Create an Infograph that will Make History
The sculpture
A course by Fernando Gomez Baptista , Illustrator and Infographic Artist
Joined April 2014
Learn the infograph techniques used by National Geographic
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 99% positive reviews (321)
- 4855 students
Joined April 2014
About the video: The sculpture
Overview
“A plastic solution that I use very often are the sculptures, they help me to define details, textures and lights that, perhaps, an illustration can not.”
In this video lesson Fernando Gomez Baptista addresses the topic: The sculpture, which is part of the Domestika online course: Create an Infograph that will Make History. Learn the infograph techniques used by National Geographic.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, our graph goes taking body, we have already placed in real size with the computer, in the illustrator all the elements, we have the title, entradillas, the texts, secondary elements, we have made one of those secondary elements and we have already placed even the sketch of what is going make our main element the Neanderthal figure and it is the what we are going to do is start with that Neanderthal figure, to make that figure dedicate one two days and a half more or less, and I will explain that process, here you see the figure as it is, what first I did was print the size that I want...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Create an Infograph that will Make History
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Areas
Digital Fabrication, Drawing, Infographics, Information Design, Photography Post-production, Sculpture
A course by Fernando Gomez Baptista
Fernando Baptista is the infographics senior editor at National Geographic in Washington.
He studied fine arts at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and began his career as a freelance illustrator and designer before becoming a staff member at the newspaper El Correo in 1993. In 2007, he joined the team at National Geographic Magazine in Washington DC. He has taught classes as an associate professor at the University of Navarra and has run conferences and workshops in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
In 2012, he was named one of the five most influential infographic artists in the world during the last 20 years. He has won more than 125 awards from the likes of the SND, SPD, ÑH, Best American Infographic, and Malofiej, including the Peter Sullivan Award—the most prestigious award in infographics. In 2013, he was nominated for an Emmy for [i]Walking With Giants[i] in the category of New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture. His illustrations have also been displayed in museums and featured in books.
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- 4855 students
- 18 lessons (2h 11m)
- 36 additional resources (27 files)
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- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Intermediate
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