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    Wk 8/8 Prop Design Class: Presentation
    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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    Wk 7/8 Prop Design Class: Painting vehicles in a full scene
    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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    Wk 6/8 Prop Design Class: Designing wheeled vehicles
    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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    Wk 6/8 Prop Design Class: Ellipses and technical drawing for vehicle designs
    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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    Wk 5/8 Prop Design Class: Painting and Orthographics
    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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    Design Principles 101
    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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    Wk 4/8 Prop Design Class: Alien flame thrower designs
    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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    Wk 3/8 Prop Design Class: Brush Creation and Style Pass
    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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    Wk 2/8 Prop Design Class: Spiderman's web-shooter
    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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    Wk 1/8 Prop Design Class: Thumbnails
    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...
    18 views
    The mechanics of "Style"
    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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    Thumbnailing environments
    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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    Composition Crash Course
    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...
    9 views
    Muscle Motor Memory for drawing
    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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    Compound Surfaces 102
    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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    Compound Surfaces 101
    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...
    7 views
    How to draw a lighter
    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.
    2 views
    Organic Elements
    jojokosol
    • May 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Organic Elements

    Let's change the pace. Realistically, we don't deal with architecture all the time in our drawings. Trees, canyons, mountains, lakes and...
    12 views
    Intersecting Shapes
    jojokosol
    • May 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Intersecting Shapes

    Ever heard of Booleans? Most objects are simply a combination of the 4 primitives. These exercises will help you improve your...
    13 views
    Sun Light
    jojokosol
    • May 14, 2021
    • 1 min

    Sun Light

    The easiest way to light objects. In this lecture, are techniques to plot shadows in how we would most naturally see them in the real...
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