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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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....
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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Composition Crash Course
Struggle with making images? This video dissects compositions and goes over some core concepts on how to design an image, specifically...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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How to draw a lighter
A video demo on how to draw a practical every day object in perspective.
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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Intersecting Shapes
Ever heard of Booleans? Most objects are simply a combination of the 4 primitives. These exercises will help you improve your...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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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...
jojokosol
May 14, 20211 min read
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