Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
Sketching and Designing 1
A course by Jordu Schell , Sculptor
About the video: Sketching and Designing 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I will help you start a basic sketch design of your character. I will give you a simple overview of the fundamentals to support you in making a memorable character.”
In this video lesson Jordu Schell addresses the topic: Sketching and Designing 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creature Design and Sculpture for Film. A professional approach to creating fantasy and horror characters out of Sculpty clay.
Partial transcription of the video
“In the last lesson, we covered getting inspired and some of the influences that can help you in your creature design. In this lesson, we're going to actually start our monster sketch, the template from which we will derive our final piece. I've been looking at a lot of reference and I've been inspired by some things and I've come up with a design that I think will be very effective. Basically, I have this idea of an albino spider person thing that has arms and a really scary looking face with fangs and big bulgy albino eyes and some sort of weird reddish pattern on its body, but primarily a...”
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Course summary for: Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Character Design, Concept Art, Fine Arts, Sculpture
Jordu Schell
A course by Jordu Schell
Jordu Schell is a U.S.-based fantasy artist with decades of experience under his belt. Inspired by fantasy films of the 70s and 80s, designing creatures has always been the most exciting thing in the world for Schell. He got his big break in Hollywood in 1989 when he was hired to assist on a low-budget movie called “The Bride of Re-Animator.” From there, his career took off; he worked as a sculptor and designer on “Edward Scissorhands,” “Predator 2,” “Men in Black,” “Alien: Resurrection,” “The X-Files Movie,” and many others. Notably, he masterminded Neytiri, the lead heroine in the Oscar-winning film, Avatar.
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