This week The Gnomon Workshop releases a new series of three DVDs by renowned concept artist James Clyne. Clyne brings his vast production experience to these titles that focus on designing environments for feature films. Using three different scenarios (a futuristic cityscape, a historical castle siege scene and a contemporary loft set), he demonstrates how he uses Photoshop to efficiently render his concepts for films. Clyne shows essential techniques that will improve your skills and demonstrate a range of tools to save you time such as "Photoshop kit bashing," creating custom brushes, developing architectural concepts, character indication and rendering a wide range of materials.
DVD Descriptions:
FUTURISTIC SET DESIGN WITH JAMES CLYNE: CONCEPTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR FEATURE FILM PRODUCTIONIn this first of three DVDs in a series, Clyne will cover a wide range of Adobe Photoshop techniques that he uses as a concept designer in the feature film industry. Focusing on the subject of futuristic architectural landscapes, Clyne starts with a blank page and quickly delves right into such topics as sketch ideation directly in Photoshop and blocking in a dynamic composition. Setting itself apart from other concept art techniques, this DVD concentrates heavily on the smooth integration of photo reference and high-end conceptualization ideas, or what Clyne terms "Photoshop kit bashing," blurring the line between photo and ideation rendering. Subjects such as Photoshop layer properties, creating custom brushes, and developing architectural concepts are also covered.
HISTORICAL SET DESIGN WITH JAMES CLYNE: CONCEPTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR FEATURE FILM PRODUCTIONIn this second of three DVDs in a series, James will cover a wide range of Adobe Photoshop techniques that he uses as a concept designer in the feature film industry. Focusing on the subject of historical architectural landscapes, James jumps into subjects such as keeping a rendering loose while maintaining presentation level quality and how to reinforce the visual narrative. Subjects such as "painting in" a mask, strong lighting technique and character indication are also covered.
CONTEMPORARY SET DESIGN WITH JAMES CLYNE: CONCEPTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR FEATURE FILM PRODUCTIONIn this third of three DVDs in a series, Clyne will cover a wide range of Adobe Photoshop techniques that he uses as a concept designer in the feature film industry. Focusing on the subject of a contemporary loft interior as a film set, Clyne acts as a location manager, production designer and illustrator to visually explain a common feature film art department pipeline technique. Subjects such as using photo scrap as virtual set pieces, texture mapping in 2D, and rendering a wide range of materials from brushed steel to polished hardwood floor are also covered.
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