Product Description
Top creature concept designer, Simon Lee, teaches his speed approach to monster design through maquette sculpting. You'll learn to create dynamic monster, character and scene concepts in clay, from creating flexible armatures & efficient muscle layout, to character posing & the fine art of "suggesting" detail.
To illustrate his speed design sculpture techniques, Simon stages a fight between two beloved Stan Winston Studio creations, Predator and an Alien Drone. For the novice sculptor to the seasoned pro, this sculpture techniques master class, from one of Hollywood's most sought after character concept designers, is not to be missed!
WEBCOURSE HIGHLIGHTS
- Constructing a quick & highly flexible armature
- Posing the clay characters for maximum visual impact
- Working with urgency - the speed sculpting approach
- Understanding the importance of visual "pauses" in your work
About the Actor
A self-taught sculptor and designer, Simon Lee was born in China and moved to the United States at the age of 21. After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in Business Administration, Simon taught himself how to build web sites and started his own web programming business.
And after building web sites for 10 years, he decided to turn his childhood hobby of sculpting into a business, so in 2007 he started releasing his original design model kits under the online alias "Spiderzero," which was also the name of his web design company. In 3 years, he built up a sizeable fan base all over the world.
In 2010, he officially closed his web programming business and became a full-time sculptor. In late January of 2011, Simon challenged himself to design and sculpt 20 monster sculptures in 20 days, and he branded the event "Spiderzero's 20 Days of Monsters." Then in March of 2011, Simon was hired by Guillermo del Toro to work on the concept design team for the movie PACIFIC RIM, since then, Simon has contributed his design work to various film projects from Warner Brothers, Disney, and Fox.
About the Director
ONLINE Special Effects Makeup and Creature Creation training by the world's finest artists and technicians.
Stan Winston School of Character Arts is an educational media company dedicated to teaching the art and science of character creation. SWSCA is partnered with the majority of Hollywood's top effects artists and studios to develop, produce, and distribute ultra-high quality online Creature FX video tutorials teaching the innovative techniques and processes used to create cinema's most memorable characters.
SWSCA's educational content is subscription-based and will cover the full spectrum of character effects, from traditional approaches to the state-of-the-art Hybrid Practical/Digital Approach that has become the cornerstone of today's box office hits.
- Package Dimensions : 7.48 x 5.35 x 0.71 inches; 2.72 ounces
- Director : Stan Winston School of Character Arts
- Media Format : NTSC, Multiple Formats, Widescreen, Dolby
- Run time : 3 hours and 10 minutes
- Release date : June 22, 2012
- Actors : Simon Lee
- Studio : Stan Winston School of Character Arts
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
