In this DVD, Sebastien Larroude demonstrates the techniques that he uses to create environments for the video game and entertainment industries, using Adobe Photoshop®, Pixologic ZBrush®, Autodesk Maya® and EyeOn Fusion®. Beginning with black and white sketches, Sebastien leads you through the creation of a polished concept/CG matte painting.

He specifically reveals the entire pipeline to create a full CG Sci-Fi urban environment from speedpainting to mood lighting, architecture design, textures and shaders, brush creation, modeling, sculpting and compositing while discussing useful professional tips. Follow his original methodology and personal approach for using the most popular software in the industry.

Topics Covered:

Perspective and composition
Speedpainting
Mood Lighting
Custom brushes
Tecturing and detailing
Colorimetry
Match color

Box modeling
Uv techniques
Mental ray GI / final gathering rendering
Displacement Shaders

ZBrush sculpting
Stencil techniques
Masking techniques
Projection master

Compositing
Color correction
Alpha
Smoke Gfx

Chapters

01: Speedpainting/Concept Art and Moddlighting
02: Matte Painting Preparation
03: CG Matte Painting Process
04: Compociting and Polishing
Conclusion

Minimum System Requirements
1GHz or faster processor
512 MB RAM
64 MB Video RAM
DVD-ROM Drive
5 GB of hard disk space
1280 x 1024 display

Minimum Operating System Requirements
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional,
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2

This DVD-ROM also requires the Quicktime Movie Player (Version 5.0.5 or higher), the Ensharpen Codec (Version 1.0.1 or higher) and Acrobat Reader (Version 5.0 or higher) in order to view its contents.

The web links for these installers are below. If you don't have these items on your computer, please install these items before you launch the DVD-ROM Gnomon Workshop movie.

TechSmith EnSharpen Decoder Link:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/ensharpendecoder.asp
Apple Quicktime Link:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Adobe Acrobat Installer Link:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html