T0320 – Gnomon Workshop – Designing Creatures in Adobe Photoshop with Aaron Sims

In this DVD, Aaron Sims shows how he uses Adobe Photoshop® to create and design characters and creatures. Aaron covers many of his techniques for designing character concepts and discusses the logic behind his methods. He shows you the entire process including sketching and drawing in Photoshop®, and manipulating, warping and blending photos to develop interesting features, backgrounds and textures. Aaron explains how to effectively design with tools like Warp, Liquify and different layer blend modes for quick results. He also demonstrates how to paint in finer details such as wrinkles, scars and hair. Finally, Aaron covers some of his techniques for unifying an image and giving it a more finished look.

Product Code: ASI05
188 Minutes of Lecture

Drawing in Photoshop® Adding Textures Getting Color Palettes from Photos Painting Over Background Images Layering Photos Over Background Images to Design Creatures Working Over and Blending Photo Textures Detailing Your Concepts

01: Getting Started
02: Drawing in Photoshop
03: Adding Textures to a Drawing
04: Using a Cloud Photo to Start a Design
05: Adding Images to Enhance the Design
06: Working Over Photos
07: Detailing Your Concept

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Aaron Sims began designing, sculpting and painting creatures for the movie makeup effects industry in the mid 1980s. In 1988, he joined Rick Baker’s Academy Award® winning Cinovation Studios Inc. In the late 1990s, Aaron began exploring the medium of computer animation and joined Stan Winston Studio in 2000, where he began building a CG department within the Academy Award® winning effects house. As Art Director he designed for such films as AI, Terminator 3, Constantine, Doom and Fantastic 4. With the same adventurous spirit that fueled his willingness to embrace digital technology, Sims created The Aaron Sims Company and began work on 30 Days of Night, The Golden Compass, I Am Legend, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Incredible Hulk and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. In 2007, he co-founded White Rock Lake Productions with business partner and long-time friend John Norris where they have created award winning films.

T0319 – Cinema 4D Training Advanced Character Rigging

Together with the French character animation specialists at WiPix, more than five hours of high-quality instruction on rigging and animating a character was created.

Eleven chapters of in-depth instruction ranging from creating the first joints to IK setup and weighting are included. This is all crowned by the creation of a complete walk cycle – an essential skill for all burgeoning character animation professionals working with CINEMA 4D’s MOCCA to create high-end animations.

These tutorials are available in the languages English and French.

T0307 – Lynda.com CorelDraw X4 Essential Training DVD

with: David Rivers

CorelDRAW X4 Essential Training provides detailed coverage of the flagship vector-based graphics application, as well as several of the other tools included in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. These include PHOTO-PAINT, a bitmap editing application; PowerTRACE, used to convert bitmaps to vectors; and ConceptShare, for web-based collaboration. David Rivers addresses experienced CorelDRAW users as he offers insight into new features and enhancements, and he also helps newcomers get up to speed with the basics of vector drawing. David demonstrates how to use objects, layers, and pages to organize documents effectively, and discusses working with color, specific tools, and special effects. He also covers the collaboration and delivery processes. Exercise files