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Welcome to The Gnomon Workshop, the industry leader in professional training for artists in the entertainment and design industries. Founded by Alex Alvarez in 2000, The Gnomon Workshop was launched as a means to share professional techniques with artists who could not attend the hands-on courses offered at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, California. Over the past nine years, the Gnomon Workshop DVD library has expanded to offer training by over sixty professional instructors on a diverse range of tools, software and media including design, drawing, sculpture, painting, modeling, texturing, animation, effects and compositing. Shipped to literally every corner of the globe, our DVDs can be found in countless libraries, studios and universities… and on many thousand bookshelves.

 

Scott Robertson - one of the most popular instructors school of computer graphics Gnomon

Scott Easley takes you through the process Constructing of a character animation in Maya Pipeline That Will allow you to constantly update and Improve your Characters Without adversely affecting the existing Any of animations. Scott Also Shows you How to use the Trax animation Editor from the Ground up and How to build a Library of animation actions Which you CAN then use to block-out More Complex character animations. Included on this DVD Are tutorials, Sample a rig, Blend Shapes for facial set-ups, character texture maps, Custom tools, SHELVES, Poses and a Maya Project to Get you on your Quicktime , Flash, Acrobat

 

In his first of three DVDs, J.P. takes you on an exciting creative and technical journey showing you how he begins a fantasy illustration, “Dark Riders”, purely from imagination. He covers the early stages of his process, from the initial idea to thumbnails, concept design and the final color sketch. J.P. also discusses how character personality, costumes, weapons and action poses affect the narrative of the final illustration.