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LEARNING PATHS

Develop Essential Skills with Curated Learning Paths

These collections of workshops are carefully curated to help artists hone in on the topics they are most interested in. Learning Paths highlight many of the most popular titles in our library, where experienced artists share invaluable techniques, tips, and insights. Whether a beginner or a professional, staying motivated to learn new skills starts with inspired education. With 26 Learning Paths containing over 200 beginner, intermediate, and advanced workshops, this is where you can find the inspiration and techniques to fulfill your creative potential.

Foundation Drawing and Rendering
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Foundation Drawing and Rendering

Develop a clear understanding of linear perspective and form rendering with this series of nine comprehensive workshops by masters of the craft...

3 Instructors
29h 56min
11 Workshops
Photoshop icon Photoshop Graphite
Anatomy
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Anatomy

This 10-part workshop series explores the essential structures of the human body through in-depth demonstrations by accomplished figurative artists...

2 Instructors
28h 30min
10 Workshops
Graphite Charcoal
Figure Drawing
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Figure Drawing

Journey into the art of figure drawing with this 10-part workshop series. Four accomplished instructors guide these practical workshops...

4 Instructors
31h 34min
09 Workshops
Graphite Charcoal
Sculpture
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Sculpture

Explore the world of traditional clay sculpture with this series of 12 workshops. The comprehensive classes are taught by the entertainment industry’s top sculptors...

5 Instructors
37h 25min
12 Workshops
Graphite Clay
Visual Storytelling
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Visual Storytelling

Bringing a story to life in a visual medium requires more than technical skill, as an artist must develop their designs to best serve the narrative and...

3 Instructors
16h 19min
8 Workshops
3ds Max icon 3ds Max After Effects icon After Effects photoshop icon Photoshop
Storyboarding
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Storyboarding

Storyboards and animatics are essential for shaping how a story unfolds visually, from shot to shot, in film, animation, and game cinematics...

3 Instructors
21h 51min
5 Workshops
Keyshot icon Photoshop premiere icon Premiere storyboardpro icon StoryboardPro
Character Design
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Character Design

Spanning 14 workshops by 12 accomplished designers, this series explores the art and craft of character design across both 2D and 3D...

12 Instructors
50h 38min
15 Workshops
ZBrush icon Zbrush Keyshot icon Keyshot Photoshop icon Photoshop
Creature Design
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Creature Design

This seven-part series brings together top industry professionals to reveal the art and science behind designing creatures for entertainment...

7 Instructors
53h 39min
13 Workshops
ZBrush icon Zbrush Keyshot icon Keyshot Photoshop icon Photoshop
Environment Design / Film & Animation
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Environment Design / Film & Animation

Designing worlds for the screen requires a deep understanding of nature and architecture, applied across settings ranging from historical to contemporary...

7 Instructors
36h 02min
9 Workshops
zbrush icon ZBrush Maya icon Maya Blender icon Blender
Environment Design / Games
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Environment Design / Games

This eight-part series explores how environment concept artists study natural settings and architecture across historical, contemporary, fantasy, and...

7 Instructors
34h 34min
9 Workshops
blender icon Blender photoshop icon Photoshop zbrush icon ZBrush
Keyframe Illustration
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Keyframe Illustration

In the film industry, one of the most powerful tools for visual storytelling is the keyframe illustration. This image brings a pivotal scene or story moment...

7 Instructors
26h 05min
8 Workshops
3D Coat icon 3D Coat blender icon Blender photoshop icon Photoshop
Illustration
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Illustration

The study of Art History essentially explores how humans have used pictures to tell stories. Illustration is a term with broad application...

7 Instructors
22h 45min
7 Workshops
photoshop icon Photoshop procreate icon Procreate zbrush icon ZBrush
Visual Futurism
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Visual Futurism

Syd Mead, the Visual Futurist born in 1933, revolutionized the world of conceptual design with his unique ability to visualize and render entire futures...

1 Instructor
10h 20min
5 Workshops
Pen Gouache Markers
Vehicle Design
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Vehicle Design

From cars and motorcycles to planes, spaceships, and hovercraft, Vehicle Designers envision modes of transportation that must serve both form and function...

5 Instructors
28h 19min
8 Workshops
photoshop icon Photoshop blender icon Blender
Mech & Prop Design
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Mech & Prop Design

Designing Props and Mechs for film and games covers various manufactured objects, weapons, robots, and machines that are often critical to the story...

12 Instructors
45h 21min
12 Workshops
Substance 3D Modeler icon Substance 3D Modeler ZBrush icon ZBrush
Character Art for Film & Animation
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Character Art for Film & Animation

Dive into digital production, where artists produce final characters ready for rigging and animation. Generally speaking, character production artists receive...

15 Instructors
74 53min
15 Workshops
Marvelous Designer icon Marvelous Designer ZBrush icon ZBrush
Character Art for Games
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Character Art for Games

Learn the character art pipeline used by leading character artists working on AAA games, including Diablo 4, Far Cry 6, Hellblade 2, Valorant, and...

6 Instructors
28 34min
7 Workshops
Marvelous Designer icon Marvelous Designer ZBrush icon ZBrush
Environment Art for Film
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Environment Art for Film

Environment Art for Film, both natural and architectural, requires a working knowledge of diverse tools and techniques to execute the level of detail and...

11 Instructors
70h 21min
12 Workshops
Houdini icon Houdini Maya icon Maya Photoshop icon Photoshop
Environment Art for Games
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Environment Art for Games

Explore the industry-standard tools and workflows for creating immersive real-time Environment Art for Games. Ten artists from studios such as Infinity Ward...

11 Instructors
53h 25min
12 Workshops
Unreal icon Unreal Houdini icon Houdini Maya icon Maya
Hardsurface Modeling
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Hardsurface Modeling

Discover the fundamental skills needed to model hard-surface objects, props, and vehicles, with this collection of nine workshops...

9 Instructors
38h 51min
9 Workshops
Maya icon Maya ZBrush icon ZBrush 3ds Max icon 3ds Max
Texturing and Materials
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Texturing and Materials

A Texture Artist's challenge is to define the material, history, function, age, and style of a diverse range of assets. From a castle wall to a fantasy creature...

12 Instructors
65h 04min
12 Workshops
Mari icon Mari Maya icon Maya Substance Painter icon Substance Painter
Lighting and Rendering
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Lighting and Rendering

Lighting is a critical part of the production pipeline responsible for not just the ability to see, but also for how the audience will feel...

9 Instructors
42h 29min
11 Workshops
Unreal icon Unreal Maya icon Maya Nuke icon Nuke
Effects and Simulation
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Effects and Simulation

When most people think of Visual Effects, particularly those outside the VFX industry, they’ll most likely imagine explosions and superheroes...

11 Instructors
74h 48min
15 Workshops
Houdini icon Houdini Nuke icon Nuke
Character Rigging
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Character Rigging

Getting a character or creature ready for animation requires two primary objectives. The first goal is that the rig must...

12 Instructors
87h 37min
14 Workshops
Maya icon Maya Massive icon Massive Ziva VFX icon Ziva VFX
Character Animation
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Character Animation

An animator’s fundamental job is no different from an actor’s: To bring a character to life in service of the story...

13 Instructors
56h 26min
16 Workshops
Maya icon Maya Natron icon Natron
Character Animation for Games
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Character Animation for Games

Animation for games presents unique challenges and responsibilities to an animator. While film and animation are linear and inherently story-driven in performance...

9 Instructors
50h 26min
9 Workshops
Maya icon Maya
Grooming
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Grooming

Hair and fur are complex, dynamic, and critical to a believable character or creature. Maya and Houdini offer powerful tools that enable artists to...

9 Instructors
37h 55min
10 Workshops
Houdini icon Houdini Maya icon Maya
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about the Learning Path.
Learning Paths have been organized to help both aspiring and professional artists, who are looking for training based on the fundamental categories of creative work in the visual effects, animation and games industries. Each Learning Path has been curated to contain a collection of workshops that guide artists through a series of topics relevant to that path, but they are not necessarily sequential. When appropriate, however, we have organized the workshops in a path to be in a logical order. All workshops are tagged with their level (beginner, intermediate, advanced) so that you can browse the path and choose a title that matches both the subject matter and level that you are looking for.
All Gnomon Workshop instructors are professional artists from the entertainment industry, who have worked with us to structure their time, experience and knowledge into practical and inspiring training. We believe that it is important to learn from masters of the craft, who have honed those skills via years of experience working in production, collaboratively with their peers. Through time and experience, artists develop not just their creative and technical ability, but also their communication skills. These become critical aspects to being an effective lead artist, supervisor or, in our case, instructor.
Whether you choose an Annual or a Monthly Subscription, your plan will give you unlimited access to all 26 Learning Paths, allowing you to learn at your own pace. Your subscription also gives you access to the entire catalog of 350+ workshops, with new comprehensive workshops added every month.
While many workshops include Project Files, these are at the instructors’ discretion. You will find details of any project files provided on each workshop page, along with the software/tools required to tackle the workshop. If you have any questions, you can contact us via our Live Chat or email the team at support@thegnomonworkshop.com.

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