Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Creating creatures from scratch

Here are 3 articles on creating the creatures from an artistic point of view.
For Pirates of the Caribbean, Art Director Aaron McBride and Creature Model Supervisor Geoff Campbell helped bring these creatures to life.
Geoff goes into detail of how they would continuously model the creatures until it was right for the animation group (and how he decided to trash phonemes)

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4106&page=1


Aaron describes his process of designing the creatures for Pirates, and that he uses many real life references to help him visualize his final images.

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3667&page=1


Visual FX Art Director Alex Jaeger describes how he went about bringing the Tranformers to life from realistic cars to thousands of moving parts.

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=4150


-jake
All of these articles contain some sweet previs picts!

1 comment:

USC Animation - Visualizing Art and Science said...

Great articles. I actually heard Alex Jaeger speak at a visual effects conference four agos back in Michigan. I think he studied art at the Center For Creative Studies in Detroit.