Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
Hand Painting 1
A course by Jordu Schell , Sculptor
About the video: Hand Painting 1
Overview
“What do you want the viewer to feel when they see your piece? You can manipulate the emotions they experience with the palette you create. I always begin the painting process with hand painting, first applying the base layer and then incorporating details with a fine brush. ”
In this video lesson Jordu Schell addresses the topic: Hand Painting 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, I covered baking and refining the final sculpture. Now it's time to get into coloring it, painting it. So let's talk a little bit about the colors that I have, the kinds of paints I have, and the color palette for the creature. This is common with fantasy artists. They get an image of what it is they want. And my image for this was that it was kind of part spider, part horrible thing. So I'm not going to use an enormous number of colors because one of the things I also thought about was it being kind of albino, hence the pink eyes and the kind of oddly colored mouth area...”
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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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