Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
Finishing Touches 1
A course by Jordu Schell , Sculptor
About the video: Finishing Touches 1
Overview
“Now that our creature is fully painted and airbrushed, we can add the small details to really make it come alive. I'll show you how to add feathers, fur, and antennae to your sculpted masterpiece. ”
In this video lesson Jordu Schell addresses the topic: Finishing Touches 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 painted our creature using the airbrush and some hand painting techniques. Now comes the most fun part of creature making, the finishing touches. Those little details that add a specific kind of life and reality to your monster. We're going to start by glossing the eyes. For that, I'm going to use acrylic medium gloss varnish. It's basically just gloss acrylic medium. I'm going to take the gloss medium, and I'm going to paint it on the eye. Now, it might look very white and opaque, but it should dry quite glossy. That's looks better. And now, we can do other details f...”
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Course summary for: Creature Design and Sculpture for Film
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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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