Summer Courses and Workshops

 courses, news
Mar 252018
 

Scott Eaton's anatomy and digital sculpture coursesclick for larger

Enrolment is now open for the Summer sessions of my anatomy and digital figure sculpting courses. These in-depth courses are designed to teach the skills every figurative artist needs to produce inspiring, professional level work. The courses have been taught to artists and studios around the world, including Pixar, Industrial Light & Magic, Disney, Sony, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, Blizzard, EA and many others. If you are looking for an intensive course to level up your figurative art skills, consider one of these:

ONLINE COURSES

  • ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS
    The most comprehensive online course covering artistic anatomy. No prerequisites are necessary, just a sincere interest in learning about the wonderful machine that is the human body! more…

  • DIGITAL FIGURE SCULPTURE
    An intense ten-week course in the tools and techniques of digital figure sculpture. This course is recommended for students with a firm grounding in anatomy (the Anatomy for Artists course is recommended) as well as an intermediate knowledge of ZBrush. more…

  • PORTRAITURE & FACIAL ANATOMY
    The companion course to Anatomy for Artists, this course explore the anatomy of the face in-depth. It covers the construction of the skull, features, facial fat, musculature, expressions, and the Facial Action Coding system (FACS). Every great figure needs a great face, this course teaches you the anatomy you need to build it. more…

    • Anatomy for Artists, Somerset House, LondonSomerset House, home of Scott’s London courses

    LONDON COURSES

  • INTENSIVE ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS
    Scott’s Intensive Anatomy for Artists workshop offers four days of in-depth anatomy training at Somerset House in the heart of central London. This course is designed to teach artists essential and advanced anatomy and how this knowledge can be applied to drawing, sculpture, illustration, character design, modelling, rigging, or animation. The course assumes no previous knowledge of anatomy and builds from the foundation up. After four days of study, we finish the course with a visit to the spectacular V&A museum, where Scott reviews the anatomy lessons on his favorite masterpieces of 15th-19th century European sculpture. more…

    • Scott teaching anatomy at somerset house, londonAnatomy lesson in-progress at Somerset House

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     anatomy, news
    May 122017
     

    Compositing scan renders for Bodies in Motionclick for larger

    Been very busy recently getting Bodies in Motion > Scans ready to launch. I am personally cleaning up ALL the scans to preserve the form and anatomy. Also lighting and rendering them to make beautiful, informative drawing/sculpting/anatomy reference for all of you. Compositing today. Sharing this screenshot so you know I haven’t been idle the last couple months.

    Scans will be coming very soon to www.BodiesinMotion.photo (weeks!). Launch date will be announced next week.

    Digital Portrait Sculpting @ Ubisoft

     anatomy, digital sculpture, news, timelapse
    Nov 072016
     

    Digital Portrait Sculpting - Scott Eaton at Ubisoft Quebecdemo sculpt from the Ubisoft workshop

    I am recently back from a week-long workshop at Ubisoft’s Quebec studio focused on portraiture and facial anatomy. The week broke down into three days of facial anatomy lecture for twenty of their artists (animators, riggers, concept artist, character artists) and then finished with an intensive two-day portrait sculpting session in ZBrush with just the character artists.

    Scott teaching facial anatomy and portrait sculpting at Ubisoftartists sculpting away, and me, the shadowy figure in the corner
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    Venus at London Design Festival

     design, ipad docking station, news
    Nov 062016
     
    Venus of Cupertino at the London Design Festival

    The Venus of Cupertino, my iPad docking station, is just back from a busy week at the London Design Festival. She received countless oogles, smiles, and appreciation over the four days. She was even chosen as the top design at the festival by a prominent online design & lifestyle magazine.

    Now that the Venus of Cupertino is almost all grown up, most future posts and updates on the Venus project will be found at: EATON.london There you can follow all the gossip, blogs, & tweets. And of course you can order her there as well!

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    Crystal Angel for Elton John

     digital sculpture, news, sculpture
    Sep 182015
     

    Ange Cire Perdue, LaLique for Elton JohnAnge Cire Perdue, clear and red crystal, 73 cm, image © Lalique

    I was recently commissioned by the legendary French glass makers, Lalique, to design and sculpt an enormous (in relative terms) crystal angel, an allegory of Music, for Elton John. The piece, know as Cire Perdue (after the lost wax process Lalique used to cast the piece), is a single, unique artwork that will be auctioned off in Los Angeles in February, with all proceeds going to the Elton John Aids Foundation. After a long design process and an even longer time in production, the piece is finally finished and was shown for the first time at Elton’s Windsor estate, to an effusive reaction:

    “I don’t think that I have ever seen a more beautiful piece of glass than the big Angel. It is breathtaking!

    -Elton John

    Elton signing the Lost Wax AngelElton signing the big Angel

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    Thames Horses

     digital sculpture, horses, news, sculpture
    Sep 032015
     

    Thames Horses underwaterclick for larger

    I am excited to show the first images from a recent collaboration with fellow artist Jason deCaires Taylor. I designed and sculpted the four Shire horses with oil-pump heads for Jason’s installation The Rising Tide currently installed on the Southbank of the Thames, right outside the MI6 building (for all you James Bond and secretive intelligence agency fans out there).

    The piece is a powerful commentary on man’s relationship with the environment. Throughout the day the sculptures are submerged and revealed as the tide cycle waxes and wanes. As a long-time scuba diver I am delighted by Jason’s epic underwater works, so it was a pleasure collaborating with him on this piece.

    Thames Horses, Scott Eaton for Jason deCaires Taylor's The Rising Tideclick for larger

    My work on the piece involved the design and digital sculpting of the 18-hand tall Shire horses. Interestingly, over the past few years I have sculpted quite a few horses. First my centaur, then work on Mark Wallinger’s White Horse (also installed in London), followed by the horses for Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, and now these petrochemical Shires.

    ThamesHorses_nearlySubmergedNearly high tide. image © Jason deCaires Taylor

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    Anatomy Masterclasses at Industrial Light & Magic, London

     anatomy, news
    Aug 082015
     

    Industrial Light and Magic, London ILM is in London!

    I’ve just finished six days of anatomy masterclasses for Industrial Light and Magic, London (yes, the Star Wars guys). This isn’t the first time I’ve been to ILM, in the past I’ve run workshops for both their San Francisco and Singapore offices, but this is the first time it was just a tube journey away (not a nine-hour flight). It is great having Industrial Light & Magic in London!

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    Spielberg’s War Horse

     horses, news
    Jun 202015
     

    war_horse_banner_tnour digital horse in action

    I recently kicked off a series of pastblast posts digging up old but interesting projects that I didn’t have time to write about when they were happening. One of the most interesting and enjoyable visual effects projects that I have worked on is Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of War Horse.

    The story follows Joey, a farm horse in rural England, onto the battlefields of World War I. Being a war story, you can imagine there are a few upsets along the way, and Joey inevitably finds himself in very dangerous circumstances – circumstances too dangerous in fact for real ‘horse actors’. Cue our digital Joey.

    CREATING THE DIGITAL JOEY

    Our digital horse stretching his legs

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    3dArtist Magazine facial anatomy tutorial

     anatomy, news, zbrush
    May 262015
     

    3dArtist magazine tutorial covering the important anatomical structures of the faceclick for larger

    3dArtist_cover_tnI recently completed a tutorial for 3dArtist magazine about the making of this facial anatomy ecorche. In the article I go through the steps used to create the digital sculpture in ZBrush and about the importance of understanding facial anatomy and why it helps improve portraiture. The tutorial is in issue 81 of the magazine.

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