I'm teaching an online course on anatomy
June 18, 2012
So it turns out I haven’t vanished (and actually have a lot of new content to share) but I’ve been swamped working on several projects of late. One of them I’d like to share, for those of you who really like dinosaurs but actually have different job aspirations:
I’ll be teaching a course for Visualarium, one of the leading educational resources for visual effects artists (and artists in training) that use Pixologic ZBrush. The class is Advanced Creature Anatomy, and rather than being on dinosaurs (although you’ll see some of them!) it centers on learning enough comparative anatomy from living and extinct animals to develop your own mental toolkit of concepts you can apply when to design more plausible speculative anatomy for fictional creature design.
I’ll do my best to keep it fun, so if ZBrush and 3D art is your thing, I invite you to check it out; we’ll be conducting a free webinar this Thursday so people can get a taste of what the course will be like.
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I didn't know you zSculpt!
Darn, in the field then :(
I don't David (actually, I've done a bit, but not to where I'd be teaching anyone), Ryan Kingslien will be doing the ZBrush sculpts for it.
Will this be of use to non 3D artists? And is it a video kind of thing? (I have limited bandwidth.)
Best of luck!
Hey Brett - it will be set up as a live video stream, although attendees can also download videos later (but no live Q&A then obviously). I'm sure the instructional portion that I do would be of use to any creature artist, but the weekly projects based on them are 3D/Zbrush based.
Hi Scott,
Well crap. Darn internet allowance!
Oh well, thanks!
very cool. Had to drop out. But very cool!
I hope this course runs again someday. I'm a 3D artist/creature person but currently can't afford workshops.
I'd be up for doing it again sometime. I may also explore making a book (or at least a tablet-based ebook) for artists, as I've been getting a lot of requests along those lines lately.
It's really interesting to hear how you and Heinrich both describe the peculiarities of dinosaurian spines... I SO need to get going on animating these guys!
I turned up on the day and greatly enjoyed the webinar (learned a thing or two, also) but, yeah - what Angela said.
A book, though. I could definitely throw money at that.
These online programs about anatomy will surely be a big hit.
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