April 18th, 2013
7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.

Join us Thursday, April 18th for a special behind-the-scenes look at the making of Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph

Join Gnomon School of Visual Effects and Walt Disney Animation Studios for a special evening showcasing the making of the hit animated film, Wreck-It Ralph. Guest speakers from Walt Disney Animation Studios will discuss their work behind the film, followed up by a Q&A session with the audience.

Seating for this event is first-come, first-served so please arrive early for the best chance to get a seat!

Where

Guest Speakers

Renato dos Anjos – Animation Supervisor

David Hutchins - Effects Supervisor

Brian Leach - Associate Director, Look and Lighting

Sean Jenkins - CG Supervisor

Sony Santa Monica Studio is known for bringing to life one of video games’ most iconic anti-heroes, Kratos, the God of War. Through the creation of four unique games Santa Monica Studio has carved out a place in Greek mythology for another legend in the pantheon of gods. With the recent release of the prequel, God of War: Ascension, Santa Monica Studio has once again displayed their penchant for creating outstanding visuals, brilliant gameplay and cutting-edge technology. Join us, and help celebrate the rise of the God of War!

Seating for the Q&A discussion panel is first-come, first-served so please arrive early for the best chance to get a seat!

Schedule

Panel Speakers

Luke Berliner - Environment Concept Artist
Jung Park - Lead Environment Concept Artist
Eric Ryan - Character Concept Artist
Izzy Medrano - Lead Character Concept Artist
Cliff Childs - Environment Concept Artist

More information at the Gnomon Gallery »

April 27th–28th, 2012
9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

10 Artists, 2 Days, Unlimited Inspiration. Join us for a Weekend of Demos and Talks from Some of the Top Artists of the Entertainment Industry.

Gnomon Workshop Live is a special two-day event showcasing some of the top professionals and emerging talent in the entertainment industry. See presentations and demos by highly accomplished artists who will take you inside their own personal projects and processes. This event provides a rare opportunity to meet the artists, learn from their experiences and discuss issues important to the entertainment industry.

These artists have worked on some of the biggest movies and games, including Iron Man 3, Prometheus, John Carter of Mars, Toy Story 3, The Avengers, Brave, Star Wars Episodes 1-3, TRON: Legacy, Ender’s Game, The Amazing Spider-Man, Starcraft II, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Diablo III and World of Warcraft.

Check out the official site for more details!

Join us as we mix and mingle with other ZBrush community members and artists from various industries in an evening of digital clay talk. The night promises to be filled with excitement and informative ZBrush demonstrations. Along with PIxologic’s Paul Gaboury, we’ll have a special guest presentation with ZBrush artist and instructor, Rafael Grassetti. Rafael will be sharing his workflow, breakdowns, production techniques and tips. He will also create a piece live, showing his complete process in ZBrush from initial sketches to final renders.

Schedule

Where

Guest Speakers

Paul Gaboury

Paul Gaboury is Pixologic’s Lead 3D Specialist who works with various studios such as Industrial Light & Magic, Ubisoft, Legacy Effects, Disney Animation, Bad Robot, Pixar Animation, etc on enhancing their digital sculpting pipeline using the leading industry application ZBrush. As part of the Pixologic team Paul travels to various studios and schools giving demos on to highlight the various new tools in ZBrush. Paul graduated with a BFA from Bowling Green State University and was an extension student at Gnomon School of Visual Effects.

Rafael Grassetti

Rafael is currently working as a Supervisor at Sony San Diego. Previously he worked at Bioware where he contributed to the Mass Effect and Dragon Age titles. He also worked as a freelance artist for more than 15 studios and 70 projects, including Cinematic Production, Game Art, TV, Printed Advertising and Sculpture and Toy Design. He has taught classes and acclaimed workshops in Brazil. You can find more about Rafael and his artwork at www.grassettiart.com.

Join us for a special exhibit featuring concept illustrations, maquettes, and several full-sized characters from some of the most inspiring visual effects films of the last decade including Hellboy, Paul, Looper, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and Pacific Rim.

Gnomon Gallery
Saturday, March 2nd
7:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M.

More information at the Gnomon Gallery »

LOOK: The Making of Warm Bodies

Over a period of approximately 10 months, LOOK’s Vancouver facility opened its doors, built a team of about 45, structured a character animation and visual effects pipeline and produced around 350 shots.

Their work included extensive character animation on “the Boneys”, an evolved form of zombie that plague humanity. Working directly with the director and his creative team, LOOK had extensive input into the look, feel and movement of these most-extreme undead.

LOOK also designed and created a digital city that is featured in a fully-CG fly through, linking up practical plates shot on location in Montreal. In order to avoid locating the story there, however, the digital city had to shift towards the generic so as not to be instantly recognizable.

Come hear on-set supervisor Everett Burrell and digital supervisor Mat Krentz talk about how LOOK’s work allowed Levine to believably tell this sometimes gruesome, sometimes funny, but always heart-felt tale that would not have been possible without visual effects. In doing so, this mid-sized fx facility produced work that formerly has been reserved for the “big guns” and made the viewing experience as believable and immersive as possible.

Thinkbox: Krakatoa for Maya Demo

Thomas Phariss, Borislav “Bobo” Petrov, and Chris Bond of Thinkbox will be joining us to demonstrate workflows with the new Krakatoa for Maya high-volume particle renderer.

Come learn about all the awesome particle effects you can produce right inside Maya. Generate hundreds of millions of particles using regular Maya particles or nParticles, import and manipulate 3rd party particle simulations from products like RealFlow or Naiad, or convert geometry into point clouds and render them using various volumetric shading algorithms in a matter of seconds.

Autodesk Demos

Join Autodesk’s Dean Schirm and learn all about Autodesk Smoke 2013. Smoke brings editing and effects together in one Mac application, now at a much lower price. You can bring in work from other NLE’s, or do all your editing, effects and creative finishing work directly inside Smoke.

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Schedule

Where

Guest Speakers

Everett Burrell
Senior Visual Efffects Supervisor at LOOK Effects and On-Set Supervisor on Warm Bodies

Everett has almost 30 years of experience. In the mid-1980’s Burrell began his career perfecting his craft under effects industry luminaries Greg Cannom, Stan Winston, and Rick Baker. In 1989 he and John Vulvich founded Optic Nerve, a makeup effects company that quickly gained attention with their work on such features as George Romero’s The Dark Half and Tom Savini’s remake of Night Of The Living Dead. Their reputation for producing high-quality effects on tight production schedules and budgets led to their producing the alien creatures and prosthetic makeups for the successful science fiction television show “Babylon 5,” for which they won an Emmy in 1994.

During this time, Everett realized that he had an aptitude for computer imagery. Leaving Optic Nerve, he joined Flat Earth Productions where he was instrumental in producing digital visual effects for television shows that included “Hercules,” “Ally McBeal,” “Charmed” and the highly-praised mini-series, “Dune.”

As his experience and skills increased, Everett left Flat Earth to join visual effects company Café FX. Because of his many years working in feature films on-set, executing practical effects, he became an invaluable asset and the perfect liaison between the on-set film production crew and the digital artists back at the studio. He supervised impressive visual effects for Blade III, Sin City, Hellboy, The Mist and the award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth.

After many successful years at Café FX, Everett struck out on his own as a freelance visual effects supervisor and producer. During this time, he has been responsible for the jaw-dropping effects of Max Payne, Battle: Los Angeles, Prometheus, Warm Bodies, and most recently, the highly-demanding work load of A Good Day To Die Hard, the latest of the Bruce Willis Die Hard films.

Mat Krentz
Digital Effects Supervisor

Mat Krentz, Digital Effects Supervisor, brings a wealth of visual effects production experience to LOOK’s Vancouver facility. Mat’s skill as a compositor took him around the globe and allowed him to earn his chops at companies that include ILM, CafeFX, CIS-Vancouver, Rainmaker, Animal Logic, Frantic Films and MPC Vancouver. His extensive credits include: Transformers 3: Dark Of The Moon; Alice In Wonderland; Star Trek; I, Robot; Sucker Punch, The Twilight Saga: New Moon; Indiana Jones And the Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull; The DaVinci Code (for which he received a VES nomination); “Stargate Atlantis – Rising”Pilot (which garnered Emmy and VES nominations) and Leo Award Winner The Collector. Mat was very happy to return home to Vancouver and help establish LOOK as a premiere visual effects house as Digital Effects Supervisor on Warm Bodies.

Grand Prize Winner

Stefano Farci

Digital Sets (pictured above)

View Winner’s Gallery

Jonathan Kuo

Character 2D

Tiffany Yung

Character 3D

Chris Gillett

Character for Games

Servando Lupini

Creature 2D

Toby Lewin

Environment 2D

Todd Marshall

Environment 3D Exterior

Daniel Kho

Environment 3D Interior

Jonathan Kuo

Hard Surface Modeling

Leo Krajden

Sculpture

Leticia Reinaldo

Texturing

Cenk CevdetKilar

Visual Effects

]]> http://www.gnomonschool.com/?feed=rss2&p=2642 http://www.gnomonschool.com/?p=2644 http://www.gnomonschool.com/?p=2644#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:19:16 +0000 admin http://www.gnomonschool.com/?p=2644 3D projection mapping is the merging of real and virtual worlds, by projecting 3D models onto their real-life counterparts. Also called “spatial augmented reality”, it was invented by Ramesh Raskar, from MIT, and Oliver Bimber, from Johannes Kepler University Linz, who literally wrote the book. 3D projection mapping is a profound paradigm shift in entertainment, advertising, and lighting. Join us Tuesday, February 12th for a special LA ACM SIGGRAPH event exploring this emerging technology.

PaintScaping.com, one of the leaders in this field, was founded in 2009 by CG pioneer Philippe Bergeron. Based in Los Angeles, PaintScaping has produced large-scale mappings in Hawaii, Cancun, Las Vegas, Chicago, Québec City, Scottsdale, Orlando, and Los Angeles, among others.

Philippe, along with other “PaintScapers,” will discuss the creative process, behind-the-scenes technical challenges, as well as present case studies for Sony Pictures, Blue Man Group, MGM Resorts International, and Cirque du Soleil.

We will also discuss job opportunities for artists & TD’s familiar with Maya, Cinema 4D, 3Ds Max, Nuke, Realflow, AfterEffects, ZBrush, Endorphin, and MotionBuilder.

Schedule

6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: Social Hour
- 6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.: LA ACAM SIGGRAPH Members only
- 7:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.: LA ACAM SIGGRAPH Members and guests
7:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.: Introductions
7:45 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.: Presentation

Where

Gnomon School of Visual Effects
Stage
1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038

This event is free for Gnomon students and LA ACM SIGGRAPH members. Non-members of LA ACM SIGGRAPH are admitted for $20.00. New LA ACM SIGGRAPH members who sign up on-site, and pay the $40 annual membership fee (checks or cash only), do not have to pay the $20 admission fee. MasterCard and Visa credit cards accepted at the door.

Contact admissions@gnomonschool.com to begin the application process!

Check out our Maya Fast Track for a nine week intensive Maya crash course. Considering our full-time Digital Production for Entertainment program? Seats are still available!

Winter courses begin January 7th. Call Admissions for more information, pricing or to register, at 323-466-6663 or email admissions@gnomonschool.com. Financial assistance is available for those who qualify.