Sculpture
Explore the world of traditional clay sculpture with this series of 12 inspiring workshops. These comprehensive lessons are taught by the entertainment industry’s top sculptors and designers, with contributions to landmark films and acclaimed collectibles, from sculpting/building Yoda for The Empire Strikes Back (Wendy Froud), the Navi in Avatar (Schell), aliens in District 9 (David Meng), to iconic bronze and resin works (John Brown/Shifflet Bros.). The Sculpture Path introduces artists to various styles and techniques, including armature building, oil-based clay, design, pose, expression, and clothing.
The Art of the Armature
Creating great sculpture is very much like creating great Architecture. The foundation and framework has to be built first and it must be strong and contain the necessary landmarks in order to achieve aesthetic success and evoke emotion...
John Brown
Sculpting the Planes of the Head
Successful head sculpture begins with understanding where the vertical/horizontal planes and facets are, and the fundamental relationship the features have with them. In this tutorial, figurative artist and educator John Brown breaks down the life-size male head into a series of planes and facets...
John Brown
ZBrush
Reality Capture
Clay
Sculpting Expression and Fantasy Characters
Sculpting Expression and Fantasy Characters covers a multitude of advanced sculpting techniques. Chapter one covers sculpting the quarter scale male bust. You'll learn advanced theories that will positively shape and influence your concepts and designs...
John Brown
Sculpting Comic Book Style
Inside "Sculpting Comic Book Style", John demonstrates how to sculpt a comic book superhero character. Beginning with a special illustrated montage "ORIGINS", the sculpted character morphs right off the comic book pages into the clay model...
John Brown
Sculpting the Femme Fatale
Inside "Sculpting the Femme Fatale", John demonstrates how to sculpt the fantasy oriented, sexy, dangerous female character. Beginning with a concept sketch and an understanding of gesture and balance, students will quickly learn the essentials of female anatomy through a comparative study using a live female model...
John Brown
Clay to Bronze: An Encyclopedic Guide to Making Bronze Statues
Making bronze sculptures is a highly skilled, multifaceted, potentially dangerous art form that employs a vast array of technical knowledge & materials no sculptor should be without. This tutorial will concentrate on the techniques of the lost wax process.
John Brown
A Pungent Character: Getting Grit Into Imaginary Faces
In this lecture, David Meng shares his thoughts on how he creates personality and expression in a character bust. He will discuss his thought process behind doing an unconventional take on a traditional creature. The practical aspects of working with plastalina and building armatures will also be discussed.
David Meng
Sculpting a Stylized Character
In this lecture, Creature Designer David Meng guides you through his process of designing and sculpting a stylized character maquette. Beginning with the armature assembly and block out, he demonstrates his method for building up a rigid, yet still flexible, base onto which he will build up his sculpture.
David Meng
Fantasy Sculpting: The Dragon of Argos
The comic book and fantasy statue industry has exploded in the last decade. In this title, acclaimed sculptors Jarrod and Brandon Shiflett show you how they create a sculpture for the industry using Super Sculpey®. Whether the final product will be bronze, cold cast porcelain pre-painted statue, or resin kit, their sculpting process is the same. The brothers walk you through every step of that process, including armature construction, composition, anatomy, and detailing.
Shiflett Brothers
Maquette Sculpting and Painting
In this lecture, one of Hollywood's most prolific concept sculptors, Jordu Schell demonstrates the techniques he employs in creating a dynamic creature concept sculpture. Jordu begins with a rough armature, then walks you through the process of correctly building up forms by roughing in the large masses of the creature before the addition of muscular and other anatomical forms...
Jordu Schell
Creating a Faery Figure
In this workshop, renowned artist Wendy Froud explains and demonstrates how to create a faery figure. She begins with a guided visualization to help you access your imagination for unique designs. Wendy then shows how to properly build the armature and prepare the polymer clay, anticipating the various problems that may occur further into the process...
Wendy Froud
Creating a Character Figure
In this workshop, renowned artist Wendy Froud explains and demonstrates how to create a character figure of your own design. Wendy reveals her process in step-by-step detail, beginning with a discussion of how to use reference to inspire the look and feel of your designs. She sculpts three different character heads, covering a variety of techniques for giving personality to your figure including facial expressions, wrinkles and lines...
Wendy Froud
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