Artistic Foundations, Part 2
- Course Number:
- ART103
- Professor:
- Ludovic Iochem
- Software Version:
- Original Run Date:
- September 2019
- Duration:
- 2 hours 24 minutes
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This course, taught by Ludovic Iochem, is the second part in our series designed for anyone who wants to improve their skills of creating beautiful imagery and explore what makes that image beautiful. While visual effects is a very technical industry, it is important to be able to create compelling and beautiful pictures. Using paintings, photography, and other imagery this course explores key concepts such as composition, lighting, perspective, colour harmony, and more.
Iochem, who has been a Digital Matte Painter and Environment Artist for more than 13 years, had noticed recently that VFX artists were more and more technical, but less and less conscious of basic rules of composition or color harmony. He has worked to improve this situation by creating and leading training for artists, and has been very successful in improving their basic artistic knowledge.
Iochem worked as Digital Matte Painting Supervisor and Environments Supervisor at DNEG before joining Framestore Montreal as Head of Environments. He is now back at DNEG London as Head of Digital-Matte-Painting. His credits as an artist and supervisor include projects like Exodus : Gods and Kings, Total Recall, Dredd, Thor 2 : the Dark World, Les Miserables, Quantum of Solace, Hellboy 2, Bourne Ultimatum and Terminator Genisys. Alongside his work as Head of Department at DNEG, he has been teaching Digital Matte Painting at fxphd for few years now and created masterclasses at several schools and universities.
Part one of the course can be found here: Artistic Foundations, Part 1.
Iochem, who has been a Digital Matte Painter and Environment Artist for more than 13 years, had noticed recently that VFX artists were more and more technical, but less and less conscious of basic rules of composition or color harmony. He has worked to improve this situation by creating and leading training for artists, and has been very successful in improving their basic artistic knowledge.
Iochem worked as Digital Matte Painting Supervisor and Environments Supervisor at DNEG before joining Framestore Montreal as Head of Environments. He is now back at DNEG London as Head of Digital-Matte-Painting. His credits as an artist and supervisor include projects like Exodus : Gods and Kings, Total Recall, Dredd, Thor 2 : the Dark World, Les Miserables, Quantum of Solace, Hellboy 2, Bourne Ultimatum and Terminator Genisys. Alongside his work as Head of Department at DNEG, he has been teaching Digital Matte Painting at fxphd for few years now and created masterclasses at several schools and universities.
Part one of the course can be found here: Artistic Foundations, Part 1.
course syllabus
Class 1: Perspective and depth
How to create depth in an image by playing with layering, foreground, mid-ground, and background
Class 2: Scale
How to create some scale and make sure that the viewer understands how big the space is.
Class 3: Photography
Analyzing photos through examples, explaining light, composition, color harmony, and more.
Class 4: Color palettes, Part 1
Examples from photographs and films as well as how to create ambience and your own color palette.
Class 5: Color palettes, Part 2
More examples as well as grading some images so they share the same color palettes from famous films.