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Plastic
Some examples of how to paint or render plastics. In short, I'd start with a matte surface, make sure you can see through it, if the...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Color Saturation
Colors, especially color saturation is very closely linked to value. I have honestly no idea why this is, but what I do know is that...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Value Structure
Knowing what values to paint on and in your scene can be frustrating. Here's a cheat sheet. Although it's mechanical in nature, at least...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 8/8 Prop Design Class: Presentation
This is mostly about how to bundle up finished designs for portfolio and presentation purposes. The design process I've presented for...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 7/8 Prop Design Class: Painting vehicles in a full scene
I'm not the biggest fan of floating props in vacuums, though this is quite common in Design Studios. If you can, painting your props in...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 6/8 Prop Design Class: Designing wheeled vehicles
Designing cars. This is probably one of the most difficult things to do. This week I have taken a different approach and ditched the...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 6/8 Prop Design Class: Ellipses and technical drawing for vehicle designs
Wheeled vehicles are tough. Ellipses tend to be one of the most overlooked aspects of any drawing and when it comes to a vehicle with...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 5/8 Prop Design Class: Painting and Orthographics
This week wraps up the alien flame thrower project. I take the rough sketch to develop a painting, something that can be submitted for...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Design Principles 101
All design is to me is establishing a relationship. We generally are so fixed in the subject matter of whatever it is we are trying to...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 4/8 Prop Design Class: Alien flame thrower designs
In this week I tackle a project that will have a more painted style. Thumbnails go a little further than in the previous week with some...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 3/8 Prop Design Class: Brush Creation and Style Pass
The week starts out with quick run down on Photoshop's brush creation features. This video is quite old, I was using PS Cs5 at the time....
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 2/8 Prop Design Class: Spiderman's web-shooter
A new week and a new style for an old prop design class. We start with reference gathering, thumbnailing, and move into a "sketch...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Wk 1/8 Prop Design Class: Thumbnails
An old set of video lectures from an 8 week prop design class back when I was teaching at CGMA. This is a rundown of how I basically have...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
The mechanics of "Style"
One of my previous Character Design instructors in ages long past had made a chart that put a lot of different visual styles in a way...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Thumbnailing environments
This demo tackles designing scenes in 2 point perspective. The final image is going to have a lot going on, here, we start to figure out...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Composition Crash Course
Struggle with making images? This video dissects compositions and goes over some core concepts on how to design an image, specifically...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Muscle Motor Memory for drawing
Here are a few exercises, literally, for warming up before a drawing session. If you struggle with "confident" line work, this is the...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Compound Surfaces 102
This is taking the ideas of the 101 class further. Below, is a demo of how to plot a spaceship/ flying chicken. This form is essentially...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
Compound Surfaces 101
Boxes and Tubes are fun and all, but at some point we want to design something cool like a car. This is an introduction to surfaces that...
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jojokosol
- May 14, 2021
- 1 min
How to draw a lighter
A video demo on how to draw a practical every day object in perspective.
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