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Learn how to approach design using an iterative and explorative approach pioneered by artists like Alex Senechal to create an amazing piece.

“Liu yifei likeness as Mulan” for Photorealistic rendering:| INTRODUCTION |Yiihuu’s grand production in late 2018 - a tutorial, never launched online before, of the look development of a rare film role, with the heroine in the Disney film “Mulan” that will be released in 2020 as the prototype. By learning the film-based process techniques, you will embra...

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Beautiful, highest-quality stock footage to enrich your edits with excellent video visuals. Get a wide variety of practical elements or computer-generated graphics and upgrade your timeline with top-notch shots.

Tutorials - Dynamic Hard Surface Design Course In Zbrush, USD $50.00. About:The tutorial is split up into two parts. In the first part, I will explain all the tools and workflows that I use to create a design with...

This course includes free lessons that I invite you to check out!Welcome to Advanced Particles 1: Geometry Based Simulations. In this course we will take an alembic animation of an opening hand, and

Over 1.5 hours of video content. I explained some of my thought process when building a scene in 3D using a kitbash as well as the Photoshop process and techniques to create the final image. You wi...

Armada Concept Art Course

Dive into the world of concept art using Unreal Engine 5 with concept artist Ellie Cooper. In this brand new Learn Squared course, Ellie unveils her entire workflow, from initial sketches to finalized portfolio pieces, harnessing UE5's breakthrough tools like Nanite and Lumen. If you're new to Unreal Engine, make sure to check out Ellie's 'Unreal Engine 5 Basics' course, which is designed to help absolute beginners understand the latest toolset. As a special bonus, by purchasing the Concept Art in UE5 course, you'll get Ellie's Unreal Engine 5 Basics course for FREE!

Professional concept artist Louis Laurent's completely fluid process will help to unlock entirely new possibilities in your art. Using a mix of 2D and 3D techniques, you'll learn how to harness happy accidents along the way to create beautiful and unique works of art.

Dynamic Concept Art II Course

Environment Design Course

Industry legend Maxx Burman commands over a decade's worth of experience, having delivered iconic matte paintings for dozens of household TV, film, and video game franchises. In this brand new course, Maxx will teach you all of his advanced 3D matte painting techniques to help you create stunning worlds with ease and efficiency.

Production Concept Art Course

From thumbnail sketch to final render, visionary designer Ash Thorp will show you how to create production-ready UI and data elements for Hollywood films.

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 concept art; it’s used by animators, storyboard artists, and concept designers alike throughout pre-production and beyond. Rembert Montald, a Storyboard Artist working in videogames in California, introduces and shares his complete workflow for creating beatboards that will impress stakeholders and producers. From reviewing an initial script and overcoming the anxiety of creating something when there are no existing designs yet, Rembert walks through his thought process and workflow, demonstrating 11 different storybeats along the way. This insightful workshop has a heavy emphasis on drawing and journeys from the initial thumbnail sketches all the way through to a rendered beatboard. This 3.5-hour workshop is suitable for anyone interested in drawing, filmmaking, or working in pre-production. By completing the 16 chapters, you will develop an understanding of what it takes to create a satisfying beatboard that has the potential to greenlight a project. You’ll also uncover effective techniques for sketching complex scenes, from hero shots to overlooking skyscrapers.

Blockbuster creatures and monsters all start somewhere: With a sketch. Senior Character and Creature Concept Artist Kyle Brown demonstrates the industry-proven workflows he’s mastered through working on high-profile creature designs for film, television, games, and advertising projects. His 3.5-hour workshop demystifies the process of bringing creatures to life, with Volume 1 dedicated to the sketching and idea-exploration phase. Before delving into the world of creature design, you’ll encounter many questions. How do you bring an unimagined creature into existence? How big, small, dangerous, or strong should it be? What environment will the creature be occupying and what role does it play? Will it have any unique skills or traits? Kyle discusses how, by applying fundamental design principles you can build a solid foundation to work from, and ultimately create a creature that will resonate with audiences — while still feeling fresh and original. Kicking off with the initial research and methodology phase, Kyle shows the importance of using references to serve as a spark for a new design, inspiring new shapes while always rooting design decisions in real-world anatomy and physiology. The workshop then moves into silhouette exploration using simple two-value construction to focus on shapes. Advanced thumbnailing follows, where Kyle applies secondary forms while ensuring that everything still reads at a small, bite-sized scale. The following exploratory process takes the initial thumbnails and fleshes them out into more resolved sketches, varying the shape and design language to create multiple iterations for a creature brief. To complete the workshop, the final design is translated into a three-quarter pose for the final presentation — whether it’s for your portfolio or a client. Watch Introduction to Creature Design: Volume 2 With Kyle Brown to explore how to color your creature concepts in Photoshop.

Senior Character and Creature Concept Artist Kyle Brown returns with Volume 2 of his Creature Design workshop to share his coloring and texturing techniques for Photoshop. With Volume 1 dedicated to the sketching and idea-exploration phase, Volume 2 now focuses on the core skills at the foundation of creature design and discusses the differences between real-world materials and textures that can help to achieve photorealistic results and bring concept sketches to life. Kyle revisits the original reference used to create imagined shapes in Volume 1 and this time puts them to work to show how to apply color and texture to designs. Taking the final creature concept from Volume 1, Kyle’s first color demonstrations reveal how to rapidly ideate using different color combinations and materials to flush out design options. He then shares quick and efficient methods for using some of Photoshop’s simple yet effective tools to create an additional color option on the same design. You’ll learn how to convey multiple conceptual ideations to a client for feedback, providing them with a wide net of options to see what works and what doesn’t. Chapters 4 – 7 show Kyle’s approach to designing a brand new creature from start to finish using the lessons from both volumes. Kyle showcases every decision — warts and all — including both the successful ideas and mistakes made through the designing process. His demo focuses on a non-destructive workflow. The final chapter offers a bonus lesson where Kyle shares his armor- and weapon-design techniques for those looking to add a further dimension to their creature designs.

Houdini is an industry leader in visual effects, putting power into the hands of FX artists working in production for films, TV, and games. As one of the most-used effects tools in the industry, artists can often find Houdini a daunting tool to get to grips with. Here, Alessandro Cangelosi unravels the learning curve to introduce a simple way to approach particle FX using Houdini. There are many approaches to creating impressive particle FX simulations in Houdini. Alessandro gets started with an overview of the basics that you need to know, and explains why Houdini is used as well as the fundamentals for how to use SideFX’s powerful software. This 7-hour workshop takes you step by step through how to manage different types of operators, including DOP, SOP, VOP, and focuses primarily on POP (Particle Operators) Networks. You’ll discover how to create a particle setup from scratch as well as how to take advantage of Houdini Shelf presets. The workshop aims to teach a sound understanding of how a particle system works in 3D. Particle emission rules and techniques are also covered, including how to manage different setups, and you’ll learn various ways to create particles using meshes, scatters, and volumes. In addition, some of the useful nodes that can be used to control colors, emissions, particle-caching, collisions with 3D objects, and basic bounce and drag forces are discussed in detail. The Mantra rendering engine is a great way to render millions of particles; Alessandro shares how to shade your projects, and explains how instancing works. You’ll also see how rendering points can be used in production to simulate effects such as dust, sand, and many other natural substances. How to control shading and motion blur with collision detection is also a highlight, where Alessandro discusses sub-groups, particle replication, sampling techniques, and optimization. The final part of this workshop tackles a final project: How to generate a CG nebula using volume velocity advection with a simple VOP. Helpful tips about how to create pyro FX advection are provided, as well as a deep look at particle rendering for gaseous FX. The Houdini files for each chapter are included with this workshop.

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 teaches how to lead the eye through your shots, and details his various shorthand techniques for detailing characters and action poses quickly and effectively. This workshop is intended for anyone with an interest in storyboarding, visual storytelling, and drawing. The lessons taught are aimed at intermediate and expert-level artists and aim to prove industry insights for those working in games and films, including techniques for pacing yourself, setting the expectations, and understanding working standards. By completing this workshop, you’ll have a complete understanding of Rembert’s method for boarding a sequence including how to turn it into an animatic that can be presented to a director. Included with this workshop are Rembert’s working files, including a PSD with full boards and his 4 PSD animatic files for you to dissect and better understand his approach. JPGs are also provided to show the various storyboard sheets.

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. Focusing on the first 16 seconds of his fight sequence, he gives an in-depth explanation of his thought process when approaching storyboarding for animation. His lecture includes a discussion of the importance of camera placement, as the way a camera moves can be used to great advantage — especially when working with dynamic shots. This is an advanced drawing workshop; however, Rembert’s approach to teaching is to make his techniques inclusive for all levels and abilities. This workshop aims to empower artists with the confidence to create their own animations, whether for showcasing in a portfolio, using to secure a new job, or pitch an idea to a stakeholder. Rembert’s final animatic can be downloaded with this workshop.

There are many approaches for designing characters for the screen. Industry veteran Aaron Sims details two of his tried-and-trusted workflows for creating iconic concept designs for film and TV, using Photoshop and ZBrush. As well as guiding you through his production-proven techniques, Aaron shares his thoughts on the importance of conveying personality and character through designs and shares some of the key lessons he’s learned over his 35-year career. Beginning with a 2D workflow in Photoshop, Aaron walks through his personal approach to visualizing a mutated character, using photo-bashing techniques that skillfully cut, splice, and warp multiple layers of human, creature, and organic elements to craft a completely unique design. Discussing the reasons behind his decisions at every step, the lecture details not only how to master photo manipulation for incredible results but also why the techniques and outcomes are his chosen workflows for likenesses, prosthetics, and digital augmentations. Today, artists can create any creature or character imaginable with the tools at their disposal. The second part of the two-hour workshop dives into ZBrush to develop a fully realized and dimensionalized alien character. Explaining why this approach serves well for full-CG characters, Aaron shares his ZBrush workflow, from base mesh to final bust, discussing the importance of anatomy, how to create points of interest in 3D designs, and how to push the envelope to create designs while still creating something an audience can relate to. The 3D workflow concludes with rendering techniques in KeyShot, pushing the settings and playing with various lighting scenarios, before finalizing the design in Photoshop.

photobashing techniques, 3d, rendering realistic images, hardsurface

wingfox|yiihuu is a professional online learning platform that helps anyone to perfect skills in digital art. It is dedicated to providing users with excellent and high-quality products, covering software-based tutorials of Photoshop, CAD, Maya, CDR, AI, AE, 3ds Max, from graphic design to game production, visual effect, UI design and so on. In addition to the tutorials provided, it also provides CG source-related material downloads and the latest design information.

wingfox|yiihuu is a professional online learning platform that helps anyone to perfect skills in digital art. It is dedicated to providing users with excellent and high-quality products, covering software-based tutorials of Photoshop, CAD, Maya, CDR, AI, AE, 3ds Max, from graphic design to game production, visual effect, UI design and so on. In addition to the tutorials provided, it also provides CG source-related material downloads and the latest design information.

wingfox|yiihuu is a professional online learning platform that helps anyone to perfect skills in digital art. It is dedicated to providing users with excellent and high-quality products, covering software-based tutorials of Photoshop, CAD, Maya, CDR, AI, AE, 3ds Max, from graphic design to game production, visual effect, UI design and so on. In addition to the tutorials provided, it also provides CG source-related material downloads and the latest design information.

wingfox|yiihuu is a professional online learning platform that helps anyone to perfect skills in digital art. It is dedicated to providing users with excellent and high-quality products, covering software-based tutorials of Photoshop, CAD, Maya, CDR, AI, AE, 3ds Max, from graphic design to game production, visual effect, UI design and so on. In addition to the tutorials provided, it also provides CG source-related material downloads and the latest design information.

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