Aug 31, 2010
I am happy to announce the first three-day portraiture workshop that I will be running from my London studio, 3-5 November, 2010. This course, open to the public, follows a very successful run of the same course at Disney’s Blackrock Studio in July. Over the three days we will explore the construction of the skull and features in detail and then students will to put this information to use completing their own forensic reconstruction of a face over a cast skull. For more information on the course and to register, visit the course page here.
Aug 6, 2010
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Here is an early preview of a new digital sculpture that I am slowly working on. The sculpture is of Hephaestus, the smith god and Pandora (not shown, obviously). See more of the story here. Time permitting I will try to post some early sketches and other works in progress. Check back soon….
Jul 27, 2010
Over the weekend I shot the second installment of the Bodies in Motion Reference Library. This shoot had a huge variety of talent including: mixed martial arts, kung fu, karate, stage combat, Spanish fencing, female sumo wrestling, classical ballet, hand balancing, break dancing and contortion.
Tons of images to process (~700 Gb), but sequences are forthcoming. If you are interested in staying informed about the library’s development/availability, drop me a message here.
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Feb 17, 2010
I will be returning to Montreal at the beginning of March to teach a two-day Anatomy Masterclass followed by two one-day Zbrush Figure Sculpting workshops. The dates for the masterclass are 1-2 March, and the Figure Sculpting sessions are on 3 and 4 March. The sessions are sponsored by the National Animation and Design (NAD) Centre and are open the public as well as industry professionals.
Nov 2, 2009
The plates from Duchenne de Boulogne’s Le Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (ca 1876) have been added to the reference library. The images are curious and not entirely pleasant to look at, but useful for artists interested in the extremes of human facial expressions. Duchenne would use electro-stimulation to activate individual facial muscles in willing but not entirely happy subjects.
Link to image gallery.
Jul 2, 2009
I will be giving an intensive two-day anatomy course at the The National Animation and Design Centre in Montreal, Canada on the 24th and 25th of August 2009. The course is open the public and industry professionals in and around Montreal. If you have a desire to deepen your knowledge of anatomy and improve your character skills, please stop by, I hope to see you there.
