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Neville breaks down the development of character design and drawing into a systematic process that is easy to follow and easy to implement. He starts off with a very free form approach utilizing black/white thumbnails to create strong silhouettes. This also helps to take the edge off of the potential intimidation at the start of a project. Neville shows you how to create plausible anatomy, form delineation via simple primitive shape studies and surface detailing such as skin, wrinkles, hair and graphics.
Developing a Strong Character
Anatomy
Lighting Your Subject
Graphics
01: Introduction
02: Design Via Thumbnails
03: Getting Started (Anatomy)
04: Simplified Lighting Study
05: Rendering (The Face)
06: Blocking in the Body
07: Detailing
08: Shadow Casting and Graphics
09: Review and Refine
10: Credits
Drawing on the content from his Character Design and Sketching DVD, Neville paints a quick photo-realistic illustration using techniques employed within Photoshop. He starts off by establishing a color palette and value study by generating a small thumbnail painting. This becomes the foundation for the final illustration. Neville demonstrates various texture brushes and glazing techniques to create a quick, yet realistic representation of animal skin. The lesson reveals techniques for hair and detailing, as well as graphic treatments and color shifting. Neville also shows how to create a simple photographic studio setting for your character.
The software used in this DVD is Adobe Photoshop.
How to Use the Drawing
The "Photo Studio"
Blocking In Form
Simple Hair Techniques
Graphics
Detailing
01: Introduction
02: Starting the Illustration
03: Roughing in the Form
04: Rendering the Face #1
05: Adding Graphics and Hairs
06: Refinement of Overall Image
07: Rendering the Face #2
08: Hairy Ears and Other Details
09: Final Refinement
10: Credits
Making eyes appear rich and soulful is critical to conveying character. In Rendering Eyes, Neville Page clearly describes a process for rendering beautiful, frightening, or appropriately horrible eyes. Detailing the anatomy of the eye, he explains how to approach the various details that contribute to a natural looking eye including reflection, glossiness, refraction, color, veins, the iris and wetness. Whether you choose to start with an existing sketch, render from scratch, or paint over a rough sculpture – all of which are described during the course of the lesson – these techniques are crucial to any character rendering. The software used in this DVD is Adobe Photoshop(R). Rendering a Human Eye Photoshop Brush Techniques Super Glossy Realism Painting Over a Sculpture 01: Research 02: Matte Surface 03: Understanding Reflections 04: Reflective Sphere 05: Changing the Environment 06: The Human Eye 07: Rendering Over a Sketch 08: Adding the Eye 09: Painting Clay 10: Orangutan Eyes
In this lecture, Neville leads you methodically through the process of creating a wet, fleshy creature. First emphasizing the importance of reference, the properties of fleshy surfaces are deconstructed. Neville teaches how to create custom brushes by sampling from an image, how to define the diffuse, specular and translucent qualities of flesh, and he also provides a thorough reflectivity demonstration. Leaving little to chance or guesswork, through process and technique, Neville illustrates the ways in which he achieves his character's disturbingly real skin textures.
The software used in this DVD is Adobe Photoshop(R).
Making a Brush In Photoshop
Creating Depth and Realism
Depth In Skin
01: Research
02: Roughing-in
03: Understanding Reflections
04: Shiny Meat Ball
05: Brush Making
06: Making It Wet
07: Refining the Design
08: Adding Details
09: Environment/Background
10: Depth of Field
This video was added to our catalog on November 04, 2005 in Digital Art - 2D::Master Artist Techniques.
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This video gives lots of insight. It was good to see the artist's process, starting with a pencil sketch, painting over it in Photoshop, sometimes changing his mind, refining the painting as he went. He gave clear narration and explained what he was doing very well. He included a chapter that rendered a sphere shape as flesh, and that was particularly educational, since it showed the basic concepts he was to apply later in his painting. He shows how he makes custom brushes for different fleshy effects, which are great. Overall, worth renting.
