Designing Creatures for Movies

In the first of two DVDs, Aaron Sims illustrates the techniques he uses when designing creatures for movies. As the character's facial features are the first and most important part of designing characters in film, this DVD concentrates on creating the character head.

Using Photoshop, XSI and ZBrush, Aaron shows you how to accomplish stunning designs that can be easily altered for other designs. Speed is an important aspect of character design in production, which Aaron demonstrates by showing you how his process helps you design within a production environment.

		Topics Covered: • Designing in Photoshop • Modeling a Creature Head in XSI • Texturing in XSI • Lighting and Rendering in XSI • Painting Final details in Photoshop • Using XSI to Model Shapes for ZBrush • Detailing and Texturing in ZBrush Chapters: 01. Designing in Photoshop 02. Modeling a Quick Head in XSI 03. Texturing, Lighting and Rendering in XSI 04. Painting Final Details with Photoshop 05. Using XSI to Model Shapes for ZBrush 06. Using ZBrush to Detail and Texture 07. Rendering in XSI 08. Painting Final Details with Photoshop

Minimum System Requirements
1GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
5 GB of hard disk space
1280 x 1024 display

Minimum Operating System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2

This DVD-ROM also requires the Quicktime Movie Player (Version 5.0.5 or higher), the Ensharpen Codec (Version 1.0.1 or higher) and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents.

The web links for these installers are below. If you don't have these items on your computer, please install these items before you launch the DVD-ROM Gnomon Workshop movie.

TechSmith EnSharpen Decoder Link:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/ensharpendecoder.asp
Apple Quicktime Link:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Adobe Acrobat Installer Link:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

About Aaron Sims
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. where he worked on many projects including: The Nuttty Professor , Men in Black and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

In the late 1990s, Aaron began exploring the medium of computer animation, joining Stan Winston Studio in 2000 where he began building SW-Digital, a CG department within the Academy Award winning effects house. As that company's Art Director, Aaron has designed for such films as A.I. Artificial Intelligence , Terminator 3 , Constantine and Doom .

Important Information:

Creature Design Vol 1 Gnomon Workshop DVD

Instructor:
Aaron Sims

Formats:
Mac or PC DVD-ROM

Duration:
Over 2.5 Hours

Software Featured
Softimage XSI
Pixologic ZBrush

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