with a review of the needs of the project before jumping into establishing the shots required.

INSYDIUM – X-Particles Maintenance Training. Tutorials: – Constraints – ExplosiaFX – FlowField – Premium Training Special Access – XP Countdown This scene-based series is suitable for customers with basic particle knowledge; the chapters flow with logical progression. Intermediate level and advanced X-Particles users will benefit from the in-depth level of detail throughout the series. We replicate everyday production workflows by combining the

The Gnomon Workshop - Controlled Building Demolition FX in Houdini. Duration: 349 Minutes | Format: HD 1920x1080 Discover how to create an art-directable destruction scene in Houdini with this 5-hour workshop by Timucin Ozger, Head of FX at the award-winning Mr. X. This entire workshop is taught inside Houdini; only a basic understanding of the Houdini user interface is all that is needed to be able to follow along with this tutorial, from an

Domestika - Character Design for Concept Art by J.Alexander Guillen. Learn to create the protagonists of your own story with your imagination as the only limit J. Alexander Guillen -concept artist specialized in film and videogames who has worked for Filmax Animation, Epic Games or Ubisoft, among others- is very clear that creating a character in concept art is not only designing his appearance, but also, grants personality His work is clearly

The Gnomon Workshop - Gesture Drawing Fundamentals. Building figures with gesture and rhythm allows us to more effectively tell stories in visual mediums — a critical tool for artists working in the entertainment industry. This 4.5-hour workshop by April Connors covers the key fundamentals for sketching dynamic figures using techniques that work for life drawing and figure invention, whether you’re working digitally or with traditional media.