Session 17

Environments: Part IV

Here is everything you get!!

-3 Structured HD Video Tutorials with commentary, annotations, and detailed process demonstration: Visitors (60 min.), Flying Dusk (65 min.), and Caves of Jupiter (61 min.)!!

-Explanations and demonstrations on stylization/design process, color approach, and step by step instruction to create environment concepts for game, film and animation.

- Timelapse Videos (3 .MOVs)

- Full Res Images (3 JPGs)

- Raw PSD Files, including all layers!!! (3 PSD Files)

-BONUS GOODIES!!: Isolated Cloud demonstration and breakout-Rendering and lighting techniques ( PSD file )

You'll learn:

-to shift subtle colors in atmospheric Perspective

-to build scale in paint strokes

-to maximize realism

-to paint painterly and rendered styles

-to emphasize scale with cues

-to utilize fill light on large assets 

-to paint light direction into form

-to create immense atmo, depth and scale

-to build shapes conducive to appeal

-to reveal form using shadow shapes

-to paint massive sky domes using gradients

-to paint atmospheric perspective 

-to paint with active and passive color

-to build up a focal point

-to light a scene using an off screen light source

-to balance a design with shape and line

-to create rhythm/balance within your work

-to build a composition from line, values and temperatures

-to conceptualize ideas for an executive or director

-to compose a final "moment" with color and light

-to render complex shapes

-to retain vivid colors from rough to finish

-to add final touches using modes and PS adjustment layers

-to provide the best option for presentation

-to commit to an idea and carry it through

-to facilitate coherent technique throughout a piece