onehugeeye » Gnomon http://www.onehugeeye.com on character animation Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:17:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Character Modelling for Next-Gen Games http://www.onehugeeye.com/character-modelling-for-next-gen-games/ http://www.onehugeeye.com/character-modelling-for-next-gen-games/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:20:08 +0000 Alex Amelines http://www.onehugeeye.com/?p=1308

This is an incredibly awe worthy DVD course with award winning character artist Richard Smith, who has worked on titles such as Star Wars Battlefront 3, Time Splitters 4, Without Warning and Haze.

In this DVD, he takes you through modelling a Next-Gen game character, starting with a rough concept design and evolving it into a low-res base mesh. Then ZBrush is used to create further detail, specially those pesky clothing folds. With all this detail in, the sculpture is modified using a plugin for Maya called Nex. Finally, XNormal produces a normal map and is ready to bring into Maya.

This DVD is aimed at artists with a basic understanding of polygon modelling in Maya, but the techniques demonstrated can be applied using almost any other 3D modelling software.

]]> http://www.onehugeeye.com/character-modelling-for-next-gen-games/feed/ 0 The Making of ‘9’ at Gnomon http://www.onehugeeye.com/the-making-of-9-at-gnomon/ http://www.onehugeeye.com/the-making-of-9-at-gnomon/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:38:47 +0000 Alex Amelines http://www.onehugeeye.com/?p=222

'9' by Shane Ackner

After Shane Ackner joined Gnomon as their new resident artist, it was just a matter of time for an event like this to happen. On Saturday, September 5th at 6pm The Making of “9″ event will start, followed by The Art of “9″ gallery opening at Gnomon Gallery at 8:00.

RSVP.

]]> http://www.onehugeeye.com/the-making-of-9-at-gnomon/feed/ 1 The Making of UP at Gnomon http://www.onehugeeye.com/the-making-of-up-at-gnomon/ http://www.onehugeeye.com/the-making-of-up-at-gnomon/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:48:26 +0000 Alex Amelines http://www.onehugeeye.com/character/?p=138

UP © Pixar Animation Studios

If you’re lucky enough to live in California, you shouldn’t miss this event at Gnomon School of Visual Effects. Special guest Gary Bruins (Effects Supervisor) will be talking about his experience of working on Pixar’s UP.

Event Details:

When: Thrusday, August 13th, 2009
Meet & Greet: 6:00 pm — 7:00 pm
Presentation: 7:00 pm — 9:00 pm
Place: Gnomon School of Visual Effects
1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038

This event is FREE of charge!

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